Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 11
In the book of Job, a good man loses everything; his friends blame him, God says they are wrong, and Job gets no simple answer.
Who acts: good man, friends, God, Job · What happens: lose, blame, say, be, get · To what, where: everything, book, man, simple answer · 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 (good man, friends, God, Job), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 book | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loses | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Job | case |
| 5 | Job | Job | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 book | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 book | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loses | nsubj |
| 10 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 loses | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 blame | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blame | nsubj |
| 15 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loses | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blame | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loses | conj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wrong | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrong | cop |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 says | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gets | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gets | cc |
| 25 | Job | Job | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gets | nsubj |
| 26 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loses | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 answer | det |
| 28 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 answer | amod |
| 29 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gets | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | a good man | everything | the book of Job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | blame | present | man's friends | man | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | friends = friend | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | present | Job | no simple answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
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: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): 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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