--- title: How would a moth find a flower in the dark? — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: How would a moth find a flower in the dark? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/t12/) [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/) / [Flowers and pollination](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination How would a moth find a flower in the dark? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** moth · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** flower, dark This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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/58-flowers-and-pollination/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t12:1 # text = How would a moth find a flower in the dark? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | would | a moth | a flower | | the dark | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | 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} By following bees ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t12:o1:1 # text = By following bees 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | bees | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} By its heat in the dark ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t12:o2:1 # text = By its heat in the dark 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heat** | | its *= it* | | | the dark | | | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} By its loud buzzing ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t12:o3:1 # text = By its loud buzzing 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 buzzing buzzing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} By its strong scent and pale colour ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t12:o4:1 # text = By its strong scent and pale colour 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scent** | | its *= it* | | | | | | nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | **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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