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title: State the term employed for traces of genetic material shed by organ… — DNA simply: the recipe in every cell · tree and pragmatics
description: State the term employed for traces of genetic material shed by organisms into water or soil. Exam question 4 of lesson 277 «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Exam question 4 · DNA simply: the recipe in every cell

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell:e4:1
# text = State the term employed for traces of genetic material shed by organisms into water or soil.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	genetic	genetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	organisms	organism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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Fossil DNA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell:e4:o1:1
# text = Fossil DNA
1	Fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mineral DNA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell:e4:o2:1
# text = Mineral DNA
1	Mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Environmental DNA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell:e4:o3:1
# text = Environmental DNA
1	Environmental	environmental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Artificial DNA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell:e4:o4:1
# text = Artificial DNA
1	Artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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