--- title: Souls, ghosts and stories — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Souls, ghosts and stories», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: «Do I have a soul? --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Souls, ghosts and stories # Souls, ghosts and stories Lesson 74 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/0/) — «Do I have a soul? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/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. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/4/) — When Ella's cousin says her grandma's ghost visits at night, she is most likely dreaming of Grandma or feeling close to her, which is a normal part of missing someone and nothing to be afraid of. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/5/) — Stories and cartoons give us pictures, floating spirits, dead girls turning into angels, but in Christian teaching people do not become angels: angels are a different kind of being, and people stay themselves with God. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/6/) — The wise move with big questions is to ask them freely, listen to many answers, and be careful with jokes about death, because someone near you may be missing a person they loved. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/7/) — Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, loves and is really «them»; it cannot be seen like a heart or brain. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/8/) — Christians believe God gives each person a soul that lives on after death. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/9/) — Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separate soul; scientists study how the brain makes thoughts and feelings. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/10/) — There is no good evidence that ghosts are real (ghost videos and photos can easily be faked); ghost stories are told mostly to entertain or scare. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/11/) — Christians do not believe the dead come back as ghosts; they believe the dead are with God. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/12/) — People who miss someone often dream about them or feel close to them; this is a normal part of grief. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/13/) — The headless horseman is an old legend, made famous in a story by Washington Irving in 1820. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/14/) — People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are part of the cycle of rebirth. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/15/) — Philosophers ask questions like «What is a person?», «What is a soul?» and «What makes me me?» - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/16/) — Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe that nature has spirits; Christians believe God made nature and cares for it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/17/) — In Christian teaching people do not become angels when they die; angels are a different kind of being. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/18/) — Jokes about someone's dead relative can hurt, even when nobody means harm. - ← previous: [What other faiths and non-religious people believe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe/) - next →: [Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)