Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 10

There is no good evidence that ghosts are real (ghost videos and photos can easily be faked); ghost stories are told mostly to entertain or scare.

Who acts: good evidence, ghosts · What happens: be, fake, tell, entertain, scare · To what, where: good evidence, ghost videos, ghost stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics 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 (good 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	5 evidence	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 real	mark
7	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 real	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	acl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 faked	punct
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 videos	compound
12	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faked	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 photos	cc
14	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 videos	conj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 faked	aux
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 faked	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 faked	aux:pass
18	faked	fake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 real	parataxis
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 faked	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
21	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stories	compound
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux:pass
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	parataxis
25	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	27 entertain	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 entertain	mark
27	entertain	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	advcl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 scare	cc
29	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 entertain	conj
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 good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	ghosts	no good evidence not said here		real property	tree rules
3	fake	can · passive		ghost videos and photos		easily property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		ghost stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	entertain	to-infinitive				mostly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	scare	infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/10/