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title: Egyptians also mummified millions of animals, such as cats, birds an… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: Egyptians also mummified millions of animals, such as cats, birds and crocodiles, often as gifts to the gods. Who acts: Egyptians. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 12

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Egyptians also mummified millions of animals, such as cats, birds and crocodiles, often as gifts to the gods.

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**Who acts:** Egyptians · **What happens:** mummify · **To what, where:** millions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:12
# text = Egyptians also mummified millions of animals, such as cats, birds and crocodiles, often as gifts to the gods.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	mummified	mummify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
4	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mummify** | past | Egyptians | millions of animals and cats and birds and crocodiles |  |  |  | as gifts to the gods | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent million=Patient |

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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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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