Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 0

Reading like a writer means noticing the tricks an author uses, not just what happens: how the first line hooks you, how tension builds, how a twist surprises you.

Who acts: Reading, author, first line, tension, twist · What happens: read, mean, notice, use, not happen, hook · To what, where: tricks, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (Reading, author, first line, tension), 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	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 writer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 writer	det
4	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tricks	det
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 noticing	obj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 author	det
10	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uses	nsubj
11	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tricks	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happens	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 happens	advmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happens	nsubj
16	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 uses	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 hooks	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 hooks	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 line	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 line	amod
21	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hooks	nsubj
22	hooks	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 happens	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 hooks	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 builds	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 builds	advmod
26	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 builds	nsubj
27	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hooks	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 surprises	punct
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 surprises	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 twist	det
31	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 surprises	nsubj
32	surprises	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 builds	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 surprises	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund			like a writer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Reading			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	notice	gerund		the tricks		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
4	use	present	a author	the tricks not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient
5	not happen	present				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hook	present	the first line	you		vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme you=Extent
7	build	present	tension			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	surprise	present	a twist	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:0.

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, 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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