The penguins of Madagascar: real penguins and chimps
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 129 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 ✓
«polar bears eat penguins at the North Pole, saw it on a mug» What is right?
- 1. Impossible: wild penguins live only in the south and polar bears in the north — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. True, it happens every day on the ice, because both of them live at the North Pole — score 4
- 3. True, polar bears love penguins — score 3
- 4. True, but only in summer — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 4: «Cartoons and Christmas cards put penguins next to polar bears, but the two never meet, because penguins live in the south and polar bears in the far north.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «south» (+3); the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «penguins» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
«4 penguins from the film, how many flippers» How many?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 4 — no support
- 3. 8 — ✓ the right answer · 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
«6 penguins and 2 zookeepers, how many legs» How many?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 12 — no support
- 3. 32 — no support
- 4. 20 — 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 ✗
«penguins are so slow lol, they can't even walk properly» What is right?
- 1. Right, they have no legs — no support
- 2. Waddling saves energy, and under water they are fast swimmers — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Right, they are slow everywhere, on land and under the sea as well — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Right, they cannot swim either — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 6: «Penguins are slow on land but fast swimmers; gentoo penguins, the fastest, can swim at about 35 km per hour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «penguins» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to a penguin's camouflage if it were white on top and black below?
- 1. It would be even harder to see from both above and below — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Nothing would change — no support
- 3. Seals below and birds above would spot it more easily — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. It would turn invisible — 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 129, line 11: «A penguin's black back and white belly are camouflage called countershading, which many fish and sharks have too.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «camouflage» (+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 6 · ★ · right ✓
«penguin's drinking seawater, it'll get sick, stop it» What is right?
- 1. Yes, penguins need clean tap water, salt water makes them ill — no support
- 2. It is fine; a gland above its eyes takes out the extra salt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yes, stop it at once — no support
- 4. Yes, salt makes them float away — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 99, line 15: «A gland above a penguin's eyes removes extra salt from its blood, and the salty drips run out of its beak; albatrosses and gulls have the same gland, but peopl…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «remove» (+4); the same doer «gland» (+2); the same thing acted on «extra salt» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
«the middle of a penguin huddle is freezing, right» What is right?
- 1. Yes, it turns to ice — no support
- 2. The middle can be warmer than a summer day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Penguins never huddle — score 3
- 4. Yes, the middle is colder than the outside, as no sun reaches it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 17: «Emperor penguins huddle in big groups and shuffle so that everyone takes turns in the warm middle, which can be warmer than a summer day.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «warm middle» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
«penguin at the zoo's on a warm beach, it'll melt» What is right?
- 1. African penguins live on warm coasts naturally — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. All zoo penguins are fake — no support
- 3. It must be moved to ice at once — no support
- 4. Penguins melt in the sun — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 129, line 18: «Not all penguins need ice: African penguins live on warm coasts of South Africa and Namibia and bray like donkeys.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «warm coasts» (+3); the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «african penguins» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
«chimp in the film reads the paper, so chimps can read» What is right?
- 1. Right, they read picture books — no support
- 2. Real chimps cannot read but learn symbols and use tools — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Right, chimps read slowly — score 3
- 4. Wrong, chimps cannot learn anything at all, not even symbols — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 5: «Real chimps cannot read newspapers, but they are clever apes that learn symbols, fish for termites with sticks and crack nuts with stones.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «learn» (+4); the same doer «clever apes» (+2); the same thing acted on «symbols» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
«penguins all look the same, how does mum find her kid» What is right?
- 1. She never finds it, so another penguin feeds it — no support
- 2. She smells its feathers only — no support
- 3. She knows her chick's voice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She counts every chick in the colony — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 4: «Cartoons give every baby a mum who does all the work and a stork that brings it; in real life the seahorse dad carries the eggs, the cuckoo mum tricks other bi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cuckoo mum» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
An emperor father keeps his egg on his feet for two months. What can't he do in that time?
- 1. Make any sound at all — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Stand up straight — no support
- 3. Go to sea to eat — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Sleep in the colony — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 106, line 12: «Reindeer feet make a clicking sound from tendons as they walk, which may help a herd keep together in snowstorms, and their hooves are soft in summer for boggy…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «clicking sound» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · 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 geographical distribution of wild penguins.
- 1. They inhabit both polar regions in equal number — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They are confined to the southern half of the world — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They occur in every ocean of the northern half of the world — no support
- 4. They are found in abundance upon Madagascar — 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 the black and white colouration of the penguin.
- 1. It permits penguins to perceive one another in darkness — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It serves to distinguish the males, which are black, from the females, which are white — no support
- 3. It derives from the colouration of the fish upon which they feed — no support
- 4. It constitutes camouflage, the dark back matching the sea and the pale belly the sky — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the means by which the penguin is enabled to consume sea water.
- 1. Salt is harmless to all animals in any quantity — no support
- 2. The penguin consumes only melted snow — score 2
- 3. A gland situated above the eyes removes the excess of salt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The penguin expels the salt by means of its tongue — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 12: «Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «remove» (+2); the same doer «special gland» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the abilities of the chimpanzee?
- 1. It employs no tools of any description — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It reads printed matter with fluency, as shown in the film, and writes a few simple words — no support
- 3. It is incapable of learning from others of its kind — no support
- 4. It cannot read, but may learn numerous symbols and employs sticks and stones as tools — ✓ 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
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