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Why bad things happen to g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/) / 0 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 0 Ruby's aunt was kind and helped everyone, and she died of cancer at 40, while Kai's grumpy grandad lived to 95; Ruby says «It's not fair», and she is right: how long someone lives is not a score for being good, but depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls. **Who acts:** aunt, grumpy grandad, Ruby, cancer, someone, nobody · **What happens:** be, help, die, live, say, not be · **To what, where:** everyone, 40, score, many things · **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 (aunt, grumpy grandad, Ruby, cancer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:075-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.lesson:0 # text = Ruby's aunt was kind and helped everyone, and she died of cancer at 40, while Kai's grumpy grandad lived to 95; Ruby says «It's not fair», and she is right: how long someone lives is not a score for being good, but depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 075-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 95 95 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 40 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 41 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 42 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 43 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 44 nsubj _ _ 44 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 csubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 49 for for SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 50 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 cop _ _ 51 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 nmod _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 conj _ _ 62 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 63 nsubj _ _ 63 controls control VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 acl:relcl _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Ruby's aunt *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | past | Ruby's aunt | | everyone | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary | | 3 | **die** | past | aunt | | | 40 | | of cancer | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cancer=Causer | | 4 | **live** | past | Kai's grumpy grandad | | | | | to 95 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ruby | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | cancer | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | Ruby | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **live** | present | someone | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **not** **is a** | present | cancer *not said here* | a score | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **depend** | present | Ruby's aunt *not said here* | | | | | on health and chance and many things | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on health=Theme | | 12 | **control** | present | nobody | many things *not said here* | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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