School legends, sentence 10

There is no evidence that ghosts exist; haunted-toilet stories are told at schools in many countries, such as Japan's "Hanako-san".

Who acts: evidence, ghosts · What happens: be, exist, haunt, tell · To what, where: evidence, toilet stories, schools · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths 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 (evidence, ghosts), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 evidence	det
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 exist	mark
6	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 exist	nsubj
7	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evidence	acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
9	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 toilet	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 haunted	punct
11	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stories	compound
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 schools	case
16	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 countries	case
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Japan	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	23 Japan	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 countries	nmod
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Japan	case
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Hanako	punct
26	Hanako	Hanako	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Japan	appos
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 san	punct
28	san	san	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Hanako	flat
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Hanako	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exist	present	ghosts	no evidence not said here			tree rules
3	haunt	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		toilet stories	schools	in many countries such Japan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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