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title: Free verse has no regular rhyme or rhythm and uses line breaks for e… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Free verse has no regular rhyme or rhythm and uses line breaks for effect. Who acts: Free verse. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 14

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Free verse has no regular rhyme or rhythm and uses line breaks for effect.

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**Who acts:** Free verse · **What happens:** have, use · **To what, where:** regular rhyme, line breaks

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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 (Free verse), 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:14
# text = Free verse has no regular rhyme or rhythm and uses line breaks for effect.
# 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): no change
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Free verse | no regular rhyme or rhythm |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | Free verse *not said here* | line breaks |  |  |  | for effect | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent break=Theme for effect=Eventuality |

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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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**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): no change. **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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