Openings that hook the reader, sentence 15
An ending where everything was a dream is a well-known cliché that makes the story feel as if it did not matter.
Who acts: everything, ending, known cliché, it · What happens: be, know, make, not matter · To what, where: dream, known cliché, story feel
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 (everything, ending, known cliché, it), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ending | det |
| 2 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cliché | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 dream | advmod |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ending | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cliché | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cliché | det |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cliché | amod |
| 13 | cliché | cliché | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cliché | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feel | compound |
| 18 | feel | feel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 matter | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 matter | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 matter | advmod |
| 24 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feel | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cliché | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | everything | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a ending | a known cliché | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | present | a known cliché | story feel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feel=Product | ||||
| 5 | not matter | past · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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. 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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