Exam question 1 · DNA simply: the recipe in every cell
Identify the four chemical letters employed in the genetic code of DNA.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, employ, code · To what, where: four chemical letters, genetic code, DNA
This is exam question 1 of lesson 277 «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letters | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 letters | nummod |
| 4 | chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 letters | amod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Identify | obj |
| 6 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 letters | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 code | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 code | det |
| 9 | genetic | genetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 code | amod |
| 10 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 DNA | case |
| 12 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 code | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the four chemical letters | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | employ | participle | the four chemical letters not said here | the genetic code of DNA | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | code | DNA | nom code «communication transitive»: of=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
A, T, C and G
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 T | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 T | punct |
| 3 | T | T | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 C | punct |
| 5 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 T | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 G | cc |
| 7 | G | G | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 C | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
X, Y, Z and W
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Y | punct |
| 3 | Y | Y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 X | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Z | punct |
| 5 | Z | Z | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 X | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 W | cc |
| 7 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Z | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A, B, C and D
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 B | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 B | punct |
| 3 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 C | punct |
| 5 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 B | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 D | cc |
| 7 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 B | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
R, S, T and U
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 S | punct |
| 3 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 R | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 T | punct |
| 5 | T | T | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 S | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 U | cc |
| 7 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 S | conj |
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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