--- title: Mopane worms are big caterpillars eaten in southern Africa; they are… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics description: Mopane worms are big caterpillars eaten in southern Africa; they are dried, stored for months and are an important food and income for families. Who acts: Mopane worms. 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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 (Mopane worms), 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:10 # text = Mopane worms are big caterpillars eaten in southern Africa; they are dried, stored for months and are an important food and income for families. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mopane Mopane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cop 13 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | | big caterpillars and a important food and income | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | participle | Mopane worms | big caterpillars and a important food and income *not said here* | | southern Africa | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Patient | | 3 | **dry** | present · passive | | worms *= worm* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 4 | **store** | participle | | | | | month | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a important food and income | | | | for families | tree rules | 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:10`. **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. **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: [Insects as food in other countries, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/9/) - next →: [Insects as food in other countries, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/)