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title: Why might a garden full of fancy foreign flowers have fewer butterfl… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a garden full of fancy foreign flowers have fewer butterflies than a wild meadow? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature:t8:1
# text = Why might a garden full of fancy foreign flowers have fewer butterflies than a wild meadow?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature:t8:o1:1
# text = Foreign flowers grow far too tall for butterflies to reach the tops
1	Foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Butterflies do not like colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature:t8:o2:1
# text = Butterflies do not like colours
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Many caterpillars can eat only certain native plants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature:t8:o3:1
# text = Many caterpillars can eat only certain native plants
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Butterflies only live in towns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature:t8:o4:1
# text = Butterflies only live in towns
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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