Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 9 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 141 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 ✗
«2 foxes and 3 rabbits in the garden last night, how many ears altogether»
- 1. 8 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 5 — no support
- 3. 12 — no support
- 4. 10 — ✓ 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 2 · wrong ✗
«Nick's a fox so he's basically a cat, right? look at his eyes» What is right?
- 1. No, foxes are in the dog family; they just share slit pupils with cats — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Yes, foxes are a kind of wild cat — score 0
- 3. No, foxes are in the bear family — no support
- 4. Yes, foxes and cats are really the same animal, which is why their eyes look alike — ← Mova's choice · 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 47, line 5: «Cats are predators: even well-fed pet cats hunt mice, birds and insects, and pet cats in Britain have been estimated to catch tens of millions of animals a yea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «predators» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
In a cartoon, a rabbit stands its ground and punches a fox on the nose. What is real?
- 1. A real rabbit would freeze or bolt and zigzag away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Real rabbits often stand up and box foxes on the nose until the fox runs off — no support
- 3. Real rabbits are stronger than foxes and kick them away — score 1
- 4. Real foxes are scared of rabbits and keep well away — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 141, line 4: «Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away. In real life that is a hunt, not a friendship,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «zigzag away» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · right ✓
«bloody fox screaming outside again at 2am, is someone being murdered» What is it most likely?
- 1. A fox that is badly hurt every time — score 4
- 2. A fox calling, which is normal on winter nights — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. A rabbit screaming for help — no support
- 4. An owl that has caught a cat — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 141, line 9: «The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+3); the same doer «fox» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
What would happen if a fennec fox had small ears like a red fox?
- 1. Nothing at all would change for it, because ears do nothing to keep an animal cool — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. It would struggle to lose heat and hear prey under the sand — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. It would stay cooler in the sun — score 1
- 4. It would hear better in the desert — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 106, line 6: «Arctic foxes have small ears, short legs and short noses that lose little heat, while the desert fennec fox has huge ears that give off heat to keep it cool.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «huge ears» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
«mate says urban foxes are lost country foxes that can't get home» What is right?
- 1. Yes, they come in only for one night — score 3
- 2. Yes, they are all lost country foxes that wandered in and keep trying to get home — no support
- 3. No, foxes in cities are a different kind of dog — no support
- 4. No, many foxes live in cities for good, with food and few enemies — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 80, line 9: «Red foxes live in many British towns and cities, eating worms, beetles, rats, fruit and scraps, and the eerie screams on winter nights are often foxes calling.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «many british towns» (+3); the same action «live» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · wrong ✗
«4 foxes on the camera, 1 of them gone off, how many fox legs still on screen»
- 1. 20 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 4 — no support
- 3. 16 — no support
- 4. 12 — ✓ 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 8 · right ✓
In Zootopia carrots are Judy's family crop. Why do real farmers fence fields against rabbits?
- 1. Rabbits dig up the fences for fun — no support
- 2. Rabbits nibble soft young crops and can ruin them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Rabbits steal tools from the farm — no support
- 4. Rabbits are scared of fences, so the farmer only has to put one up and they leave — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 141, line 16: «Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «crops» (+5). Against it: the same doer «rabbits» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
A fox in snow faces a spot, then leaps and dives head first. What is it using to find the mouse?
- 1. Its sharp hearing of sounds under the snow — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Its eyes, which see through snow — score 7
- 3. Its tail, which feels the ground — no support
- 4. Its nose only, with ears folded back — ← Mova's choice · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 141, line 9: «The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «fox» (+3); the same thing acted on «patch» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · right ✓
«Judy's a rabbit cop, so rabbits must be brave, innit» What is right?
- 1. Real rabbits are shy prey that run from danger, which keeps them alive — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, rabbits chase off foxes and cats — no support
- 3. No, rabbits are not real animals at all — no support
- 4. Yes, real rabbits stay awake and guard the other animals of the field at night — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the character attributed to the red fox in popular narrative.
- 1. The red fox subsists exclusively upon rabbits — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. The red fox is incapable of learning from experience — no support
- 3. The epithet «sly» is a human invention; the animal is cautious, curious and quick to learn — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The red fox is demonstrably deceitful, devising tricks to cheat other species of their food — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 141, line 8: «A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and dives head first onto them; one unproven idea says foxes use the Earth's magnetism to aim.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «fox» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal function of the exceptionally large ears of the fennec fox.
- 1. The shading of the eyes from solar glare — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The intimidation of larger predators, such as lions, by a sudden display of the ears — no support
- 3. The dissipation of bodily heat and the detection of prey beneath the sand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The storage of water during periods of drought — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 relationship between the red fox and the rabbit in nature?
- 1. The two species customarily form lasting friendships and share a burrow through the winter — no support
- 2. The two species never encounter one another — no support
- 3. The fox is a predator of the rabbit, and fox numbers tend to follow rabbit numbers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. The rabbit is a predator of the fox — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 141, line 15: «In nature foxes hunt rabbits, and when rabbit numbers fall, fox numbers often fall a little later.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «rabbit numbers» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the response of a wild rabbit upon first detecting danger.
- 1. It feigns death by lying upon its back — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It remains motionless or flees at speed in a zigzag course — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It summons other species to its assistance by means of loud and repeated cries — no support
- 4. It advances upon the source of danger — 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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