--- title: A strong story often has a hook at the start, tension in the middle… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics description: A strong story often has a hook at the start, tension in the middle and sometimes a twist at the end that changes how you see everything before it. Who acts: strong story, twist, you. 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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 (strong story, twist, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:2 # text = A strong story often has a hook at the start, tension in the middle and sometimes a twist at the end that changes how you see everything before it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl:relcl 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 obj _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **have** | present | a strong story | a hook and tension in the middle and a twist at the end | | the start | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | | 2 | **change** | present | a twist at the end | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | present | you | everything | | | before tension | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | 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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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