--- title: Many Buddhists teach that what is reborn is not a fixed soul but a f… — What other faiths and non-religious people believe · tree and pragmatics description: Many Buddhists teach that what is reborn is not a fixed soul but a flow of life, like a flame lit from another candle. Who acts: Many Buddhists, fixed soul, life. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Buddhists, fixed soul, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.lesson:11 # text = Many Buddhists teach that what is reborn is not a fixed soul but a flow of life, like a flame lit from another candle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Buddhists Buddhist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 reborn reborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 csubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 lit light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Many Buddhists | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a fixed soul but a flow of life | | | | | reborn *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | | a fixed soul but a flow of life | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **light** | participle | | a flame *not said here* | | another candle | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from candle=Material | | 6 | **flow** | | life | | | | | | nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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:religion-ethics:073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.lesson:11`. **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): 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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