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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 agnostic | det |
| 2 | agnostic | agnostic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 someone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | cop |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sure | case |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 know | obl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happens | nsubj |
| 14 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happens | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
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, 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:073-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe.lesson:15.
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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