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title: A cow gives milk only after she has had a calf; dairy cows usually c… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow gives milk only after she has had a calf; dairy cows usually calve about once a year and give milk for about ten months after, and a good one gives about 25 to 30 litres a day. Who acts: cow, dairy cows, good one. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter a
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 10

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A cow gives milk only after she has had a calf; dairy cows usually calve about once a year and give milk for about ten months after, and a good one gives about 25 to 30 litres a day.

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**Who acts:** cow, dairy cows, good one · **What happens:** give, have, calve, give about · **To what, where:** milk, calf, 25 litres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» 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 (cow, dairy cows, good one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt.lesson:10
# text = A cow gives milk only after she has had a calf; dairy cows usually calve about once a year and give milk for about ten months after, and a good one gives about 25 to 30 litres a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	calve	calve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	after	after	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	_
39	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:unmarked	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a cow | milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect | cow | a calf |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient |
| 3 | **calve** | present | dairy cows |  |  |  |  | once, usually *property* | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | present | dairy cows *not said here* | milk |  |  | month | after *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 5 | **give about** | present | a good one | 25 litres  a day |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme |

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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:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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