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title: Ten plagues struck Egypt, from the river Nile turning to blood to th… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: Ten plagues struck Egypt, from the river Nile turning to blood to the death of the firstborn. Who acts: Ten plagues, river Nile, firstborn. A sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 11

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Ten plagues struck Egypt, from the river Nile turning to blood to the death of the firstborn.

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**Who acts:** Ten plagues, river Nile, firstborn · **What happens:** strike, turn, die · **To what, where:** Egypt, river Nile, blood

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» 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 (Ten plagues, river Nile, firstborn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson:11
# text = Ten plagues struck Egypt, from the river Nile turning to blood to the death of the firstborn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 006-moses-and-the-exodus.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	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	plagues	plague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	river	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	firstborn	firstborn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Ten plagues | Egypt |  | the river Nile |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent egypt=Instrument |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | the river Nile *not said here* |  |  | blood |  | to the death of the firstborn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to blood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **die** |  | the firstborn |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:006-moses-and-the-exodus.lesson:11`.

**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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