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title: Look under a cow at a dairy farm and you can count four teats, one f… — Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look under a cow at a dairy farm and you can count four teats, one for each quarter of the udder, which is why a milking machine has four cups. Who acts: you, udder, milking machine. A sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» of the biology course of 
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# Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 2

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Look under a cow at a dairy farm and you can count four teats, one for each quarter of the udder, which is why a milking machine has four cups.

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**Who acts:** you, udder, milking machine · **What happens:** look, count, be, have · **To what, where:** dairy farm, four teats, four cups

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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 (you, udder, milking machine), 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:2
# text = Look under a cow at a dairy farm and you can count four teats, one for each quarter of the udder, which is why a milking machine has four cups.
# 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
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	udder	udder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a dairy farm |  | under a cow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under cow=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | can | you | four teats |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the udder |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | a milking machine | four cups |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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