Insects as food in other countries, sentence 3

Insects are packed with protein and need far less land, water and food than cows, so some scientists think they could help feed the world.

Who acts: scientists, insects · What happens: pack, need, think, help, feed · To what, where: Insects, less land, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (scientists, insects), 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	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 packed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	aux:pass
3	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 protein	case
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 less	advmod
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 water	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 land	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 food	cc
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 land	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 cows	case
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 food	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 think	advmod
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 scientists	det
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
25	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 help	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pack	present · passive		Insects	with protein	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with protein=Theme
2	need	present		less land and water and food than cows		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	some scientists			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	help	could	insects = insect			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	feed	infinitive	insects = insect not said here	the world		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient

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:3.

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, 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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