Exam question 4 · DNA simply: the recipe in every cell

State the term employed for traces of genetic material shed by organisms into water or soil.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: employ, shed · To what, where: genetic material, water

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 traces	case
6	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 employed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 material	case
8	genetic	genetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 material	amod
9	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 traces	nmod
10	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 material	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 organisms	case
12	organisms	organism	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shed	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shed	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 soil	cc
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 water	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past	the term					for traces of genetic material	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for trace=Eventuality
2	shed	participle		genetic material not said here		water or soil		by organisms	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location

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

Fossil DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 DNA	compound
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Mineral DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mineral	mineral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 DNA	compound
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Environmental DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Environmental	environmental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 DNA	amod
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Artificial DNA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 DNA	amod
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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