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title: The yoghurt in your fridge was made by bacteria that turned milk sug… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics
description: The yoghurt in your fridge was made by bacteria that turned milk sugar into acid, and the bacteria in your gut help digest your dinner and make vitamins for you. Who acts: bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad, sentence 2

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The yoghurt in your fridge was made by bacteria that turned milk sugar into acid, and the bacteria in your gut help digest your dinner and make vitamins for you.

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**Who acts:** bacteria · **What happens:** make, turn, help, digest · **To what, where:** yoghurt, milk sugar, acid, dinner, vitamins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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 (bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:2
# text = The yoghurt in your fridge was made by bacteria that turned milk sugar into acid, and the bacteria in your gut help digest your dinner and make vitamins for you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod:poss
22	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound
23	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	vitamins	vitamin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | past · passive | bacteria | the yoghurt in your fridge |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **turn** | past | bacteria | milk sugar |  | acid |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory |
| 3 | **help** | present | the bacteria  your gut |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **digest** | infinitive | the bacteria  your gut *not said here* | your dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | the bacteria  your gut *not said here* | vitamins |  |  |  | for you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vitamin=Product for you=Beneficiary |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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