Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 111 of the biology course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · wrong ✗

«my mate says lions in zoos get a massive steak every single day» What is right?

1. Zoo lions only eat vegetables now — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Lions are fed once a year in winter — no support
3. Many zoos give big cats fast days, because wild cats do not eat daily — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, because a lion that misses even one meal will soon fall ill and die — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 15: «Lions rest or sleep up to about 20 hours a day to save energy for hunting, and a lion can eat 30 kilograms or more at one meal and then not eat for days.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «lion» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

Peppa-style picture books show monkeys munching bananas all day. What do many zoo monkeys get?

1. Only bananas, three times a day, as that is all monkeys eat — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Only meat and fish — no support
3. Only crisps given by visitors — no support
4. Mostly leafy vegetables, with sweet fruit only as a treat — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 86, line 3: «In the monkey house a spider monkey hangs by its tail alone like a fifth hand and eats with both hands, a howler monkey booms so loud it fills the building, an…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «spider monkey» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

What would happen if every one of a thousand visitors threw a monkey one crisp?

1. The keepers would stop feeding them their meals, so it evens out — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Nothing, one crisp is too small to matter — no support
3. The monkeys would refuse every crisp — no support
4. The monkeys would get far too much and could get fat or ill — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 111, line 14: «Farm fruit is bred to be much sweeter than wild fruit, so many zoos give it only as a treat; some British zoos stopped giving monkeys bananas and gave leafy ve…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

«why don't they just chuck a live rat in with the python, it's natural innit» What is the best answer?

1. Live rats run far too fast, so the python would never catch one at all — score 3
2. A live rat can bite and hurt the snake, so thawed food is safer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Pythons are scared of the dark — no support
4. Pythons only eat plants in zoos — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 9: «Snakes and birds of prey are fed mostly frozen, thawed mice, rats and chicks, which is safer for the snake because a live rat can bite it; keepers often warm t…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bite» (+4); the same doer «live rat» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · right ✓

The snake ignores a cold mouse from the freezer. What should the keeper try?

1. Shouting so the snake wakes up — score 8
2. Giving the snake a fresh carrot instead, as snakes like vegetables — score 7
3. Warming it, because snakes find food by smell and warmth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. Painting it a brighter colour — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 9: «Snakes and birds of prey are fed mostly frozen, thawed mice, rats and chicks, which is safer for the snake because a live rat can bite it; keepers often warm t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «warm» (+5); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · right ✓

«bloody hell, they just dump the gorillas' food in the grass, lazy keepers» What is really going on?

1. The keepers dropped the tray by accident — no support
2. It is a test of whether gorillas can count — score 5
3. Gorillas can only digest food that has touched the soil, for its minerals — score 6
4. Scattering makes gorillas forage, which keeps them busy like in the wild — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 12: «Scattering food in the grass makes gorillas walk and search, which is called foraging, and keeps them busy for longer.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «scattering» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

A pangolin needs a diet very like the anteater's. Why is it so hard to keep in zoos?

1. Pangolins eat a whole cow a day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Pangolins need fresh snow every day — no support
3. Its special ant and termite diet is very hard to copy — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Pangolins only eat zoo visitors' lunches — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · wrong ✗

Why might a whole melon be better than a chopped one for an elephant?

1. Elephants cannot see small pieces of fruit at all with their tiny eyes — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A whole melon has more water inside it — no support
3. It makes the elephant work at it, like food in the wild — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Chopped melon is poisonous to elephants — no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

In Madagascar the zoo animals are fed from a neat tray every morning. What would a real zoo kitchen do for a lion?

1. Give whole carcasses some days and no food on fast days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Serve it a steak with a knife and fork — no support
3. Give it a fresh tray of fish every hour, like the penguins get — score 5
4. Feed it salad like the zebra — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 26, line 1: «Whales are mammals, not fish: they breathe air, are warm-blooded, give birth to live babies and feed them milk, and their ancestors were land mammals that went…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «give» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

«mealworms in boxes behind the scenes? gross, why» What is the reason?

1. Many zoos breed their own insects to feed frogs, lizards and birds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They are grown in boxes to be sold as crunchy sweets in the zoo shop — no support
3. They are pets for the keepers — no support
4. Mealworms clean the zoo floors — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

«how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh wait, 5»

1. 0, birds do not have tails — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 10, two tails each — no support
3. 5, one tail for each vulture — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 4, as first said — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which many zoological institutions withhold food from large felids on one or two days per week.

1. Hunger renders the animals more docile towards visitors — no support
2. Wild felids do not feed daily, and such fasting prevents obesity — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Felids are incapable of digesting food upon any two consecutive days — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Keeping staff are not employed on those days — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 67, line 10: «The stomach churns food with strong hydrochloric acid and enzymes that break down proteins, and the acid kills many germs; a layer of mucus stops it digesting…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «digest» (+2); the same thing acted on «food» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the feeding of serpents in zoological collections.

1. They are customarily given frozen rodents, thawed and frequently warmed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They are fed solely by members of the visiting public — no support
3. They are sustained exclusively upon vegetable matter — no support
4. They are given live prey of the largest size available, daily and without exception — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the purpose of dusting insects with a powder prior to feeding?

1. It supplies vitamins and calcium in which insects alone are deficient — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. It renders the insects invisible to the predator — no support
3. It imparts a sweet flavour preferred by reptiles — no support
4. It sedates the insects for the convenience of the keeper and the reptile — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 61, line 3: «These plants still make their food from sunlight like any green plant; the insects are their «vitamins», giving them the nitrogen and minerals the bog cannot.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «vitamins» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Determine the reason for which visitors are prohibited from casting food to animals.

1. The institution wishes solely to protect the sale of its own refreshments — no support
2. Unmeasured food may poison or fatten animals and transmit pathogens — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Animals are by nature incapable of consuming human food — score 3
4. The animals are already provided with an excess of food — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 111, line 15: «Visitors' food can poison animals, make them fat or carry germs, and animals have choked on plastic bags and coins thrown by visitors.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «poison» (+2); the same doer «food» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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