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title: A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the… — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes. What really makes them? Test 4 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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# Test 4 · Bread rising: yeast at work

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A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes. What really makes them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, baker · **What happens:** show, blow, make · **To what, where:** baker, dough, holes

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This is test 4 of lesson 21 «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:1
# text = A cartoon shows a baker blowing into dough with a straw to make the holes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | a baker |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baker=Recipient |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | a baker *not said here* |  |  | dough |  | with a straw | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with straw=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a baker *not said here* | the holes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What really makes them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:2
# text = What really makes them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present |  | holes *= hole* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary they=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Air from the oven fan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:o1:1
# text = Air from the oven fan
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The baker's breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:o2:1
# text = The baker's breath
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Gas from the yeast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:o3:1
# text = Gas from the yeast
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Drops of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t4:o4:1
# text = Drops of water
1	Drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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