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title: Setting openings can build mood, but a long list of things in the sk… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Setting openings can build mood, but a long list of things in the sky and on the ground slows a story down. Who acts: openings, long list. A sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Openings that hook the reader, sentence 11

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Setting openings can build mood, but a long list of things in the sky and on the ground slows a story down.

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**Who acts:** openings, long list · **What happens:** set, build, slow down, list · **To what, where:** mood, story, ground, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» 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 (openings, long list), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:11
# text = Setting openings can build mood, but a long list of things in the sky and on the ground slows a story down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
2	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund | openings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | can | openings | mood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mood=Product |
| 3 | **slow down** | present | a long list of things in the sky | a story |  | the ground |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | things in the sky |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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.

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

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