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title: "Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away". What's t… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away". What's true? Test 8 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · Famous discoveries told as stories

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"Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away". What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rosalind · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** loads

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This is test 8 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:1
# text = "Rosalind Franklin got loads of credit for DNA right away".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rosalind	Rosalind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Franklin	Franklin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Rosalind | loads of credit for DNA |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She was the only one who worked on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:o1:1
# text = She was the only one who worked on it
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | the only one |  |  |  |  | on it | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She got the Nobel Prize all by herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:o2:1
# text = She got the Nobel Prize all by herself
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | She | the Nobel Prize |  |  |  | by herself *= she* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus |

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

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Her part was overlooked at first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:o3:1
# text = Her part was overlooked at first
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlook** | past · passive |  | Her part |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She discovered penicillin as well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t8:o4:1
# text = She discovered penicillin as well
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	penicillin	penicillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | She | penicillin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penicillin=Topic |

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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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