Test 8 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

Why might a garden full of fancy foreign flowers have fewer butterflies than a wild meadow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foreign flowers · What happens: have · To what, where: garden

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 garden	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 garden	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garden	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fancy	case
7	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 butterflies	amod
12	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 meadow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 meadow	det
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meadow	amod
16	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 butterflies	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	foreign flowers	a garden					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Foreign flowers grow far too tall for butterflies to reach the tops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 tall	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 butterflies	case
8	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tops	det
12	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Foreign flowers					for butterflies; tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	Foreign flowers not said here	the tops					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme

Option 2

Butterflies do not like colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	Butterflies	colours					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many caterpillars can eat only certain native plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 caterpillars	amod
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 certain	advmod
6	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
7	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	Many caterpillars	certain native plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 4

Butterflies only live in towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 towns	case
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Butterflies			towns			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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