--- title: Christians remember that Jesus himself cried on the cross, «My God,… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Christians remember that Jesus himself cried on the cross, «My God, why have you forsaken me?», so doubt and anger can sit inside faith, and people of every belief can turn anger at unfairness into helping, as when Christians care for orphans. Who acts: Christians, Jesus, you, doubt. A sentence of t --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 4 Christians remember that Jesus himself cried on the cross, «My God, why have you forsaken me?», so doubt and anger can sit inside faith, and people of every belief can turn anger at unfairness into helping, as when Christians care for orphans. **Who acts:** Christians, Jesus, you, doubt, people · **What happens:** remember, cry, forsake, sit, turn, help · **To what, where:** cross, Jesus, faith, anger, unfairness · **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 (Christians, Jesus, you, doubt), 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:4 # text = Christians remember that Jesus himself cried on the cross, «My God, why have you forsaken me?», so doubt and anger can sit inside faith, and people of every belief can turn anger at unfairness into helping, as when Christians care for orphans. # 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 ×3 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 4 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 6 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 forsaken forsake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 29 inside inside ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 39 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 unfairness unfairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 into into SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 43 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 48 advmod _ _ 47 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 orphans orphan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Jesus Jesus | | | the cross | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cross=Location | | 3 | **forsake** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | Jesus Jesus *= jesus* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | can | doubt and anger | | | faith | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside faith=Location | | 5 | **turn** | can | people of every belief | anger | | unfairness | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | | 6 | **help** | gerund | people of every belief *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **care** | present | Christians | | | | | for orphans | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for orphan=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. 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