--- title: The Bible tells Christians to «look after orphans and widows», and m… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: The Bible tells Christians to «look after orphans and widows», and many faiths run charities for children without parents. Who acts: Bible, many faiths. 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 depende --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 16 The Bible tells Christians to «look after orphans and widows», and many faiths run charities for children without parents. **Who acts:** Bible, many faiths · **What happens:** tell, look, run · **To what, where:** Christians, charities · **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 (Bible, many faiths), 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:16 # text = The Bible tells Christians to «look after orphans and widows», and many faiths run charities for children without parents. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Christians christian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 orphans orphan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 widows widow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible | | Christians | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent christian=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | | | | after orphans and widows | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **run** | present | many faiths | charities | | | | for children without parents | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent charity=Product for child=Beneficiary | 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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