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title: The bigger the effort and the smaller the harm, the better the prank. — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: The bigger the effort and the smaller the harm, the better the prank. A sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Funny pranks, sentence 8

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The bigger the effort and the smaller the harm, the better the prank.

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:438-funny-pranks.lesson:8
# text = The bigger the effort and the smaller the harm, the better the prank.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 438-funny-pranks.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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