--- title: Christians do not believe illness or death is a punishment for being… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Christians do not believe illness or death is a punishment for being bad; Jesus said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. Who acts: Christians, illness, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» of the religion ethics course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Is it fair? 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/) / 10 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 10 Christians do not believe illness or death is a punishment for being bad; Jesus said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. **Who acts:** Christians, illness, Jesus · **What happens:** not believe, be, say, bear, not punish · **To what, where:** punishment, man · **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 (Christians, illness, Jesus), 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:10 # text = Christians do not believe illness or death is a punishment for being bad; Jesus said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 15 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | illness or death | a punishment | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **bear** | participle | | a man *not said here* | | | | blind *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **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](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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