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description: Judge's follow-up: "Cain broke the worst rule. Why not let anyone take revenge on him?" Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel

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Judge's follow-up: "Cain broke the worst rule. Why not let anyone take revenge on him?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** follow up, you, anyone · **What happens:** break, not let, take · **To what, where:** worst rule, anyone, revenge

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Judge's follow-up: "Cain broke the worst rule.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:1
# text = Judge's follow-up: "Cain broke the worst rule.
1	Judge	Judge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	follow	follow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | past | Judge's follow up | the worst rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why not let anyone take revenge on him?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:2
# text = Why not let anyone take revenge on him?"
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | revenge |  |  |  | on up | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme on he=Destination |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Because revenge would only start a chain of more killing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:o1:1
# text = Because revenge would only start a chain of more killing
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | revenge | a chain of more killing |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because Cain had done nothing wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:o2:1
# text = Because Cain had done nothing wrong
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Cain | nothing |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because God did not see what happened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:o3:1
# text = Because God did not see what happened
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because nobody else lived near Cain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel:t11:o4:1
# text = Because nobody else lived near Cain
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | nobody |  |  | Cain |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near cain=Location |

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