Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 2
The Bible does not hide the question: in the book of Job a good man loses everything, his friends say it must be his fault, God says the friends are wrong, and Job meets God without getting a simple answer; Jesus also said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin.
Who acts: Bible, good man, friends, God, Job, Jesus · What happens: not hide, lose, say, be, meet, get · To what, where: question, everything, book, fault, God, 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 (Bible, good man, friends, God), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 loses | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loses | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Job | case |
| 13 | Job | Job | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 book | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loses | nsubj |
| 17 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | parataxis |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 loses | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 loses | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fault | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fault | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fault | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fault | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 say | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 says | punct |
| 29 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 says | nsubj |
| 30 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 friends | det |
| 32 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 wrong | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wrong | cop |
| 34 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 says | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 meets | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 meets | cc |
| 37 | Job | Job | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 meets | nsubj |
| 38 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | advcl |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 meets | obj |
| 40 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 41 getting | mark |
| 41 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 meets | advcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 answer | det |
| 43 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 answer | amod |
| 44 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 getting | obj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 said | punct |
| 46 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 said | nsubj |
| 47 | also | also | ADV | _ | 48 said | advmod |
| 48 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 meets | conj |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 man | det |
| 50 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 punished | nsubj |
| 51 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 man | acl |
| 52 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 born | xcomp |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 punished | aux |
| 54 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 56 punished | advmod |
| 55 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 punished | aux:pass |
| 56 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 said | ccomp |
| 57 | for | for | ADP | _ | 60 sin | case |
| 58 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 60 sin | nmod:poss |
| 59 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 58 anyone | case |
| 60 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 punished | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hide | present · do-support | the Bible | the question | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | a good man | everything | the book of Job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | man's friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | Bible | man's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the friends | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | meet | present | Job | God | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | get | gerund | Job not said here | a simple answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | bear | participle | a man not said here | blind property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | 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:2.
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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