Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos
Tests: 4 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 113 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 cousin says it's fine for brother and sister tigers to have cubs, they're animals innit» What is right?
- 1. It makes the cubs stronger and healthier than cubs of strangers — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Animals cannot inherit any illnesses — no support
- 3. Tigers can only breed with relatives — no support
- 4. Close relatives pairing makes inherited illnesses more common — ✓ 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 2 · right ✓
What would happen to a small group of animals if it bred only among itself for many generations?
- 1. It would lose genes and become less able to cope with disease — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It would gain lots of new genes every year from its own members — no support
- 3. It would become a bigger species — no support
- 4. Nothing would ever change — 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 · wrong ✗
«why'd a tiger come all the way from another country, we got loads of tigers here» What is the best answer?
- 1. Foreign tigers are a different, bigger and much better kind of tiger than our own ones — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A tiger from far away is less related to ours, keeping the family tree healthy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It came for a holiday — no support
- 4. Our tigers are all too old to walk — 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 4 · right ✓
In the film Jurassic Park scientists bring back dinosaurs from old blood. What is true about real cloning in zoos?
- 1. It uses well-kept frozen cells of animals alive today or recently — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Any extinct animal can be cloned from a fossil — no support
- 3. Clones grow into adults in a day — no support
- 4. Cloning makes the animal smarter and stronger than its parent was — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 113, line 10: «In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen in 1980, bringing back genes lost from the living herd; a clone has the same genes a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «kept cells» (+2); the same doer «cloning» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
«so a clone's like a twin born later?» Is that a fair way to say it?
- 1. No, a clone has completely new genes — score 6
- 2. No, a clone is a robot copy — no support
- 3. Yes, a clone has the same genes as the animal whose cells were used — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. No, a clone is always a different species from the animal it came from — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 113, line 10: «In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen in 1980, bringing back genes lost from the living herd; a clone has the same genes a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same thing acted on «same genes» (+2); the same doer «clone» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere. What problem could it have in the wild?
- 1. It will never be hungry — no support
- 2. It will fly too fast to land — no support
- 3. It may not behave like its own kind or fear danger — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. It will be too clean to survive — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 113, line 14: «If a mother cannot care for her baby, keepers may hand-rear it, but they try to keep it with its own kind, because a chick raised only by people may not act li…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «act» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
Two snow leopards were picked by the computer, but they snarl at each other every day. What should the keepers do?
- 1. Stop breeding snow leopards forever — no support
- 2. Paint them to look like other leopards — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Keep them together until they like each other — score 2
- 4. Try another pair from the studbook — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 113, line 2: «Every snow leopard in zoos is written into one giant family tree called a studbook, and a computer program looks for the pair that is least related, even if th…», 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 «look» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
«a zoo breeds meerkats for babies on the news, that's conservation right» What is a fair answer?
- 1. No, zoos never breed any animal at all — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Not always; good breeding helps rare animals, but meerkats are not endangered — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Yes, the news is how species are saved — no support
- 4. Yes, every baby born at a zoo helps save its species — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 113, line 4: «Good zoos breed to keep rare animals healthy and varied, not just to make cute babies for the news, and that is why some animals in zoos are not bred at all.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «breed» (+4); the same place «all» (+3); the same thing acted on «animals» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
«4 baby giant tortoises hatched, how many legs in total? mate says 8»
- 1. 12, three legs each — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 16, four legs each — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 4, just one leg each — no support
- 4. 8, two legs each, like birds — 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 would a family tree help save a species?
- 1. It shows which animal is the oldest only — no support
- 2. It helps keepers choose good family names for all the new babies — no support
- 3. It shows who is related so keepers avoid pairing close relatives — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is needed to sell the animals — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 13: «On the warm, wet floor fungi, bacteria, termites and worms break dead leaves down in weeks, and the trees take the nutrients straight back, which is why cleare…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · 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 function of a studbook?
- 1. It lists animals available for private purchase — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It records the parentage, birth, movements and offspring of every animal of a given species in zoos — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It records the opinions of visitors concerning each animal — no support
- 4. It sets out the feeding regime of a single enclosure — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which zoological institutions avoid the pairing of closely related animals.
- 1. Related animals are incapable of producing offspring — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Such pairings increase the incidence of inherited disease and reduce genetic variety — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Such pairings produce offspring of excessive size — no support
- 4. Such pairings are prohibited solely on grounds of the cost of transporting the animals — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 17: «Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence, to find food, lure prey and signal; the anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its m…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «many sea animals» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Przewalski's horse designated Kurt.
- 1. It was born naturally at London Zoo in 1828 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was the last wild horse captured in Mongolia in 1969 — no support
- 3. It was cloned from a fossil recovered in Siberia — no support
- 4. It was cloned in 2020 from cells cryopreserved in 1980 — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
State the temperature at which genetic material is customarily preserved in a frozen zoo.
- 1. Minus one hundred and ninety-six degrees Celsius — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Zero degrees Celsius — no support
- 3. Minus nineteen degrees Celsius — no support
- 4. Minus four degrees Celsius — 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
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