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title: An acrostic poem spells a word with the first letter of each line, a… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics
description: An acrostic poem spells a word with the first letter of each line, and each line should be a phrase, not just one word. Who acts: acrostic poem, line. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 12

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An acrostic poem spells a word with the first letter of each line, and each line should be a phrase, not just one word.

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**Who acts:** acrostic poem, line · **What happens:** spell, be, letter · **To what, where:** word, phrase, line

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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 (acrostic poem, line), 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:12
# text = An acrostic poem spells a word with the first letter of each line, and each line should be a phrase, not just one word.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	acrostic	acrostic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spells	spell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present | a acrostic poem | a word |  |  |  | with the first letter of each line | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme with letter=Manner |
| 2 | **is a** | should | each line | a phrase and one word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **letter** |  |  | each line |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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