Test 10 · Bread rising: yeast at work

Why does the middle of a loaf stay soft when the crust gets crunchy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: crust · What happens: do, stay, get · To what, where: middle

This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 loaf	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 middle	nmod
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 gets	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crust	det
12	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gets	nsubj
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	advcl
14	crunchy	crunchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gets	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the middle of a loaf		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent middle=Eventuality
2	stay	present			soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	the crust		crunchy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Gluten stops all heat getting in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gluten	gluten	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 heat	acl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Gluten	all heat					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heat=Eventuality
2	get in	gerund	all heat not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The middle is made of cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cake	case
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the middle				of cake	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

The oven heat stops at the crust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
2	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heat	compound
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 crust	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crust	det
7	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the oven heat			the crust			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crust=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its water keeps it below 100 °C

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod:poss
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	below	below	ADV	_	6 100	advmod
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 C	nummod
7	°	°	SYM	_	8 C	compound
8	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Its water	it				100 ° C obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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