Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief, sentence 11
An atheist believes there is no God; an agnostic thinks we cannot know whether there is.
Who acts: atheist, God, agnostic, we · What happens: believe, be, think, not know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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 (atheist, God, agnostic, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 atheist | det |
| 2 | atheist | atheist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believes | nsubj |
| 3 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believes | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 God | det |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinks | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 agnostic | det |
| 10 | agnostic | agnostic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinks | nsubj |
| 11 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believes | parataxis |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thinks | ccomp |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | a atheist | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no God | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | a agnostic | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not know | can | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:033-buddhism-humanism-and-respect.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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