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title: Identify the organism principally responsible for the rising of brea… — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the organism principally responsible for the rising of bread dough. Exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry 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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# Exam question 1 · Bread rising: yeast at work

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Identify the organism principally responsible for the rising of bread dough.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, bread dough · **What happens:** identify, rise · **To what, where:** organism

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:e1:1
# text = Identify the organism principally responsible for the rising of bread dough.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	organism	organism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the organism |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** |  | bread dough |  |  |  |  |  | nom rising «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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A virus present in flour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:e1:o1:1
# text = A virus present in flour
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A species of bacterium found in salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:e1:o2:1
# text = A species of bacterium found in salt
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bacterium	bacterium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle |  | a species of bacterium *not said here* |  | salt |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A mould introduced by the oven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:e1:o3:1
# text = A mould introduced by the oven
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | participle |  | a mould *not said here* |  |  |  | by the oven | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Yeast, a microscopic fungus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:e1:o4:1
# text = Yeast, a microscopic fungus
1	Yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	microscopic	microscopic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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