Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 2

A strong story often has a hook at the start, tension in the middle and sometimes a twist at the end that changes how you see everything before it.

Who acts: strong story, twist, you · What happens: have, change, see · To what, where: hook, start, everything

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 (strong story, twist, you), 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	3 story	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 has	advmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hook	det
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hook	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tension	punct
12	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hook	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tension	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 twist	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 twist	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 twist	det
19	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hook	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 twist	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 changes	nsubj
24	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 twist	acl:relcl
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 see	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 changes	ccomp
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 see	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 everything	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a strong story	a hook and tension in the middle and a twist at the end	the start		often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient
2	change	present	a twist at the end					tree rules
3	see	present	you	everything		before tension		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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