Predicate: shy_away

Roleset id: shy_away.01 , avoid in fear, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

shy_away.01: SHY_AWAY-V NOTES: No Verbnet entry. (from shy.01-v)

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shy_away (v.)

Roles:

        Treebank treats the "shy away from X" in at least four differentparsings. You'll often have to pick things apart. (from shy.01-v)
        Arg0-PAG: avoider
        Arg1-PPT: thing avoided

Example: oddly intransitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: full

        ``If someone actually sat down and thought about what they were being sold ,'' says Gerald Perritt, editor of the Mutual Fund Letter in Chicago, they might shy away.

        Argm-adv: If someone actually sat down and thought about what they were being sold
        Arg0: they
        Argm-mod: might
        Rel: [ shy] [ away]

Example: shy away from

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        The scare over Alar, a growth regulator that makes apples redder and crunchier but may be carcinogenic, made consumers shy away from the Delicious, though they were less affected than the McIntosh.

        Arg0: consumers
        Rel: [ shy] [ away]
        Arg1: from the Delicious
        Argm-adv: though they were less affected than the McIntosh


Predicate: shy

Roleset id: shy.02 , avoid in fear, nonphrasal; avoiding out of fear, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

shy.02: SHY-V NOTES: Added by Julia based on shy.01, BOLT-1 adjectival usage. (from shy.02-v)

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shy (v.)Sociability

Roles:

        Arg0-PPT: shy one
        Arg1-PPT: afraid of

Example: inanimate arg0

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Its diligent beam could spot only the dark head of Van, who, having been propelled out of the boat when-1 it shied from its own sudden shadow [*-1], kept bobbing and and bawling the drowned girl's name in the black, foam-veined, complicated waters.

        Arg0: it
        Rel: shied
        Arg1: from its own sudden shadow
        Argm-tmp: [*-1]

Roleset id: shy.03 , not having enough, being some distance from a goal, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

shy.03: SHY-J NOTES: Reframed by Julia based on short-j.01 (from shy.01-j)

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shy (j.)

Roles:

        Arg1-PAG: entity not having enough/attained a goal
        Arg2-PPT: amount shy
        Arg3-GOL: goal

Example: monetary, Args 1 and 2

        He is shy ten bucks.

        Arg1: he
        Rel: shy
        Arg2: ten bucks

Example: distance, All args

        We are 10 miles shy of Los Angeles.

        Arg1: We
        Arg2: 10 miles
        Rel: shy
        Arg3: of Los Angeles

Example: args 1, 3

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        That was shy of economists' forecast for a 1.5 percent increase and marked a slower pace than April's 1.7 percent rise.

        Arg1: that
        Rel: shy
        Arg3: of economists' forecast for a 1.5 percent increase

Roleset id: shy.04 , socially nervous, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

shy.04: SHY-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-1, (from shy.02-j)

Aliases:

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shy (j.)Sociability

Roles:

        Arg0-PPT: shy one
        Arg1-PPT: afraid of

Example: both args

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        On Facebook she did say she was shy of people outside her group

        Arg0: she
        Rel: shy
        Arg1: of people outside her group

Example: arg1

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        However , I knew it would take me some time to adjust , because I have always been very introverted , and shy and especially anxious and all the rest of it .

        Arg0: I
        Argm-tmp: always
        Rel: shy