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title: "Servo" is Australian for a petrol station. — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Servo" is Australian for a petrol station. Who acts: Servo. 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 8

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"Servo" is Australian for a petrol station.

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**Who acts:** Servo · **What happens:** be

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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 (Servo), 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:8
# text = "Servo" is Australian for 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Servo	servo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Servo |  |  |  |  | for a petrol station; australian *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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