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title: God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, written on tw… — The Ten Commandments · tree and pragmatics
description: God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, written on two stone tablets. Who acts: God. A sentence of the lesson «The Ten Commandments» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Ten Commandments, sentence 5

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God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, written on two stone tablets.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** give, write · **To what, where:** Ten Commandments, Moses, Mount, two stone tablets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Ten Commandments» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:007-the-ten-commandments.lesson:5
# text = God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, written on two stone tablets.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 007-the-ten-commandments.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
7	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | past | God | the Ten Commandments | Moses | Mount |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme to moses=Recipient on mount=Asset |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the Ten Commandments *not said here* |  | two stone tablets |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on tablet=Destination |

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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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**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): 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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