--- title: Wild cats came to the first farming villages in the Middle East abou… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Wild cats came to the first farming villages in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago to hunt mice in the grain stores, and people let them stay. Who acts: Wild cats, people, mice. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology cours --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 9 Wild cats came to the first farming villages in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago to hunt mice in the grain stores, and people let them stay. **Who acts:** Wild cats, people, mice · **What happens:** come, hunt, let, stay · **To what, where:** first farming villages, mice, grain stores 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 (Wild cats, people, mice), 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:9 # text = Wild cats came to the first farming villages in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago to hunt mice in the grain stores, and people let them stay. # 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 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 7 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 12 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 19 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Wild cats | | | the first farming villages in the Middle East | | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Wild cats *not said here* | mice | | the grain stores | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in store=Location | | 3 | **let** | past | people | mice *= mouse* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | mice *= mouse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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:9`. **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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