How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

Tests: 1 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 193 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 ✗

«hurry up Rex, it's just a lamppost ffs» What is Rex really doing?

1. Looking for a bone it lost there and buried last week — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Admiring the lamp — no support
3. Waiting for the light to turn on so it can see where to go — no support
4. Reading smells left by other dogs, like a newspaper — ✓ 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 ✗

Count them: three dogs sniff a lamp post. How many nostrils are at work?

1. 12 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 3 — no support
3. 6 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 9 — 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 ✗

«the dog went mad at my backpack and the biscuit was in a sealed bag inside, how???» What explains it?

1. It heard the biscuit — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. It was a lucky guess, because dogs check every bag just in case — no support
3. The bag was see-through to dogs, because dogs see through plastic — score 7
4. A dog smells many thousands of times better than we do — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 140, line 16: «Working dogs learn over months with rewards like toys, treats and praise, with big jobs broken into small steps, and many think of the job as a game that ends…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+5); the same doer «working dogs» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

«Rocky's nose is all dry and warm, he's sick, call the vet now!!» Is a dry nose alone a sure sign of illness?

1. No, a dog's nose is always dry — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Yes, a dry nose means he has a high fever and must stay in bed — score 0
3. No, it is an old myth; look at how he eats, drinks and acts — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes, always call the vet at once, a dry nose means trouble — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 193, line 9: «A warm dry nose does not always mean a dog is ill; that is an old myth.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if you threw a red ball and a yellow ball onto a green lawn for your dog?

1. It would see the red one first, because red is the brightest colour — no support
2. It would probably spot the yellow ball more easily — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It would see neither ball at all — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. It would see both balls equally well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 69, line 3: «Inside the eye a lens, like a magnifying glass, throws an upside-down picture onto the back of the eye, and the brain turns it the right way up and even fills…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «all» (+2); the same action «see» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

«mum, the dog's already at the door and I can't even hear the car» Why?

1. The dog is psychic — no support
2. It smelled mum coming through the walls and the closed windows — no support
3. The dog just sits there by the door all day long, every single day — no support
4. Dogs hear quieter sounds and know the sound of our engine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 193, line 10: «Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dogs» (+3); the same action «learn» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

A chimpanzee and a dog watch you point at one of two cups. Which is usually better at following the point?

1. The dog — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Both always guess wrong — no support
3. Neither can follow pointing — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. The chimpanzee — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 193, line 14: «Dogs follow human pointing better than chimpanzees do, and puppies can follow pointing very young.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «human pointing» (+4); the same action «follow» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

«that collie knows 1000 toys, so my dog must understand every word I say» What is closer to the truth?

1. Most dogs understand tone of voice better than exact words — ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Yes, all dogs know every word, they just choose not to listen — score 2
3. Only collies can hear words at all; other dogs just hear noise — ← Mova's choice · score 9
4. No dog can learn any word — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 193, line 15: «Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «learn» (+5); the same doer «border collies» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Your brother shouts at the dog over a mess the cat made, and the dog puts its ears back and looks away. What does this show?

1. The dog is about to bite — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The dog did the mess and remembers doing it — score 7
3. The dog's look reacts to the shouting, not to guilt — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The dog is laughing at your brother and trying to hide it — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 89, line 15: «Kissing a frog will not make a prince, and many toads have poison glands behind their eyes; dogs that bite cane toads in Australia can get very ill.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bite» (+4); the same doer «dogs» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗

In a cartoon a dog reads a newspaper and checks a wristwatch. What is true of real dogs?

1. They have no sense of routine at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They can read words if taught for long enough by a patient owner — no support
3. They read scents instead and keep time through routines — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They wear watches in the wild — 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 ✗

Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each. How many twitches is that?

1. 4 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 12 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 16 — no support
4. 7 — 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 ✓

Identify the principal sense by means of which the domestic dog apprehends its surroundings.

1. The sense of smell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The sense of taste — no support
3. The sense of touch — no support
4. The sense of sight — 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the so-called guilty look of the dog.

1. It occurs only when the dog is innocent — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It constitutes clear proof that the dog recalls its misdeed and experiences sincere remorse on account of it — no support
3. It occurs only in the presence of other dogs — no support
4. It is principally a response to the displeasure of the owner rather than a recollection of wrongdoing — ✓ 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the colour vision of the dog with respect to a red object upon green grass?

1. The object appears blue — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The object is invisible in all conditions — no support
3. The object appears greyish and is difficult to distinguish — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The object appears more vivid than to a human — 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 · wrong ✗

Ascertain the significance of a warm and dry nose in a dog which is otherwise behaving normally.

1. It is a certain indication of blindness — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It is not in itself a reliable indication of illness — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It indicates the loss of the sense of smell — no support
4. It is a certain indication of fever, requiring the immediate attention of a veterinary surgeon — 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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