Test 2 · Bread rising: yeast at work
"used water straight from the kettle for my yeast and nothing happened lol". Why?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kettle · What happens: use, happen · To what, where: water
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: "used water straight from the kettle for my yeast and nothing happened lol".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 happened | advcl |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 used | obj |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 kettle | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 kettle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kettle | det |
| 7 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 yeast | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 yeast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kettle | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nothing | cc |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 yeast | conj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 13 happened | discourse |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lol | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | participle | the kettle for my yeast not said here | water | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | past | the kettle for my yeast | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The yeast was asleep, wait a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yeast | det |
| 2 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | parataxis |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the yeast | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The yeast needed salt, not sugar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yeast | det |
| 2 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sugar | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sugar | advmod |
| 7 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 salt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | the yeast | salt and sugar | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot salt=Theme |
Option 3
Kettle water has no oxygen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kettle | Kettle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 water | compound |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 oxygen | det |
| 5 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Kettle water | no oxygen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Water that's too hot kills yeast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Water | acl:relcl |
| 6 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kills | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Water | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | Water | yeast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeast=Theme |
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