Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees

Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 305 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 ✗

Count them: 3 bees land on a flower. How many wings is that?

1. 18 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 12 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 9 — no support
4. 6 — 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 ✗

Count them: a bee hotel has 4 stems with 6 rooms in each, one egg per room. How many eggs?

1. 10 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 24 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 46 — no support
4. 12 — 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 ✗

Count them: 2 bumblebees and 3 mason bees sit on a wall. How many legs is that altogether?

1. 20 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 30 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 40 — no support
4. 15 — 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 ✓

«my cousin says science proved bumblebees can't fly lol» What is the best answer?

1. That was a wrong sum about stiff wings; real bee wings flap fast and stir the air — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Yes, they only fly because nobody told them they can't, it's true — score 2
3. They glide only and never flap — no support
4. Yes, they float by magic — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 305, line 6: «The old story that scientists «proved» bumblebees cannot fly came from a rough sum treating a bee wing like a stiff aeroplane wing; real bee wings flap about 2…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «flap» (+4); the same doer «real bee wings» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · right ✓

In Bee Movie, the hero is a male bee who could sting people. What is true?

1. Only female bees have a sting; males cannot sting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. All bees sting, male or female, if they are cross — score 2
3. Only males can sting — no support
4. No bee can ever sting — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 305, line 14: «Only female bees have a sting, because the sting is a changed egg-laying tube; male bees cannot sting, and most solitary bees rarely sting, with mild stings.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «female bees» (+1); the same thing acted on «sting» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

In a cartoon, Winnie-the-Pooh finds a honeybee hive in a tree. Which bees would you find in a hollow stem in a bee hotel instead?

1. Bumblebee queens in winter — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Stingless bees from Brazil — score 1
3. Solitary bees like mason bees — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. A whole honeybee colony — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 305, line 4: «Every bee has four wings, joined in flight by tiny hooks, and only females can sting, because the sting is a changed egg-laying tube. Some bees in warm countri…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

You find neat round holes cut from your rose leaves. What most likely made them?

1. A leafcutter bee making parcels for its eggs — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. A bird pecking for water — no support
3. Hailstones in the night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. A hungry caterpillar eating its lunch, bite by bite — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 17: «The bowhead whale can smash through ice about 60 cm thick with its head to make a hole to breathe, has blubber up to about 50 cm thick, and some are thought to…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «hole» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

«there's a massive black bee drilling into the fence, it's gonna eat the whole thing» What is right?

1. It is sharpening its sting — score 2
2. It eats wood like a termite — score 2
3. It is building a honeybee hive inside the fence for the winter — score 4
4. It is a carpenter bee nesting; it pushes the sawdust out and doesn't eat wood — ← 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 305, line 12: «Carpenter bees chew tunnels in wood for their nests and push the sawdust out instead of eating it; the violet carpenter bee is one of Europe's biggest bees and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «push out» (+4); the same doer «carpenter bees» (+1); the same thing acted on «sawdust» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

What would happen to tomato flowers in a greenhouse with no bumblebees or other buzzing help?

1. Nothing at all would change — no support
2. The tomatoes would grow even bigger without bees bothering them — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Much of the pollen would stay locked inside the flower tubes — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The flowers would buzz by themselves — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 300, line 13: «A tomato grows from a flower and holds seeds, so botanists call it a fruit, while cooks call it a vegetable; a potato is a swollen stem, a carrot is a root and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3). Against it: the same doer «tomato» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

Why is a queen bumblebee seen in early spring alone, not with a colony?

1. She was thrown out of the hive by the other bees for being lazy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Bumblebees always live alone for life — no support
3. She slept through winter and now starts a new nest by herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. All the other bees are on holiday — 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 · right ✓

«stingless bees? so they just let anyone rob their honey» What is true?

1. Yes, and they give it away to bears — score -2
2. No, they bite and crowd around intruders — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. No, they spray hot liquid — no support
4. Yes, they have no defence at all, so robbers take it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 305, line 14: «Only female bees have a sting, because the sting is a changed egg-laying tube; male bees cannot sting, and most solitary bees rarely sting, with mild stings.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sting» (+3). Against it: the same doer «most solitary bees» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the reason for which male bees are incapable of stinging.

1. Male bees possess a sting too short to penetrate skin — score 2
2. Male bees are forbidden to sting by the queen — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. The sting is a modified egg-laying organ possessed only by females — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Male bees shed their stings upon reaching adulthood — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 305, line 14: «Only female bees have a sting, because the sting is a changed egg-laying tube; male bees cannot sting, and most solitary bees rarely sting, with mild stings.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sting» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the mode of life of the majority of bee species?

1. They inhabit large colonies governed by a single queen and served by many thousands of workers — no support
2. They live as parasites within the nests of ants — no support
3. They live in pairs comprising a male and a female — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. They are solitary, each female constructing and provisioning her own nest — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 297, line 16: «No one knows what animals will look like in millions of years, because evolution follows changes nobody can predict; after every great extinction in the past,…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «one» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the supposed proof that bumblebees cannot fly.

1. It applies to bumblebees but not to other bees — no support
2. It was confirmed by careful measurement of flying bees — no support
3. It demonstrates that bumblebees glide without flapping — no support
4. It arose from an approximate calculation treating the wing as a rigid aeroplane wing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 19: «The story that science says bumblebees cannot fly is a myth from a rough sum that treated a flapping wing like a stiff aeroplane wing.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «treat» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «flapping wing» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the means by which a bumblebee is enabled to fly in cool weather.

1. It consumes heated nectar stored in wax pots within its nest — score -2
2. It flies only when the air exceeds thirty degrees — score 2
3. It warms its flight muscles by shivering and retains the heat beneath its fur — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. It absorbs heat exclusively from warm flowers — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 18: «Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «warm up» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same doer «bumblebees» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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