Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 12

Millions of cat mummies were made as gifts to the gods; in the 1800s so many were found that some were ground up as fertiliser, and scientists now X-ray them.

Who acts: scientists · What happens: make, find, grind up, ray · To what, where: Millions, many, 1800s, some

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 (scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 mummies	case
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mummies	compound
4	mummies	mummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 gifts	case
8	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 gods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gods	det
11	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gifts	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 1800s	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 1800s	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 1800s	det
15	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	19 found	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 found	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	aux:pass
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 ground	mark
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 ground	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ground	aux:pass
23	ground	grind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 found	ccomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 ground	compound:prt
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 fertiliser	case
26	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ground	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ray	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ray	cc
29	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ray	nsubj
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 ray	advmod
31	X	X	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ray	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 ray	punct
33	ray	ray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 ground	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ray	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Millions of cat mummies			as gifts to the gods	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	find	past · passive		many	the 1800s			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	grind up	past · passive		some			as fertiliser	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	ray	present	scientists	millions = million		now		tree rules

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, 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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