Openings that hook the reader, sentence 11
Setting openings can build mood, but a long list of things in the sky and on the ground slows a story down.
Who acts: openings, long list · What happens: set, build, slow down, list · To what, where: mood, story, ground, things
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 (openings, long list), 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 | Setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 openings | acl |
| 2 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 build | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | aux |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slows | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 slows | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 list | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 list | amod |
| 10 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slows | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 list | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 slows | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slows | obl |
| 20 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slows | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 slows | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | openings not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | build | can | openings | mood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mood=Product | ||||
| 3 | slow down | present | a long list of things in the sky | a story | the ground | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||
| 4 | list | things in the sky | nom list «communication transitive»: of=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, 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:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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