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title: Lily spreads a rumour that Tom cheated in the test, but he didn't. W… — The Ten Commandments · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily spreads a rumour that Tom cheated in the test, but he didn't. Which commandment does she break? Test 6 of lesson 7 «The Ten Commandments» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · The Ten Commandments

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Lily spreads a rumour that Tom cheated in the test, but he didn't. Which commandment does she break?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily, Tom, commandment · **What happens:** spread, cheat, not do, break · **To what, where:** rumour, test

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This is test 6 of lesson 7 «The Ten Commandments» 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/7-the-ten-commandments/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily spreads a rumour that Tom cheated in the test, but he didn't.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:1
# text = Lily spreads a rumour that Tom cheated in the test, but he didn't.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | Lily | a rumour |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=Theme |
| 2 | **cheat** | past | Tom | a rumour *not said here* |  | the test |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Source |
| 3 | **not** **do** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which commandment does she break?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:2
# text = Which commandment does she break?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · do-support | which commandment |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Do not steal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:o1:1
# text = Do not steal
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	steal	steal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **steal** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Do not give false witness against your neighbour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:o2:1
# text = Do not give false witness against your neighbour
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | false witness |  |  |  | against your neighbour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Do not make idols

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:o3:1
# text = Do not make idols
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | idols |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset idol=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Do not murder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:t6:o4:1
# text = Do not murder
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	murder	murder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **murder** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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