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title: Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday… — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station. Who acts: Haiku, syllables. 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 pr
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# Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 7

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Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.

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**Who acts:** Haiku, syllables · **What happens:** be, catch · **To what, where:** petrol station

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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 (Haiku, syllables), 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:7
# text = Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.
# 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	Haiku	Haiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Haiku |  |  |  |  | about nature; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | can | syllables *= syllable* |  |  | a petrol station | moment |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at station=Asset |

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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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