Insects as food in other countries, sentence 5
But wild bugs from the garden are never a snack, because they can carry germs and poisons.
Who acts: wild bugs, bugs · What happens: not be, carry · To what, where: snack, germs
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 bugs, bugs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 snack | cc |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bugs | amod |
| 3 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snack | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bugs | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 snack | cop |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 snack | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snack | det |
| 10 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | aux |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 snack | advcl |
| 16 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poisons | cc |
| 18 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 germs | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snack | 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 | not is a | present | wild bugs from the garden | a snack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | can | bugs = bug | germs and poisons | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:5.
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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