--- title: An agnostic is someone who says we cannot know for sure what happens… — What other faiths and non-religious people believe · tree and pragmatics description: An agnostic is someone who says we cannot know for sure what happens after death. Who acts: agnostic, we. A sentence of the lesson «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe/15/) [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 other faiths and non-religious pe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe/) / 15 # What other faiths and non-religious people believe, sentence 15 An agnostic is someone who says we cannot know for sure what happens after death. **Who acts:** agnostic, we · **What happens:** be, say, not know, happen · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (agnostic, we), 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:15 # text = An agnostic is someone who says we cannot know for sure what happens after death. # 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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 agnostic agnostic NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a agnostic | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **know** | can | we | | | | | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **happen** | present | | | | | after death | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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