Birds and baby animals
Tests: 5 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 10 of the myths 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 ✗
"omg a baby bird on the path, I'm gonna pick it up and take it home and raise it!!" Best answer?
- 1. Throw it gently up into the air so it learns to fly at once — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Put it in the bin so the cat can't get it — no support
- 3. Yes, take it home and feed it milk — no support
- 4. Usually leave it; its parents are likely watching nearby — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Leo's aunt bans rice at the wedding to save the birds. What would really happen to birds eating the rice?
- 1. They would all fall fast asleep on the church roof — no support
- 2. Nothing special, they eat grains all the time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. They would forget how to fly for a whole week or more — no support
- 4. They would swell up inside and pop like balloons — 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 10, line 7: «Uncooked rice does not make birds explode; birds eat seeds and grains all the time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «birds» (+3); the same action «eat» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Your friend says, "I touched a chick by accident, now it's doomed!" What do you tell her?
- 1. Wash the chick with soap to remove your smell — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Its parents won't smell you; but leave it now so they can come back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, it's doomed forever — no support
- 4. Paint it so the mum doesn't notice — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 6: «Most birds have a poor sense of smell and won't abandon a chick because a person touched it; still, fledglings on the ground are usually fine and their parents…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «smell» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
In a cartoon a tiny hummingbird sits on a goose's back, flying south. What's the real story?
- 1. That's exactly how they migrate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hummingbirds make their long journeys by themselves — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Geese carry them only over the sea, then they fly alone — no support
- 4. Hummingbirds walk south instead — 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 · ★ · right ✓
On a walk by the river a swan hisses and spreads its wings near its nest. What should you do?
- 1. Go closer to have a look at the eggs — no support
- 2. Back away calmly and give it space — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Stroke its long neck gently to calm it — no support
- 4. Throw a few stones at it to scare it off — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 6: «Colds are caused by viruses that spread from people, through coughs, sneezes and hands; being cold or having wet hair does not by itself give you a cold.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «give» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
"Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online." Which question cracks it?
- 1. Has anyone actually tested it? — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. How many legs does a duck have? — no support
- 3. Is it on more than one website? — no support
- 4. Why are ducks yellow in cartoons? — 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 ✗
A pigeon poos on your head in town. Your mum laughs: "That's good luck!" What's the wise response?
- 1. Report the pigeon to the police — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Take a photo as proof of luck — no support
- 3. Laugh along; it's a cheering-up saying, not worth arguing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Prove to her with lots of science that luck isn't real at all — 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 8 · ★ · right ✓
Your cousin bets you a sweet that eagles can spot a rabbit from far away, expecting you to say it's a myth. What's the smart move?
- 1. Check first; it's actually true, so he wins the sweet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Say it's a myth and refuse to look it up anywhere, whatever happens — no support
- 3. Agree only if he has a photo — no support
- 4. Say eagles have no eyes — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2, line 17: «When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «check» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Two penguin pairs at the zoo: one stays together for years, the other swaps partners. What does that show?
- 1. Penguins differ; "all penguins mate for life" is too simple — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Penguins only pair up in zoos — no support
- 3. The zoo mixed up their names — no support
- 4. One of the penguins is broken — 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 do people keep the "don't touch the chick" rule even though the smell reason is wrong?
- 1. Because chicks really are poisonous — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Because birds can read fingerprints — no support
- 3. Leaving it is still best, because its parents are nearby — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Because the law says that a person's smell matters to birds — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the response of most birds to the handling of their young by humans?
- 1. They do not abandon the young, their sense of smell being poor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They invariably abandon any young that has been handled by a human — no support
- 3. They detect the human scent at great distances — no support
- 4. They abandon the young only if it is handled twice — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 ✗
It is given that uncooked rice is thrown at a wedding and subsequently eaten by birds. Select the response consistent with the established facts.
- 1. No harm of the kind alleged results, birds habitually eating grain — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. The birds are rendered unable to fly — no support
- 3. Only rice that has been cooked is consumed by birds — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. The birds' stomachs rupture owing to the swelling of the rice — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 2: «Bird myths are some of the most charming: hummingbirds hitching rides on geese, mother birds shoving their babies out to teach them to fly, wedding rice making…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wedding rice» (+3); the same action «make» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the means by which young birds acquire the capacity of flight.
- 1. Instruction delivered while still within the egg — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Being carried aloft and released by the father — no support
- 3. Instinct and practice, with encouragement from the parents — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Being pushed from the nest by the mother on a fixed day of the year — 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 finding of the investigation conducted concerning the echo of a duck's quack.
- 1. The investigation could not be completed — no support
- 2. The quack was found to produce no echo whatsoever in any room — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Only the quacks of male ducks were found to echo — no support
- 4. The quack was found to produce an echo, albeit a faint one — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 10, line 12: «A duck's quack does echo; it is just quiet and hard to hear, and scientists tested it in an echo chamber at the University of Salford.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «quack» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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