Insects as food in other countries, sentence 14
Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are toxic, so insects for food are farmed and cooked safely, and people allergic to shellfish may react to insects.
Who acts: Wild insects, some, people · What happens: carry, be, farm, cook, react · To what, where: germs, insects
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 (Wild insects, some, people), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 insects | amod |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poisons | punct |
| 7 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 germs | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprays | cc |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprays | compound |
| 10 | sprays | spray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 germs | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toxic | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 toxic | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 toxic | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 toxic | cop |
| 15 | toxic | toxic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carry | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 farmed | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 farmed | advmod |
| 18 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 farmed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 food | case |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 insects | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 farmed | aux:pass |
| 22 | farmed | farm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carry | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cooked | cc |
| 24 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 farmed | conj |
| 25 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 24 cooked | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 react | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 react | cc |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 react | nsubj |
| 29 | allergic | allergic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 shellfish | case |
| 31 | shellfish | shellfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 allergic | obl |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 react | aux |
| 33 | react | react | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 farmed | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 insects | case |
| 35 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 react | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | Wild insects | germs and poisons or garden sprays | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some | toxic property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | farm | present · passive | insects for food | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cook | participle | safely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | react | may | people | to insects | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to insect=Theme |
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:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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