Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 200 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 ✓
«Bugs Bunny eats carrots all day and he's fine, so I'll do the same for Thumper» What is right?
- 1. Bugs Bunny is a real rabbit — no support
- 2. Yes, carrots are a full rabbit diet, as long as he gets plenty of them — no support
- 3. Rabbits must never see a carrot — score 3
- 4. Real rabbits need mostly hay; carrots are just a small treat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 123, line 1: «Bugs Bunny munches a carrot and asks «What's up, Doc?», but a real wild rabbit fills up on grass, clover and leafy plants, and carrots are only a small sugary…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «carrots» (+2); the same thing acted on «small sugary treat» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«he goes MAD for carrots so they must be good for him, duh» What is right?
- 1. Yes, the more the better — no support
- 2. No, rabbits hate carrots — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Liking a food does not make it healthy, like sweets for us — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, animals only like healthy food — 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 200, line 1: «Bugs Bunny munches a carrot in every cartoon, so many people think carrots are what rabbits should eat. Real rabbits are built for grass and hay, and carrots a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «carrots» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
«ew the rabbit's eating its own poo, it's sick!» What is true?
- 1. It is very ill and dying, so it must go to the vet straight away tonight — no support
- 2. It is copying the dog — no support
- 3. It is starving — no support
- 4. It is normal; it eats special soft droppings to digest food again — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 200, line 10: «Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «digest» (+3); the same thing acted on «food» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a rabbit ate only soft food and no hay for months?
- 1. Its teeth would fall out — no support
- 2. Nothing at all would change, because rabbits are fine on soft food only — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Its teeth could grow too long and cut its mouth — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Its ears would shrink — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 200, line 9: «A rabbit's gut needs hay moving through it all the time, and a rabbit that stops eating or pooing for half a day needs a vet urgently.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rabbit» (+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 ✗
«Flopsy just flipped onto her side, is she dead??» but she is breathing and calm. What is likely?
- 1. She is trying to dig — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She has fainted from fear — no support
- 3. She is relaxed, a flop means a happy rabbit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She is ill and dying — 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 6 · ★★ · right ✓
«she's leaping and twisting round the garden like a lunatic» What does it mean?
- 1. She has fleas — no support
- 2. She is angry with you — no support
- 3. It is a binky, she is happy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. She is scared of the grass — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 200, line 11: «A happy rabbit may do a binky, leaping and twisting in the air, or flop suddenly onto its side to rest.», 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 «binky» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«pick him up by the ears like the magician did» What is right?
- 1. Yes, but only for small rabbits — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Never, lift him with one hand under the chest and one under the bottom — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Yes, ears are handles, and that is why rabbits have such long ones — no support
- 4. No, pick him up by the tail — no support
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 104, line 14: «Bilbies are small desert marsupials with huge ears that rarely need to drink; foxes and rabbits brought from Europe harmed them, so Australians sell chocolate…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same thing acted on «small desert marsupials» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
«the bunny keeps thumping its foot, is it doing a dance» What is it doing?
- 1. Warning of danger — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Asking for carrots — score 4
- 3. Dancing to the music on the radio — no support
- 4. Practising for running — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 123, line 9: «A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «warn» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Count them: two rabbits sit in a run. How many long ears are listening?
- 1. 8 — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. 2 — score 7
- 3. 4 — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. 6 — score 7
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 25, line 16: «Donkeys' long ears hear far-away calls and help them lose heat, and donkeys are often kept as guards for sheep, because they chase off foxes and dogs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+6); the same doer «long ears» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
Count them: a rabbit, a hare and Bugs Bunny line up. How many tails?
- 1. 3 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 2 — no support
- 3. 0 — 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 ✗
«keep him in the little hutch on his own, saves money» What is right?
- 1. Rabbits like to be alone in small hutches where nobody can bother them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rabbits need much more space and a rabbit friend — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is fine if he gets carrots — no support
- 4. Rabbits sleep all the time anyway — 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 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon a baby hare is born bald and blind in a burrow. What is true?
- 1. Hares and rabbits are the same animal — no support
- 2. Baby rabbits and hares are both born furry — score 9
- 3. Baby hares are born bald and blind in burrows, just like the cartoon shows — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 4. That fits baby rabbits; baby hares are born furry with open eyes above ground — ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 200, line 16: «Wild rabbits live in groups in a network of burrows called a warren; hares are different, living above ground, with babies born furry and with open eyes, while…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «burrow» (+5); the same property (+4); the same action «bear» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the appropriate diet of the domestic rabbit?
- 1. Hay and grass ought to constitute the greater part, with carrots offered sparingly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Lettuce ought to constitute the exclusive diet — no support
- 3. Bread and pellets suffice entirely — no support
- 4. Carrots ought to constitute the greater part of the diet — 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 · right ✓
Identify the principal reason for which the teeth of a rabbit require regular inspection.
- 1. They are shed annually — no support
- 2. Rabbits possess no teeth at the rear of the mouth — score 2
- 3. They grow continuously and may become overgrown without sufficient chewing of hay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. They are coloured differently each season, the colour indicating the health of the animal — 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 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» (+3); the same thing acted on «tough grass» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the consumption by a rabbit of a portion of its own droppings.
- 1. It invariably indicates grave illness — no support
- 2. It indicates that the animal is starving — no support
- 3. It is observed solely in captive animals — score 4
- 4. It is a normal process permitting the further digestion of food — ← 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 200, line 10: «Rabbits eat some of their own droppings, soft ones made at night, to digest their food a second time; this is normal and healthy, and the hard round droppings…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «digest» (+3); the same thing acted on «food» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a child proposes to lift a rabbit by its ears. Ascertain the correct method of handling.
- 1. Suspension by the tail — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Suspension by the hind legs — no support
- 3. One hand beneath the chest and one beneath the hindquarters, the animal held close — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Suspension by the ears, as practised by magicians, the ears being sufficiently strong — 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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