Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 10
Christians do not believe illness or death is a punishment for being bad; Jesus said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin.
Who acts: Christians, illness, Jesus · What happens: not believe, be, say, bear, not punish · To what, where: punishment, man · 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 (Christians, illness, Jesus), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 punishment | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 death | cc |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 illness | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 punishment | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 punishment | det |
| 10 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 bad | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bad | cop |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 punishment | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 punished | nsubj |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 man | acl |
| 20 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 born | xcomp |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 punished | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 punished | advmod |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 punished | aux:pass |
| 24 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 sin | case |
| 26 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 sin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 anyone | case |
| 28 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 punished | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | illness or death | a punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bear | participle | a man not said here | blind property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not punish | past · progressive · passive | a man | for anyone's sin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for sin=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:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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