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title: The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from h… — Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel · tree and pragmatics
description: The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam. Who acts: serpent, God. A sentence of the lesson «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, sentence 10

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The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam.

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**Who acts:** serpent, God · **What happens:** persuade, keep, eat, give · **To what, where:** Eve, something, fruit, some, Adam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» 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 (serpent, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:10
# text = The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | the serpent | Eve |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent eve=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **keep** | past · progressive | God | something |  |  |  | from serpent | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer something=Beneficiary from she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **eat** | past | serpent | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | serpent *not said here* | some | Adam |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to adam=Recipient |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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