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title: What would happen if a baker forgot the yeast? — From field to plate: wheat, flour and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a baker forgot the yeast? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

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What would happen if a baker forgot the yeast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baker · **What happens:** happen, forget · **To what, where:** yeast

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a baker forgot the yeast?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a baker | the yeast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The bread would rise even higher than usual

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t4:o1:1
# text = The bread would rise even higher than usual
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | would | the bread |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bread would taste much too strongly of sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t4:o2:1
# text = The bread would taste much too strongly of sugar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | would | the bread |  |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The bread would come out flat and heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t4:o3:1
# text = The bread would come out flat and heavy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | would | the bread |  |  |  |  | flat, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bread would turn into a sweet sponge cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread:t4:o4:1
# text = The bread would turn into a sweet sponge cake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sponge	sponge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the bread |  |  | a sweet sponge cake |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory |

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**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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