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title: The Bible pictures heaven as a city of gold and a house with many ro… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible pictures heaven as a city of gold and a house with many rooms; the clouds and harps of cartoons and old paintings are only pictures, and Christians believe heaven is full life with God, not boredom. Who acts: Bible, clouds, Christians, heaven. A sentence of the lesson «What happens after w
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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 3

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The Bible pictures heaven as a city of gold and a house with many rooms; the clouds and harps of cartoons and old paintings are only pictures, and Christians believe heaven is full life with God, not boredom.

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**Who acts:** Bible, clouds, Christians, heaven · **What happens:** picture, be, believe, cloud · **To what, where:** heaven, pictures, full life, cartoons · **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 (Bible, clouds, Christians, heaven), 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:3
# text = The Bible pictures heaven as a city of gold and a house with many rooms; the clouds and harps of cartoons and old paintings are only pictures, and Christians believe heaven is full life with God, not boredom.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pictures	picture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
28	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	boredom	boredom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | present | the Bible | heaven |  |  |  | as a city of gold and a house with many rooms | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme as city=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the clouds of cartoons and old paintings and harps | pictures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | heaven | full life and boredom |  |  |  | with God | tree rules |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | cartoons and old paintings |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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