--- title: Stories and cartoons give us pictures, floating spirits, dead girls… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Stories, dead girls, people, angels. 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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 (Stories, dead girls, people, angels), 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:5 # text = 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. # 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 ×2 1 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 13 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 teaching teaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 25 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 xcomp _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 being be NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 38 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Stories and cartoons | pictures and floating spirits and dead girls | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient picture=Theme | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | dead girls *not said here* | | | | | into angels *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into angel=Result | | 4 | **not** **become** | present · do-support | people | angels and a different kind | | | | in Christian teaching *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in teaching=Result | | 5 | **is a** | present | angels | a different kind | | | | being *nmod* | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | infinitive | people | people | | | | with God | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme themselves=Location | 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. 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