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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 11

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Christians believe Jesus died to show God's love and to take away people's wrongdoing so they can be forgiven; churches explain this in different ways.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Jesus, churches, God · **What happens:** believe, die, show, take away, forgive, explain · **To what, where:** love, wrongdoing, Christians, this, different ways · **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 (Christians, Jesus, churches, God), 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:11
# text = Christians believe Jesus died to show God's love and to take away people's wrongdoing so they can be forgiven; churches explain this in different ways.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	away	away	PART	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | God's love |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient |
| 4 | **take away** | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | people's wrongdoing |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrongdoing=Theme |
| 5 | **forgive** | can · passive |  | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | churches | this |  | different ways |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 7 | **love** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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