Bread rising: yeast at work, sentence 16

Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out water; warming it in the oven softens it for a while.

Who acts: Bread, starch, warming · What happens: go, line up, squeeze out, warm, soften · To what, where: water, oven

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 (Bread, starch, warming), 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	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lines	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 starch	nmod:poss
6	starch	starch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lines	nsubj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 lines	advmod
8	lines	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 lines	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squeezes	cc
11	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lines	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 squeezes	compound:prt
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squeezes	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 warming	punct
15	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 softens	csubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 warming	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 oven	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 oven	det
19	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 warming	obl
20	softens	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 softens	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 while	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 while	det
24	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 softens	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Bread				stale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	line up	present	bread's starch				slowly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	squeeze out	present	bread's starch not said here	water				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	warm	gerund		water	the oven			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	soften	present	warming	water		while		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:16.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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