Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 17
Feeling angry about unfairness is natural, and that anger can lead people to help others or change things.
Who acts: Feeling, anger, people · What happens: feel, be, lead, help, change · To what, where: people, others, things
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 (Feeling, anger, people), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 natural | csubj |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 unfairness | case |
| 4 | unfairness | unfairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 angry | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 natural | cop |
| 6 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lead | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lead | cc |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 anger | det |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lead | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lead | aux |
| 12 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 natural | conj |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lead | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lead | xcomp |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 help | conj |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Feeling | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | can | that anger | people | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | people not said here | others | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | change | infinitive | people not said here | things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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:17.
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, R5-strong ×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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