Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★

★★★ «yeast is just a powder that makes bread puff, like baking soda innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, powder · What happens: be, make · To what, where: powder, bread puff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» of the technology 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 powder	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
5	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 powder	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 powder	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 powder	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 powder	det
9	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 powder	acl:relcl
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 puff	compound
13	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 innit	case
16	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soda	compound
17	soda	soda	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 innit	compound
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 makes	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 powder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	★	a powder		tree rules
2	make in a quote	present	a powder	bread puff		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

Yes, it fizzes like a sweet when water touches it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fizzes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fizzes	nsubj
4	fizzes	fizz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 sweet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sweet	det
7	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fizzes	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 touches	advmod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touches	nsubj
10	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fizzes	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 touches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fizz	present	it					like a sweet	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	present	water	sweet					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

No, yeast is the flour that has been ground extra fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 flour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flour	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flour	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flour	det
6	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ground	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ground	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 ground	cop
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flour	nmod
11	extra	extra	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ground	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	yeast	the flour					tree rules
2	is a	present · perfect	that	ground					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, yeast is a tiny living fungus whose gas makes the bubbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 yeast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fungus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fungus	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fungus	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fungus	amod
7	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fungus	compound
8	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 gas	nmod:poss
10	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fungus	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bubbles	det
13	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	yeast	a tiny living fungus					tree rules
2	make	present	gas	the bubbles					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product

Option 4

Yes, yeast is a kind of salt with no life in it at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 salt	case
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 life	det
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	yeast	a kind		all		of salt; with no life in life	tree rules

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