--- title: The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 101 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/) / 101 # The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 101 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/). ### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1} 3 giraffes and 4 zebras in the paddock, how many legs altogether? - **1.** 24 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 32 — no support - **3.** 21 — no support - **4.** 28 — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t1/) ### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2} «zebras are white horses with black stripes painted on, innit» What is right? - **1.** Yes, the stripes are just dye in the hair — no support - **2.** No, zebras are grey under all the hair — no support - **3.** Yes, and the stripes wash right off in heavy rain — no support - **4.** No, the skin is dark, so it is black with white stripes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 9: «Zebra skin is dark under the hair, so scientists usually describe a zebra as black with white stripes, and every zebra has its own stripe pattern, which helps…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «zebra skin» (+4); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t2/) ### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3} In the film Madagascar the zebra and the giraffe are best mates with a lion. What is real? - **1.** On the savanna zebras and giraffes are prey and watch for lions — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Zebras and lions always share one waterhole calmly — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Giraffes are too tall for lions to notice — no support - **4.** Lions only eat grass, so they are safe friends for everyone — score 2 **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 46, line 4: «At each step most of the energy is used up for moving, breathing and keeping warm, so there are always far more zebras than lions, and a cartoon savanna with a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «more zebras» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t3/) ### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4} My mate says giraffes have loads more neck bones than us. Right? - **1.** Yes, a giraffe has about fifty neck bones — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** No, both have seven, but a giraffe's are very long — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yes, it has one extra neck bone for each metre of its neck — no support - **4.** No, a giraffe has only three neck bones — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 45, line 15: «A giraffe has 7 neck bones like almost all mammals, each up to about 25 cm long; sloths and manatees are among the few mammals with a different number.», 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) (+3); the same thing acted on «7 neck bones» (+2); the same doer «giraffe» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t4/) ### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5} «gonna grind up some rhino horn, it's medicine» What is true? - **1.** It is safe medicine because horns grow back — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** It is a strong medicine that doctors use for fevers and pain — score 6 - **3.** It is keratin like your nails and cures nothing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It works only if the rhino was a white one — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 101, line 11: «Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and fingernails; it is no medicine, but people who wrongly think it is pay poachers who kill rhinos for i…», 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) (+3); the same thing acted on «medicine» (+2); the same doer «horn» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t5/) ### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6} What would happen if the zoo put the lions in with the zebras? - **1.** The zebras would chase the lions away — score -1 - **2.** The lions would hunt them and the zebras would panic — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** They would share the grass peacefully — no support - **4.** Nothing, because zoo lions quickly forget how to hunt at all — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 81, line 16: «A lion needs about 5 to 7 kilograms of meat a day, which would be hundreds of mice, so big cats hunt zebras, antelopes and other large animals.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «zebras» (+2); the same action «hunt» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t6/) ### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7} «the white rhino's not even white, someone's having us on» Why the name? - **1.** Babies are born white and go grey — no support - **2.** It turns white in the winter like an Arctic fox — score 5 - **3.** It may come from a word meaning «wide», for its mouth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** It rolls in white mud every day — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 10: «The white rhino has a wide, square mouth for grazing grass and the black rhino a pointed, hooked lip for picking leaves; both are grey, and «white» may come fr…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «word» (+4); the same action «come» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} Why is a waterhole a dangerous place for a giraffe? - **1.** It must bend down awkwardly and cannot run quickly — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Its neck sinks into the mud — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Crocodiles climb up trees to catch giraffes as they drink — score 3 - **4.** The water is too cold for its long legs — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 16: «A baby giraffe is born by dropping about 2 metres to the ground, which is normal and safe for it, and it can stand within about an hour.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} A herd of antelopes suddenly springs straight up for no reason. What is going on? - **1.** They are dancing because they are happy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They are pronking, showing a predator they are fit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They are trying to reach the high leaves on the trees — no support - **4.** They are jumping over invisible fences — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t9/) ### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10} How many ears do 5 giraffes and 2 rhinos have altogether? - **1.** 7 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 12 — no support - **3.** 10 — no support - **4.** 14 — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t10/) ### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11} Why are scientists freezing cells of the northern white rhino? - **1.** To keep the cells safe as special food for zoo animals — no support - **2.** To turn them into black rhinos — score 5 - **3.** To make rhino horn for medicine — score 5 - **4.** To try to make new calves after the last male died — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 12: «Poaching and war killed nearly all northern white rhinos; the last male, Sudan, died in 2018, so only two females are left, and scientists are trying to make n…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «scientists» (+4); the same action «try» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t11/) ### Test 12 · wrong ✗ {#t12} «a baby giraffe falls 2 metres when it's born?! poor thing» What is true? - **1.** No, giraffes are born lying in a nest — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** No, giraffes lay eggs in tall trees — score 2 - **3.** Yes, and most babies are hurt by it — no support - **4.** Yes, and the drop is normal and safe for it — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 15: «A giraffe is born with a drop of about 1.5 to 2 metres to the ground, is already about 1.8 metres tall, and usually stands within about an hour; the drop helps…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «giraffe» (+5); the same action «bear» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the neck of the giraffe? - **1.** It comprises some seventy vertebrae of ordinary length — score 6 - **2.** It consists of a single elongated bone — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** It comprises twenty vertebrae, considerably more than are found in the neck of man — score 5 - **4.** It comprises seven vertebrae, each of exceptional length, as in the human neck — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 73, line 10: «Giraffes with slightly longer necks reached more food and had more young; the old idea that giraffes passed on necks they stretched in life is wrong, and a gir…», 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 doer «giraffe neck» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the principal reason for which zebras at rest are frequently observed to face in divergent directions. - **1.** That predators approaching from any direction may be detected — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** That their stripes may present a single continuous pattern — no support - **3.** That each individual may defend a separate area of grass — no support - **4.** That the wind may be prevented from disturbing the mane — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the substance of which rhinoceros horn is composed. - **1.** It is composed of ivory, like the tusk of the elephant, and is employed in modern medicine — no support - **2.** It is composed of keratin, the substance of hair and fingernails, and possesses no medicinal property — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** It is composed of solid bone and is renewed annually — no support - **4.** It is composed of a woody material of considerable medicinal value — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 11: «Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and fingernails; it is no medicine, but people who wrongly think it is pay poachers who kill rhinos for i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «rhino horn» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} State the principal significance of the stiff-legged vertical leap termed pronking, as exhibited by springboks. - **1.** It enables the animal to reach the foliage of tall trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It constitutes a dance performed solely in fine weather — no support - **3.** It signals to a predator that the animal is fit and not worth pursuing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It serves to dislodge parasites from the coat — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/e4/) - ← previous: [100. 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