Insects as food in other countries, sentence 17
A big locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people.
Who acts: big locust swarm · What happens: eat · To what, where: much 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 (big locust swarm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 swarm | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 swarm | amod |
| 3 | locust | locust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swarm | compound |
| 4 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 food | amod |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 millions | case |
| 14 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 millions | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | 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 | eat | can | a big locust swarm | much food | in a day | as millions of people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.lesson:17.
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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