Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth
Tests: 9 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 209 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 ✓
In the film Barnyard, the boy cows have udders and give milk. What is wrong?
- 1. Only bulls give milk — score 5
- 2. Calves give the most milk — score 5
- 3. Nothing, all cattle give milk, the boys and the girls alike — score 5
- 4. Only females give milk; males are bulls and have no udders — ← 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, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 209, line 8: «Only female cattle give milk, from the udder, the bag under the tummy: «cow» means a female, males are bulls or bullocks, the young are calves and a group is a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «bulls» (+3); the same doer «males» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
«bro, it says in my book cows have 4 stomachs lol» What is more exact?
- 1. One stomach with four parts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Four stomachs and four hearts — no support
- 3. Four stomachs, one in each leg — no support
- 4. One stomach and no parts — 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 ✗
«3 cows in the field, how many stomach parts altogether»
- 1. 3 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 9 — no support
- 3. 4 — 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 4 · ★★ · right ✓
«2 cows, a bull and 2 calves, how many legs. oh and the farmer's dog»
- 1. 24 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 26 — no support
- 3. 20 — no support
- 4. 22 — 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 ✓
«cows lying down, gonna rain, cancel the picnic» What is right?
- 1. Cows lie down to rest whatever the weather, so it tells you nothing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. No, cows lying down means snow — score 3
- 3. Yes, cows always know when rain is coming, they feel it in their legs — no support
- 4. Yes, but only brown cows — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 209, line 10: «The saying that cows lie down before rain is a myth: cows lie down to rest and chew the cud whatever the weather.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «rest» (+3); the same doer «cows» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
«paint the cape blue then and the bull won't charge, ha» What would really happen?
- 1. It would run away from blue — no support
- 2. It would only charge at green, because bulls hate green grass that is too short — no support
- 3. It would lie down and sleep — no support
- 4. It would still charge, because it chases the movement — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 209, line 4: «Cows are also more social and clever than people think: they have best friends, learn routines and their names, and the bull charging the red cape is chasing t…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «chase» (+5); the same thing acted on «movement» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a cow had no microbes in its stomach?
- 1. It would grow wings — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. It would burp more methane — no support
- 3. It would make more milk — score 1
- 4. It could not break down grass properly — ✓ the right answer · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 209, line 12: «Cows in a field often face the same way, turning their backs to wind and rain or lining up with the sun; some scientists reported they tend to line up north to…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«why can't I just eat grass like a cow, it's free» What is right?
- 1. Grass is poisonous to every animal — score 2
- 2. Only cows are allowed to eat grass — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. People can digest grass perfectly well if they chew it for long enough — score 3
- 4. People have no microbe-filled stomach to break grass down — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 3: «Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunshine, the cheese came from milk from a cow that ate grass, so you are at the end of food cha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «cow» (+2); the same thing acted on «grass» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«cow's licking its own nose holes, gross, is it ill» What is right?
- 1. Yes, it is trying to stop a sneeze — no support
- 2. No, cows have long tongues and do it normally — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Yes, it must see a vet at once — no support
- 4. No, it is tasting the coming rain on the wind, which cows always do before a storm — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 96, line 13: «A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top front teeth, only a hard pad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «long rough tongue» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
«that cow keeps following the other one everywhere, weird» What is the likely reason?
- 1. Cows have best friends and stay close to them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. It is lost and cannot see where it is going — no support
- 3. It is the other cow's calf, always — no support
- 4. It wants to steal the best grass from it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 209, line 10: «The saying that cows lie down before rain is a myth: cows lie down to rest and chew the cud whatever the weather.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rest» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓
«cows are thick, they just stand there» Which fact shows that is unfair?
- 1. Cows learn routines and their names and choose when to be milked — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Cows can read the farm sign — score 3
- 3. Cows never move all day — score 4
- 4. Cows cannot tell one another apart, even the cows they live with every day — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 209, line 14: «Cows learn routines and their names, and on farms with milking robots, cows walk in by themselves when they choose to be milked.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «learn» (+2); the same doer «cows» (+1); the same thing acted on «routines» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓
«why does milk cost so much, cows just make it all the time» What is right?
- 1. A cow makes milk only after having a calf — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Bulls make half the milk — score 7
- 3. Cows only make milk on Sundays — score 7
- 4. Cows make milk from the day they are born — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 209, line 7: «A cow makes milk only after having a calf, because, like all mammals, mothers make milk for their babies; a dairy cow can give over twenty litres a day.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «milk» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the digestive apparatus of the domestic cow?
- 1. No stomach whatsoever — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A single undivided stomach incapable of digesting grass — no support
- 3. Four entirely separate stomachs, each digesting a distinct food — no support
- 4. A single stomach divided into four compartments, the largest containing microbes which digest grass — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal stimulus which provokes a bull to charge the cape of a matador.
- 1. The sound of the crowd alone — no support
- 2. The movement of the cape — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. The odour of the fabric — no support
- 4. The red colouration of the cape — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 154, line 5: «Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «capes» (+3); the same action «move» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
It is given that a herd of cattle is observed lying down in a pasture. Ascertain the conclusion which may properly be drawn.
- 1. Precipitation is certain within the hour, the animals having sensed the approach of the rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The animals are resting and ruminating, and no forecast of the weather may be inferred — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The animals are gravely ill — no support
- 4. Snowfall is imminent — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the production of milk by cattle.
- 1. Milk is produced from birth irrespective of calving — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Milk is produced by females following the birth of a calf — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Milk is produced by bulls and cows alike — score 5
- 4. Milk is produced solely by calves — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 55, line 7: «Bears sleep through winter in dens living on their fat; their temperature drops only a little, mothers give birth in the den and make milk for the cubs from th…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «milk» (+4); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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