--- title: There is no good evidence that ghosts are real (ghost videos and pho… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: good evidence, ghosts. 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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 (good evidence, ghosts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:10 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 074-souls-ghosts-and-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): 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 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 11 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 easily easily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 faked fake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 entertain entertain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 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 good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | ghosts | no good evidence *not said here* | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fake** | can · passive | | ghost videos and photos | | | | easily *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | ghost stories | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **entertain** | to-infinitive | | | | | | mostly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **scare** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:074-souls-ghosts-and-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): 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: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/9/) - next →: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/)