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title: Milk fat floats in tiny drops and rises as cream; most shop milk is… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Milk fat floats in tiny drops and rises as cream; most shop milk is homogenised, squeezed through tiny holes so the drops are too small to rise. Who acts: Milk fat, drops. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 14

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Milk fat floats in tiny drops and rises as cream; most shop milk is homogenised, squeezed through tiny holes so the drops are too small to rise.

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**Who acts:** Milk fat, drops · **What happens:** float, rise, be, squeeze · **To what, where:** tiny drops, most shop milk, tiny holes

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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 (Milk fat, drops), 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:14
# text = Milk fat floats in tiny drops and rises as cream; most shop milk is homogenised, squeezed through tiny holes so the drops are too small to rise.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:aux:pass
16	homogenised	homogenise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **float** | present | Milk fat |  |  | tiny drops |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drop=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rise** | present | Milk fat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as cream | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  | most shop milk |  |  |  | homogenise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **squeeze** | participle |  |  |  | tiny holes |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | the drops |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the drops *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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