Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

Tests: 9 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 130 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 ✓

«Ice Age ends with mammoths still alive so they're still out there somewhere» What is right?

1. Right, a few of them still hide in the snowy forests of Siberia, far from people — no support
2. Most died out about 10,000 years ago and the last about 4,000 years ago — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Right, a few live in zoos — no support
4. Right, they turned into elephants — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 12: «Most woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago, but a small group lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years ago, when the Egypt…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «die out» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓

«mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is right?

1. Yes, in the Ice Age — no support
2. Yes, but only the biggest dinosaurs, which liked to hunt the baby mammoths — no support
3. No, dinosaurs died out over 60 million years before mammoths lived — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Yes, all the time — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 76, line 4: «In cartoons the dinosaurs all die at once in one fiery bang and small furry mammals were never there; in reality the dark years did the killing, volcanoes in I…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+2); the same doer «dinosaurs» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓

«2 mammoths + 3 elephants, how many trunks» How many?

1. 5 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 3 — no support
3. 10 — no support
4. 2 — 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 ✗

«Manny, Ellie and their baby, how many tusks if every grown-up's got 2 and the baby's got none» How many?

1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 3 — no support
3. 6 — no support
4. 4 — ✓ 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 5 · ★★★ · right ✓

«were the pyramids built before the last mammoth died» What is right?

1. No, pyramids are only 100 years old — no support
2. No, mammoths died out millions of years before anybody built anything at all — score 3
3. No, mammoths lived after people left Egypt — score 6
4. Yes, the last mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 74, line 13: «Lyuba, a baby woolly mammoth about 42,000 years old, was found in 2007 in frozen Russian ground with her skin and trunk; mammoths survived on Wrangel Island un…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «egyptian pyramids» (+5); the same action «build» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen to a mammoth with huge African-elephant ears in an Ice Age winter?

1. It would fly with its ears — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. It would hear wolves better and stay warmer — no support
3. Nothing at all would change — no support
4. It would lose lots of heat and its ears might freeze — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 7: «Woolly mammoths had small ears and short tails, much smaller than an African elephant's, which kept heat in and were less likely to freeze.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «woolly mammoths» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓

«a mammoth's just an elephant in a fur coat lol» What is closest to the truth?

1. A close relative of the Asian elephant, with fur, fat, small ears and a hump — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No, it is a kind of giant bear — no support
3. Yes, it is just a normal African elephant wearing a fur coat, nothing more than that — no support
4. No, it is related to the hippo — 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 ✓

«they found a mammoth tooth, size of a brick, digging the new car park» What is right?

1. Mammoths had tiny teeth, so it is fake — no support
2. It must be a dinosaur egg, as those are about the size and shape of a brick — no support
3. It is a rock that looks like a tooth — no support
4. Mammoth teeth were big ridged grinders made for chewing tough grass — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 96, line 9: «The front teeth, or incisors, of rabbits and guinea pigs grow all their lives and are worn down by chewing tough grass and hay.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «chew» (+2); the same thing acted on «tough grass» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

«scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right?

1. True, mammoths are already in zoos — no support
2. True, it is already done, and the first baby mammoth will be in a zoo by next summer, the papers say — no support
3. Some hope to make cold-proof elephants with mammoth features, but it has not been done and many question it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. False, no scientist has ever thought of it — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 20: «Some scientists hope to make cold-proof elephants with some mammoth features, but it has not been done, and many people question whether it should be.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «proof elephants» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓

A cave painting shows a mammoth with a hump and a sloping back. Why does this matter to scientists?

1. It shows mammoths lived in France today — score 3
2. It matches frozen mammoths found later, so the painters drew from life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It proves that mammoths were pink and that the hump was only a painted shadow — no support
4. It shows mammoths had no tusks — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 17: «Ice Age people painted and carved mammoths in caves in France and Spain, and Rouffignac cave in France is called «the cave of a hundred mammoths»; the painters…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «frozen mammoths» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓

«mammoth ate 150 kilos of plants a day, how is that even possible» Why did it need so much?

1. It ate only snacks — score 6
2. It needed the plants to build nests — score 6
3. It was always greedy and kept on eating even when its tummy was completely full — score 7
4. Grass has little goodness, and a huge body needs lots of energy in the cold — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 14: «Mammoths mostly ate grass and low plants of a cold, dry grassland called the mammoth steppe, perhaps over 150 kilograms a day, because grass gives little energ…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+4); the same doer «huge body» (+4); the same thing acted on «lot» (+4). · 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 extinction of the woolly mammoth.

1. The species became extinct approximately one hundred years ago — no support
2. The species survives at the present time in remote and frozen regions of Siberia, unobserved by scientists — no support
3. The greater part became extinct approximately ten thousand years ago, a remnant surviving upon Wrangel Island until approximately four thousand years ago — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. The species became extinct contemporaneously with the dinosaurs, upwards of sixty million years ago, and was never seen by any human being — 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 74, line 13: «Lyuba, a baby woolly mammoth about 42,000 years old, was found in 2007 in frozen Russian ground with her skin and trunk; mammoths survived on Wrangel Island un…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «wrangel island» (+3); the same property (+3); the same action «survive» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which the woolly mammoth possessed ears and a tail of small dimensions.

1. The extremities were habitually removed by predators — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Small extremities permitted superior hearing of approaching wolves in deep snow — no support
3. Small extremities were characteristic solely of juvenile animals — no support
4. Small extremities lose less heat and are less susceptible to freezing — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Ascertain the agency by which the bodies of mammoths have been preserved nearly intact in Siberia.

1. The enclosure of the bodies within resin from trees — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Permanently frozen ground, designated permafrost, which arrests decay — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The conversion of the bodies into stone over a brief interval — no support
4. The deliberate embalming of the bodies by the Ice Age peoples who hunted 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between the woolly mammoth and living elephants?

1. The mammoth was a species of bear clothed in long fur — no support
2. The mammoth was a close relative of living elephants, nearest of all to the Asian elephant — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. The mammoth was more closely related to the hippopotamus than to any elephant — score 6
4. The mammoth was identical in species to the African elephant — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 130, line 13: «Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.», 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 «mammoths» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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