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title: Only some cheeses, like Emmental, have holes; they are gas bubbles m… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only some cheeses, like Emmental, have holes; they are gas bubbles made by bacteria, and Swiss scientists reported that specks of hay dust in the milk help them start. Who acts: cheeses, litres, Swiss scientists, specks. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter 
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 18

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Only some cheeses, like Emmental, have holes; they are gas bubbles made by bacteria, and Swiss scientists reported that specks of hay dust in the milk help them start.

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**Who acts:** cheeses, litres, Swiss scientists, specks · **What happens:** have, be, make, report, help, start · **To what, where:** holes, gas bubbles, 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 (cheeses, litres, Swiss scientists, specks), 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:18
# text = Only some cheeses, like Emmental, have holes; they are gas bubbles made by bacteria, and Swiss scientists reported that specks of hay dust in the milk help them start.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Emmental	Emmental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some cheeses like Emmental | holes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | litres *= litre* | gas bubbles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | gas bubbles *not said here* |  |  |  | by bacteria | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **report** | past | Swiss scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present | specks of hay dust in the milk | litres *= litre* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **start** | infinitive | litres *= litre* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): 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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