--- title: In the book of Job, a good man loses everything; his friends blame h… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: In the book of Job, a good man loses everything; his friends blame him, God says they are wrong, and Job gets no simple answer. Who acts: good man, friends, God, Job. 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 wi --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 11 In the book of Job, a good man loses everything; his friends blame him, God says they are wrong, and Job gets no simple answer. **Who acts:** good man, friends, God, Job · **What happens:** lose, blame, say, be, get · **To what, where:** everything, book, man, simple answer · **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 (good man, friends, God, Job), 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:11 # text = In the book of Job, a good man loses everything; his friends blame him, God says they are wrong, and Job gets no simple answer. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 blame blame VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | a good man | everything | | the book of Job | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 2 | **blame** | present | man's friends | man | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | God | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | friends *= friend* | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | present | Job | no simple answer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | 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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