Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 239 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 ✗
Winnie the Pooh sticks his paw in a hive for honey. What would a real bear be after too?
- 1. Nothing, bears never touch hives — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The flowers — no support
- 3. The wooden hive — no support
- 4. The juicy bee grubs — ✓ 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 · ★★ · right ✓
«science says bumblebees can't fly, it's a miracle» What is the truth?
- 1. They are pushed by other bees — no support
- 2. That old claim came from a wrong simple calculation — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. They fly only downhill, never up — no support
- 4. It is true, they float along on a kind of magic nobody can explain — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 13: «The old story that science proves bumblebees cannot fly came from a wrong simple calculation; bees beat their wings very fast and make swirls of air that lift…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); the same place «wrong simple calculation» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A big ball of bees hangs on a branch in the garden. What is the best thing to do?
- 1. Spray it with water — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Leave it and call a beekeeper; swarms are usually calm — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Climb up and look inside to find the queen bee in the middle — score 4
- 4. Hit it with a stick — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 182, line 1: «A desert is a place where very little rain falls, so the hardest problem for every living thing there is water, and in hot deserts the second problem is heat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓
«bee stung me and the sting's still in, gross» What should he do?
- 1. Leave it, it will fly away — no support
- 2. Scrape it out quickly, as it keeps pumping venom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Squeeze it hard between two fingers for a minute — no support
- 4. Push it in deeper — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 149, line 9: «Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, and in Kenya beehive fences keep elephants out of fields while giving honey.», 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 action «keep» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if a hive had no flowers to visit all summer?
- 1. Nothing, bees eat leaves — score 1
- 2. It would make its honey from rain water — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. It would have no honey to eat in winter — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The bees would hibernate in summer — 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 239, line 16: «Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries the hive's own smell, though a stranger bee bringing nectar is sometimes let in, as if she p…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hive» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓
«Nan says the bees are all dying, can I do anything» What helps?
- 1. Leave wild flowers or grow lavender — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Kill all the wasps — no support
- 3. Keep a bee in a jar — no support
- 4. Buy more honey from the shop — 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 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A worker bee waggles straight up on the comb. Which way are the flowers?
- 1. Away from the sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Straight down into the ground — no support
- 3. Towards the sun — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Wherever the wind blows — 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 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Count them: 4 bees on a flower. How many legs and how many wings?
- 1. 16 legs and 8 wings — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 24 legs and 8 wings — no support
- 3. 24 legs and 16 wings — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 32 legs and 16 wings — 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 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«the fat one in the middle is the boss and gives orders» What is really true?
- 1. The queen lays the eggs; she does not give orders — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. The queen tells each bee its job every morning — score 4
- 3. The queen is a male — no support
- 4. The queen fetches all the food — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 238, line 3: «In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do all the other jobs; no ant gives orders, each one follows simple rules.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lay» (+3); the same thing acted on «eggs» (+3); the same doer «queen» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓
A bee from another hive lands at the door carrying nectar. What may the guards do?
- 1. Give her all of their honey to take home — score 9
- 2. Sometimes let her in, as if she paid a toll — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16
- 3. Make her their new queen — score 3
- 4. Always kill her at once — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 16, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 239, line 16: «Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries the hive's own smell, though a stranger bee bringing nectar is sometimes let in, as if she p…», 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 (+4); the same action «let in» (+3); the same thing acted on «stranger bee» (+3); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the information conveyed by the waggle dance of the honeybee.
- 1. The number of drones in the hive — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The approach of inclement weather — no support
- 3. The direction and distance of a source of food — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The age of the queen — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the death of a honeybee subsequent to stinging a human being?
- 1. The bee dies of fright — score 3
- 2. The bee is incapable of withdrawing its legs from the skin of the person stung — score 3
- 3. The venom of the bee is fatal to the bee itself — no support
- 4. The barbed sting becomes lodged in the skin and is torn from the bee — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 239, line 11: «A honeybee's sting has barbs that stick in thick mammal skin, so the bee dies, and the left-behind sting keeps pumping venom, so scraping it out quickly helps.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stick» (+6); the same place «thick mammal skin» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the purpose for which honey is produced and stored by honeybees.
- 1. It is produced solely for human consumption — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. It is employed in the repulsion of bears — no support
- 3. It constitutes the food of the colony during winter — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. It serves as the material of the comb — no support
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 36, line 13: «Bees make honey from nectar by passing it between workers and fanning it until most of the water is gone; one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «honey» (+4); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · 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 hexagonal form of the cells of the honeycomb.
- 1. It serves no purpose whatsoever — no support
- 2. It arises from the cells being made of honey — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. It is determined by the six legs of the bee — no support
- 4. It permits the greatest storage of honey for the least expenditure of wax — ✓ the right answer · 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 64, line 8: «A cut heals because skin cells around it divide and make new cells that crawl across the wound, while a scab protects it from germs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «new cells» (+4); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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