Exam question 1 · Bread rising: yeast at work

Identify the organism principally responsible for the rising of bread dough.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bread dough · What happens: identify, rise · To what, where: organism

This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 organism	det
3	organism	organism	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	5 responsible	advmod
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 organism	amod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rising	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rising	det
8	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 responsible	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dough	case
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dough	compound
11	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rising	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the organism					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme
2	rise		bread dough						nom rising «event intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

A virus present in flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 present	det
2	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	compound
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 flour	case
5	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 present	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A species of bacterium found in salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 species	det
2	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bacterium	case
4	bacterium	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 species	nmod
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 species	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		a species of bacterium not said here		salt			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A mould introduced by the oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mould	det
2	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mould	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 introduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	participle		a mould not said here				by the oven	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeast, a microscopic fungus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fungus	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fungus	det
4	microscopic	microscopic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fungus	amod
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeast	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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