Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 5

For a child today this means: you may say «it's not fair», ask hard questions without being afraid, and look for what you can do to help.

Who acts: this, you, child, hard questions · What happens: mean, say, not be, ask, be, look · 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 (this, you, child, hard questions), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod:unmarked
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 fair	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fair	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fair	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 fair	advmod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 say	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 fair	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ask	punct
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 questions	amod
20	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ask	obj
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 afraid	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ask	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
26	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 say	conj
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 do	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 look	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 help	mark
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 do	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this	for a child today	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	may	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	child	fair property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	hard questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund	hard questions not said here	afraid property	tree rules
6	look	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
7	do	can	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	help	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:5.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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