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title: And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, kee… — Milk, cheese and yoghurt · tree and pragmatics
description: And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, keeping its ice crystals tiny. Who acts: ice cream. 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 7

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And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, keeping its ice crystals tiny.

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**Who acts:** ice cream · **What happens:** feel, stir, freeze, keep · **To what, where:** cream, ice crystals

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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 (ice cream), 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:7
# text = And ice cream feels smooth because it is stirred while freezing, keeping its ice crystals tiny.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
3	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **feel** | present | ice cream |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stir** | present · passive |  | cream |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **freeze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund |  | cream's ice crystals |  |  |  | tiny *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crystal=Theme |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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