--- title: He froze — and then quietly slid the sandwich away with a ruler. — Sam is scared: fear is normal · tree and pragmatics description: He froze — and then quietly slid the sandwich away with a ruler. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Sam is scared: fear is normal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sam is scared: fear is normal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/) / 15 # Sam is scared: fear is normal, sentence 15 He froze — and then quietly slid the sandwich away with a ruler. **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** freeze, slide away · **To what, where:** sandwich 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:15 # text = He froze — and then quietly slid the sandwich away with a ruler. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.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): no change 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 froze freeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 — - PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 6 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 slid slide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sandwich sandwich NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 . . 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 | **freeze** | past | Sam | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **slide away** | past | Sam *not said here* | the sandwich | | | then | with a ruler; away, quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme | 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:everyday:366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal.lesson:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/14/) - next →: [Sam is scared: fear is normal, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/)