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title: Sikhs believe the soul is reborn until it becomes one with God, like… — What other faiths and non-religious people believe · tree and pragmatics
description: Sikhs believe the soul is reborn until it becomes one with God, like a drop returning to the ocean; Sikhs usually cremate the dead and sing hymns. Who acts: Sikhs, soul, drop. A sentence of the lesson «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primar
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# What other faiths and non-religious people believe, sentence 12

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Sikhs believe the soul is reborn until it becomes one with God, like a drop returning to the ocean; Sikhs usually cremate the dead and sing hymns.

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**Who acts:** Sikhs, soul, drop · **What happens:** believe, be, become, return, cremate, sing · **To what, where:** dead, hymns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» 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 (Sikhs, soul, drop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.lesson:12
# text = Sikhs believe the soul is reborn until it becomes one with God, like a drop returning to the ocean; Sikhs usually cremate the dead and sing hymns.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.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	Sikhs	sikh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	reborn	reborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Sikhs	sikh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cremate	cremate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | Sikhs |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the soul |  |  |  |  | reborn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | soul |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | gerund | a drop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ocean *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to ocean=Result |
| 5 | **cremate** | present | Sikhs | the dead |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dead=Patient |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Sikhs *not said here* | hymns |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=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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