The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day

Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 334 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 ✓

«ladybird's got 7 spots so it's 7 years old innit» What is right?

1. Yes, and it loses one of its spots each winter — score -1
2. No, the spots show its kind, not its age — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. No, it is 14 years old, two years for each spot — score 2
4. Yes, one new spot grows every single year — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 48, line 14: «A ladybird's spots show its kind, not its age: a seven-spot ladybird always has about 7 spots, and the bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+4); the same thing acted on «kind» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

«gross, the rose is covered in green bugs, just spray the lot» What could a gardener do instead?

1. Leave the ladybirds to eat the aphids — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
2. Pour milk on the rose — no support
3. Pull up the whole rose bush and plant a new one — no support
4. Spray the ladybirds too — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 334, line 7: «Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one ladybird is reported to eat thousands of aphids in its life, so gardeners welcome them as free…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «aphids» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

What would happen to the aphids if all the ladybirds in a garden disappeared?

1. Their numbers would grow even faster — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They would slowly turn into ladybirds — no support
3. Nothing would change in the garden at all — no support
4. They would all die out without ladybirds — 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 ✓

«the ants are milking the aphids like cows, lol that's not real» What is right?

1. It is real: ants drink their honeydew and guard them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Ants and aphids never meet — no support
3. Not real, ants only ever eat aphids and never look after them — score 2
4. Aphids milk the ants instead — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 334, line 3: «Then come the hunters: a seven-spot ladybird and its spiky grey larva munch through them, while ants walk up the stem to stroke the aphids and drink their swee…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «drink» (+3); the same doer «ants» (+2); the same thing acted on «sweet honeydew» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why would ants from many nests all fly at the same time?

1. Because one ant tells all the others by phone — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Because the nests are flooded — score 0
3. Because they are chasing swifts — score 0
4. So young queens and males from different nests can meet — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 182, line 10: «Saharan silver ants come out at the hottest time of day to find animals killed by the heat, while the lizards that hunt them hide from it; silver hairs reflect…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «saharan silver ants» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

«mum won't mow the lawn, says it's for the bees, she's just lazy» What is true?

1. Long grass scares bees away — no support
2. Bees eat the grass itself, so long grass is simply more food for them — score 3
3. Bees prefer short grass — no support
4. Longer grass lets clover and daisies flower, which feed bees — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 334, line 11: «Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom and feed bees and butterflies, and «No Mow May» asks people to skip mowing for a month.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feed» (+3); the same receiver «bees» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

«grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp faster?

1. They are shouting for water — score -1
2. Heat makes their legs longer — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Grasshoppers chirp faster when it is warmer — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. They chirp faster when it is cold — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 334, line 12: «Grasshoppers chirp by rubbing their back legs against their wings, crickets rub their wings together, and the warmer it is, the faster they chirp.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «back legs» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

In a cartoon a cuckoo spits froth onto the plants. What really makes cuckoo spit?

1. A young froghopper hiding in froth it makes itself — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A real cuckoo, just as in the cartoon — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Raindrops beaten by the wind — no support
4. A frog that lives on the plant — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 56, line 5: «Cartoons show plants eating soil with roots like spoons, and carnivorous plants swallowing people; real plants make their own food from light, air and water, a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

How could a swift sleep while flying?

1. It never sleeps at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It lands on a soft cloud and sleeps there for a few hours — no support
3. It sleeps in short naps high in the air while gliding — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It sleeps standing on a roof — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Count them: 3 grasshoppers hop onto the path and 1 ladybird lands on a leaf. How many legs are there?

1. 24 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 32 — no support
3. 18 — no support
4. 16 — 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 ✗

«no point leaving water out for birds, they just get it from puddles» What is right on a hot, dry day?

1. Fresh water helps birds drink and bathe when puddles dry up — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Water makes birds too heavy to fly — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Birds never drink water at all, they get all they need from their food — score 3
4. Birds only bathe in the sea — 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 10, line 15: «After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, higher and brown with soil, and the Amazon carries more water than the next several biggest r…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which the population of aphids upon a plant may increase greatly within a few days during the summer.

1. Each aphid deposits several million eggs upon a single occasion — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Aphids divide into two separate individuals at intervals of one minute — no support
3. Female aphids produce live young without the participation of a father, each young already bearing young of its own — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Aphids migrate to the plant in great numbers from distant regions each night — 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 relationship between ants and aphids.

1. Ants consume aphids exclusively as prey — score 0
2. The two insects avoid all contact with one another — no support
3. Aphids supply ants with water in exchange for shelter within the nest during the winter months — no support
4. Ants consume the honeydew secreted by aphids and in return protect them from ladybirds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 334, line 9: «Aphids give out a sweet drop called honeydew, ants drink it, and in return ants guard the aphids from ladybirds, which people call «milking» the aphids.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «return» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the spots upon a seven-spot ladybird?

1. They correspond exactly to the age of the insect in years — score 3
2. They are acquired from the flowers upon which it rests — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. They indicate the species of the ladybird and bear no relation to its age — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. They increase in number with each aphid consumed — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 48, line 14: «A ladybird's spots show its kind, not its age: a seven-spot ladybird always has about 7 spots, and the bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «spot ladybird» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the origin of the substance commonly designated «cuckoo spit».

1. It is the saliva of the cuckoo deposited upon plants — score 1
2. It is a froth produced by the young of the froghopper for concealment and moisture — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. It is a residue left upon stems by passing snails — no support
4. It is a secretion of the plant in response to heat — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 334, line 13: «Cuckoo spit is froth made by a young froghopper insect to hide from enemies and stay damp; it has nothing to do with cuckoos and is named because it appears wh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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