Insects as food in other countries, sentence 2

About two billion people around the world eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds are eaten: grasshoppers in Mexico, big caterpillars in southern Africa, queen ants in Colombia, locusts in parts of the Middle East and Africa.

Who acts: billion people · What happens: eat · To what, where: insects, 1,900 kinds

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 (billion 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	About	about	ADV	_	3 billion	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 billion	compound
3	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 people	nummod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eaten	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eaten	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	14 1,900	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 more	fixed
14	1,900	1,900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 kinds	nummod
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eaten	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux:pass
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 eat	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 grasshoppers	punct
19	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kinds	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Mexico	case
21	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grasshoppers	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caterpillars	punct
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 caterpillars	amod
24	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grasshoppers	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 Africa	case
26	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Africa	amod
27	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 caterpillars	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ants	punct
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ants	compound
30	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grasshoppers	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Colombia	case
32	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ants	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 locusts	punct
34	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grasshoppers	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 parts	case
36	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 locusts	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 East	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 East	det
39	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 East	amod
40	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 parts	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 Africa	cc
42	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 East	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	billion people around the world	insects					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
2	eat	present · passive		1,900 kinds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:2.

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): no change. 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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