--- title: Noah and the Tower of Babel — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Noah and the Tower of Babel», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told to build a huge wooden boat, the ark, for his family and pairs of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/) [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/) / Noah and the Tower of Babel # Noah and the Tower of Babel Lesson 3 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/0/) — Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told to build a huge wooden boat, the ark, for his family and pairs of every kind of animal. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/1/) — Rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; when the rain stopped, Noah sent out a dove, which came back with an olive leaf to show the land was drying. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/2/) — God then set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his covenant, a solemn promise, never again to destroy the earth by a flood. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/3/) — Later, proud people tried to build a tower to reach heaven and make a name for themselves; God confused their language and scattered them, and the story explains why people speak many languages. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/4/) — Christians disagree about whether the flood covered the whole world, but they agree on its lesson: God takes wrongdoing seriously, rescues those who trust him and keeps his promises. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/5/) — For a child today: doing right can mean being different from everyone around you, a promise is a serious thing, and showing off to be the greatest tends to split people apart. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/6/) — Noah was a good man in a violent world whom God told to build a great boat, the ark. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/7/) — The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/8/) — In the story, rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; everything outside the ark was lost. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/9/) — The first time Noah sent out a dove it came back with nothing, as there was nowhere dry to rest; the next time it came back with an olive leaf, showing the land was drying. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/10/) — The dove and the olive branch became symbols of peace and new beginnings. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/11/) — God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his promise never again to destroy the earth by flood. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/12/) — A covenant is a solemn promise or agreement; in the Bible God made covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses and David. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/13/) — Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a local flood or a teaching story (disputed). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/14/) — Noah is honoured in Islam too, where he is called Nuh. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/15/) — Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/17/) — God confused their language and scattered them over the earth. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/18/) — The Babel story explains why people speak different languages. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/19/) — Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel. - ← previous: [Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)