Openings that hook the reader, sentence 12
Question openings work in stories and in information texts.
Who acts: Question openings · What happens: work
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 (Question openings), 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 | Question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 openings | compound |
| 2 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | nsubj |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 texts | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 texts | case |
| 8 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 texts | compound |
| 9 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stories | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Question openings | in stories and information texts | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme |
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:12.
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.
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