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A sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/) / 11 # Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 11 A kenning describes something with two-word phrases, such as "ball-kicker" for a footballer; kennings do not need to rhyme. **Who acts:** kenning, kennings · **What happens:** describe, not need, rhyme · **To what, where:** something This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» 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 (kenning, kennings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:11 # text = A kenning describes something with two-word phrases, such as "ball-kicker" for a footballer; kennings do not need to rhyme. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kenning kenning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 16 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark 12 as as ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 kicker kicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 kennings kenning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 rhyme rhyme VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | a kenning | something | | | | with word phrases such ball kicker for a footballer | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | kennings | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **rhyme** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | kennings *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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. 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