Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 9
Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separate soul; scientists study how the brain makes thoughts and feelings.
Who acts: people, person, scientists, brain · What happens: believe, be, study, make · To what, where: brain, thoughts · 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, person, scientists, brain), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brain | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brain | cop |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 body | cc |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brain | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soul | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 soul | det |
| 14 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 soul | amod |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brain | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 study | punct |
| 17 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 study | nsubj |
| 18 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | parataxis |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 makes | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brain | det |
| 21 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 study | ccomp |
| 23 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feelings | cc |
| 25 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thoughts | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | some people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a person | people's brain and body | with no separate soul | tree rules | |||
| 3 | study | present | scientists | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | present | the brain | thoughts and feelings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thought=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:9.
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 ×2. 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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