--- title: Performing a poem with clear speech, pauses at line ends and actions… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics description: Performing a poem with clear speech, pauses at line ends and actions helps listeners feel it and helps you remember it; you do not need to be an actor. Who acts: Performing, listeners, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Performing, listeners, you), 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:15 # text = Performing a poem with clear speech, pauses at line ends and actions helps listeners feel it and helps you remember it; you do not need to be an actor. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Performing perform VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 pauses pause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 listeners listener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 actor actor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perform** | gerund | | a poem | | | | with clear speech and pauses at line ends and actions | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Performing | listeners | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent listener=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | listeners *not said here* | rhyme | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | Performing *not said here* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | rhyme | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a actor | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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