--- title: Ships carried cats to catch rats that ate food and ropes, sailors th… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Ships carried cats to catch rats that ate food and ropes, sailors thought cats brought luck, and cats spread around the world on ships. Who acts: Ships, rats, sailors, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 18 Ships carried cats to catch rats that ate food and ropes, sailors thought cats brought luck, and cats spread around the world on ships. **Who acts:** Ships, rats, sailors, cats · **What happens:** carry, catch, eat, think, bring, spread · **To what, where:** cats, rats, food, luck, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ships, rats, sailors, 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:18 # text = Ships carried cats to catch rats that ate food and ropes, sailors thought cats brought luck, and cats spread around the world on ships. # 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 ×2 1 Ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 6 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 around around ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | Ships | cats | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Ships *not said here* | rats | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | past | rats | food and ropes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sailors | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | past | cats | luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | past | cats | | | the world | | on ships | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around world=Location | 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:18`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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