The penguin pool

Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 99 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 ✗

the 4 penguins in Madagascar, how many flippers and feet altogether

1. 12 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 4 — no support
3. 16 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 8 — 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 ✗

6 emperor dads each with an egg on their feet. how many eggs off the ice

1. 24 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 12 — no support
3. 6 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 3 — 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 · ★★ · right ✓

In a Christmas card a polar bear and a penguin share a snowy hill. Where could you really see both on one day?

1. On any iceberg in the Arctic — no support
2. In Antarctica in the middle of the long dark winter — no support
3. Only in a zoo, as they live at opposite poles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Anywhere it snows — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 99, line 8: «Polar bears live only around the North Pole and penguins almost only in the southern half of the world, so they never meet in the wild.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «polar bears» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

yo the sign says these penguins come from a warm country, thats a typo right

1. No, penguins live in deserts — score 5
2. Yes, all penguins live on ice — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Yes, people moved them there from the ice long ago — no support
4. No, some penguins live on warm coasts with cold currents — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 2: «Not every penguin lives on ice: the penguins in many zoos come from warm coasts in South America and South Africa, where cold sea currents bring plenty of fish.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same doer «penguin» (+4); the same place «ice» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓

In Madagascar, Skipper's team plans a clever escape. What is true of real zoo penguins?

1. They can unlock the zoo doors with their beaks at night — no support
2. They are curious and follow each other, but do not make plans — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. They speak to each other in words — score 0
4. They plan escapes every night — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 5: «The four penguins of Madagascar plot escapes like secret agents; real penguins do not plan, but they are curious and follow each other, which can look like tea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «penguins» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

In Happy Feet, Mumble finds his partner by singing. Which part is close to real life?

1. Penguins never call to each other — score 6
2. Emperor penguins recognise each other by their calls — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 17
3. Penguins find their partners by smell alone, never by sound — score 14
4. Penguins tap-dance to find partners — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 17, against 14 for the next best. Its support: lesson 7, line 7: «Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «recognise» (+4); the same doer «emperor penguins» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

A penguin swims over a dark sea and a seal looks up from below. Why is the penguin hard to see?

1. Its black belly hides it against the dark water below — no support
2. It swims too deep to be seen — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. It turns see-through underwater — no support
4. Its white belly blends with the bright surface — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 99, line 6: «Penguins are slow on land but fast swimmers; gentoo penguins, the fastest, can swim at about 35 km per hour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «swim» (+2); the same doer «gentoo penguins» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would happen if you drank lots of seawater?

1. You would just sneeze all the extra salt out like a penguin does — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nothing, people can drink seawater — no support
3. You would float better in the sea — no support
4. You would become thirstier and ill, as you have no salt gland — ✓ 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 9 · ★★ · right ✓

Why would pebbles be precious in Antarctica?

1. Penguins eat them for food — score 4
2. Bare stones are scarce and keep eggs out of meltwater — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. They soak up the sun and keep the nest warm like a heater — score 3
4. Penguins use them as money — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 13: «Adelie and gentoo penguins build nests of pebbles that keep eggs out of meltwater and mud; bare stones are scarce there, and they sometimes steal pebbles from…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «bare stones» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓

A scruffy penguin stands alone and will not swim. What is most likely?

1. It has forgotten how to swim after a long time on land — no support
2. It is moulting and has lost its waterproof coat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. It is angry with the keeper — no support
4. It is too full of fish — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 99, line 16: «Once a year penguins moult all their feathers in a few weeks; they cannot swim or eat then, so they fatten up beforehand and look scruffy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «moult» (+4); the same doer «year penguins» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

How could people's fishing far away affect penguins?

1. It would not affect them at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Penguins would get caught in sunshine — no support
3. Penguins would grow too fat — no support
4. Fewer fish means less food for penguin chicks — ✓ 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 principal reason for which penguins inhabiting temperate coasts are able to subsist there.

1. Cold ocean currents supply abundant fish to those coasts — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The coasts are covered throughout the year by permanent ice — no support
3. Such penguins require no nourishment — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Polar bears are absent from those regions — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 3: «The animals beat the cold by teamwork and clever bodies: emperor penguins huddle in a blizzard and take turns in the warm middle, icefish carry natural antifre…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «emperor penguins» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, 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 distribution of penguins and polar bears?

1. Both species inhabit the Arctic ice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Polar bears prey extensively upon penguins — no support
3. Both species inhabit the Antarctic ice — no support
4. Penguins are confined almost wholly to the south and polar bears to the north — ✓ 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 · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the incubation of the emperor penguin egg.

1. The father maintains it upon his feet for approximately two months without feeding — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. The parents exchange it every day — no support
3. The mother carries it within her beak throughout the long winter without feeding — no support
4. The egg is buried beneath the snow until spring — score 4

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 99, line 14: «Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg on their feet under a fold of skin for about two months of dark winter without eating, huddling and taking turns in the wa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «keep» (+2); the same doer «penguin fathers» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that a colony of nine penguins is enumerated. Ascertain the aggregate number of flippers.

1. Thirty-six — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Twenty-seven — no support
3. Eighteen — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nine — 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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