Openings that hook the reader, sentence 1

"Once upon a time there was a girl called Ella who lived in a house" tells us little and asks nothing, while "'Run!' shouted Max.

Who acts: girl, Run · What happens: be, call, live, tell, ask, shout · To what, where: girl, house, little, us, nothing, Max · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» 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 (girl, Run), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 was	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Once	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tells	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 girl	acl
11	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
18	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tells	obj
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tells	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 asks	cc
22	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tells	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 asks	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shouted	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 shouted	mark
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Run	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Run	punct
28	Run	Run	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 shouted	nsubj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Run	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 Run	punct
31	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tells	advcl
32	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 shouted	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	past	a girl			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call in a quote	participle		a girl not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live in a quote	past	a girl			a house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	tell speech: assert	present		little	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient little=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	present		nothing				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient
6	shout speech: express in a quote	past	Run	Max				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent max=Topic

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, 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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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