Openings that hook the reader, sentence 5

A hook must belong to the story: an explosion in line one that is never mentioned again, or a random "SKIBIDI!" shouted by a dog, grabs attention for a second and then feels like a trick.

Who acts: hook · What happens: belong, not mention, shout, grab, feel · To what, where: SKIBIDI, attention

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 (hook), 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 hook	det
2	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 belong	aux
4	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belong	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 explosion	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 explosion	det
10	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	appos
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	compound
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 explosion	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 mentioned	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mentioned	aux:pass
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 mentioned	advmod
17	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 one	acl:relcl
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 mentioned	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 random	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 random	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 random	det
22	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 explosion	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 SKIBIDI	punct
24	SKIBIDI	skibidi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 explosion	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 SKIBIDI	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 SKIBIDI	punct
27	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 SKIBIDI	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 dog	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shouted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grabs	punct
32	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 explosion	conj
33	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grabs	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 second	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 second	det
36	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 grabs	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 feels	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 feels	advmod
39	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 grabs	conj
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 trick	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 trick	det
42	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feels	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 belong	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	belong	must	a hook			to the story	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	not mention speech: other	present · passive			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	shout speech: express	participle		SKIBIDI not said here		by a dog	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grab	present	a hook not said here	attention		for a second	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent attention=Theme for second=Beneficiary
5	feel	present	a hook not said here		then	like a trick	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like trick=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:5.

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 ×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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