Where milk comes from: cow to carton, cheese, butter and yoghurt, sentence 14

Milk fat floats in tiny drops and rises as cream; most shop milk is homogenised, squeezed through tiny holes so the drops are too small to rise.

Who acts: Milk fat, drops · What happens: float, rise, be, squeeze · To what, where: tiny drops, most shop milk, tiny holes

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 (Milk fat, drops), 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	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fat	compound
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 drops	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drops	amod
6	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 floats	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rises	cc
8	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 cream	case
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rises	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 homogenised	punct
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 milk	amod
13	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 milk	compound
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 homogenised	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 homogenised	cop
16	homogenised	homogenise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 floats	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 squeezed	punct
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 homogenised	conj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 holes	case
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 holes	amod
21	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 squeezed	obl
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 small	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drops	det
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 small	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 small	cop
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 small	advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 squeezed	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rise	mark
29	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 small	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	float	present	Milk fat		tiny drops		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drop=Trajectory
2	rise	present	Milk fat not said here			as cream	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present · passive		most shop milk		homogenise property	tree rules
4	squeeze	participle			tiny holes		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory
5	is	present	the drops			small property	tree rules
6	rise	to-infinitive	the drops not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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