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title: Common hooks are dialogue, action, a sound word, a question, a surpr… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics
description: Common hooks are dialogue, action, a sound word, a question, a surprising fact and a strange detail. Who acts: Common hooks. 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 8

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Common hooks are dialogue, action, a sound word, a question, a surprising fact and a strange detail.

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**Who acts:** Common hooks · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dialogue

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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 (Common hooks), 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:8
# text = Common hooks are dialogue, action, a sound word, a question, a surprising fact and a strange detail.
# 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): no change
1	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Common hooks | dialogue and action and a sound word and a question and a surprising fact and a strange detail |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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