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title: Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line b… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line breaks and images instead. Who acts: Free verse, verse. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 13

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Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line breaks and images instead.

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**Who acts:** Free verse, verse · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** poetry, line breaks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Free verse, verse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:13
# text = Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line breaks and images instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Free verse | poetry |  |  |  | without a regular rhyme or beat | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | verse | line breaks and images |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:13`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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