--- title: A good talk has a clear start (say what it is about, with a hook to… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: A good talk has a clear start (say what it is about, with a hook to grab attention), a middle (a few key points) and an end (sum up, then take questions). Who acts: good talk. 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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 (good talk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:2 # text = A good talk has a clear start (say what it is about, with a hook to grab attention), a middle (a few key points) and an end (sum up, then take questions). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 nsubj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 sum sum VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 36 up up PART RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 40 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a good talk | a clear start and a middle and a end | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | with a hook; about *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grab** | to-infinitive | | attention | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | | 5 | **sum up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | infinitive | | questions | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:2`. **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. 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