Exam question 4 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

State the temperature at which genetic material is customarily preserved in a frozen zoo.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: preserve, freeze · To what, where: State temperature, frozen zoo

This is exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temperature	det
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 preserved	nsubj:pass
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 material	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 material	nsubj
6	genetic	genetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 material	amod
7	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temperature	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 preserved	aux:pass
9	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	10 preserved	advmod
10	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 zoo	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 zoo	det
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 zoo	amod
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 preserved	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 preserved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	present · passive		the State temperature at genetic material		a frozen zoo		customarily property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Minus one hundred and ninety-six degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minus	minus	CCONJ	_	3 hundred	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 degrees	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ninety	cc
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ninety	punct
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 degrees	nummod
8	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Zero degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 degrees	nummod
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Minus nineteen degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minus	minus	ADV	_	2 nineteen	advmod
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Minus four degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minus	minus	CCONJ	_	3 degrees	cc
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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