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title: Bacteria in yoghurt turn milk sugar into lactic acid, which makes it… — Acids in the kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: Bacteria in yoghurt turn milk sugar into lactic acid, which makes it thick and tangy. Who acts: Bacteria, lactic acid. A sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Acids in the kitchen, sentence 21

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Bacteria in yoghurt turn milk sugar into lactic acid, which makes it thick and tangy.

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**Who acts:** Bacteria, lactic acid · **What happens:** turn, make · **To what, where:** milk sugar, lactic acid, sugar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Acids in the kitchen» of the chemistry 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 (Bacteria, lactic acid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:21
# text = Bacteria in yoghurt turn milk sugar into lactic acid, which makes it thick and tangy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 015-acids-in-the-kitchen.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): no change
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	lactic	lactic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tangy	tangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **turn** | present | Bacteria in yoghurt | milk sugar |  | lactic acid |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present | lactic acid | sugar |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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**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:chemistry:015-acids-in-the-kitchen.lesson:21`.

**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): no change. **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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