Openings that hook the reader, sentence 16
A good ending answers the problem set up at the start.
Who acts: good ending · What happens: answer, set up · To what, where: problem, start
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 (good ending), 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 | 3 ending | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ending | amod |
| 3 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answers | nsubj |
| 4 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 problem | det |
| 6 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answers | obj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 problem | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 start | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 start | det |
| 11 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answers | 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 | answer speech: assert | present | a good ending | the problem | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent problem=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | set up | participle | the problem not said here | the start | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at start=Destination |
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:16.
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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