--- title: An opening hook, like «It was the worst day of my life», makes the r… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: An opening hook, like «It was the worst day of my life», makes the reader want to know more. Who acts: hook, opening hook, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Author's choices: why this word, why t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/) / 20 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 20 An opening hook, like «It was the worst day of my life», makes the reader want to know more. **Who acts:** hook, opening hook, reader · **What happens:** be, make, want, know · **To what, where:** worst day, reader, more This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 hook, reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:20 # text = An opening hook, like «It was the worst day of my life», makes the reader want to know more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 opening opening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 « « PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 acl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 24 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | hook | the worst day | | | | of my life | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a opening hook | the reader | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | the reader *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the reader *not said here* | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=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](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:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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