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title: Adam and Eve hid "because I was afraid" (Genesis 3:8-10); fear of pu… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adam and Eve hid "because I was afraid" (Genesis 3:8-10); fear of punishment and of looking bad drives lying. Who acts: Adam, law, fear. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 12

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Adam and Eve hid "because I was afraid" (Genesis 3:8-10); fear of punishment and of looking bad drives lying.

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**Who acts:** Adam, law, fear · **What happens:** hide, be, look, drive, lie, fear · **To what, where:** punishment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (Adam, law, fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:12
# text = Adam and Eve hid "because I was afraid" (Genesis 3:8-10); fear of punishment and of looking bad drives lying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	3:8-10	3:8-10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp
23	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Adam and Eve |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the law *= law* |  |  |  |  | Genesis *obl*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | fear of punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **drive** | present | fear of punishment |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fear** |  |  | punishment |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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