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title: Egyptian doctors set broken bones, stitched wounds and wrote medical… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: Egyptian doctors set broken bones, stitched wounds and wrote medical books; some cures worked and others were spells. Who acts: Egyptian doctors, cures, others. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 19

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Egyptian doctors set broken bones, stitched wounds and wrote medical books; some cures worked and others were spells.

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**Who acts:** Egyptian doctors, cures, others · **What happens:** set, break, stitch, write, work, be · **To what, where:** broken bones, wounds, medical books, spells

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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 (Egyptian doctors, cures, others), 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:19
# text = Egyptian doctors set broken bones, stitched wounds and wrote medical books; some cures worked and others were spells.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
7	stitched	stitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
8	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	cures	cure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **set** | past | Egyptian doctors | broken bones |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bone=Result |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stitch** | past | Egyptian doctors *not said here* | wounds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Product |
| 4 | **write** | past | Egyptian doctors *not said here* | medical books |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 5 | **work** | past | some cures |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | others | spells |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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