Bread rising: yeast at work, sentence 15

Sourdough uses wild yeast and bacteria; the bacteria make acids that give the sour taste, and a starter can be kept alive and fed for many years.

Who acts: Sourdough, bacteria, acids · What happens: use, make, give, keep, feed · To what, where: wild yeast, acids, sour taste, starter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sourdough, bacteria, acids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sourdough	sourdough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yeast	amod
4	yeast	yeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bacteria	cc
6	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 yeast	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bacteria	det
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	parataxis
11	acids	acid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 give	nsubj
13	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 acids	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 taste	det
15	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 taste	amod
16	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 starter	det
20	starter	starter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 kept	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 kept	aux:pass
23	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 make	conj
24	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kept	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fed	cc
26	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 kept	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Sourdough	wild yeast and bacteria			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeast=Patient
2	make	present	the bacteria	acids			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product
3	give	present	acids	the sour taste			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme
4	keep	can · passive		a starter		alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	feed	participle			year		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chemistry:021-bread-rising-yeast-at-work.lesson:15.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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