Insects as food in other countries, sentence 10

Mopane worms are big caterpillars eaten in southern Africa; they are dried, stored for months and are an important food and income for families.

Who acts: Mopane worms · What happens: be, eat, dry, store · To what, where: big caterpillars, southern Africa, worms, important food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects as food in other countries» 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 (Mopane worms), 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	Mopane	Mopane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 worms	compound
2	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaten	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caterpillars	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 caterpillars	amod
5	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 caterpillars	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
8	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Africa	amod
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 dried	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dried	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dried	aux:pass
13	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 caterpillars	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stored	punct
15	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dried	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 months	case
17	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stored	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 food	cc
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 food	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 food	det
21	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caterpillars	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 income	cc
24	income	income	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 food	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 families	case
26	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 food	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caterpillars	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		big caterpillars and a important food and income				tree rules
2	eat	participle	Mopane worms	big caterpillars and a important food and income not said here	southern Africa			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Patient
3	dry	present · passive		worms = worm				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	store	participle				month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		a important food and income			for families	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:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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