--- title: A hook is an opening that makes the reader want to read on; many rea… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics description: A hook is an opening that makes the reader want to read on; many readers decide in the first few lines whether to keep going. Who acts: hook, opening, reader, many readers. A sentence of the lesson «Openings that hook the reader» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Openings that hook the reader](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/) / 7 # Openings that hook the reader, sentence 7 A hook is an opening that makes the reader want to read on; many readers decide in the first few lines whether to keep going. **Who acts:** hook, opening, reader, many readers · **What happens:** be, make, want, read on, decide, keep · **To what, where:** opening, first few lines 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 (hook, opening, reader, many readers), 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:7 # text = A hook is an opening that makes the reader want to read on; many readers decide in the first few lines whether to keep going. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hook | a opening | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a opening | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | infinitive | the reader | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **read on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the reader *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **decide** | present | many readers | | | the first few lines | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many readers *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | gerund | many readers *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Openings that hook the reader, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/5/) - next →: [Openings that hook the reader, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/)