--- title: Why do clothes moth caterpillars ignore cotton and plastic clothes? — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders… · tree and pragmatics description: Why do clothes moth caterpillars ignore cotton and plastic clothes? Test 9 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Minibeasts in the house: house spiders…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/) / t9 # Test 9 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli… Why do clothes moth caterpillars ignore cotton and plastic clothes? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** clothes · **What happens:** ignore · **To what, where:** cotton This is test 9 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t9:1 # text = Why do clothes moth caterpillars ignore cotton and plastic clothes? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 nsubj _ _ 4 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 ignore ignore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | present · do-support | clothes and moth caterpillars | cotton and plastic clothes | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=Theme | 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} Cotton is too soft for them ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t9:o1:1 # text = Cotton is too soft for them 1 Cotton cotton NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Cotton | | | | | for them *= they*; soft *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Plastic is poisonous only to moths ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t9:o2:1 # text = Plastic is poisonous only to moths 1 Plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Plastic | | | | | to moths; poisonous *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} They are afraid of bright colours ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t9:o3:1 # text = They are afraid of bright colours 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | They | | | | | of bright colours; afraid *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} They eat animal fibres like wool, fur and feathers ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t9:o4:1 # text = They eat animal fibres like wool, fur and feathers 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | They | animal fibres and fur and feathers | | | | like wool | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Patient | **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. 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