Insects as food in other countries
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 290 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 ✓
«ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right?
- 1. Only people in films and TV shows eat bugs, for a dare — no support
- 2. Nobody in the world eats them — no support
- 3. About 2 billion people eat insects as a normal food — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Only animals eat bugs — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 5: «About 2 billion people eat insects, and more than 1,900 kinds of insect are eaten around the world.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same thing acted on «insects» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
«my strawberry yoghurt is pink cos of strawberries, end of» What might also be true?
- 1. Its red colour may come from carmine, made from cochineal bugs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pink yoghurt is coloured with paint — no support
- 3. The colour comes from the milk of a special breed of pink cow — no support
- 4. It is pink because it is cold — 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 ✗
«found a fat beetle in the garden, dare you to eat it» What is the right answer?
- 1. Yes, if you wash it with water — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, wild bugs can carry germs, poisons or sprays — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, all garden beetles are tasty and good for you — no support
- 4. Only if it is still alive — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Count them: a Thai snack cone has 10 crickets. How many legs?
- 1. 10 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 80 — no support
- 3. 60 — ✓ the right answer · 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Count them: 4 mopane caterpillars, each has 6 true legs. How many true legs?
- 1. 16 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 24 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 40 — no support
- 4. 32 — 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 happen if a farmer swapped fish caught at sea for soldier fly larvae to feed his farmed fish?
- 1. The larvae would eat the fish — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Fewer wild fish would be caught for feed — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. The farmed fish would starve — score 1
- 4. The sea would get emptier of wild fish faster — no support
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 134, line 5: «Great white sharks eat fish, seals and dead whales; fat seals give them the energy to swim fast and keep their bodies warmer than the water around them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «fish» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
«lobster's always been posh food» What is right?
- 1. In America it was once cheap food for the poor and prisoners — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. Yes, only kings and queens ever ate it, from the very start — score 5
- 3. Lobster is a kind of insect — no support
- 4. Lobster was never eaten before cars were invented — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 290, line 17: «Disgust at food is learned from family and culture, and tastes change over time: lobster was once food for the poor and prisoners in America.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «america» (+4); the same thing acted on «food» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon a lizard catches a fly and burps happily. A boy says only lizards eat bugs. What is right?
- 1. Only reptiles can digest insects, because of their special stomachs — no support
- 2. Only birds and lizards eat insects — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Many people eat insects too, in many countries — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Insects are poisonous to all mammals — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 182, line 15: «The Gila monster is a venomous lizard that stores fat in its thick tail and eats big meals only a few times a year; a medicine for diabetes was made from a che…», 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 «venomous lizard» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
«a locust swarm, so what, it's a few grasshoppers» What is the danger?
- 1. A big swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. Swarms are always tiny — no support
- 3. Locusts only eat wood — no support
- 4. Locusts eat only other insects, so a swarm keeps the crops safe from pests — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 16: «A big locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «much food» (+3); the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «big locust swarm» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
«we're getting insect burgers at school, can my mate with a prawn allergy have one» What is the careful answer?
- 1. No, insect burgers are poisonous to everyone — no support
- 2. Yes, if he drinks milk with it — no support
- 3. He should check first, as shellfish allergy can mean a reaction to insects — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, insects can never cause allergies, so he can eat as many burgers as he likes — ← Mova's choice · 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 249, line 17: «A camel's hump stores fat, not water, which gives energy when food is short, and the hump sags as the fat is used up; camels save water by hardly sweating and…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fat» (+4); the same action «use up» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why would mopane worms be a good food to keep for a dry season?
- 1. They must be eaten fresh the same day — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Dried, they last for months — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. They turn into butterflies in the jar — score 3
- 4. They grow back again every single night — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 232, line 18: «The star-nosed mole has 22 fleshy fingers on its nose and can find and eat a small worm in less than a quarter of a second.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «small worm» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the principal nutritional merit of edible insects such as crickets and mealworms.
- 1. A high content of protein, together with fats and minerals — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. An absence of any nutritional value — no support
- 3. A high content of sugar and nothing else of nutritional value — no support
- 4. A high content of water exclusively — 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 · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the colouring agent carmine.
- 1. It is derived from red clay — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is a synthetic colour unrelated to any animal, manufactured from coal tar in laboratories — no support
- 3. It is extracted from tomato skins — no support
- 4. It is obtained from crushed cochineal insects and employed in confectionery and cosmetics — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the reason for which the consumption of wild insects from a garden is inadvisable.
- 1. They are invariably larger than farmed insects — no support
- 2. They are protected by law in every country — no support
- 3. They possess no protein whatsoever — no support
- 4. They may carry pathogens, toxins or residues of pesticides — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 290, line 13: «Wild insects can carry germs, poisons or garden sprays, and some are toxic, so insects for food are farmed and cooked safely, and people allergic to shellfish…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); the same doer «wild insects» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the aversion to insects as food prevalent in parts of Europe?
- 1. It is confined to children — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It arises from the poisonous nature of every insect — no support
- 3. It is learned from family and culture and may alter over time — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It is an innate and universal response of all humans — 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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