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title: They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of… — Bread rising: yeast at work · tree and pragmatics
description: They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of bread is where a bubble once was. Who acts: proteins, dough, hole, bubble. A sentence of the lesson «Bread rising: yeast at work» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Bread rising: yeast at work, sentence 3

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They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of bread is where a bubble once was.

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**Who acts:** proteins, dough, hole, bubble · **What happens:** trap, swell, be, slice · **To what, where:** gas, bread

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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 (proteins, dough, hole, bubble), 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:3
# text = They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of bread is where a bubble once was.
# 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 ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trap	trap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **trap** | present | proteins *= protein* | the gas |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Patient |
| 2 | **swell** | present | the dough |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | every hole in a slice of bread |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past | a bubble |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slice** |  |  | bread |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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