Test 10 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes
What would happen to the yeast in bread dough put into a hot oven?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: bread dough, hot oven
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 299 «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 yeast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 yeast | det |
| 6 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dough | case |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dough | compound |
| 9 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yeast | nmod |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dough | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 oven | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oven | det |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oven | amod |
| 14 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | to the yeast in bread dough | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | bread dough not said here | a hot oven | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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.
The options
Option 1
It would fly out of the bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bread | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bread | det |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | would | It | the bread | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme |
Option 2
It would grow even faster for hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 faster | advmod |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | It | hour | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It would turn into flour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 flour | case |
| 5 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | would | It | flour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into flour=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The heat would kill it, so the bread stops rising
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heat | det |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stops | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 stops | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bread | det |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stops | nsubj |
| 10 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | conj |
| 11 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stops | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | would | the heat | it | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | the bread | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the bread not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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