Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 14
Some philosophers say life may have no given reason and we make our own meaning; humanists say meaning comes from how we live and love.
Who acts: philosophers, life, we, humanists, meaning, our · What happens: say, have, give, make, come, live · To what, where: given reason, own meaning · 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 (philosophers, life, we, humanists), 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 philosophers | det |
| 2 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 reason | det |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meaning | amod |
| 15 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 17 | humanists | humanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 19 | meaning | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 live | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 live | nsubj |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 comes | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 love | cc |
| 26 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | some philosophers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | may | life | no given reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | we | our own meaning | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Product | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | humanists | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | present | meaning | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | live | present | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | love | present | we not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | mean | our | nom meaning «communication 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:14.
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): R8-pos-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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