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title: Paul rejects the idea "Let us do evil that good may result" (Romans… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Paul rejects the idea "Let us do evil that good may result" (Romans 3:8); real help, like studying together, beats a cheat. Who acts: Paul, us, good, real help. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 5

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Paul rejects the idea "Let us do evil that good may result" (Romans 3:8); real help, like studying together, beats a cheat.

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**Who acts:** Paul, us, good, real help · **What happens:** reject, let, do, result, study, beat · **To what, where:** idea, us, evil, cheat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» 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 (Paul, us, good, real help), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:5
# text = Paul rejects the idea "Let us do evil that good may result" (Romans 3:8); real help, like studying together, beats a cheat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rejects	reject	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	result	result	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Romans	roman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
17	3:8	3:8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reject** | present | Paul | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | evil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
| 4 | **result** *in a quote* | may | good | evil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location evil=Theme |
| 5 | **study** | gerund | real help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **beat** | present | real help | a cheat |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheat=Theme |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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