--- title: Why we must die at all is one of the biggest questions there is: Chr… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Why we must die at all is one of the biggest questions there is: Christians believe death is not the end because Jesus rose from the dead, other faiths have their own answers, many non-religious people say death is simply part of nature, and grown-ups do not have all the answers. 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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 (we, biggest questions, Christians, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:4 # text = Why we must die at all is one of the biggest questions there is: Christians believe death is not the end because Jesus rose from the dead, other faiths have their own answers, many non-religious people say death is simply part of nature, and grown-ups do not have all the answers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 csubj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 non-religious non-religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 simply simply ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 49 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 51 punct _ _ 51 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 52 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 55 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 57 det:predet _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=49:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | must | we | | | all | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | | one | | | | of the biggest questions | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | the biggest questions *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | death | the end | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rise** | past | Jesus | | | the dead | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dead=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **have** | present | other faiths | faiths's own answers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many non-religious people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | death | part | | | | of nature; simply *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | grown ups | all answers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 12 | **answer** | | faiths *= faith* | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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