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title: The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal thro… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood. Who acts: ark. A sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 7

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The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood.

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**Who acts:** ark · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** family, flood

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 (ark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:7
# text = The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ark	ark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | past | the ark | Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal |  | the flood |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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