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title: And strangers online use «no biggie» to make a big thing sound small. — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: And strangers online use «no biggie» to make a big thing sound small. Who acts: strangers. A sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 5

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And strangers online use «no biggie» to make a big thing sound small.

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**Who acts:** strangers · **What happens:** use, make, sound · **To what, where:** biggie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language 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 (strangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:5
# text = And strangers online use «no biggie» to make a big thing sound small.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	online	online	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	biggie	biggie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | strangers | no biggie |  |  |  | online *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biggie=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | infinitive | strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:5`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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