--- title: At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics description: At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips. Who acts: child, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.lesson:0 # text = At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.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 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Thailand Thailand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 fried fry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 crickets cricket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl:unmarked 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 23 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **buy** | present | a child | a paper cone of fried crickets | | a night market in Thailand | | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cone=Theme at market=Asset | | 2 | **fry** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **buy** | might | you | chips | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=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](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:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.lesson:0`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Food from around the world: how crops…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/17/) - next →: [Insects as food in other countries, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/)