--- title: Some people believe God has a plan and brings good out of bad; other… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Some people believe God has a plan and brings good out of bad; others believe some things just happen; people disagree. Who acts: people, God, others, things. 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 d --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 13 Some people believe God has a plan and brings good out of bad; others believe some things just happen; people disagree. **Who acts:** people, God, others, things · **What happens:** believe, have, bring, happen, disagree · **To what, where:** plan, good, bad · **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 (people, God, others, things), 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:13 # text = Some people believe God has a plan and brings good out of bad; others believe some things just happen; people disagree. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | some people | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | God | a plan | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | | 3 | **bring** | present | God *not said here* | good | | bad | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent good=Theme out bad=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **believe** | present | others | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **happen** | present | some things | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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