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title: "how's the soufflé gone flat already, it looked amazing 2 mins ago??" — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics
description: "how's the soufflé gone flat already, it looked amazing 2 mins ago??" Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Bread rising: yeast at work

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"how's the soufflé gone flat already, it looked amazing 2 mins ago??"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** soufflé · **What happens:** be, go, look · **To what, where:** soufflé

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t8:1
# text = "how's the soufflé gone flat already, it looked amazing 2 mins ago??"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soufflé	soufflé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	mins	minute	NOUN	NNS	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the soufflé |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | participle | the soufflé |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past | soufflé |  |  |  |  | ago, amazing *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The air inside cooled and shrank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t8:o1:1
# text = The air inside cooled and shrank
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	cooled	cool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | past | the air |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **shrink** | past | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The yeast died in the cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t8:o2:1
# text = The yeast died in the cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the yeast |  |  |  |  | in the cold | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cold=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Someone poked it with a fork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t8:o3:1
# text = Someone poked it with a fork
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | past | Someone | it |  |  |  | with a fork | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with fork=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The eggs went off in the oven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work:t8:o4:1
# text = The eggs went off in the oven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	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 | **go off** | past | the eggs |  |  | the oven |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in oven=Location |

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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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