--- title: The vase lay in pieces"), a question ("Have you ever wondered why ca… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics description: The vase lay in pieces"), a question ("Have you ever wondered why cats purr?"), a strange detail, or starting in the middle of the action and explaining how we got there later. Who acts: vase, you, cats, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vase, you, cats, 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:4 # text = The vase lay in pieces"), a question ("Have you ever wondered why cats purr?"), a strange detail, or starting in the middle of the action and explaining how we got there later. # 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 ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 13 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 16 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 detail detail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 explaining explain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 42 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | the vase | a question | | pieces | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in piece=Location | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | you | a strange detail | | | ever | | tree rules | | 3 | **purr** | present | cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **start** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the middle of the action | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | past | we | | | there | | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:040-openings-that-hook-the-reader.lesson:4`. **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 ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Openings that hook the reader, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/3/) - next →: [Openings that hook the reader, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/)