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title: Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel an… — Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel · tree and pragmatics
description: Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him. Who acts: Cain. 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 clause.
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# Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, sentence 16

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Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him.

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**Who acts:** Cain · **What happens:** be, grow, kill · **To what, where:** sons, Cain

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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 (Cain), 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:16
# text = Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Abel	Abel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Abel	Abel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **is a** | past | Cain and Abel | Adam and Eve's sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Cain |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past | Cain *not said here* | Cain |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:16`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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