--- title: State the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wildernes… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics description: State the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness prior to their entry into the Promised Land. Exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/) / [Moses and the Exodus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Moses and the Exodus State the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness prior to their entry into the Promised Land. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Israelites · **What happens:** state, promise, sojourn, enter · **To what, where:** duration, wilderness, Israelites This is exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:6-moses-and-the-exodus:e4:1 # text = State the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness prior to their entry into the Promised Land. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sojourn sojourn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Israelites Israelite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wilderness wilderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 13 prior prior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 entry entry NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 Land Land PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the duration of the sojourn of the Israelites | | the wilderness | | prior Israelites's entry; into the Promised Land | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sojourn** | | | the Israelites | | | | | nom sojourn «act transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **enter** | | Israelites *= israelite* | | | | | | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Four hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:6-moses-and-the-exodus:e4:o1:1 # text = Four hundred years 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Forty days ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:6-moses-and-the-exodus:e4:o2:1 # text = Forty days 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Forty years ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:6-moses-and-the-exodus:e4:o3:1 # text = Forty years 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Seven years ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:6-moses-and-the-exodus:e4:o4:1 # text = Seven years 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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