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title: Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to k… — Moses and the Exodus · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys. Who acts: Two Hebrew midwives, Pharaoh. 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 7

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Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys.

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**Who acts:** Two Hebrew midwives, Pharaoh · **What happens:** refuse, kill, order · **To what, where:** order, baby boys

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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 (Two Hebrew midwives, Pharaoh), 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:7
# text = Two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refused Pharaoh's order to kill the baby boys.
# 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	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	midwives	midwife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Shiphrah	Shiphrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Puah	Puah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **refuse** | past | Two Hebrew midwives | Pharaoh's order |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Two Hebrew midwives *not said here* | the baby boys |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 3 | **order** |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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:7`.

**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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