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title: State the temperature at which genetic material is customarily prese… — Breeding programmes for rare animals:… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the temperature at which genetic material is customarily preserved in a frozen zoo. Exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:e4:1
# text = State the temperature at which genetic material is customarily preserved in a frozen zoo.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	genetic	genetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Minus one hundred and ninety-six degrees Celsius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:e4:o1:1
# text = Minus one hundred and ninety-six degrees Celsius
1	Minus	minus	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Zero degrees Celsius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:e4:o2:1
# text = Zero degrees Celsius
1	Zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Minus nineteen degrees Celsius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:e4:o3:1
# text = Minus nineteen degrees Celsius
1	Minus	minus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Minus four degrees Celsius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:e4:o4:1
# text = Minus four degrees Celsius
1	Minus	minus	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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**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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