Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 123 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 rabbit's fave food is carrots, he gets a whole bag a day» What is right?
- 1. Fine, but peel them first — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Too much sugar; hay and grass first, carrots only as a small treat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fine, if they are washed — no support
- 4. Perfect, carrots are all a rabbit needs to stay healthy and strong — 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 · wrong ✗
«4 rabbits in the hutch, how many ears is that» How many?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 6 — 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 ✓
«2 ducks and 3 rabbits on the lawn, how many legs» How many?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 10 — no support
- 3. 20 — no support
- 4. 14 — 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 · wrong ✗
«Bugs Bunny's a rabbit, it's in the name» What is right?
- 1. Right, rabbits always live alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. With long legs and a life alone above ground, he is more like a hare — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Right, all rabbits are called bunnies — no support
- 4. Right, he is exactly like a pet rabbit, so the cartoon got it spot on — 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 5 · wrong ✗
«ew my rabbit's eating its poo, is it sick??» What is right?
- 1. Yes, it is starving and has nothing else to eat in its cage — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. It is normal; it digests its food twice to get more goodness — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Yes, take it to the vet at once, it must have a tummy bug — no support
- 4. Yes, it has lost its mind — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 76, line 6: «Dust and gas from the impact blocked sunlight, plants stopped growing, the plant-eaters starved and then the meat-eaters that ate them, and about three quarter…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «starve» (+4); the same doer «plant eaters» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill?
- 1. The oil wrecks its waterproofing, so it gets cold and may sink — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nothing, oil helps ducks float — score 1
- 3. It would swim faster — no support
- 4. It would stay warm and dry, as oil keeps water out of feathers — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 123, line 4: «Daffy Duck shouts all day, but real ducks are mostly calm; oil from a gland near the tail keeps them waterproof, and a clever blood system stops their feet fre…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «oil» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
«chuck the ducks that old loaf, they love it» What is the best answer?
- 1. Bread is poor food and rots in the pond; give oats or peas — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fine, as long as it is white bread — no support
- 3. Fine, if you soak it in milk — no support
- 4. Fine, bread is a duck's natural food and the best thing for it — 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 ✗
A scientist is the first moving thing some goslings see after hatching. What happens?
- 1. They run away and hide from the scientist in the reeds — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. They fly south at once — no support
- 3. They ignore everyone — no support
- 4. They follow the scientist around like a parent — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 121, line 10: «Many dogs chase things that run away, such as cats, squirrels and balls; this is called prey drive, and it comes from their wolf ancestors; a cat that stands s…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run away» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (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 9 · right ✓
«rabbit just jumped and twisted mid air, is it having a fit» What is right?
- 1. It has a sore back — no support
- 2. It is a happy binky; it feels safe and lively — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. It is trying to scare you away from its cage — no support
- 4. Yes, call a vet at once — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 123, line 11: «A happy rabbit's jump-and-twist is called a binky, and it shows the rabbit feels safe and lively.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+4); the same property (+3); the same doer «rabbit» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
In a cartoon, a duck's feet freeze into the ice and it is stuck. What is real?
- 1. Ducks keep their feet warm in their pockets, as cartoons show — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Ducks never stand on ice — no support
- 3. Ducks really get frozen in every winter — no support
- 4. Its warm-blood system stops its feet freezing to the ice — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 105, line 12: «The soles of a polar bear's paws have fur and small bumps that grip the ice and keep the feet warm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «keep» (+2); the same thing acted on «feet» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
«rabbit thumped the floor and the others legged it, why» What happened?
- 1. It was a danger warning, and they ran to safety — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. It was angry at the floor — score 2
- 3. It was playing a drum game with the others — score 3
- 4. It wanted food — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 53, line 15: «The three-banded armadillo is the only armadillo that can roll into a complete ball; most others run or dig quickly into the ground to get their soft belly out…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diet of the wild rabbit.
- 1. It subsists principally upon grasses, clover and leafy vegetation — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It subsists principally upon insects and earthworms — no support
- 3. It subsists principally upon the fruits of trees — no support
- 4. It subsists principally upon carrots taken from cultivated fields — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the jackrabbit?
- 1. It is a domesticated rabbit which escaped from a farm and now lives in the wild — no support
- 2. It is a rabbit which inhabits deep communal burrows — no support
- 3. It is a species of hare, larger and longer of limb than the rabbit, dwelling above ground — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. It is a species of rodent related to the squirrel — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 123, line 7: «Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «jackrabbits» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal reason for which the plumage of a duck sheds water.
- 1. The elevated temperature of the skin evaporates the water as soon as it lands — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The duck expels water from the feathers by vigorous flight — no support
- 3. Oil from a gland near the tail is distributed over the feathers during preening — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The feathers are impregnated with a wax which the duck obtains from water plants — 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 · wrong ✗
Ascertain the process whereby newly hatched ducklings come to follow their mother.
- 1. Instruction by the father prior to hatching — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Imprinting upon the first moving object perceived after hatching — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Attraction exclusively to the colour of the mother's plumage — no support
- 4. Physical attachment by means of vegetation — 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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