Openings that hook the reader, sentence 7

A hook is an opening that makes the reader want to read on; many readers decide in the first few lines whether to keep going.

Who acts: hook, opening, reader, many readers · What happens: be, make, want, read on, decide, keep · To what, where: opening, first few lines

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, opening, reader, many readers), 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	5 opening	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opening	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 opening	det
5	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opening	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reader	det
9	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 makes	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 read	compound:prt
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 decide	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 readers	amod
16	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 decide	nsubj
17	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opening	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 lines	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lines	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 lines	amod
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lines	amod
22	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 decide	obl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 keep	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 decide	xcomp
26	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 keep	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opening	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	a hook	a opening		tree rules
2	make	present	a opening			tree rules
3	want	infinitive	the reader			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	read on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the reader not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	decide	present	many readers		the first few lines	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	many readers not said here			tree rules
7	go	gerund	many readers not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R7-rel-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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