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title: Yeast is a fungus made of single tiny cells; in bread dough it eats… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeast is a fungus made of single tiny cells; in bread dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas, whose bubbles make the dough rise; yeast works fast when warm and slowly in the cold. Who acts: Yeast, bubbles. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» of the biology cour
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 11

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Yeast is a fungus made of single tiny cells; in bread dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas, whose bubbles make the dough rise; yeast works fast when warm and slowly in the cold.

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**Who acts:** Yeast, bubbles · **What happens:** be, make, eat, give off, rise, work · **To what, where:** fungus, sugar, bread dough, dioxide gas

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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, bubbles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:11
# text = Yeast is a fungus made of single tiny cells; in bread dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas, whose bubbles make the dough rise; yeast works fast when warm and slowly in the cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case
20	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound
21	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det
28	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
35	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:cc
37	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  | a fungus and the cold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle | Yeast | a fungus and the cold *not said here* |  |  |  | of single tiny cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fungus=Product |
| 3 | **eat** | present | yeast | sugar |  | bread dough |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 4 | **give off** | present | yeast *not said here* | dioxide gas |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | bubbles |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rise** | infinitive | bubbles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **work** | present | yeast |  |  |  |  | fast, warm *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:11`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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