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title: There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" ca… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you. Who acts: evidence, ghosts, breath. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 10

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There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you.

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**Who acts:** evidence, ghosts, breath · **What happens:** be, exist, haunt · **To what, where:** evidence, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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, breath), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:10
# text = There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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): no change
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	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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** | can | a ghost's breath | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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): no change. **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/).

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