Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 0

Ruby's aunt was kind and helped everyone, and she died of cancer at 40, while Kai's grumpy grandad lived to 95; Ruby says «It's not fair», and she is right: how long someone lives is not a score for being good, but depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls.

Who acts: aunt, grumpy grandad, Ruby, cancer, someone, nobody · What happens: be, help, die, live, say, not be · To what, where: everyone, 40, score, many things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» 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 (aunt, grumpy grandad, Ruby, cancer), 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aunt	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 helped	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helped	cc
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 helped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 died	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 helped	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cancer	case
14	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 40	case
16	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 died	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grandad	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 lived	mark
19	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 grandad	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Kai	case
21	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandad	amod
22	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	nsubj
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 died	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 95	case
25	95	95	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 lived	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
27	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 says	nsubj
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helped	conj
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 fair	punct
30	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fair	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fair	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fair	advmod
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 says	ccomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 fair	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 right	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 right	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 right	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 right	cop
39	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fair	conj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 score	punct
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 long	advmod
42	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 lives	advmod
43	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 lives	nsubj
44	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 score	csubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 score	cop
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 score	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 score	det
48	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fair	conj
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 good	mark
50	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 good	cop
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 score	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 depends	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 depends	cc
54	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 helped	conj
55	on	on	ADP	_	56 health	case
56	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 depends	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 chance	punct
58	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 health	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 things	cc
60	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 things	amod
61	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 health	conj
62	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	63 controls	nsubj
63	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 things	acl:relcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 helped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ruby's aunt not said here				kind property	tree rules
2	help	past	Ruby's aunt		everyone			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary
3	die	past	aunt			40	of cancer	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cancer=Causer
4	live	past	Kai's grumpy grandad				to 95	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	Ruby					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is in a quote	present	cancer				fair property	tree rules
7	is	present	Ruby				right property	tree rules
8	live	present	someone				long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not is a	present	cancer not said here	a score				tree rules
10	is	gerund					good property	tree rules
11	depend	present	Ruby's aunt not said here				on health and chance and many things	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on health=Theme
12	control	present	nobody	many things not said here				vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:075-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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