Openings that hook the reader, sentence 2

Behind him, the gate creaked open" makes the whole class gasp, because we want to know what is behind the gate.

Who acts: gate, we · What happens: creak, make, want, know, be · To what, where: class gasp, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gate, we), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	2 him	case
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 creaked	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 him	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creaked	nsubj
6	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	csubj
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creaked	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 gate	punct
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 class	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 class	amod
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gasp	compound
13	gasp	gasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 want	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 want	xcomp
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 gate	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gate	cop
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gate	det
24	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creak	past	the gate			behind Run; open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
2	make in a quote	present		class gasp			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gasp=Product
3	want in a quote	present	we				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present			the gate		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:2.

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, R8-pos-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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