--- title: Millions of cat mummies were made as gifts to the gods; in the 1800s… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of cat mummies were made as gifts to the gods; in the 1800s so many were found that some were ground up as fertiliser, and scientists now X-ray them. Who acts: scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 12 Millions of cat mummies were made as gifts to the gods; in the 1800s so many were found that some were ground up as fertiliser, and scientists now X-ray them. **Who acts:** scientists · **What happens:** make, find, grind up, ray · **To what, where:** Millions, many, 1800s, some 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 (scientists), 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:12 # text = Millions of cat mummies were made as gifts to the gods; in the 1800s so many were found that some were ground up as fertiliser, and scientists now X-ray them. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mummies mummy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 ground grind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 X X PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 33 ray ray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | Millions of cat mummies | | | | as gifts to the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **find** | past · passive | | many | | the 1800s | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 3 | **grind up** | past · passive | | some | | | | as fertiliser | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **ray** | present | scientists | millions *= million* | | | now | | 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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