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title: Cheese is made from curds, the soft lumps of thickened milk, pressed… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheese is made from curds, the soft lumps of thickened milk, pressed and ripened, while whey is the watery liquid left; cheesemakers add bacteria and rennet, a helper that makes milk set into curds; most of the milk sugar drains away with the whey, and about ten litres of milk make a kilogram of har
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 17

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Cheese is made from curds, the soft lumps of thickened milk, pressed and ripened, while whey is the watery liquid left; cheesemakers add bacteria and rennet, a helper that makes milk set into curds; most of the milk sugar drains away with the whey, and about ten litres of milk make a kilogram of hard cheese.

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**Who acts:** whey, cheesemakers, helper, most, ten litres · **What happens:** make, thicken, press, ripen, be, leave · **To what, where:** Cheese, curds, soft lumps, watery liquid, bacteria, milk set

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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 (whey, cheesemakers, helper, most), 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:17
# text = Cheese is made from curds, the soft lumps of thickened milk, pressed and ripened, while whey is the watery liquid left; cheesemakers add bacteria and rennet, a helper that makes milk set into curds; most of the milk sugar drains away with the whey, and about ten litres of milk make a kilogram of hard cheese.
# 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thickened	thicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ripened	ripen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	cheesemakers	cheesemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rennet	rennet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:appos
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	drains	drain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
47	away	away	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:parataxis
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	about	about	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
55	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
64	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Cheese |  | curds |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from curd=Material |
| 2 | **thicken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **press** | participle |  | the soft lumps of thickened milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ripen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | whey | the watery liquid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | participle |  | the watery liquid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | cheesemakers | bacteria and rennet |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Patient |
| 8 | **make** | present | a helper | milk set |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **drain away** | present | most of the milk sugar |  |  |  |  | with the whey; away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 10 | **make** | present | ten litres of milk | a kilogram of hard cheese |  |  |  |  | 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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