--- title: Some philosophers say life may have no given reason and we make our… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Some philosophers say life may have no given reason and we make our own meaning; humanists say meaning comes from how we live and love. Who acts: philosophers, life, we, humanists. 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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 14 Some philosophers say life may have no given reason and we make our own meaning; humanists say meaning comes from how we live and love. **Who acts:** philosophers, life, we, humanists, meaning, our · **What happens:** say, have, give, make, come, live · **To what, where:** given reason, own meaning · **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 (philosophers, life, we, humanists), 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:14 # text = Some philosophers say life may have no given reason and we make our own meaning; humanists say meaning comes from how we live and love. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 philosophers philosopher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 humanists humanist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 meaning mean NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 from from SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some philosophers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | may | life | no given reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 3 | **give** | participle | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | we | our own meaning | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | humanists | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** | present | meaning | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **live** | present | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **love** | present | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **mean** | | our | | | | | | nom meaning «communication 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. 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