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A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / 1 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 1 About 10,000 years ago, when the first farmers in the Middle East stored grain, mice moved in, and wild cats followed the mice. **Who acts:** first farmers, mice, wild cats · **What happens:** store, move in, follow · **To what, where:** grain, mice This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology 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 (first farmers, mice, wild cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:1 # text = About 10,000 years ago, when the first farmers in the Middle East stored grain, mice moved in, and wild cats followed the mice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 stored store VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 15 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 in in ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | past | the first farmers in the Middle East | grain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 2 | **move in** | past | mice | | | | | ago *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | past | wild cats | the mice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | 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. **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. 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