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title: Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is saf… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the oldest sushi was fish kept in fermenting rice. Who acts: Sushi, raw fish, oldest sushi, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the worl
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# Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 11

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Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the oldest sushi was fish kept in fermenting rice.

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**Who acts:** Sushi, raw fish, oldest sushi, fish · **What happens:** use, be, handle, freeze, kill, keep · **To what, where:** rice, parasites, fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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 (Sushi, raw fish, oldest sushi, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:11
# text = Sushi uses rice with vinegar and fish or vegetables; raw fish is safe only when fresh and handled carefully, sometimes frozen first to kill parasites; the oldest sushi was fish kept in fermenting rice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sushi	sushi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	parasites	parasite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	sushi	sushi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
34	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	fermenting	ferment	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	obl	_	_
37	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Sushi | rice |  |  |  | with vinegar and fish or vegetables | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | raw fish |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **handle** | participle | raw fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **freeze** | participle | raw fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first, sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | raw fish *not said here* | parasites |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the oldest sushi | fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **keep** | participle | fish *not said here* | rice |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **ferment** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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