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title: Chapulines are toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli, eaten in O… — Insects as food in other countries · tree and pragmatics
description: Chapulines are toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli, eaten in Oaxaca in Mexico for thousands of years and sold at markets and football games. 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 
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# Insects as food in other countries, sentence 9

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Chapulines are toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli, eaten in Oaxaca in Mexico for thousands of years and sold at markets and football games.

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**What happens:** be, eat, sell · **To what, where:** toasted grasshoppers, Oaxaca, markets

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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: 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:9
# text = Chapulines are toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli, eaten in Oaxaca in Mexico for thousands of years and sold at markets and football games.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chapulines	chapuline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	toasted	toast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chilli	chilli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Oaxaca	Oaxaca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	markets	market	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | toast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | participle |  | toasted grasshoppers with lime and chilli *not said here* |  | Oaxaca in Mexico |  | for thousands of years | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  | markets and football games |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at market=Asset |

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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:9`.

**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): 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/).

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