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title: Friendly bacteria turn milk into tangy yoghurt; bacteria and a subst… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: Friendly bacteria turn milk into tangy yoghurt; bacteria and a substance called rennet split milk into solid curds and watery whey, and the curds become cheese, the curds and whey of Little Miss Muffet. Who acts: Friendly bacteria, substance, bacteria, curds. A sentence of the lesson «Milk, cheese a
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# Milk, cheese and yoghurt, sentence 3

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Friendly bacteria turn milk into tangy yoghurt; bacteria and a substance called rennet split milk into solid curds and watery whey, and the curds become cheese, the curds and whey of Little Miss Muffet.

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**Who acts:** Friendly bacteria, substance, bacteria, curds · **What happens:** turn, call, split, become · **To what, where:** milk, tangy yoghurt, rennet, solid curds, cheese · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Friendly bacteria, substance, bacteria, curds), 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:3
# text = Friendly bacteria turn milk into tangy yoghurt; bacteria and a substance called rennet split milk into solid curds and watery whey, and the curds become cheese, the curds and whey of Little Miss Muffet.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	tangy	tangy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	rennet	rennet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
15	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod:poss
27	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Miss	miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
37	Muffet	Muffet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **turn** | present | Friendly bacteria | milk |  | tangy yoghurt |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent milk=Theme into yoghurt=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a substance *not said here* | rennet |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **split** | past | bacteria and a substance | milk |  |  |  | into solid curds and watery whey *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent milk=Patient into curd=Result |
| 4 | **become** | present | the curds | cheese |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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