Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 9
Many Christians answer that God gave people free will, and people sometimes choose to hurt each other, for example in wars.
Who acts: Many Christians, God, people · What happens: answer, give, choose, hurt · To what, where: free will, people, each, wars · 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 (Many Christians, God, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Christians | amod |
| 2 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 gave | mark |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answer | ccomp |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 will | amod |
| 9 | will | will | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 choose | cc |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 14 choose | advmod |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answer | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 choose | xcomp |
| 17 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 16 hurt | obj |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 each | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 example | case |
| 21 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 wars | case |
| 23 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | Many Christians | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | God | free will | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient will=Theme | |||
| 3 | choose | present | people | sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hurt | to-infinitive | people not said here | each | wars | for example | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=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:9.
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): 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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