--- title: Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separa… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics description: Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separate soul; scientists study how the brain makes thoughts and feelings. Who acts: people, person, scientists, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/9/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/) / 9 # Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 9 Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separate soul; scientists study how the brain makes thoughts and feelings. **Who acts:** people, person, scientists, brain · **What happens:** believe, be, study, make · **To what, where:** brain, thoughts · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, person, scientists, brain), 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:9 # text = Some people believe a person is their brain and body, with no separate soul; scientists study how the brain makes thoughts and feelings. # 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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 14 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | some people | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | a person | people's brain and body | | | | with no separate soul | tree rules | | 3 | **study** | present | scientists | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | present | the brain | thoughts and feelings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thought=Product | 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:9`. **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 ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/8/) - next →: [Souls, ghosts and stories, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/)