Insects as food in other countries, sentence 8

Farming insects needs much less land, water and food than farming cows, and makes far less greenhouse gas, the kind of gas that warms the planet.

Who acts: Farming insects, kind · What happens: need, farm, make, warm · To what, where: less land, less greenhouse gas, planet

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 (Farming insects, kind), 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	Farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insects	compound
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 water	punct
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 food	cc
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 cows	case
12	farming	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 cows	amod
13	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 land	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 makes	cc
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needs	conj
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 gas	amod
19	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gas	compound
20	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makes	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gas	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 gas	case
25	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 warms	nsubj
27	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 planet	det
29	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warms	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 needs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Farming insects	less land and water and food	than farming cows	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
2	farm	gerund				vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	Farming insects not said here	less greenhouse gas		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product
4	warm	present	the kind of gas	the planet		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=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:8.

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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