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title: At the Passover the Israelites marked their doors with lamb's blood,… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: At the Passover the Israelites marked their doors with lamb's blood, and death passed over their homes; Jews remember it every year at the Passover meal. Who acts: Israelites, death, Jews. A sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 12

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At the Passover the Israelites marked their doors with lamb's blood, and death passed over their homes; Jews remember it every year at the Passover meal.

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**Who acts:** Israelites, death, Jews · **What happens:** mark, pass, remember · **To what, where:** doors, Passover, homes, death, Passover meal

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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 (Israelites, death, Jews), 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:12
# text = At the Passover the Israelites marked their doors with lamb's blood, and death passed over their homes; Jews remember it every year at the Passover meal.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Passover	Passover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Israelites	israelite	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Passover	Passover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **mark** | past | the Israelites | Israelites's doors |  | the Passover |  | with lamb's blood | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Destination with blood=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | death |  |  | Israelites's homes |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over home=Location |
| 3 | **remember** | present | Jews | death |  | the Passover meal | year |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:12`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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