Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures
Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 324 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 ✓
«falcon's just a small hawk, everyone knows that» What does DNA show?
- 1. Falcons are closer to bats than to birds — score 6
- 2. Yes, a falcon is just a baby hawk that has not grown up yet — no support
- 3. Falcons are closer to parrots and songbirds than to hawks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 4. Falcons are a kind of owl — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 324, line 3: «Looks can fool you. Falcons look like hawks, but DNA, the tiny instructions inside every living cell, shows they are closer cousins of parrots and songbirds. T…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
In a cartoon three vultures circle over a lost man in the desert, waiting. What are real vultures doing when they circle?
- 1. Riding warm air and searching wide areas for animals already dead — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Dancing to call the rain — no support
- 3. Counting the people below — no support
- 4. Waiting for the living man to stop moving so they can attack him — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 324, line 4: «Vultures are not villains. Cartoon vultures circle over a lost traveller, waiting, but real ones circle to ride warm rising air while they search for animals t…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «search» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
In The Jungle Book four vultures sit on a dead tree and chat. Count them: how many wings and how many talons on all their feet?
- 1. 8 wings and 32 talons — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. 8 wings and 40 talons — no support
- 3. 8 wings and 16 talons — no support
- 4. 4 wings and 16 talons — 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: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forward on each. How many toes point back in all?
- 1. 1 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 6 — no support
- 3. 2 — no support
- 4. 4 — ✓ 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 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Count them: 6 red kites fly over a field. How many forked tails?
- 1. 12 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 3 — no support
- 3. 6 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. 18 — 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 ✗
«ugh the hawk ate a sparrow at the feeder, that's evil» What is the best answer?
- 1. Hawks only eat seeds normally — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It is natural; sparrowhawks must eat small birds to live — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The sparrow was asleep anyway — no support
- 4. Yes, sparrowhawks kill just for sport and leave the bodies behind — 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 ✗
What would happen if a town's vultures all died?
- 1. The town would become much cleaner, because vultures spread dirt and germs — score 0
- 2. Lions would move in to clean up — no support
- 3. Dead animals would rot longer and rats and stray dogs could increase — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nothing, vultures do no work — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 12: «It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones die from heat or from drying too fast, and in 2019 the ones on a crashed Moon lander probably…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «active wet ones» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why is a motorway verge a good place for a kestrel to hunt?
- 1. Kestrels like the noise — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. The verge is warmer than the sky — no support
- 3. The long grass is full of voles and mice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Cars give kestrels free food every day — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 324, line 7: «Kestrels hover by flapping into the wind while keeping the head still, watching for voles and mice, and scientists reported they can see ultraviolet light, whi…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«a falcon diving's faster than it flying flat, why tho» What is the best answer?
- 1. The air is thinner near the ground — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Falcons are lazy when flying flat — no support
- 3. Diving uses gravity, with wings folded tight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Falcons push off clouds with their feet — 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 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Why might the grass beside a vole hole glow for a kestrel but look plain to you?
- 1. The voles paint their paths — no support
- 2. The grass glows only at night — no support
- 3. Kestrels have eyes that glow like torches and light up the grass — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. Kestrels are reported to see ultraviolet light that we cannot — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 324, line 2: «Picture a kestrel over a motorway verge: it faces the wind, flaps fast and holds its head perfectly still while it watches the grass for a vole. Then it drops.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «grass» (+1). Against it: the same doer «kestrel» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A cattle medicine is banned in India and vultures slowly return. Which is true?
- 1. Vultures never cared about the medicine — no support
- 2. Vultures returned only because people began feeding them bread every day — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. One medicine shows how harming one animal can cause trouble for people — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The ban made cattle sick instead — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 111, line 8: «Big cats are often fed whole carcasses with bones and fur, which are good for their teeth, and vultures are fed whole dead animals too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feed» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the animal which attains the greatest velocity of any animal in a descending stoop.
- 1. The golden eagle, exceeding six hundred kilometres per hour — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The cheetah, exceeding three hundred kilometres per hour — no support
- 3. The common swift, exceeding one thousand kilometres per hour — no support
- 4. The peregrine falcon, exceeding three hundred kilometres per hour — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the kinship of falcons.
- 1. Genetic evidence indicates that falcons are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than to hawks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. No relationship between falcons and other birds can be determined — no support
- 3. Genetic evidence indicates that falcons descend from owls — no support
- 4. Genetic evidence indicates that falcons are the juvenile form of hawks, which they come to resemble with age — 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the circling flight of vultures?
- 1. It exploits rising warm air to survey extensive areas for carrion — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It is employed to dry the plumage — no support
- 3. It is a preparation for an attack upon living persons — no support
- 4. It is a ritual performed before rain — 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 · wrong ✗
Ascertain the principal consequence of the decline of vultures in India.
- 1. The countryside became cleaner than before, carcasses being removed more swiftly by rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cattle ceased to require any medicine — no support
- 3. Carcasses remained unconsumed and the numbers of rats and stray dogs increased — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Lions assumed the role of the vultures — 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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