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title: In the desert God fed them with manna, enough for each day, but the… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: In the desert God fed them with manna, enough for each day, but the journey to the Promised Land took forty years, and the people often grumbled. Who acts: God, journey, people. A sentence of the lesson «Moses and the Exodus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 3

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In the desert God fed them with manna, enough for each day, but the journey to the Promised Land took forty years, and the people often grumbled.

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**Who acts:** God, journey, people · **What happens:** feed, take, grumble · **To what, where:** Israelites, desert

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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 (God, journey, people), 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:3
# text = In the desert God fed them with manna, enough for each day, but the journey to the Promised Land took forty years, and the people often grumbled.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	manna	manna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Promised	Promised	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Land	land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **feed** | past | God | Israelites *= israelite* |  | the desert |  | with manna | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in desert=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | the journey to the Promised Land |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the people |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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:3`.

**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): R7-rel-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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