Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 11
In a milking robot, cameras and lasers find the four teats and a robot arm fixes the cups on while the cow eats a treat, and some cows choose to be milked three times a day.
Who acts: cameras, robot arm, cow, cows · What happens: find, fix on, eat, choose, milk · To what, where: four teats, milking robot, cups, treat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt» of the biology 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 (cameras, robot arm, cow, cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 robot | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 robot | det |
| 3 | milking | milking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robot | compound |
| 4 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 robot | punct |
| 6 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lasers | cc |
| 8 | lasers | laser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cameras | conj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teats | det |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 teats | nummod |
| 12 | teats | teat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fixes | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 arm | det |
| 15 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arm | compound |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fixes | nsubj |
| 17 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cups | det |
| 19 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fixes | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fixes | compound:prt |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 eats | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cow | det |
| 23 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eats | nsubj |
| 24 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fixes | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 treat | det |
| 26 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eats | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 choose | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 choose | cc |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 cows | det |
| 30 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 choose | nsubj |
| 31 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 milked | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 milked | aux:pass |
| 34 | milked | milk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 choose | xcomp |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 times | nummod |
| 36 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 milked | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 milked | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | cameras and lasers | the four teats | a milking robot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Topic | |||
| 2 | fix on | present | a robot arm | the cups | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | the cow | a treat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | choose | present | some cows | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | milk | to-infinitive · passive | some cows not said here | day; time | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» |
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.
Licence: CC 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:biology:341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt.lesson:11.
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.
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