Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 167 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 ✗
In Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado. What is the real devil like?
- 1. A dog-sized marsupial that screeches and squabbles over food — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A kind of devil with horns and a pointed tail — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. A huge bear that eats trees — no support
- 4. A spinning, tornado-shaped animal that eats anything — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 104, line 4: «Taz of Looney Tunes spins like a tornado and eats everything, and cartoons call the koala a bear; a real Tasmanian devil does not spin, though it screeches and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «bear» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
«koala bear's my fave bear» What is right?
- 1. No, koalas are a kind of monkey — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Koalas are marsupials, not bears — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, they are panda cousins — no support
- 4. Yes, they are the smallest kind of bear — 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
Test 3 · wrong ✗
«heard a chainsaw in the forest but no one was there, creepy» What could it be?
- 1. A quokka laughing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A wombat digging its burrow — no support
- 3. A cassowary kicking a tree trunk hard — no support
- 4. A lyrebird copying the sound — ✓ 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 4 · wrong ✗
«3 koalas n 2 wombats, how many ears»
- 1. 5 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 15 — no support
- 3. 20 — 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 5 · right ✓
«can i hug the quokka, it's smiling at me» What is right?
- 1. No, touching or feeding quokkas is against the rules — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. No, it will bite your nose off — no support
- 3. Yes, the smile means it wants a hug from you — no support
- 4. Yes, but only if you give it a few chips first, then it's fine — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 167, line 11: «Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feed» (+5); the same thing acted on «quokkas» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · right ✓
What would happen if wombat droppings were round instead of cubes?
- 1. They could roll off the rocks and logs where the wombat marks its area — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. They would grow into trees — score 4
- 3. They would turn into stones — score 4
- 4. Nothing, because wombats never leave droppings anywhere at all — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 167, line 13: «Wombats are the only animals known to make cube-shaped droppings, which do not roll away, and they leave them on rocks and logs to mark their area.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mark» (+4); the same thing acted on «area» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
«my nan says she saw a Tasmanian tiger last week» What is the best answer?
- 1. People still report them, but no proof of a living one has been found since 1936 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, there is a whole zoo of them — no support
- 3. No, they were always made up — no support
- 4. Yes, they are common in every garden — 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 ✓
«a big blue-headed bird just walked out of the trees, gonna give it my sandwich» What is right?
- 1. Yes, cassowaries make friendly, gentle pets for kids — no support
- 2. No, it is just a big chicken — no support
- 3. No, it is a cassowary, keep away and never feed it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yes, they love bread, so throw it a few slices — 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 167, line 7: «The cassowary is a big flightless bird with a helmet on its head and dagger-like claws; it can kick very hard, so people are told to keep away and never feed i…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «big flightless bird» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · wrong ✗
«bowerbird's nest full of blue bottle tops lol, is he a thief» What is right?
- 1. He is hiding from the rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He eats bottle tops to help him digest — no support
- 3. He collects blue things to decorate his bower and impress a female — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is building a little bottle shop to sell things — 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 10 · wrong ✗
«4 sugar gliders, no wait 3, how many tails»
- 1. 4 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 3 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 12 — no support
- 4. 6 — 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 11 · wrong ✗
Why might keeping healthy devils in a safe group help save the species?
- 1. The face cancer cannot spread to them there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They can learn to spin there — score -2
- 3. They get much bigger and much stronger on the island — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 4. They turn into thylacines there — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 167, line 5: «Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat.
- 1. They are luminous at night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They are spherical and are buried beneath the soil — no support
- 3. They are deposited exclusively in water, in the manner of the platypus — no support
- 4. They are cubic in shape and are deposited upon rocks and logs to mark territory — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the koala.
- 1. It is a species of monkey — no support
- 2. It is the smallest member of the bear family — no support
- 3. It is closely related to the giant panda of China and eats bamboo — score 1
- 4. It is a marsupial and in no sense a member of the bear family — ← 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 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 167, line 12: «Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «marsupials» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the Tasmanian devil population?
- 1. It has expanded across the sea to the mainland of Asia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It has been entirely replaced by the thylacine — no support
- 3. It is unaffected by any disease — no support
- 4. It has been greatly reduced by a contagious facial cancer — ✓ 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 · right ✓
Ascertain the faculty for which the male lyrebird is chiefly renowned.
- 1. Gliding between trees by means of membranes of skin — no support
- 2. The construction of bowers decorated with blue objects — no support
- 3. Breaking through sea ice with its head — no support
- 4. The imitation of the calls of other birds and of human sounds — ← 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 167, line 8: «Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «copy» (+5); the same thing acted on «calls» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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