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title: At Sunday school Mrs Patel asks what happens when we die, and Ellie… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics
description: At Sunday school Mrs Patel asks what happens when we die, and Ellie says «You go to heaven»; Christians at Ellie's church believe heaven is being with God for ever, with no more pain or tears, and not a place above the clouds that a telescope could find. Who acts: Mrs, we, Ellie, You. A sentence of 
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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 0

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At Sunday school Mrs Patel asks what happens when we die, and Ellie says «You go to heaven»; Christians at Ellie's church believe heaven is being with God for ever, with no more pain or tears, and not a place above the clouds that a telescope could find.

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**Who acts:** Mrs, we, Ellie, You, Christians, heaven · **What happens:** ask, happen, die, say, go, believe · **To what, where:** Sunday school, heaven, clouds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» 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 (Mrs, we, Ellie, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.lesson:0
# text = At Sunday school Mrs Patel asks what happens when we die, and Ellie says «You go to heaven»; Christians at Ellie's church believe heaven is being with God for ever, with no more pain or tears, and not a place above the clouds that a telescope could find.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Patel	Patel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
29	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:cop
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:aux
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
39	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
48	above	above	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Mrs |  |  | Sunday school |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ellie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **believe** | present | Christians at Ellie's church |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | present · progressive | heaven |  |  |  |  | with God; with no more pain or tears and a place above the clouds | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | could | a telescope | the clouds |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |

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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:072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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