The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 86 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 ✗

In Madagascar the cartoon, King Julien rules the lemurs. What would you fix?

1. Real lemurs live in New York — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Real ring-tailed lemur groups are led by females — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Real lemurs are led by the youngest male — no support
4. Nothing, lemurs always have a king who wears a crown of leaves — 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 ✗

«5 spider monkeys hanging off one branch, how many arms and tails is that»

1. 25 arms and 10 tails — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 10 arms and no tails — no support
3. 10 arms and 5 tails — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 20 arms and 5 tails — 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 ✗

A tamarin mum has twins, and her neighbour has twins too. How many babies are there?

1. 2 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 6 — no support
3. 3 — 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 4 · right ✓

«lemur's just a monkey from Madagascar, same thing» What is right?

1. Lemurs are an older branch of primates, not monkeys — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yes, all primates are monkeys, so lemurs are monkeys too — no support
3. Lemurs are baby monkeys that grow up — no support
4. Lemurs are a kind of cat — 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 ✗

Rafiki in The Lion King looks like a mandrill crossed with a baboon. What is true about real mandrills?

1. They live in Madagascar with lemurs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Males have bright blue and red faces that show rank — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. They are white all over with pink faces, like a snow monkey — no support
4. They carry a stick and do magic — 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 · right ✓

«chuck the monkey my crisps, he's starving look» What is right?

1. No, crisps are full of salt and fat and make monkeys ill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Yes, monkeys love crisps and need the salt to stay healthy — score 4
3. Only if you give him a drink as well — score 2
4. Yes, but only salty ones — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 86, line 13: «Visitors' crisps, bread and sweets, full of salt, fat and sugar, make zoo monkeys ill, because they need a careful diet of leaves, vegetables, insects and pell…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «crisps» (+3); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but their forest kept being cut down?

1. There would be nowhere safe in the wild to return them — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. They would quickly learn to live without trees, on the ground — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Nothing, zoo tamarins never need the wild — no support
4. The zoos would run out of space at once — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 19, line 17: «A liger has a lion father and a tiger mother; ligers are bred only in zoos and parks, because lions and tigers live in different places in the wild, and ligers…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

Why would an African monkey never hang by its tail like a spider monkey?

1. African monkeys only live on the ground — score 2
2. African monkeys are too heavy for trees — score 2
3. No African or Asian monkey has a gripping tail — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. African monkeys have no tails at all — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 3: «Some New World monkeys have a fifth hand: a gripping tail with a bare, ridged tip like a fingerprint, so a spider monkey can hang by its tail alone and pick fr…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «fifth hand» (+5); the same doer «world monkeys» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · right ✓

A cartoon monkey slips on a banana skin and flies across the room. What did scientists really find?

1. Monkeys slip on them every day in zoos — score 8
2. Banana skins are not slippery at all — score 0
3. The skin has a slippery gel, but monkeys peel bananas neatly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16
4. Bananas grow already peeled — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 16, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 86, line 4: «Old cartoons love a monkey slipping on a banana skin, but real monkeys peel bananas neatly and nobody has seen one slip; the joke is for people.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «peel» (+4); the same doer «real monkeys» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «bananas» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · wrong ✗

A friend says only apes and people use tools. What would you say?

1. Monkeys use tools but only in cartoons — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Right, no monkey has ever used a tool — score 1
3. Only birds and people use tools — score 1
4. Capuchins crack nuts with stones, so monkeys use tools too — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 16, line 3: «Apes use tools and know themselves: a chimp fishes termites out of a mound with a grass stem, an orangutan weaves a fresh leafy bed every night, and chimps in…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «tools» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-4). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · wrong ✗

3 ring-tailed lemurs and 2 sifakas sunbathe. how many legs and tails, quick

1. 10 legs and 5 tails — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 15 legs and 5 tails — no support
3. 20 legs and 5 tails — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 20 legs and 10 tails — 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 12 · wrong ✗

«why's that howler so loud, he's only small» What is right?

1. He has a microphone hidden in the tree, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Small animals are always the loudest — no support
3. He is much bigger than he looks — no support
4. A hollow bone in his throat makes the sound echo and grow — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the location to which the lemurs are confined in the wild.

1. The rainforests of South America — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The island of Madagascar — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The whole of continental Africa — no support
4. The whole Indian subcontinent — 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 ✓

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the social organisation of the ring-tailed lemur?

1. Each lemur lives in solitude — score 7
2. Groups are governed by a single hereditary male ruler and his sons — no support
3. Groups are led by the youngest male — no support
4. Groups are led by females, who feed first and win most disputes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 86, line 7: «In ring-tailed lemur groups the females lead, eat first and win most disputes, and many kinds of lemur are among the most endangered primates.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «win» (+2); the same doer «females» (+2); the same thing acted on «most disputes» (+1). · 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 prehensile tail.

1. It occurs only in the lemurs of Madagascar — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It occurs in all monkeys without exception — no support
3. It occurs in some American monkeys, but in no African or Asian monkey — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It occurs only in the great apes — 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 ✗

It is given that approximately two hundred golden lion tamarins remained in the wild during the 1970s. Determine the principal reason for their subsequent recovery.

1. The relocation of the entire population to the forests of Africa — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The provision of human food by tourists — no support
3. The cessation of all scientific study — no support
4. Breeding in zoos and the return of animals to protected forest — ✓ 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

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