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title: Olympiad judge: "Why might Jacob have been given the name Israel aft… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics
description: Olympiad judge: "Why might Jacob have been given the name Israel after wrestling all night?" Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» 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 10 · ★★ · Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

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Olympiad judge: "Why might Jacob have been given the name Israel after wrestling all night?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** give, wrestle · **To what, where:** name

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» 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/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob:t10:1
# text = Olympiad judge: "Why might Jacob have been given the name Israel after wrestling all night?"
1	Olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wrestling	wrestle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | might · perfect · passive |  | the name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: name=Theme |
| 2 | **wrestle** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He wanted to hide from Esau with a new name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob:t10:o1:1
# text = He wanted to hide from Esau with a new name
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | Esau |  | with a new name | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from esau=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Struggling honestly with God is part of faith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob:t10:o2:1
# text = Struggling honestly with God is part of faith
1	Struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with God; honestly *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with god=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Struggling | part |  |  |  | of faith | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He won a fighting competition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob:t10:o3:1
# text = He won a fighting competition
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | He | a fighting competition |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent competition=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His old name was too hard to say

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob:t10:o4:1
# text = His old name was too hard to say
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | His old name |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | His old name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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