--- title: Starting in the middle of the action means the reader is hooked firs… — Openings that hook the reader · tree and pragmatics description: Starting in the middle of the action means the reader is hooked first and learns the background later through small hints. Who acts: Starting. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Openings that hook the reader, sentence 9 Starting in the middle of the action means the reader is hooked first and learns the background later through small hints. **Who acts:** Starting · **What happens:** start, mean, hook, learn · **To what, where:** middle, reader, background, small hints · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Starting), 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:9 # text = Starting in the middle of the action means the reader is hooked first and learns the background later through small hints. # 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 ×1 1 Starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 hooked hook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 18 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hints hint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | gerund | | | | the middle of the action | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | Starting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hook** | present · passive | | the reader | | | | first *property* | vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: subject=Extent | | 4 | **learn** | present | | the background | | small hints | | late *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Topic | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/8/) - next →: [Openings that hook the reader, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/)