Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 10
There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you.
Who acts: evidence, ghosts, breath · What happens: be, exist, haunt · To what, where: evidence, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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, breath), 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 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 haunt | cc |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 haunt | mark |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 breath | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ghost | det |
| 12 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breath | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 ghost | case |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 haunt | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 breath | punct |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 haunt | aux |
| 17 | haunt | haunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exist | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 haunt | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | can | a ghost's breath | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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): 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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