Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

Tests: 8 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 122 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 ✓

«coyotes can never catch roadrunners, cartoon proves it» What is right?

1. True, roadrunners fly away every time — no support
2. Coyotes are faster and sometimes catch them, though roadrunners often dodge into bushes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. True, roadrunners are the fastest animals on Earth, faster than any cheetah or car — no support
4. True, coyotes do not eat birds — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 122, line 3: «But a real coyote can run more than twice as fast, and sometimes a coyote really does catch a roadrunner, though the bird often dodges into a bush in time.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dodge» (+4); the same place «bush» (+3); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

«lol 2 roadrunners, how many toes pointing backwards altogether» Each foot has two back toes. How many?

1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 2 — no support
3. 8 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 4 — 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 ✓

«3 coyotes + 1 roadrunner, how many legs» How many?

1. 14 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 16 — no support
3. 10 — no support
4. 12 — 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 ✓

Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. What is right?

1. They can fly, but only short and clumsily — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Wrong, they fly long distances every day — score 3
3. Right, they are a kind of ostrich — no support
4. Right, they have no wings — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 122, line 9: «Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+2); the same doer «roadrunners» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

«what if I ran off a cliff and didn't look down, would I hover» What is right?

1. Yes, if you kept moving your legs and running in the air — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes, for a second or two — no support
3. No, you would fall at once; never try it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Only if you held an umbrella — 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 6 · ★ · right ✓

«saw a coyote by the bus stop in LA, escaped from a zoo or wot» What is most likely?

1. Coyotes never come near people's towns — no support
2. It was surely a lost pet dog — no support
3. Coyotes live wild in many cities and move about at night — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. It must have escaped from a zoo or a wildlife park nearby — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 13: «Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «move about» (+3); the same doer «coyotes» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream. What do real roadrunners do?

1. Drink a whole bucketful of water every hour in the heat — score 3
2. Drink only rain from cactus flowers — score 3
3. Get most water from their food and rarely drink — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Cannot swallow water at all — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 122, line 17: «Roadrunners get most of the water they need from the animals they eat and rarely drink.», 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 «drink» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

«2 coyotes yipping out there, sounds like 20, run for it» What is right?

1. It must be wolves, coyotes are silent — no support
2. Coyotes always call in groups of ten — no support
3. There must really be twenty of them out there in the dark — no support
4. Two coyotes' voices overlap and bounce, so they can sound like a pack — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 14: «Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell other coyotes the area is taken, and two coyotes can sound like a whole pack.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sound» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

A roadrunner meets a young rattlesnake. What might really happen?

1. The snake always eats the roadrunner — score 3
2. They ignore each other completely and walk on past — no support
3. The roadrunner may kill it by whacking its head against a rock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
4. The roadrunner always runs away, because all big snakes eat birds — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 122, line 8: «Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and even snakes, including young rattlesnakes, which a roadrunner kills by grabbing and whacking…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «young rattlesnakes» (+5); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «kill» (+2). Against it: the same doer «roadrunner» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Why might native peoples of the South-west have seen the roadrunner's X track as a protection sign?

1. It frightens away coyotes — no support
2. You cannot tell which way the bird went — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. It shows the bird brings good luck to any family — no support
4. It points to water — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 11: «A roadrunner has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back on each foot, so its footprints look like the letter X, and you cannot tell which way the bird…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «way» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the relative speeds of the greater roadrunner and the coyote.

1. The roadrunner invariably outpaces the coyote by a considerable margin — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The coyote is capable of more than twice the speed of the roadrunner and occasionally captures it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The two species attain identical maximum speeds — no support
4. The coyote is incapable of capturing any species of bird — 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 reason for which the footprint of the roadrunner resembles the letter X.

1. The bird crosses its legs at each step — no support
2. The bird proceeds exclusively by hopping upon one foot — no support
3. Each foot bears two toes directed forward and two directed backward — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. The bird drags its tail transversely across its tracks — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 11: «A roadrunner has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back on each foot, so its footprints look like the letter X, and you cannot tell which way the bird…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «point» (+4); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is depicted in an animated film that a coyote remains suspended in the air beyond the edge of a cliff. Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the matter?

1. A body remains suspended in the air until it perceives the absence of ground beneath it — no support
2. Gravity acts without delay, and a body unsupported from below commences to fall at once — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Gravity acts upon a body only after an interval of several seconds — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. A body unsupported from below descends at a constant slow rate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 5: «And the biggest cartoon fib of all is the cliff: nothing hangs in the air before it falls, because gravity pulls the moment there is no ground below you.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «gravity» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the principal means by which the coyote obtains its prey.

1. By stalking, pursuit and pouncing — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. By awaiting the fall of prey from trees — no support
3. By the employment of manufactured traps — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. By the excavation of pits beneath the prey — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 122, line 4: «Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls at n…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+2); the same thing acted on «rockets» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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