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title: In Colombia big-bottomed queen ants are toasted and eaten like peanu… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: In Colombia big-bottomed queen ants are toasted and eaten like peanuts, and in Australia Aboriginal people eat honeypot ants, which store sweet liquid in their bodies. Who acts: Aboriginal people, honeypot ants. A sentence of the lesson «Insects as food in other countries» of the biology course of M
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# Insects as food in other countries, sentence 11

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In Colombia big-bottomed queen ants are toasted and eaten like peanuts, and in Australia Aboriginal people eat honeypot ants, which store sweet liquid in their bodies.

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**Who acts:** Aboriginal people, honeypot ants · **What happens:** bottom, toast, eat, store · **To what, where:** bottomed queen ants, honeypot ants, Australia, sweet liquid, bodies

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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 (Aboriginal people, honeypot ants), 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:11
# text = In Colombia big-bottomed queen ants are toasted and eaten like peanuts, and in Australia Aboriginal people eat honeypot ants, which store sweet liquid in their bodies.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bottomed	bottom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	toasted	toast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	peanuts	peanut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	honeypot	honeypot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bottom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **toast** | present · passive |  | bottomed queen ants |  |  |  | in Colombia | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in colombia=Instrument |
| 3 | **eat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like peanuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present | Aboriginal people | honeypot ants |  | Australia |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient |
| 5 | **store** | present | honeypot ants | sweet liquid |  | ants's bodies |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme in body=Location |

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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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**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 ×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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