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title: Mould is a fungus related to yeast that grows from spores on damp br… — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics
description: Mould is a fungus related to yeast that grows from spores on damp bread; penicillin, a life-saving medicine, was first found from a mould, but mould on bread can be harmful, so mouldy bread goes in the bin. Who acts: Mould, yeast, mouldy bread. A sentence of the lesson «Bread rising: yeast at work» 
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# Bread rising: yeast at work, sentence 20

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Mould is a fungus related to yeast that grows from spores on damp bread; penicillin, a life-saving medicine, was first found from a mould, but mould on bread can be harmful, so mouldy bread goes in the bin.

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**Who acts:** Mould, yeast, mouldy bread · **What happens:** be, grow, save, find, go · **To what, where:** fungus, penicillin, mould, bin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry 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 (Mould, yeast, mouldy bread), 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:20
# text = Mould is a fungus related to yeast that grows from spores on damp bread; penicillin, a life-saving medicine, was first found from a mould, but mould on bread can be harmful, so mouldy bread goes in the bin.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	penicillin	penicillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	.	.	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 | Mould | a fungus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | yeast |  |  |  |  | from spores on damp bread | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from spore=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | penicillin |  | a mould but mould on bread |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from mould=Source |
| 5 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | harmful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | present | mouldy bread |  |  | the bin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bin=Location |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

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