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title: «nettles are useless, rip 'em all out» What would a butterfly fan say? — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, net… · tree and pragmatics
description: «nettles are useless, rip 'em all out» What would a butterfly fan say? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 340 «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clove…

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«nettles are useless, rip 'em all out» What would a butterfly fan say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nettles, butterfly fan · **What happens:** be, rip out, say · **To what, where:** 'em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 340 «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain:t4:1
# text = «nettles are useless, rip 'em all out» What would a butterfly fan say?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	rip	rip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | nettles |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rip out** *in a quote* | infinitive | nettles *not said here* | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a butterfly fan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Nettles poison all butterflies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain:t4:o1:1
# text = Nettles poison all butterflies
1	Nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	poison	poison	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | present | Nettles | all butterflies |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rip them out, because nettle leaves poison every kind of butterfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain:t4:o2:1
# text = Rip them out, because nettle leaves poison every kind of butterfly
1	Rip	rip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	poison	poison	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip out** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **poison** | present | nettle leaves | every kind of butterfly |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Butterflies only eat roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain:t4:o3:1
# text = Butterflies only eat roses
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Butterflies | roses |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Leave some; peacock and red admiral caterpillars need them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain:t4:o4:1
# text = Leave some; peacock and red admiral caterpillars need them
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | peacock caterpillars | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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