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title: People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhis… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics
description: People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are part of the cycle of rebirth. Who acts: People, animals, Hindus. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 14

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People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are part of the cycle of rebirth.

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**Who acts:** People, animals, Hindus · **What happens:** disagree, have, believe, be · **To what, where:** souls, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics 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 (People, animals, Hindus), 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:14
# text = People disagree about whether animals have souls; Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are part of the cycle of rebirth.
# 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	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disagree** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | animals | souls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 3 | **believe** | present | Hindus and Buddhists |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | animals | part |  |  |  | of the cycle of rebirth | tree rules |

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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:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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