Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 9
I was scared stiff at school for a whole year.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: school
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stiff | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stiff | cop |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stiff | amod |
| 4 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stiff | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 year | amod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stiff | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stiff | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | school | year | stiff property | tree rules |
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, 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:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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