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title: The Bible's big story has a family line you can use as a ladder: Abr… — Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible's big story has a family line you can use as a ladder: Abraham, then his son Isaac, then Isaac's son Jacob, then Jacob's son Joseph, who brought the family to Egypt; long after, Moses led their descendants out, and the Ten Commandments came on the way. Who acts: big story, you, Abraham, Mo
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# Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★, sentence 1

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The Bible's big story has a family line you can use as a ladder: Abraham, then his son Isaac, then Isaac's son Jacob, then Jacob's son Joseph, who brought the family to Egypt; long after, Moses led their descendants out, and the Ten Commandments came on the way.

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**Who acts:** big story, you, Abraham, Moses, Ten Commandments · **What happens:** have, use, bring, lead out, come · **To what, where:** family line, family, Egypt, descendants, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 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 (big story, you, Abraham, Moses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson:1
# text = The Bible's big story has a family line you can use as a ladder: Abraham, then his son Isaac, then Isaac's son Jacob, then Jacob's son Joseph, who brought the family to Egypt; long after, Moses led their descendants out, and the Ten Commandments came on the way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
28	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
34	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
43	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
44	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	out	out	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
55	Commandments	commandment	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=56:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
56	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Bible's big story | a family line |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | can | you | a family line *not said here* |  |  |  | as a ladder | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent line=Duration as ladder=Attribute |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Abraham and Isaac's son and Jacob's son | the family | Egypt |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme to egypt=Destination |
| 4 | **lead out** | past | Moses | stories's descendants |  |  |  | long, out *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descendant=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the Ten Commandments |  |  | the way |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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