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title: A skin forms on hot milk as proteins and fat at the surface dry a li… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: A skin forms on hot milk as proteins and fat at the surface dry a little and join; stirring or covering the pan stops it. Who acts: skin, stirring. 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 ever
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# Milk, cheese and yoghurt, sentence 12

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A skin forms on hot milk as proteins and fat at the surface dry a little and join; stirring or covering the pan stops it.

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**Who acts:** skin, stirring · **What happens:** form, join, stir, cover, stop · **To what, where:** hot milk, pan

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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 (skin, stirring), 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:12
# text = A skin forms on hot milk as proteins and fat at the surface dry a little and join; stirring or covering the pan stops 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	proteins	protein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
13	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	dry	dry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	csubj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **form** | present | a skin |  |  | hot milk as proteins  the surface and fat at dry |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location |
| 2 | **join** | present | a skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stir** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cover** | gerund |  | the pan |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pan=Destination |
| 5 | **stop** | present | stirring | pan |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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