Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 125 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 ✗

«meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right?

1. True, meerkats prefer to live alone, just like Timon in the film — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. True, they live in gardens — no support
3. True, they live with warthogs — no support
4. Wild meerkats almost never live alone; they live in mobs — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 125, line 1: «Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog live alone together, slurp bugs and sing «Hakuna Matata», which really is Swahili for «no worries».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «timon» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

«3 warthogs, how many tusks altogether» Each has two pairs. How many?

1. 3 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 6 — no support
3. 12 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 8 — 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 ✗

«5 meerkats on lookout standing up, how many back legs on the ground» How many?

1. 15 — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. 5 — score 5
3. 20 — score 5
4. 10 — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 125, line 6: «Meerkats stand up tall on their back legs as lookouts for hawks and jackals, using the tail as a prop; the guard gives a quiet «all is well» call and a sharp a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand up» (+3); the same doer «meerkats» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

«Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right?

1. Real warthogs mostly graze grass and dig roots; bugs only now and then — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Wrong, warthogs eat only meat — no support
3. Right, they slurp ants all day — no support
4. Right, they eat only bugs and grubs, just like Pumbaa in the film — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 15: «Warthogs have short necks and long legs, so they kneel on thick pads on their wrists to graze short grass, and they back into burrows so their tusks face out;…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «graze» (+2); the same thing acted on «short grass» (+2); the same doer «warthogs» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · wrong ✗

«warthogs have warts, gross, can u catch them» What is right?

1. Yes, you catch warts from touching them, just like from toads — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. They are not warts but bumpy pads protecting the face in fights — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yes, they are a skin disease — no support
4. They are spots of dirt — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 5: «Many old stories about them are wrong: toads do not give you warts, and salamanders are not born in fire, they just ran out of damp logs thrown on the fire.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «warts» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

What would happen if a meerkat mob had no lookout while feeding?

1. They would find more food safely — no support
2. Nothing, meerkats are too fast to be hunted by anything — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. They would all fall asleep — no support
4. Hawks could catch them before they noticed — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 118, line 5: «Real cats do hunt mice, and the hunting urge does not switch off when they are full, but many well-fed pet cats hunt only now and then and some never catch a m…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hunt» (+4). 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 7 · wrong ✗

«warthog's fat and slow, I can outrun it easy» What is right?

1. Right, they only crawl — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Right, they cannot run at all — no support
3. Warthogs can run at about 50 km per hour, faster than you — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Right, they waddle slowly like ducks, so anyone can outrun them — 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 · right ✓

«Timon is like a squirrel innit» What is right?

1. Yes, a small monkey — no support
2. Yes, a kind of rat — no support
3. Meerkats are a kind of mongoose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Yes, a little desert squirrel that digs holes — 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 125, line 8: «Meerkats are a kind of mongoose, not a kind of rat or squirrel.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «kind» (+5); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «meerkats» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

A cartoon shows meerkats in an East African rainforest singing in Swahili. What is real?

1. Meerkats live only in Asia — score 3
2. Meerkats speak Swahili — no support
3. Meerkats live in every rainforest in Africa and sing in the trees — score 4
4. Swahili is spoken in East Africa, but meerkats live in southern Africa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 125, line 18: ««Hakuna matata» means «no worries» in Swahili, «Simba» means lion and «Rafiki» means friend, but real meerkats live in southern Africa, not East Africa.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «southern africa» (+3); the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «real meerkats» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

A warthog meets a leopard in its burrow entrance. Why is it safer facing out?

1. It can charge out tusks first rather than be grabbed from behind — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Leopards are scared of warthog tails and run off when they see one — score 4
3. It can hide its face in the soil — score 1
4. Facing out lets it sleep better — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 102, line 15: «Warthogs have short necks and long legs, so they kneel on thick pads on their wrists to graze short grass, and they back into burrows so their tusks face out;…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «face out» (+4); the same doer «warthogs» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · right ✓

«meerkat just ate a scorpion and didn't die, how» What is right?

1. It bites off or avoids the stinger and can survive some venom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. Meerkats have metal teeth — no support
3. Scorpions are not real animals — no support
4. The scorpion was made of plastic, as the real ones would kill it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 102, line 10: «Meerkats have thin fur and dark skin on their bellies, so after cold desert nights they warm up by sunbathing belly to the sun; they also eat scorpions, often…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bite off» (+4); the same doer «meerkats» (+4). · 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 social life of the meerkat.

1. It lives exclusively in association with a single warthog, with which it shares a burrow for life — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. It lives in solitude, in the manner of the character depicted in the film — score 3
3. It lives in herds numbering many thousands — score 3
4. It lives in groups designated mobs, which may number up to approximately fifty individuals — ✓ the right answer · score 3

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 63, line 17: «Some microbes live in extreme places, such as boiling hot springs; the bright rings of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone are mats of different microbes liv…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «survive» (+2); the same doer «life» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the diet of the warthog?

1. It consists principally of insects, which are ingested in very great number each day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It consists principally of grasses, roots and bulbs, insects being taken only occasionally — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It consists principally of carrion, which is obtained from lions after they have eaten their fill — no support
4. It consists exclusively of the fruits of trees — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which the warthog enters its burrow in reverse.

1. Its tail is thereby protected from the cold of the night and from biting insects — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The burrow is thereby cleansed of debris — no support
3. The burrow is of insufficient width to permit turning — no support
4. Its tusks are thereby directed towards the entrance, whence a predator may approach — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Ascertain the term which designates an association between two species from which both derive benefit, as between the banded mongoose and the warthog.

1. Hibernation — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Mutualism — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Migration — no support
4. Predation — 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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