--- title: How long someone lives is not a reward or a punishment; it depends o… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: How long someone lives is not a reward or a punishment; it depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls. Who acts: someone, it, nobody. 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 dependency --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 6 How long someone lives is not a reward or a punishment; it depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls. **Who acts:** someone, it, nobody · **What happens:** live, not be, depend, controls · **To what, where:** reward, many things 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 (someone, it, nobody), 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:6 # text = How long someone lives is not a reward or a punishment; it depends on health, chance and many things nobody controls. # 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 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 csubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nsubj _ _ 23 controls controls VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | someone | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | | a reward or a punishment | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **depend** | present | it | | | | | on health and chance and many things | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on health=Theme | | 4 | **controls** | present | nobody | many things *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/5/) - next →: [Is it fair? 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