--- title: Insects are packed with protein and need far less land, water and fo… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics description: Insects are packed with protein and need far less land, water and food than cows, so some scientists think they could help feed the world. Who acts: scientists, insects. 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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 (scientists, insects), 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:3 # text = Insects are packed with protein and need far less land, water and food than cows, so some scientists think they could help feed the world. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:cop 3 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pack** | present · passive | | Insects | | | | with protein | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with protein=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | | less land and water and food than cows | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **help** | could | insects *= insect* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **feed** | infinitive | insects *= insect* *not said here* | the world | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Insects as food in other countries, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/2/) - next →: [Insects as food in other countries, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/)