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title: The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s. Who acts: story. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 6

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The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** urban legend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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 (story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:6
# text = The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	since	since	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the story of the man with a hook for a hand | a urban legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | a urban legend |  |  | since the 1950s at least |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:6`.

**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/).

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