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title: Christians believe Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead on t… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day; this is celebrated at Easter. Who acts: Christians, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 8

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Christians believe Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day; this is celebrated at Easter.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Jesus · **What happens:** believe, die, rise, celebrate · **To what, where:** cross, dead, this, Easter · **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), 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:8
# text = Christians believe Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day; this is celebrated at Easter.
# 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 ×1
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	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 |  |  | a cross |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **rise** | past | Jesus *not said here* |  |  | the dead | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dead=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **celebrate** | present · passive |  | this |  | Easter |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 ×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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