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title: Ascertain the cause of the rising of bread dough. — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the cause of the rising of bread dough. Exam question 4 of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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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# Exam question 4 · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

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Ascertain the cause of the rising of bread dough.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, bread dough · **What happens:** ascertain, cause, rise · **To what, where:** cause, rising

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the cause of the rising of bread dough.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rising	rising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cause of the rising of bread dough |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | the rising of bread dough |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeast gives off bubbles of carbon dioxide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:e4:o1:1
# text = Yeast gives off bubbles of carbon dioxide
1	Yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give off** | present | Yeast | bubbles of carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source bubble=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The flour expands upon contact with water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:e4:o2:1
# text = The flour expands upon contact with water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expands	expand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expand** | present | the flour |  |  |  |  | upon contact with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The salt draws air into the dough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:e4:o3:1
# text = The salt draws air into the dough
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present | the salt | air |  |  |  | into the dough *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent air=Patient into dough=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bacteria give off bubbles of oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:e4:o4:1
# text = Bacteria give off bubbles of oxygen
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give off** | present | Bacteria | bubbles of oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source bubble=Theme |

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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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