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title: Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; str… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; stretchy gluten traps the gas so the dough rises, and baking kills the yeast and sets the holes. Who acts: Yeast, tiny fungus, stretchy gluten, dough. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biolog
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 10

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Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; stretchy gluten traps the gas so the dough rises, and baking kills the yeast and sets the holes.

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**Who acts:** Yeast, tiny fungus, stretchy gluten, dough, baking · **What happens:** be, eat, make, trap, rise, kill · **To what, where:** tiny fungus, sugar, bubbles, gas, yeast, holes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeast, tiny fungus, stretchy gluten, dough), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:10
# text = Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; stretchy gluten traps the gas so the dough rises, and baking kills the yeast and sets the holes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
15	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gluten	gluten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	traps	trap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
22	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	baking	bake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Yeast | a tiny fungus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a tiny fungus | sugar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | a tiny fungus *not said here* | bubbles of gas |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bubble=Product |
| 4 | **trap** | present | stretchy gluten | the gas |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient |
| 5 | **rise** | present | the dough |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **kill** | present | baking | the yeast |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeast=Theme |
| 7 | **set** | present | baking *not said here* | the holes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result |

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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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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