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title: About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of ins… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of insect are eaten around the world. Who acts: billion people. 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 every clause.
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# Insects as food in other countries, sentence 6

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About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of insect are eaten around the world.

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**Who acts:** billion people · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** insects, 1,900 kinds, world

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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 (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:6
# text = About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of insect are eaten around 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): no change
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	1,900	1,900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **eat** | present | billion people | insects |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | 1,900 kinds of insect |  | the world |  |  | 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:6`.

**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/).

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