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title: Egyptians worshipped many gods, often shown with animal heads, such… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics
description: Egyptians worshipped many gods, often shown with animal heads, such as Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head. Who acts: Egyptians. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 18

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Egyptians worshipped many gods, often shown with animal heads, such as Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head.

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**Who acts:** Egyptians · **What happens:** worship, show · **To what, where:** many gods

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» of the history 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 (Egyptians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:18
# text = Egyptians worshipped many gods, often shown with animal heads, such as Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.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	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worshipped	worship	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	Anubis	Anubis	PROPN	NNP	_	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Horus	Horus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worship** | past | Egyptians | many gods and Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 2 | **show** | participle |  | many gods and Anubis with a jackal's head and Horus with a falcon's head *not said here* |  |  |  | with animal heads; often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:history:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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