--- title: About two billion people around the world eat insects, and more than… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics description: About two billion people around the world eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds are eaten: grasshoppers in Mexico, big caterpillars in southern Africa, queen ants in Colombia, locusts in parts of the Middle East and Africa. Who acts: billion 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 (billion 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:2 # text = About two billion people around the world eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds are eaten: grasshoppers in Mexico, big caterpillars in southern Africa, queen ants in Colombia, locusts 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): no change 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 around around ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 14 advmod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 1,900 1,900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 grasshoppers grasshopper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 appos _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Colombia Colombia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 locusts locust NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 amod _ _ 40 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | billion people around the world | insects | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | present · passive | | 1,900 kinds | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/1/) - next →: [Insects as food in other countries, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/)