Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 11

Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the oldest sushi was fish kept in fermenting rice.

Who acts: Sushi, raw fish, oldest sushi, fish · What happens: use, be, handle, freeze, kill, keep · To what, where: rice, parasites, fish

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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 (Sushi, raw fish, oldest sushi, fish), 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	Sushi	sushi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 vinegar	case
5	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rice	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fish	cc
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vinegar	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 vegetables	cc
9	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct
11	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fish	amod
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 safe	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 safe	cop
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 uses	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 fresh	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fresh	advmod
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 safe	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 handled	cc
19	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fresh	conj
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	19 handled	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 frozen	punct
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 frozen	advmod
23	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 handled	conj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 frozen	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 kill	mark
26	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 frozen	advcl
27	parasites	parasite	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kill	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 fish	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sushi	det
30	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 sushi	amod
31	sushi	sushi	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fish	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fish	cop
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	parataxis
34	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fish	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 fermenting	case
36	fermenting	ferment	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 kept	obl
37	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Sushi	rice	with vinegar and fish or vegetables	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
2	is	present	raw fish		safe property	tree rules
3	handle	participle	raw fish not said here		carefully property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	freeze	participle	raw fish not said here		first, sometimes property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	kill	to-infinitive	raw fish not said here	parasites		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Theme
6	is a	past	the oldest sushi	fish		tree rules
7	keep	participle	fish not said here	rice		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	ferment	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:11.

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 ×2, 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.

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