--- title: People say it their own way: "shook" means badly scared, "a lightwei… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics description: People say it their own way: "shook" means badly scared, "a lightweight" is someone who tires easily, and "daylight robbery" means far too expensive. Who acts: People, shook, lightweight, daylight robbery. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, shook, lightweight, daylight robbery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:4 # text = People say it their own way: "shook" means badly scared, "a lightweight" is someone who tires easily, and "daylight robbery" means far too expensive. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 shook shook NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 12 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lightweight lightweight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 ccomp _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 tires tire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 easily easily ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 robbery robbery NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | ending | | | | People's own way *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | shook | scared | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scared=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | a lightweight | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tire** | present | | | | | | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **mean** | present | daylight robbery | | | | | expensive *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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](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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:4`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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