Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 138 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 ✗
«Peppa's family is 4 pigs, if they were real how many legs touching the mud»
- 1. 12 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 4 — no support
- 3. 16 — ✓ 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 2 · wrong ✗
«pig foot's got 4 toes but walks on 2, how many toes does a pig walk on altogether»
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 8 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 2 — 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 · wrong ✗
«sow had 12 piglets, sorry, 11, each has own teat, how many teats busy»
- 1. 6 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 22 — no support
- 3. 11 — ✓ 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 4 · right ✓
«pigs roll in mud coz they're filthy, everyone knows» What is right?
- 1. Mud is how they clean their teeth — no support
- 2. They can hardly sweat, so mud cools them and blocks sun and flies — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yes, they cannot find water — score 0
- 4. Yes, pigs love being dirty for no reason at all, it is just what they like — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 5: «Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting ins…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pigs» (+3); the same action «cool» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · right ✓
In Winnie the Pooh, Piglet is tiny, pink and walks on two legs in a scarf. What is a real piglet like?
- 1. It walks on four legs on hoofed toes and soon doubles its weight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. It stays tiny for its whole life — no support
- 3. It is born covered in wool — no support
- 4. It walks on its two back legs from the day it is born, like a little person — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 8: «Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig si…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «four legs» (+3); the same action «walk» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
«my brother says a pig can never ever look at the sky» What is right?
- 1. True, unless they stand on two legs — no support
- 2. True, their neck has no bones — no support
- 3. True, their eyes only point down at the ground, so they cannot see the sky — no support
- 4. Not true; pigs can look up, it is just awkward with their thick neck — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 138, line 15: «The saying that a pig can never look up is not true; its short, thick, muscly neck just makes it awkward, and pigs see fewer colours than we do and rely more o…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
«chuck the leftover ham sandwiches to the pigs, yeah?» What is the best answer?
- 1. Yes, ham is their favourite — no support
- 2. Yes, pigs need meat every day, and ham and bacon are their favourite treats — no support
- 3. Yes, if you take the bread off — no support
- 4. No, in many countries it is illegal because meat scraps can spread pig diseases — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 138, line 14: «In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «spread» (+2); the same doer «meat scraps» (+2); the same thing acted on «serious pig diseases» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · right ✓
«the pen stinks and the pigs are lying in muck, pigs are just gross» What is the real problem?
- 1. Pigs never use a toilet spot — no support
- 2. Pigs cannot smell bad smells — no support
- 3. The pen is too crowded for them to keep bed and toilet apart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. Pigs prefer sleeping in their own mess, as it keeps them warm at night — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 3: «Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean and use a toilet spot far away, and in one experiment pigs steered a dot on a screen with…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «pigs» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «bed» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · right ✓
What would happen to a pale pig left in a field with no shade or mud on a hot sunny day?
- 1. Nothing, because pigs never get too hot — no support
- 2. It would sweat a lot and stay nice and cool — score 4
- 3. It could get sunburnt and overheat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Its skin would turn black to protect it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 6: «Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.», 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
«pigs are thick, they just eat» What is right?
- 1. Pigs only know how to eat and sleep — no support
- 2. Pigs cannot learn anything at all, not even their own names or where food is — score 2
- 3. Pigs can learn their names, remember hidden food and even use a joystick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Pigs are cleverer than any person — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 11: «In an experiment pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts to hit a target on a screen for a treat, and pigs can learn their names and remember where f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «names» (+3); the same action «learn» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · wrong ✗
«wild boar in the park dug up the whole lawn, why» What were they doing?
- 1. Building a nest under the grass to hide their piglets in — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Digging with their snouts for roots, worms and grubs — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Playing football with the turf — no support
- 4. Looking for water pipes — 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 1 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the purpose of wallowing in mud by the domestic pig.
- 1. Pigs wallow solely for amusement without any benefit — no support
- 2. Mud is employed by pigs for the cleaning of their teeth — score 1
- 3. Pigs possess few functioning sweat glands, and mud cools the body while protecting it from sun and insects — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Pigs derive their principal nourishment from mud — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 5: «Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting ins…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «few working sweat glands» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the manner in which the domestic pig supports its weight in walking.
- 1. Upon the knees of the forelimbs and the hind feet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Upon four limbs, bearing its weight on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Upon four flat paws provided with claws — no support
- 4. Upon the two hind limbs in the manner of a human being, the forelimbs being held aloft — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the cleanliness of pigs kept with adequate space?
- 1. They habitually sleep within their own excrement — score 7
- 2. They keep the sleeping place clean and select a separate place for excretion — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. They are incapable of distinguishing clean from soiled ground — score 7
- 4. They require the daily washing of their pen by the farmer — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 10: «With space, pigs keep their sleeping place clean and choose a toilet spot far from it, so a dirty crowded pen shows a problem with the farm, not with the pig.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «keep» (+2); the same thing acted on «sleeping place» (+2); the same doer «pigs» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the reason for which the feeding of kitchen leftovers to pigs is prohibited by law in many countries.
- 1. Pigs refuse food previously handled by people — no support
- 2. Leftovers cause excessive increase in the weight of pigs — no support
- 3. Leftovers contain insufficient salt for pigs — no support
- 4. Scraps of meat may transmit serious diseases of pigs — ← 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 138, line 14: «In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «meat scraps» (+2); the same thing acted on «serious pig diseases» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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