Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy
Tests: 3 of 10 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 112 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 · ★ · right ✓
«just smack it with a stick if it won't do what u want, works on my brother lol» What do good zoos really do?
- 1. Use a stick but only gently — no support
- 2. Shout until the animal obeys — no support
- 3. Use rewards only and let the animal choose to take part — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 4. Starve the animal for a few days until it finally obeys you — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 112, line 7: «Modern zoos let animals choose whether to take part in training, and animals take part more often when they know they can walk away.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same doer «animals» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «part» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why would choice make training easier for an animal?
- 1. Choice makes animals forget everything — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Animals hate being given choices — no support
- 3. It feels less stressed and is more willing to come back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Choice means the animal never trains at all, so nothing is learned — 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Which is the best example of useful training, not a trick?
- 1. An elephant lifting its foot so the vet can check it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. A parrot saying «hello» to visitors — no support
- 3. A bear dancing to music — no support
- 4. A sea lion balancing a ball on its nose for a crowd — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 112, line 4: «It is not for tricks: an elephant that lifts its ear on cue lets the vet take blood without a fight, and an animal that touches a ball on a stick can be guided…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lift» (+4); the same doer «elephant» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to a cheetah that never chased anything for years?
- 1. Nothing, cheetahs are built to sit still — score 7
- 2. It would run even faster than before — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. It could get unfit and bored — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It would turn into a different cat — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 82, line 11: «A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land; it can reach about 100 kilometres per hour, but only for a few hundred metres before it o…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hunt» (+4); the same doer «cheetah» (+4). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
«what's the point of new climbing frames, monkeys don't care» Which answer is right?
- 1. Monkeys hate change of any kind — no support
- 2. Monkeys only climb when people are watching, so frames are just for show — no support
- 3. Climbing frames are for the keepers — no support
- 4. New paths to explore keep them active and curious, like a new playground for you — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 112, line 10: «New climbing frames, ropes, branches and hiding places are enrichment too, because new paths keep animals active and curious.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «new paths» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Even fish and crocodiles have been trained to come to a target. What does this show?
- 1. Crocodiles love being stroked — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Only cold-blooded animals can learn from rewards, while mammals never can — no support
- 3. Fish are smarter than elephants — no support
- 4. Many kinds of animals can learn from rewards, not only clever mammals — ✓ the right answer · 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
In Kung Fu Panda, Po trains by doing kung fu moves for dumplings. What is true about real giant pandas in zoos?
- 1. Real pandas are trained by being hit with sticks until they fight well — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Real pandas really do learn kung fu — no support
- 3. Keepers train them with treats for health checks, not for fighting — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Real pandas cannot learn anything at all — 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 ✗
Which question would you ask to test if a puzzle feeder is too hard for a bear?
- 1. Did the puzzle cost a lot? — no support
- 2. Does the bear sleep next to it? — no support
- 3. Is the puzzle painted a nice bright colour that the bear might like? — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Does the bear give up and walk away before it gets the food? — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 107, line 16: «Sun bears are the smallest bears and use very long tongues and long claws to reach honey and insects in logs; sun bears often stand up on their back legs, and…», 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 doer «sun bears» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
«2 bears and 1 tiger at the enrichment day, how many legs, no wait add the other tiger»
- 1. 12, four legs each for 3 animals — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 14, the tiger has two legs — no support
- 3. 16, four legs each — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 8, two legs each for 4 animals — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why do rewards usually work better than punishments for teaching animals?
- 1. Rewards make animals forget the lesson — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Animals cannot feel fear at all — no support
- 3. Punished animals always learn ten times faster than the rewarded ones — no support
- 4. The animal wants to repeat what brought a reward and is not afraid — ✓ the right answer · 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 ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the practice of target training in zoological institutions?
- 1. An animal is compelled by force to approach a designated location — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Visitors are permitted to throw objects at a target within the enclosure — no support
- 3. An animal is sedated in order to be weighed — no support
- 4. An animal is rewarded for touching a designated target, permitting movement without coercion — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal function of the audible signal produced by a clicker during training.
- 1. It administers a mild discomfort to the ear in order to deter the animal from error — no support
- 2. It summons the visiting public to the enclosure — no support
- 3. It replaces the provision of food entirely — no support
- 4. It marks precisely the moment of the correct behaviour, prior to reward — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 112, line 6: «A clicker marks the exact moment an animal does the right thing and a food reward follows; training with rewards is called positive reinforcement, and it is us…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «mark» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the training of elephants for veterinary procedures.
- 1. Blood is customarily drawn from the tip of the trunk — no support
- 2. Elephants are restrained by chains for all veterinary procedures — no support
- 3. Veterinary procedures upon elephants are prohibited by law — no support
- 4. Elephants are trained to present the ear, permitting blood to be drawn from veins behind it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 112, line 14: «Elephants are trained to present an ear, foot or trunk, so vets can take blood from the big veins behind the ear and test water blown out of the trunk for germ…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «present» (+4); the same doer «elephants» (+4); the same thing acted on «ear» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the method by which the efficacy of enrichment is customarily evaluated.
- 1. By the assessment of the cost of each device — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By the recording of behaviours such as pacing, play and rest before and after its provision — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By the solicitation of written opinions from members of the visiting public at the enclosure — no support
- 4. By the weighing of the enrichment devices after use — 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
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