--- title: Many Christians answer that God gave people free will, and people so… — Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people · tree and pragmatics description: Many Christians answer that God gave people free will, and people sometimes choose to hurt each other, for example in wars. Who acts: Many Christians, God, people. 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 --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 9 Many Christians answer that God gave people free will, and people sometimes choose to hurt each other, for example in wars. **Who acts:** Many Christians, God, people · **What happens:** answer, give, choose, hurt · **To what, where:** free will, people, each, wars · **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 (Many Christians, God, people), 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:9 # text = Many Christians answer that God gave people free will, and people sometimes choose to hurt each other, for example in wars. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 iobj _ _ 8 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 will will NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 16 obj _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 fixed _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Many Christians | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | God | free will | people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient will=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | present | people | | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | each | | wars | | for example | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/75-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/7/) - next →: [Is it fair? 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