Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 3

Ghosts are a different thing: there is no good evidence that ghosts are real, and the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story are told to thrill and scare; Christians believe the dead are with God, not haunting houses.

Who acts: Ghosts, good evidence, haunted houses, Christians, dead · What happens: be, tell, thrill, scare, believe, not haunt · To what, where: different thing, good evidence, haunted houses, houses · 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 (Ghosts, good evidence, haunted houses, Christians), 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	Ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 evidence	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 evidence	amod
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 real	mark
13	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 real	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 evidence	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 houses	det
19	haunted	haunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 houses	amod
20	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 told	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 films	case
22	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 houses	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 horseman	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horseman	det
25	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 horseman	amod
26	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 houses	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 story	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 story	det
29	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 story	compound
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 horseman	nmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux:pass
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 is	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 thrill	mark
34	thrill	thrill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 scare	cc
36	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thrill	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
38	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 believe	nsubj
39	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dead	det
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 God	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 God	cop
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 God	case
44	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 believe	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 haunting	punct
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 haunting	advmod
47	haunting	haunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 believe	conj
48	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 haunting	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ghosts	a different thing			tree rules
2	be	present	no good evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	ghosts	no good evidence not said here		real property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	thrill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	scare	infinitive	the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	believe	present	Christians				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	present	the dead			with God	tree rules
9	not haunt	gerund	Christians not said here	houses			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus house=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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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