Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 6
How long someone lives is not a reward or a punishment; it depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls.
Who acts: someone, it, nobody · What happens: live, not be, depend, controls · To what, where: reward, many 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 (someone, it, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lives | advmod |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reward | csubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reward | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 reward | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reward | det |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 punishment | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 punishment | det |
| 11 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reward | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 depends | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 depends | nsubj |
| 14 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reward | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 health | case |
| 16 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 depends | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chance | punct |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 health | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 things | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 health | conj |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 controls | nsubj |
| 23 | controls | controls | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | someone | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | a reward or a punishment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | depend | present | it | on health and chance and many things | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on health=Theme | ||||
| 4 | controls | present | nobody | many things not said here | tree rules |
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:6.
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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