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title: Writers have a toolbox of hooks: speech, action, a sound ("CRASH! — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Writers have a toolbox of hooks: speech, action, a sound ("CRASH! Who acts: Writers. 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 3

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Writers have a toolbox of hooks: speech, action, a sound ("CRASH!

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**Who acts:** Writers · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** toolbox

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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 (Writers), 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:3
# text = Writers have a toolbox of hooks: speech, action, a sound ("CRASH!
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toolbox	toolbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	CRASH	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Writers | a toolbox of hooks and speech and action and a sound and CRASH |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toolbox=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:3`.

**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 ×1, 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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