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title: Just saying it out loud made it smaller. — Nightmares after a scary game · tree and pragmatics
description: Just saying it out loud made it smaller. Who acts: saying. A sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nightmares after a scary game, sentence 17

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Just saying it out loud made it smaller.

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**Who acts:** saying · **What happens:** say out, make · **To what, where:** brain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nightmares after a scary game» of the everyday 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 (saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:17
# text = Just saying it out loud made it smaller.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.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
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **say out** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | brain |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | saying | brain |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:everyday:402-nightmares-and-scary-pictures.lesson:17`.

**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. **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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