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title: Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid him in a basket on the Nile. Who acts: Pharaoh, mother. 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 clause.
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# Moses and the Exodus, sentence 5

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Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid him in a basket on the Nile.

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, mother · **What happens:** order, kill, hide · **To what, where:** Hebrew baby boys, Pharaoh, basket

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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 (Pharaoh, mother), 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:5
# text = Pharaoh ordered Hebrew baby boys to be killed, and Moses' mother hid him in a basket on the Nile.
# 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 ×1
1	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **order** | past | Pharaoh |  | Hebrew baby boys |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Pharaoh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Moses's mother | Pharaoh |  | a basket on the Nile |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in basket=Location |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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