--- title: Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fa… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down. Who acts: Milk, bacteria, fridge. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milk, bacteria, fridge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:17 # text = Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 multiply multiply VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 fast fast ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave out** | participle | | Milk *not said here* | | a warm table | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | present | Milk | | | | | sour *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **multiply** | present | bacteria | | | | | in warmth; fast *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in warmth=Attribute | | 4 | **make** | present | bacteria *not said here* | acid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product | | 5 | **slow down** | present | the fridge | bacteria *= bacterium* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. **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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/16/) - next →: [Cells, bones and muscles, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/)