--- title: Ghosts are a different thing: there is no good evidence that ghosts… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (Ghosts, good evidence, haunted houses, Christians), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 haunted haunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 horseman horseman NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 sleepover sleepover NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 thrill thrill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 38 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 nsubj _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 haunting haunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 48 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Ghosts | a different thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | no good evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | ghosts | no good evidence *not said here* | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **thrill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **scare** | infinitive | the haunted houses of films and the headless horseman of a sleepover story *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **is** | present | the dead | | | | | with God | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **haunt** | gerund | Christians *not said here* | houses | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus house=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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/0/) - next →: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/)