Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 14
People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are part of the cycle of rebirth.
Who acts: People, animals, Hindus · What happens: disagree, have, believe, be · To what, where: souls, part · 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 (People, animals, Hindus), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 disagree | nsubj |
| 2 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 disagree | advcl |
| 7 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 9 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Buddhists | cc |
| 11 | Buddhists | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Hindus | conj |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 disagree | parataxis |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 part | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 part | cop |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cycle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cycle | det |
| 18 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rebirth | case |
| 20 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cycle | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | People | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | animals | souls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | Hindus and Buddhists | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | animals | part | of the cycle of rebirth | tree rules |
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:14.
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.
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