Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 367 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 ✓

«look, that flamingo chick's grey, it must be ill» What is right?

1. Chicks hatch grey and only turn pink after years of eating — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, all grey flamingos are sick and need a vet — no support
3. It got dirty and needs a bath — no support
4. It is a different bird, because flamingos are always born pink — 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 ✗

Why would a pale adult flamingo in a zoo be a sign that something is wrong?

1. It has been in the sun too long — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. It is about to turn into a swan, like the ugly duckling — score 1
3. Its food is probably missing the pink pigment — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It is getting too old to fly — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 367, line 2: «A flamingo is pink because of paint it eats: pigment from tiny shrimps and algae. A jay's feather is blue because of shape: crush it and the blue is gone, leav…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «flamingo» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why does a peacock feather change colour as you tilt it?

1. It has wet paint on it that slides around — no support
2. Tiny structures scatter light differently at each angle — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The bird is still alive inside the feather — no support
4. Your own eyes change colour as you move your head — ← Mova's choice · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 249, line 12: «Chameleons change colour mostly to show mood and temperature, not to match everything around them; tiny crystals in their skin change spacing, which changes th…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+5); the same thing acted on «colour» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

The Pink Panther in cartoons is a pink big cat, but no real big cat is pink. What makes a real black panther black?

1. Extra dark pigment in a leopard or jaguar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. Rolling in coal dust every day — no support
3. Eating dark berries in the forest every night — no support
4. Being an albino with no pigment — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 60, line 11: «An oak gall forms when a tiny wasp lays an egg in an oak bud and the tree grows a ball round it; for centuries people made black ink from oak galls.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

«black panthers have no spots» says a friend. What is true?

1. The spots are still there and show in bright sun or on night camera traps — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. They have stripes like tigers, hidden under the black fur — score 0
3. Right, they are completely plain black from nose to tail — no support
4. They have white spots only — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 367, line 14: «A black panther is not a separate kind of animal but a leopard (in Africa and Asia) or a jaguar (in Central and South America) with extra dark pigment, and its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

If you saw a black panther in the Amazon, what kind of big cat would it be?

1. A leopard — no support
2. An African lion — no support
3. A Bengal tiger — ← Mova's choice · score -2
4. A jaguar — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 81, line 4: «Watch the lion lick its paw and you will see your own cat at home: same rough tongue, same washing, just two hundred times heavier.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «own cat» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Count them: a boy says a ladybird with 7 spots is 7 years old. What is wrong?

1. Spots show the kind of ladybird, and an adult keeps the same spots all its life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. It should be 14 years, two spots per year — score 2
3. Nothing is wrong, each spot is a year, so it is old for a ladybird — no support
4. Ladybirds have one spot for each month — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 307, line 2: «Picture a dung beetle on an African night: head down, pushing a ball of dung bigger than itself backwards with its back legs. It climbs on top, turns round to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «dung beetle» (+2); the same action «picture» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Count them: a 2-spot and a 22-spot ladybird sit on a leaf. How many spots altogether?

1. 20 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 24 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 44 — no support
4. 4 — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why would being bright be safer than hiding for a bitter ladybird?

1. Birds learn that red and black means a nasty taste — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Bright colours keep it warm on cold days — no support
3. Birds cannot see red — no support
4. Bright colours make it fly faster than birds can chase — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 306, line 2: «Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the middle and lifts, and thin wings unfold from underneath like origami. The hard shell is really…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+1). Against it: the same doer «ladybird» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Why are albino animals more common in pets and zoos than in the wild?

1. Albinos refuse to live in the wild and walk into towns — score 3
2. In the wild they are easy to spot and see poorly, so fewer survive — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Zoos make them by painting ordinary animals white — score 2
4. Wild albinos turn dark in the sun — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 282, line 10: «The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by 1972; zoos bred a herd and released them in Oman and other lands, and it was the first animal to go from extinct in…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «wild» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «arabian oryx» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

«just caught a blue lobster mate, gonna cook it, it'll be blue on the plate» What will happen?

1. It will turn green, like a cooked crab always does — no support
2. It will stay bright blue on the plate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. It will turn white — no support
4. It will turn red, like all cooked lobsters — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 171, line 3: «A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water full of krill, then pushes the water out through comb-like plates and swallows the krill, lik…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «like plates» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why would a black coat be less useful on the open savanna than in a dark forest?

1. Savanna animals cannot see the colour black — no support
2. Black coats melt in the sun — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. On bright, open grassland a black cat would stand out — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Black fur cannot keep out the rain on the savanna — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 145, line 6: «Donkeys are not really stubborn: when something seems dangerous they stop to check instead of running, which kept wild donkeys safe on rocky ground.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+1). Against it: the same doer «coats» (-1). 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 · right ✓

Identify the source of the pink colouration of the flamingo.

1. Pigments ingested in its diet of small crustaceans and algae — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A dye applied by its parents — no support
3. The blood circulating beneath its feathers — no support
4. A pink pigment manufactured from sunlight within its feathers — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the blue colouration of most animals?

1. It arises from blue pigment which is abundant in the bodies of animals — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It arises from blue blood beneath the skin — no support
3. It arises from the consumption of blue food — no support
4. It arises from minute structures scattering light rather than from pigment — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the animal commonly designated a black panther.

1. It is a lion lacking a mane — score 0
2. It constitutes a separate species of black cat dwelling in Africa — score 2
3. It is invariably an albino animal — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. It is a leopard or jaguar possessing an excess of dark pigment — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 343, line 1: «A sausage at a barbecue is mostly minced pork, and pork is meat from a pig. Meat is the muscle of an animal that was alive and was killed for food. It is not a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «animal» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the reason for which an albino animal exhibits pink or red eyes.

1. The animal consumes red berries and the juice colours its eyes — score 2
2. The eyes are coloured by red tears — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. The eyes are perpetually inflamed — no support
4. The blood vessels are visible through the unpigmented eye — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 362, line 11: «Cutting an onion lets out a gas that stings the eye, and reflex tears wash it away; there are also everyday tears that keep eyes wet and tears when you feel sa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eyes» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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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