--- title: Some babies are born with illnesses that doctors cannot cure; it is… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Some babies are born with illnesses that doctors cannot cure; it is very sad and nobody's fault. Who acts: doctors, answer, nobody. 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 with its dependency tree and the prag --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 12 Some babies are born with illnesses that doctors cannot cure; it is very sad and nobody's fault. **Who acts:** doctors, answer, nobody · **What happens:** bear, not cure, be, fault · **To what, where:** babies, illnesses 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 (doctors, answer, nobody), 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:12 # text = Some babies are born with illnesses that doctors cannot cure; it is very sad and nobody's fault. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 8 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 . . 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 | **bear** | present · passive | | some babies | | | | with illnesses | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **not** **cure** | can | doctors | illnesses | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer that=Source | | 3 | **is** | present | answer | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fault** | | nobody | | | | | | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Is it fair? Why bad things happen to g…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/11/) - next →: [Is it fair? 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