Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones
Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 220 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 ✗
«there's like 4 spiders in the shed, how many legs is that, gross»
- 1. 24 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 32 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 16 — no support
- 4. 40 — 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 ✗
«my cousin says u swallow 8 spiders a year when ur asleep» What is right?
- 1. True, it is a proven fact — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. True, but you breathe them out again before you wake up — no support
- 3. True, but only in summer — no support
- 4. It is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping, breathing people — ✓ 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 ✓
In a cartoon an itsy-bitsy spider climbs up the drain pipe. What is true about a spider found in the bath?
- 1. It came out of the bath tap when it was turned on — no support
- 2. It probably fell in from above and cannot climb out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. It certainly came up the drain from the sewers — score 5
- 4. It was waiting under the water all night — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 220, line 9: «A spider in the bath has usually fallen in and cannot climb out, because the sides are too smooth; it did not come up the plughole.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall in» (+3); the same doer «spider» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
«found a huge spider running round the living room last night, it's attacking us!» What is it most likely doing?
- 1. Hunting people to bite — ← Mova's choice · score 13
- 2. Running away from the cat — score 13
- 3. A male searching for a female in autumn — ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. Looking for its lost web in the carpet by the sofa — score 13
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 13, tied with another option at 13 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 220, line 11: «In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.», 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 (+5); the same action «run» (+4); the same doer «many house spiders» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Count them: a woodlouse has 14 legs. How many legs do 3 woodlice have?
- 1. 17 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 36 — no support
- 3. 24 — no support
- 4. 42 — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would most likely happen to woodlice if you moved their log into a hot sunny spot?
- 1. They would turn into beetles — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. They would dry out unless they found a damp place — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They would love the sun and grow bigger — no support
- 4. They would build a new log — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 220, line 12: «Woodlice need damp places and hide under logs and stones; they are crustaceans, related to crabs and shrimps, not insects.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
In a famous story a centipede has a hundred legs and wears lots of boots. What is true?
- 1. No centipede has exactly one hundred legs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Every centipede has exactly one hundred legs — score 6
- 3. Centipedes have no legs, only bristles — score 6
- 4. Centipedes have exactly eight legs — 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 220, line 18: «Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hundred legs» (+3); the same doer «centipede» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
«ugh a centipede and a millipede, which one's the hunter»
- 1. The millipede, fast with a sticky web — no support
- 2. Neither, both of them eat only dead leaves — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Both of them hunt only small frogs at night — no support
- 4. The centipede, fast with venom claws — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 163, line 16: «Golden bamboo lemurs eat young bamboo that contains cyanide, a poison; their bodies cope with a poison that would harm other animals, and eating a food no one…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same thing acted on «food» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What would happen to a garden spider's web if no flies came for a whole week?
- 1. The spider would turn into a fly — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. The web would catch flies by itself — score 1
- 3. The spider would go hungry and might eat and rebuild the web — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The web would keep on growing bigger and stronger all on its own — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 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 148, line 3: «Its «spider sense» is real too: fine leg hairs bend with the smallest puff of air, telling the spider which way a fly is coming, and web spiders feel a trapped…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «web spiders» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
«lift the stone, quick, what's under there» Which animals are you most likely to find?
- 1. Snakes and lizards only, curled up asleep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Spiders' eggs only — no support
- 3. Woodlice, beetles and centipedes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Butterflies and bees — 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 spider and a beetle sit on a log. How many legs altogether?
- 1. 12 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 14 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 16 — no support
- 4. 10 — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the means by which a spider situated at the margin of its web detects the capture of prey.
- 1. It perceives the vibration transmitted along the threads — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. It observes the web with eyes situated upon its dorsal surface — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. It detects the odour of the prey at a considerable distance — no support
- 4. It hears the vocalisations of the captured insect — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 188, line 9: «The Brazilian wandering spider is one of the most venomous spiders; it wanders at night instead of making webs and sometimes hides in bananas, but bites are ra…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «one» (+3); the same doer «brazilian wandering spider» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the claim that persons ingest spiders during sleep?
- 1. It is a myth unsupported by evidence, as spiders avoid sleeping persons — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It occurs exclusively during the autumn months — no support
- 3. It is an established fact, the figure being eight spiders annually — no support
- 4. It occurs only in dwellings situated near woodland — 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 ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the classification of the woodlouse.
- 1. It is a mollusc and is therefore related to slugs — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is a crustacean and is therefore related to crabs and shrimps — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It is an arachnid and is therefore related to spiders and scorpions — no support
- 4. It is an insect and is therefore related to ants and bees — 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 principal difference in feeding between the centipede and the millipede.
- 1. The centipede hunts living prey, whereas the millipede consumes dead plant matter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Both obtain nourishment by the spinning of webs — no support
- 3. Both are exclusively consumers of living plants — no support
- 4. The millipede hunts living prey, whereas the centipede consumes dead plant matter — 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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