Openings that hook the reader, sentence 8
Common hooks are dialogue, action, a sound word, a question, a surprising fact and a strange detail.
Who acts: Common hooks · What happens: be · To what, where: dialogue
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 (Common hooks), 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 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hooks | amod |
| 2 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dialogue | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dialogue | cop |
| 4 | dialogue | dialogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 action | punct |
| 6 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialogue | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 word | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | compound |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialogue | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 question | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 question | det |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialogue | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fact | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fact | det |
| 16 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fact | amod |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialogue | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 detail | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 detail | det |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 detail | amod |
| 21 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialogue | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dialogue | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Common hooks | dialogue and action and a sound word and a question and a surprising fact and a strange detail | 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:8.
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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