--- title: The Bible does not hide the question: in the book of Job a good man… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: The Bible does not hide the question: in the book of Job a good man loses everything, his friends say it must be his fault, God says the friends are wrong, and Job meets God without getting a simple answer; Jesus also said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. Who acts: Bible, go --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 2 The Bible does not hide the question: in the book of Job a good man loses everything, his friends say it must be his fault, God says the friends are wrong, and Job meets God without getting a simple answer; Jesus also said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. **Who acts:** Bible, good man, friends, God, Job, Jesus · **What happens:** not hide, lose, say, be, meet, get · **To what, where:** question, everything, book, fault, God, 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 (Bible, good man, friends, God), 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:2 # text = The Bible does not hide the question: in the book of Job a good man loses everything, his friends say it must be his fault, God says the friends are wrong, and Job meets God without getting a simple answer; Jesus also said a man born blind was not being punished for anyone's sin. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 18 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 39 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 also also ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 51 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl _ _ 52 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 advmod _ _ 55 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 56 aux:pass _ _ 56 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 ccomp _ _ 57 for for ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 60 nmod:poss _ _ 59 's 's PART POS _ 58 case _ _ 60 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | the Bible | the question | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient | | 2 | **lose** | present | a good man | everything | | the book of Job | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | man's friends | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | must | Bible | man's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | God | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | the friends | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **meet** | present | Job | God | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Co-Agent | | 8 | **get** | gerund | Job *not said here* | a simple answer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **bear** | participle | | a man *not said here* | | | | blind *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **not** **punish** | past · progressive · passive | | a man | | | | for anyone's sin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for sin=Theme | 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:2`. **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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/0/) - next →: [Is it fair? Why bad things happen to g…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/)