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title: The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten o… — Judaism · tree and pragmatics
description: The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten on scrolls that are read in the synagogue with great respect. Who acts: Torah. A sentence of the lesson «Judaism» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judaism, sentence 8

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The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten on scrolls that are read in the synagogue with great respect.

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**Who acts:** Torah · **What happens:** be, handwrite, read · **To what, where:** first five books, scrolls, synagogue

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:030-judaism.lesson:8
# text = The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten on scrolls that are read in the synagogue with great respect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 030-judaism.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Torah	Torah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	handwritten	handwrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	scrolls	scroll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	synagogue	synagogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the Torah | the first five books |  |  |  | of the Hebrew Bible | tree rules |
| 2 | **handwrite** | participle |  | the first five books *not said here* |  | scrolls |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | present · passive |  | scrolls |  | the synagogue |  | with great respect | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:030-judaism.lesson:8`.

**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): 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.

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

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