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title: The hook is the catchiest bit of a song, often in the chorus; writin… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: The hook is the catchiest bit of a song, often in the chorus; writing a good hook takes real skill. Who acts: hook, writing. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 14

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The hook is the catchiest bit of a song, often in the chorus; writing a good hook takes real skill.

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**Who acts:** hook, writing · **What happens:** be, write, take · **To what, where:** catchiest bit, good hook, real skill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts 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, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:14
# text = The hook is the catchiest bit of a song, often in the chorus; writing a good hook takes real skill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	catchiest	catchy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the hook | the catchiest bit and the chorus |  |  |  | of a song | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | gerund |  | a good hook |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | writing | real skill |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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