Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 7
A hook is an opening that grabs the reader, such as a question, a sudden action or a line of speech.
Who acts: hook, opening · What happens: be, grab · To what, where: opening, reader
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 (hook, opening), 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 grabs | nsubj |
| 7 | grabs | grab | 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 | 7 grabs | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 question | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 question | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reader | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 action | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 action | det |
| 17 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 action | amod |
| 18 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 question | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 line | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 line | det |
| 21 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 question | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 speech | case |
| 23 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 line | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opening | 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 | a hook | a opening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grab | present | a opening | the reader and a question and a sudden action or a line of speech | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reader=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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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): R3-conj-first ×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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