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# Test 1 · ★ · Openings that hook the reader

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Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit." What is the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, teacher, truth · **What happens:** go, not matter, read, be · **To what, where:** first line, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 40 «Openings that hook the reader» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:1
# text = Your mate goes "first line don't matter, the teacher reads it all anyway, innit."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Your mate *not said here* | first line |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | present | the teacher | mate |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:2
# text = What is the truth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The first line is the least important part of a story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:o1:1
# text = The first line is the least important part of a story
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first line | the important part |  |  |  | of a story | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only the title matters to readers, never the words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:o2:1
# text = Only the title matters to readers, never the words
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | the title | the words |  |  |  | to readers | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to reader=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Teachers never read past the first line of anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:o3:1
# text = Teachers never read past the first line of anything
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | past | Teachers |  |  |  |  | past the first line of anything | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Real readers decide early whether to go on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:40-openings-that-hook-the-reader:t1:o4:1
# text = Real readers decide early whether to go on
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present | Real readers |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Real readers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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