Test 4 · Bread rising: yeast at work
A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes. What really makes them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, baker · What happens: show, blow, make · To what, where: baker, dough, holes
This is test 4 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: A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baker | det |
| 5 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 baker | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 dough | case |
| 8 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blowing | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 straw | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 straw | det |
| 11 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blowing | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blowing | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 holes | det |
| 15 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a baker | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | a baker not said here | dough | with a straw | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with straw=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | a baker not said here | the holes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
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: What really makes them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 makes | obj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | holes = hole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary they=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Air from the oven fan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 fan | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fan | det |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fan | compound |
| 5 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Air | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The baker's breath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 baker | case |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Gas from the yeast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 yeast | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 yeast | det |
| 4 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gas | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Drops of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 water | case |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drops | nmod |
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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