--- title: Some questions have no sure answer: whether Grandad can see Ellie, w… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics description: Some questions have no sure answer: whether Grandad can see Ellie, whether Mia's dog will be in heaven; the vicar says «God loves all he has made» and «God knows each heart better than we do», and Christians leave judging to God. Who acts: questions, Grandad, dog, vicar. A sentence of the lesson «Wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [What happens after we die? What our ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/) / 4 # What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 4 Some questions have no sure answer: whether Grandad can see Ellie, whether Mia's dog will be in heaven; the vicar says «God loves all he has made» and «God knows each heart better than we do», and Christians leave judging to God. **Who acts:** questions, Grandad, dog, vicar, God, Christians · **What happens:** have, see, be, say, love, make · **To what, where:** sure answer, Ellie, heaven, all, heart, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (questions, Grandad, dog, vicar), 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:4 # text = Some questions have no sure answer: whether Grandad can see Ellie, whether Mia's dog will be in heaven; the vicar says «God loves all he has made» and «God knows each heart better than we do», and Christians leave judging to God. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 12 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:_ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 38 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 41 than than SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 49 judging judge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 xcomp _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | some questions | no sure answer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 2 | **see** | can | Grandad | Ellie | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ellie=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | future | Mia's dog | | | heaven | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | God | all | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | God | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | God | each heart | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | | 8 | **leave** | present | Christians | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **judge** | gerund | Christians *not said here* | | God | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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:072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What happens after we die? What our ch…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/3/) - next →: [What happens after we die? 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