Openings that hook the reader, sentence 13

A cliché is a phrase used so often that it has lost its power, such as "It was a dark and stormy night".

Who acts: cliché · What happens: be, use, lose · To what, where: phrase, power

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 (cliché), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cliché	det
2	cliché	cliché	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phrase	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 phrase	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 phrase	det
5	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 phrase	acl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 used	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 power	nmod:poss
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 night	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
19	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 night	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 night	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 night	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 night	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stormy	cc
24	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dark	conj
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 power	appos
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 night	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 phrase	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a cliché	a phrase			tree rules
2	use	participle		a phrase not said here		often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	present · perfect	cliché	cliché's power			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
4	is in a quote	past	cliché		such a dark night		tree rules

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:13.

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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