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title: The vicar explains the creed's words «the resurrection of the body»:… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics
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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 2

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The vicar explains the creed's words «the resurrection of the body»: Christians believe that at the end of time God will raise the dead to new life with healed bodies that never die, though how is a mystery.

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**Who acts:** vicar, Christians, God, healed bodies, creed · **What happens:** explain, believe, raise, heal, not die, be · **To what, where:** words, dead, end, mystery, body · **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 (vicar, Christians, God, healed bodies), 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:2
# text = The vicar explains the creed's words «the resurrection of the body»: Christians believe that at the end of time God will raise the dead to new life with healed bodies that never die, though how is a mystery.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vicar	vicar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	creed	creed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	resurrection	resurrection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	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	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | the creed's words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **raise** | future | God | the dead |  |  | at the end of time | to new life; with healed bodies | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme at end=Destination to life=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **heal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **die** | present | healed bodies |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | present | God *not said here* | a mystery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  | the creed |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **resurrect** *in a quote* |  |  | the body |  |  |  |  | nom resurrection «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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