--- title: Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics description: Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are toxic, so insects for food are farmed and cooked safely, and people allergic to shellfish may react to insects. Who acts: Wild insects, some, people. 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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 (Wild insects, some, people), 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:14 # text = Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are toxic, so insects for food are farmed and cooked safely, and people allergic to shellfish may react to insects. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sprays spray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 toxic toxic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 farmed farm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 safely safely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 allergic allergic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 shellfish shellfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 react react VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **carry** | can | Wild insects | germs and poisons or garden sprays | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | some | | | | | toxic *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **farm** | present · passive | | insects for food | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **cook** | participle | | | | | | safely *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **react** | may | people | | | | | to insects | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to insect=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:14`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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