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title: In the Bible John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, and locust… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Bible John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, and locusts are still eaten in parts of the Middle East and Africa. Who acts: John. A sentence of the lesson «Insects as food in other countries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Insects as food in other countries, sentence 16

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In the Bible John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, and locusts are still eaten in parts of the Middle East and Africa.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** locusts, Bible, parts

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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 (John), 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:16
# text = In the Bible John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey, and locusts are still eaten in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
# 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	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Baptist	baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
23	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **eat** | past | John | locusts and wild honey |  | the Bible |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent locust=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | locusts |  | parts of the Middle East and Africa | still |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries.lesson:16`.

**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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