--- title: For a child today this means: you may say «it's not fair», ask hard… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this means: you may say «it's not fair», ask hard questions without being afraid, and look for what you can do to help. Who acts: this, you, child, hard questions. A sentence of the lesson «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» of the religion ethics course of Mova's pr --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 5 For a child today this means: you may say «it's not fair», ask hard questions without being afraid, and look for what you can do to help. **Who acts:** this, you, child, hard questions · **What happens:** mean, say, not be, ask, be, look · **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 (this, you, child, hard questions), 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:5 # text = For a child today this means: you may say «it's not fair», ask hard questions without being afraid, and look for what you can do to help. # 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 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 without without SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 23 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | child | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | hard questions | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | gerund | hard questions *not said here* | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | can | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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