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title: Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jum… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers. What would help more? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 9 «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 7 · ★ · Small creatures and creepy-crawlies

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Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers. What would help more?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** buy, fly, save, help · **To what, where:** moth balls, jumpers

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 9 «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:1
# text = Your mum buys moth balls and swats every flying moth to save her jumpers.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swats	swat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | Your mum | moth balls and swats |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ball=Beneficiary moth=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Your mum *not said here* | mum's jumpers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jumper=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would help more?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:2
# text = What would help more?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Looking for and dealing with the caterpillars in the wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:o1:1
# text = Looking for and dealing with the caterpillars in the wool
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund |  |  |  | the wool |  | with the caterpillars | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with caterpillar=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Swatting more flying moths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:o2:1
# text = Swatting more flying moths
1	Swatting	swat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wearing the jumpers in the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:o3:1
# text = Wearing the jumpers in the rain
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund |  | the jumpers |  | the rain |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent jumper=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Putting the jumpers out in the bright sun for just one minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies:t7:o4:1
# text = Putting the jumpers out in the bright sun for just one minute
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | gerund |  | the jumpers |  | the bright sun | minute | out *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jumper=Theme in sun=Destination |

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