--- title: Olympiad practice: the hardest cases — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The hardest olympiad cases put good things against each other: helping a friend versus honesty, a promise versus safety, a tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/) [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/) / Olympiad practice: the hardest cases # Olympiad practice: the hardest cases Lesson 100 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/0/) — The hardest olympiad cases put good things against each other: helping a friend versus honesty, a promise versus safety, a trophy versus the truth, a friend's dignity versus a straight answer. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/2/) — Some cases have a firm answer: if a friend says she's running away tonight and makes you promise not to tell, safety comes before the promise, so tell a trusted adult right away. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/3/) — Others are truly open, like owning up to a foul after a cup final, and the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side and explains which way it leans and why. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/4/) — Christians believe truthfulness is a likeness to God, who is truth, always joined to love (Ephesians 4:15); nearly everyone agrees honesty should be the rule and exceptions rare and serious. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/5/) — Paul rejects the idea "Let us do evil that good may result" (Romans 3:8); real help, like studying together, beats a cheat. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/7/) — You can love a parent and still respectfully disagree: "Honour your father and mother" (Exodus 20:12) and speak privately and gently (Matthew 18:15). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/9/) — A promise cannot bind you to stand by while someone comes to harm; keeping someone safe outweighs a promise. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/10/) — Hebrews 11:31 and James 2:25 praise Rahab's faith and action in hiding the spies, not the lie as such; Christians have debated it since Augustine. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/11/) — "Anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules" (2 Timothy 2:5); some say the referee's call is part of the game, others say honesty comes first. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/12/) — With a friend's harmless boast, have a quiet word in private rather than exposing him: "Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given" (Proverbs 25:14). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/13/) — People may keep their own lives private: "Ask her" protects a friend's dignity without lying; "Love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/14/) — Confucius said people cannot stand without trust (Analects 12.7); Islam and Judaism treat truth as sacred with narrow exceptions for peace and life; humanists say honesty lets people live and work together. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/15/) — Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62); Ananias and Sapphira planned their lie, and Sapphira repeated it when given a plain chance to tell the truth (Acts 5:8). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/16/) — Many traditions treat a lie blurted out in panic differently from a planned deception; the vicar says Scripture leaves some mystery here. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/17/) — In an open case the best answer says "it depends", names what matters on each side, and explains which way it leans and why. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/18/) — Slang check: "bro" means mate; "for real" means truly. - ← previous: [Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/99-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling/) - next →: [Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)