--- title: Free verse has no regular rhyme or beat, but the poet breaks the lin… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics description: Free verse has no regular rhyme or beat, but the poet breaks the lines where the reader should pause, so it is still poetry, not chopped-up prose. Who acts: Free verse, poet, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 3 Free verse has no regular rhyme or beat, but the poet breaks the lines where the reader should pause, so it is still poetry, not chopped-up prose. **Who acts:** Free verse, poet, reader · **What happens:** have, break, pause, be, not chop · **To what, where:** regular rhyme, lines, poetry 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, poet, reader), 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:3 # text = Free verse has no regular rhyme or beat, but the poet breaks the lines where the reader should pause, so it is still poetry, not chopped-up prose. # 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 ×1 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 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 pause pause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 poetry poetry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 chopped chop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound 32 prose prose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Free verse | no regular rhyme or beat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient | | 2 | **break** | present | the poet | the lines | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient | | 3 | **pause** | should | the reader | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | reader | poetry and chopped prose | | | still | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **chop** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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:3`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/2/) - next →: [Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/)