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title: Why keep frozen cells of animals that are still alive today? — The future of life: de-extinction, cli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why keep frozen cells of animals that are still alive today? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 was wro
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# Test 6 · ★★ · The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and froz…

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Why keep frozen cells of animals that are still alive today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, animals · **What happens:** keep, freeze, be · **To what, where:** frozen cells

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t6:1
# text = Why keep frozen cells of animals that are still alive today?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | frozen cells of animals |  |  | today |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | animals |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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To sell them as ice cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t6:o1:1
# text = To sell them as ice cream
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | as ice cream | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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So that if they become very rare, their cells can help breed more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t6:o2:1
# text = So that if they become very rare, their cells can help breed more
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | they |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | can | their cells |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **breed** | infinitive | their cells *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Because frozen animals are easier to feed and look after in zoos than live ones

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t6:o3:1
# text = Because frozen animals are easier to feed and look after in zoos than live ones
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | frozen animals |  |  |  |  | than live ones; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | to-infinitive | frozen animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | frozen animals *not said here* |  |  |  | after zoos |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because living animals do not need help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t6:o4:1
# text = Because living animals do not need help
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | living animals | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |

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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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