Test 4 · ★ · DNA simply: the recipe in every cell
On a TV crime show, the detective finds one hair. What must the hair have to give useful DNA?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: detective, hair · What happens: find, have, give · To what, where: one hair, crime show, useful DNA
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 277 «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. 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
Sentence 1: On a TV crime show, the detective finds one hair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 show | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 show | det |
| 3 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crime | compound |
| 4 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | compound |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 detective | det |
| 8 | detective | detective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hair | nummod |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the detective | one hair | a crime show | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic |
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.
Sentence 2: What must the hair have to give useful DNA?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | obj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hair | det |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 DNA | amod |
| 9 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | the hair | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the hair not said here | useful DNA | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dna=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A bright colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 colour | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colour | amod |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A long length
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 length | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 length | amod |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A curl at the end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 curl | det |
| 2 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 curl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its root, with cells in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 root | nmod:poss |
| 2 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cells | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cells | case |
| 5 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 root | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cells | nmod |
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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