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title: Behind him, the gate creaked open" makes the whole class gasp, becau… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind him, the gate creaked open" makes the whole class gasp, because we want to know what is behind the gate. Who acts: gate, we. 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 clause.
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# Openings that hook the reader, sentence 2

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Behind him, the gate creaked open" makes the whole class gasp, because we want to know what is behind the gate.

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**Who acts:** gate, we · **What happens:** creak, make, want, know, be · **To what, where:** class gasp, gate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (gate, we), 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:2
# text = Behind him, the gate creaked open" makes the whole class gasp, because we want to know what is behind the gate.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	creaked	creak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	csubj	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
12	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gasp	gasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creak** | past | the gate |  |  |  |  | behind Run; open *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present |  | class gasp |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gasp=Product |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the gate |  |  | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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