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description: Identify the location at which, according to the Book of Exodus, the Decalogue was conferred upon Moses. Exam question 1 of lesson 7 «The Ten Commandments» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Exam question 1 · The Ten Commandments

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Identify the location at which, according to the Book of Exodus, the Decalogue was conferred upon Moses.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, accord, confer · **To what, where:** location, Decalogue

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «The Ten Commandments» 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/7-the-ten-commandments/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:e1:1
# text = Identify the location at which, according to the Book of Exodus, the Decalogue was conferred upon Moses.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Decalogue	Decalogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  | accord the Book of Exodus | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **confer** | past · passive |  | the Decalogue |  |  |  | upon Moses | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Mount Sinai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:e1:o1:1
# text = Mount Sinai
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mount Ararat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:e1:o2:1
# text = Mount Ararat
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Ararat	Ararat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Temple at Jerusalem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:e1:o3:1
# text = The Temple at Jerusalem
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The banks of the River Nile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:7-the-ten-commandments:e1:o4:1
# text = The banks of the River Nile
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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