--- title: The oldest known cat buried with a person was found in Cyprus and is… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: The oldest known cat buried with a person was found in Cyprus and is about 9,500 years old. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 10 The oldest known cat buried with a person was found in Cyprus and is about 9,500 years old. **What happens:** know, bury, find, be · **To what, where:** oldest known cat, Cyprus 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: 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:10 # text = The oldest known cat buried with a person was found in Cyprus and is about 9,500 years old. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 9,500 9,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **bury** | participle | | the oldest known cat *not said here* | | | | with a person | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | the oldest known cat | | Cyprus | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:10`. **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. 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