--- title: There is no evidence that ghosts exist; haunted-toilet stories are t… — School legends · tree and pragmatics description: There is no evidence that ghosts exist; haunted-toilet stories are told at schools in many countries, such as Japan's "Hanako-san". Who acts: evidence, ghosts. A sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [School legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/) / 10 # School legends, sentence 10 There is no evidence that ghosts exist; haunted-toilet stories are told at schools in many countries, such as Japan's "Hanako-san". **Who acts:** evidence, ghosts · **What happens:** be, exist, haunt, tell · **To what, where:** evidence, toilet stories, schools · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «School legends» of the myths 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 (evidence, ghosts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:024-school-legends.lesson:10 # text = There is no evidence that ghosts exist; haunted-toilet stories are told at schools in many countries, such as Japan's "Hanako-san". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 024-school-legends.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 9 haunted haunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 23 case _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Hanako Hanako PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 san san PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **exist** | present | ghosts | no evidence *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **haunt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | toilet stories | | schools | | in many countries such Japan | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:myths:024-school-legends.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [School legends, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/9/) - next →: [School legends, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/)