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title: Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make m… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics
description: Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films. 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 every claus
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# Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 5

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Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films.

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**What happens:** dry, wrap, make · **To what, where:** Bodies, linen, mummies

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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: 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:5
# text = Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	mummies	mummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	appos	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	mummies	mummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **dry** | past · passive |  | Bodies |  |  |  | with a special salt | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with salt=Instrument |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  |  |  | linen |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in linen=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | mummies |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mummy=Product |

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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): R6-punct-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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