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title: Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it. Who acts: you, glass. A sentence of the lesson «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Milk, cheese and yoghurt, sentence 0

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Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.

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**Who acts:** you, glass · **What happens:** leave, smell, have · **To what, where:** glass, sunny windowsill, lumps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» 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 (you, glass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:022-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt.lesson:0
# text = Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 022-milk-cheese-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 ×1
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a glass of milk |  | a sunny windowsill |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent glass=Theme on windowsill=Location |
| 2 | **smell** | present | glass |  |  |  | evening | sour *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | glass *not said here* | lumps |  | glass |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=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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**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 ×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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