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title: In a milking robot, cameras and lasers find the four teats and a rob… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a milking robot, cameras and lasers find the four teats and a robot arm fixes the cups on while the cow eats a treat, and some cows choose to be milked three times a day. Who acts: cameras, robot arm, cow, cows. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yo
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 11

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In a milking robot, cameras and lasers find the four teats and a robot arm fixes the cups on while the cow eats a treat, and some cows choose to be milked three times a day.

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**Who acts:** cameras, robot arm, cow, cows · **What happens:** find, fix on, eat, choose, milk · **To what, where:** four teats, milking robot, cups, treat

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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 (cameras, robot arm, cow, cows), 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:11
# text = In a milking robot, cameras and lasers find the four teats and a robot arm fixes the cups on while the cow eats a treat, and some cows choose to be milked three times 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lasers	laser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	milked	milk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	xcomp	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **find** | present | cameras and lasers | the four teats |  | a milking robot |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Topic |
| 2 | **fix on** | present | a robot arm | the cups |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | present | the cow | a treat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Patient |
| 4 | **choose** | present | some cows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **milk** | to-infinitive · passive | some cows *not said here* |  |  |  | day; time |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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): 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.

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