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title: God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him in revenge. — Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel · tree and pragmatics
description: God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him in revenge. Who acts: God, one. 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 18

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God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him in revenge.

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**Who acts:** God, one · **What happens:** put, kill · **To what, where:** mark, Cain, revenge

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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 (God, one), 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:18
# text = God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him in revenge.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | God | a mark |  | Cain |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on cain=Destination |
| 2 | **kill** | would | no one | Cain |  | revenge |  |  | 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:18`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

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

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