Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 15

Philosophers ask questions like «What is a person?», «What is a soul?» and «What makes me me?»

Who acts: Philosophers, questions, soul · What happens: ask, be, make · To what, where: questions, Philosophers · 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 (Philosophers, questions, soul), 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	Philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	9 person	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 What	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 person	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 questions	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 What	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 What	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 person	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 soul	det
17	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 What	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 makes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 makes	cc
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 makes	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 makes	nsubj
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 makes	obj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 makes	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 makes	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Philosophers	questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	questions			like a person	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	a soul	questions			tree rules
4	make in a quote	present			Philosophers = philosopher		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary i=Product

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:15.

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): R6-punct-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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