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title: Shaking or churning cream makes the fat drops stick together into bu… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shaking or churning cream makes the fat drops stick together into butter, leaving buttermilk, and about 20 litres of milk make one kilogram of butter. Who acts: Shaking, fat drops, 20 litres. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» of the biology c
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 16

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Shaking or churning cream makes the fat drops stick together into butter, leaving buttermilk, and about 20 litres of milk make one kilogram of butter.

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**Who acts:** Shaking, fat drops, 20 litres · **What happens:** shake, churn, make, stick together, leave · **To what, where:** cream, butter, buttermilk, one kilogram

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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 (Shaking, fat drops, 20 litres), 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:16
# text = Shaking or churning cream makes the fat drops stick together into butter, leaving buttermilk, and about 20 litres of milk make one kilogram of butter.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	churning	churn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **churn** | gerund |  | cream |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present | Shaking |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stick together** | present | the fat drops |  |  | butter |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into butter=Destination |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | the fat drops *not said here* | buttermilk |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buttermilk=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | 20 litres of milk | one kilogram of butter |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kilogram=Product |

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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): R7-rel-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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