--- title: Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out wate… — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics description: Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out water; warming it in the oven softens it for a while. Who acts: Bread, starch, warming. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bread, starch, warming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:021-bread-rising-yeast-at-work.lesson:16 # text = Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out water; warming it in the oven softens it for a while. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 021-bread-rising-yeast-at-work.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 lines line VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 squeezes squeeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 warming warm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 softens soften VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Bread | | | | | stale *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **line up** | present | bread's starch | | | | | slowly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **squeeze out** | present | bread's starch *not said here* | water | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **warm** | gerund | | water | | the oven | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **soften** | present | warming | water | | | while | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:chemistry:021-bread-rising-yeast-at-work.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Bread rising: yeast at work, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/15/) - next →: [Bread rising: yeast at work, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/)