The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 124 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 ✗
«lions are lazy, the girls do all the work» What is right?
- 1. Wrong, the cubs do all the hunting — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lionesses do most hunting, but males hunt too and guard the land — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Right, males only sleep and eat — no support
- 4. Right, males never do anything except sleep under trees all day long — 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 ✗
«pride of 5 lionesses and 2 lions, how many tail tufts» How many?
- 1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 14 — no support
- 3. 5 — no support
- 4. 7 — ✓ 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 3 · ★★ · right ✓
«3 lions n 4 cubs, how many legs, go» How many?
- 1. 28 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 24 — no support
- 3. 21 — 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 ✗
What would happen if a young male stayed in his pride forever?
- 1. Nothing, all males stay — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. The pride would leave him — score 1
- 3. He would compete with the grown males for the pride — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. He would turn into a lioness and look after the cubs — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 55, line 12: «Common frogs spend winter in mud or under logs, and some males rest at the bottom of ponds, taking in oxygen through their skin.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «males» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
«Simba should roar at 6 months like in the film» What is right?
- 1. A cub mews and grunts and starts real roaring at about one year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Only lionesses roar — no support
- 3. Lions never roar at all — score -3
- 4. Cubs roar loudly from the very day they are born, just like their dads — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 8: «A lion's roar can be heard about 8 kilometres away; lions roar to claim their land and keep in touch, and a cub only starts real roaring at about one year old.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «start» (+4); the same doer «cub» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
«there's a secret place elephants walk to when they're dying, my uncle said» What is right?
- 1. Yes, every elephant knows the way there from birth, even the calves — score 1
- 2. Yes, deep in the jungle, where the old elephants walk alone — score 3
- 3. No, they die wherever they are; bones may collect near water — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. Yes, but no one has found it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 14: «There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «collect» (+4); the same place «water» (+3); the same doer «bones» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?» What is likely?
- 1. It will be starving in an hour — score 4
- 2. It may go days without eating again — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Lions eat ten times a day — score 3
- 4. It will eat another 40 kilos at night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 10: «Lions sleep or rest up to 20 hours a day and are most active at night and dawn; one lion can eat about 40 kilograms of meat in a meal and then may not eat agai…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «lions» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«why do lions need loads of cubs anyway?» What is the best answer?
- 1. Fewer than half of wild cubs survive their first two years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Cubs do the hunting while the grown-ups rest in the shade — score 3
- 3. Every cub becomes a king — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Cubs keep the whole pride warm at night by sleeping on top of the adults — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 14: «In The Lion King, Simba is a young lion who will become king; simba means lion in Swahili, a language of East Africa.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+3); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«lion asleep up a tree in that film, is it fake» What is right?
- 1. Fake, lions cannot climb — score 1
- 2. Real, all lions sleep in trees — score 3
- 3. It may be real; lions in parts of Uganda and Tanzania often climb trees — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Fake, only leopards go up trees, as lions are far too big and heavy — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 15: «Lions in a few places, such as parts of Uganda and Tanzania, often climb trees, and scientists are not sure why they do it there and hardly anywhere else.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «climb» (+2); the same thing acted on «trees» (+2); the same doer «lions» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
A lioness lets another lioness's cub drink her milk. Why might this help her?
- 1. Lionesses swap their cubs with each other every single morning — score 0
- 2. She has no cubs of her own ever — score 1
- 3. The pride is related, so helping the cub helps her own family — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. She mistook the cub for a baby wildebeest that had got lost — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 124, line 3: «A pride is a family of related lionesses, mothers, sisters, daughters and aunts, who hunt as a team and share the care of all the cubs, while the males guard t…», 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 property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
If lions disappeared from a savanna, what might happen to the grass?
- 1. Nothing would change at all — no support
- 2. The grass would turn into thick trees and bushes within a year — no support
- 3. The grass would stop needing rain — no support
- 4. Antelopes could grow in number and eat much more of it — ← 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 124, line 4: «Young males like Simba really do leave home at two or three years old, and Mufasa's circle of life is real science: lions eat antelopes, antelopes eat grass, a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «antelopes» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · 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 division of hunting within a pride of lions.
- 1. The males undertake the entirety of the hunting — no support
- 2. The cubs undertake the greater part of the hunting — no support
- 3. No member of the pride hunts, all prey being obtained by theft from hyenas and wild dogs — no support
- 4. The lionesses undertake the greater part of the hunting, although males also hunt, particularly large prey — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 11: «Lions are the only truly social cats; a pride is related females, their cubs and a few males, and together they hunt big prey, guard cubs and defend their land.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hunt» (+2). Against it: the same doer «male» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for the annual movement of the wildebeest of the Serengeti.
- 1. The herds retire to subterranean dens for the winter season — no support
- 2. The herds proceed towards the coast for the purpose of bathing — no support
- 3. The herds pursue the rainfall and the fresh grass which follows it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. The herds seek to evade a single predator which pursues them throughout the year — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 124, line 11: «The great migration is real: over a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, move round the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year following rain and fresh g…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+4); the same thing acted on «rain» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the so-called elephant graveyard?
- 1. It is a single valley to which all elderly elephants proceed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No such place exists; elephants die wherever they happen to be, though remains may accumulate near water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is a location known to every herd and carefully concealed from people and from scientists — no support
- 4. It is situated beneath every desert in Africa — 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 approximate number of lions remaining in the wild.
- 1. Approximately five hundred thousand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Approximately two hundred — no support
- 3. Approximately twenty to twenty-five thousand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Approximately two million, spread across all of Africa — 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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