Test 9 · Bread rising: yeast at work
You put yeast in warm sugary water and it foams and smells bready. What has happened?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, yeast · What happens: put, foam, smell, happen · To what, where: yeast, warm sugary water
This is test 9 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: You put yeast in warm sugary water and it foams and smells bready.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yeast | yeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 6 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 foams | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 foams | nsubj |
| 10 | foams | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smells | cc |
| 12 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 foams | conj |
| 13 | bready | bready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smells | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | You | yeast | warm sugary water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yeast=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 2 | foam | present | yeast | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smell | present | yeast not said here | bready property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 has happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | aux |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The yeast has turned into flour
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 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 flour | case |
| 6 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect · passive | the yeast | flour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into flour=Trajectory |
Option 2
The sugar has started boiling in the warm water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sugar | det |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 started | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boiling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present · perfect | the sugar | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | boil | gerund | the sugar not said here | in the warm water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in water=Instrument |
Option 3
The water has gone off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 gone | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present · perfect | the water | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The yeast woke up and is eating the 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 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eating | cc |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eating | aux |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woke | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sugar | det |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the yeast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | eat | present · progressive | the yeast not said here | the sugar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
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