Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 12
Some babies are born with illnesses that doctors cannot cure; it is very sad and nobody's fault.
Who acts: doctors, answer, nobody · What happens: bear, not cure, be, fault · To what, where: babies, illnesses
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 (doctors, answer, nobody), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 babies | det |
| 2 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 illnesses | case |
| 6 | illnesses | illness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cure | obj |
| 8 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cure | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cure | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 cure | advmod |
| 11 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 illnesses | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sad | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sad | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sad | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sad | advmod |
| 16 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 born | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fault | cc |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 fault | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 nobody | case |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sad | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | some babies | with illnesses | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not cure | can | doctors | illnesses | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer that=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | present | answer | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fault | nobody | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:12.
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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