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title: Fairy-tale openings like "Once upon a time" suit fairy tales, but ot… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairy-tale openings like "Once upon a time" suit fairy tales, but other stories usually need a sharper first line. Who acts: tale openings, other stories. 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 pragmati
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# Openings that hook the reader, sentence 14

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Fairy-tale openings like "Once upon a time" suit fairy tales, but other stories usually need a sharper first line.

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**Who acts:** tale openings, other stories · **What happens:** suit, need · **To what, where:** fairy tales, sharper first line

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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 (tale openings, other stories), 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:14
# text = Fairy-tale openings like "Once upon a time" suit fairy tales, but other stories usually need a sharper first line.
# 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Once	Once	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	sharper	sharper	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **suit** | present | tale openings like Once | fairy tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | other stories | a sharper first line |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot line=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:english:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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

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