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title: Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes chang… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes change over time: lobster was once food for the poor and prisoners in America. Who acts: tastes, lobster. A sentence of the lesson «Insects as food in other countries» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Insects as food in other countries, sentence 18

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Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes change over time: lobster was once food for the poor and prisoners in America.

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**Who acts:** tastes, lobster · **What happens:** learn, change, be · **To what, where:** Disgust, family, food

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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 (tastes, lobster), 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:18
# text = Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes change over time: lobster was once food for the poor and prisoners in America.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lobster	lobster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **learn** | present · passive |  | Disgust at food |  | family and culture |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from family=Source |
| 2 | **change** | present | tastes |  |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | lobster | food |  |  |  | for the poor in America and prisoners; once *property* | tree rules |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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