Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

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

Lesson 212 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 Chicken Run the hens build a plane and fly over the fence. What is true of real chickens?

1. They cannot move their wings at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They fly long distances like geese, in a V across the sky in autumn — no support
3. They can only flap a short way, so a fox can catch them at night — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They fly only 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

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

«5 hens and a rooster, how many legs then»

1. 24 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 6 — no support
3. 10 — 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 3 · ★ · right ✓

«4 chickens, 2 foxes sneaking round, count the tails»

1. 6 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 2 — no support
3. 4 — no support
4. 8 — 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 ✓

«our rooster crowing at 3 in the afternoon, it's broken innit» What is right?

1. Roosters crow only at dawn, so he must be ill and needs a vet — score 3
2. Roosters crow at many times of day to claim territory — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. He is telling time wrong on purpose — no support
4. He thinks it is morning — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 212, line 7: «Roosters crow at many times of day, not only at dawn, to claim their territory, and a study reported that a rooster partly closes its ear canals when crowing s…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «claim» (+3); the same doer «roosters» (+3); the same thing acted on «territory» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

«gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» What will happen?

1. A chick will hatch in three weeks — score 1
2. It will hatch only if the egg is brown — score 1
3. Nothing, shop eggs are not fertilised — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. A dinosaur will hatch — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 212, line 5: «A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «shop eggs» (+3); the same action «fertilis» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

«hen's lying on her side in the dust flapping, she's dying!!» What is likely?

1. She is having a heart attack — no support
2. She is happily dust bathing — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She is trying to dig to Australia — no support
4. She is laying ten eggs at once — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 212, line 5: «A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eggs» (+3); the same action «lay» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

«brown eggs r healthier than white ones, mum says» What is right?

1. The shell colour comes from the breed; the egg inside is the same — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Brown eggs have twice the goodness, because the brown shell is thicker and stronger — no support
3. White eggs are bleached brown eggs — no support
4. Blue eggs are poisonous — 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 212, line 16: «Shell colour, white, brown or even blue, depends on the breed and often matches the hen's earlobes, but the egg inside is the same.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if a farmer forgot to shut the hen house at night where foxes live?

1. The hens would lay more eggs — no support
2. Nothing, foxes are scared of hens — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. The hens would fly away safely — no support
4. A fox could get in and kill the hens — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1, line 13: «Red foxes now live in many towns, where they find food, shelter and few predators (animals that hunt them), eating scraps, worms and rats, and in some British…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «foxes» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

«chickens r just vegetarian, they eat seeds» What is right?

1. They eat only grass like cows — score 0
2. They are omnivores and eat insects, worms and even mice — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Yes, chickens eat only seeds and the odd bit of bread from the kitchen — score 4
4. They eat only meat — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 15: «Wild monkeys eat fruit, leaves, seeds, flowers and insects; our sweet bananas were bred by people, and Paignton Zoo in England stopped giving monkeys bananas b…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fruit» (+5); the same action «eat» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

«how's a chicken a dinosaur?? it's tiny lol» What is right?

1. Chickens are dinosaurs only in films — score 4
2. Birds are the dinosaurs that survived, and chickens share many of their features — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. Only big birds are dinosaurs — score 6
4. It is not, birds came from fish — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 212, line 2: «Birds are the one group of dinosaurs that survived, and the chicken shares many bones and features with its huge extinct relatives such as T. rex.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «survive» (+5); the same doer «dinosaurs» (+2); the same thing acted on «dinosaurs» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

«that hen at the top pecks all the others, she's just mean» What is happening?

1. She is teaching them to read — no support
2. It is the pecking order: she is top hen and eats first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. She is cleaning their feathers, because the others cannot reach their own backs — score 1
4. She is ill and confused — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 212, line 9: «A flock has a pecking order: the top hen eats first and pecks lower hens, and the phrase «pecking order» for people comes from chickens.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same doer «top hen» (+3); the same property (+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 laying of eggs by the domestic hen?

1. Eggs are laid solely in the presence of a rooster, a hen kept alone ceasing to lay altogether — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Eggs are laid irrespective of the presence of a rooster, those so laid being incapable of hatching — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. The hen lays but a few eggs over her lifetime — score 7
4. All eggs so laid will hatch if warmed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 212, line 5: «A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «lay» (+2); the same doer «hen» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which the domestic fowl must be enclosed at nightfall.

1. Exposure to moonlight prevents laying — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Foxes hunt chickens, which fly poorly and sleep deeply at night — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Chickens are inclined to migrate after dark — no support
4. The eggs freeze unless the house is closed — 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 ✗

It is given that a hen is observed rolling in dry earth with outstretched wings. Ascertain the correct interpretation.

1. The hen is dust bathing to clean her feathers and remove mites — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The hen is gravely ill and near death — no support
3. The hen is endeavouring to take flight — no support
4. The hen is constructing a nest underground for the eggs she will lay in spring — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 212, line 5: «A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eggs» (+3); the same action «lay» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the colouration of eggshells.

1. Shell colour is determined by breed and leaves the contents unaltered — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Shell colour is determined by the weather — no support
3. White shells are produced by bleaching — no support
4. Brown shells denote superior nourishment — 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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