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title: Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 134 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 11 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls

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

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Lesson 134 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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/).

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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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«4 gulls screaming mine mine and 2 pelicans on the pier, how many legs»

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 24 — no support
- **3.** 6 — no support
- **4.** 8 — no support

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**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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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«Bruce said fish are friends not food so sharks are veggie, right» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, sharks eat only seaweed and the odd jellyfish now — score 1
- **2.** Yes, they gave up meat years ago — score 1
- **3.** No, great whites hunt fish, seals and eat dead whales — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** No, they eat only people — score 2

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**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 108, line 12: «Giant otters from the Amazon grow up to about 1.8 metres long, live in noisy families that hunt fish together and defend their river from caimans and jaguars,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fish» (+3); the same action «hunt» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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«saw Jaws, gonna never swim again coz sharks hunt people» What is right?

- **1.** Every beach has a shark waiting just past the waves — no support
- **2.** Sharks hunt people every day, just like in the film — score 2
- **3.** Sharks very rarely bite people, and most bites are mistakes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Sharks only eat children — score 2

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**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 134, line 11: «Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «bite» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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In Shark Tale, a shark called Lenny refuses to eat fish and becomes a vegetarian. What is true of real great whites?

- **1.** They need meat, such as fat seals, for energy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Great whites eat only shrimp — no support
- **3.** Many great whites eat only plants — no support
- **4.** Great whites can switch to plants when they want — no support

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**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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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«drop of blood and the shark's gonna go mental» What is right?

- **1.** No, sharks cannot smell blood at all — score 5
- **2.** Yes, a single drop drives every shark in the whole sea crazy in a second — score 2
- **3.** Sharks smell blood very well, but going wild at one drop is exaggerated — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** No, sharks smell with their fins — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 9: «Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «smell» (+3); the same doer «sharks» (+3); the same property (+2); the same thing acted on «blood» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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«shark broke a tooth on a boat lol, toothless now» What is right?

- **1.** No, shark teeth never break — no support
- **2.** Yes, it will now eat only soup — score 1
- **3.** A new tooth soon moves forward from the rows behind — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Yes, sharks grow only one set of teeth in their whole lives — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 41, line 11: «A shark has several rows of teeth that move forward like a conveyor belt, and it can lose and regrow thousands of teeth in its life, so fossil shark teeth are…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «move forward» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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«the light in the deep sea, is it a torch» What makes an anglerfish's lure glow?

- **1.** A tiny electric battery — score 3
- **2.** Lava from under the sea — no support
- **3.** Glowing bacteria living inside it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Light stored from the sun — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 134, line 12: «Deep-sea anglerfish live in the dark deep sea; the glowing lure on the female's head is lit by bacteria living inside it, and in many kinds the males are tiny.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «bacteria» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What would happen to a small fish that swims up to an anglerfish's light?

- **1.** It would be warmed by the glowing light and then swim off safely home — no support
- **2.** It would likely be grabbed, with inward teeth stopping its escape — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** It would make friends with the anglerfish — score 3
- **4.** It would be shown the way home — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 11, line 14: «A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots out its S-shaped neck like a spring to grab a fish or frog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fish» (+3); the same action «grab» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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«that pelican's pouch is full of water, does it drink all of it» What does it really do?

- **1.** Gives it to the gulls — no support
- **2.** Keeps it in the pouch all day — no support
- **3.** Drinks all of it every time, as pelicans are always thirsty — no support
- **4.** Tips its head to drain the water, then swallows the fish — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 134, line 14: «Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drain» (+2); the same thing acted on «water» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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«hammerhead's head is a weird design, total fail» Why is it actually useful?

- **1.** It uses it only to look scary — no support
- **2.** Eyes and electric sensors spread wide help it find and pin down prey — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** It is no use at all — no support
- **4.** It uses it to knock over small fishing boats and then steal all the fish — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 118, line 11: «A real cat would be badly hurt by a small part of what happens to Tom; animators squash and stretch bodies because it looks lively and funny, a rule they learn…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «happen» (+4); the same doer «small part» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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«we're on the pier with chips, gull's staring at me» What is true?

- **1.** Gulls are scared of people with chips — no support
- **2.** Gulls are more likely to grab food you are holding or looking at — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** Gulls eat only fish, so they will leave your chips alone — no support
- **4.** Gulls cannot see what you hold — no support

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**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 134, line 15: «Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food from each other and from people, and are more likely to grab food that a person is holding or…», 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); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diet of the great white shark.

- **1.** It subsists entirely upon marine vegetation — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It subsists principally upon human beings — no support
- **3.** It consumes fish, seals and the carcasses of whales — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It subsists solely upon plankton — no support

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**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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the source of the light emitted by the lure of the deep-sea anglerfish.

- **1.** An organ which stores sunlight during the day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Luminous bacteria resident within the lure — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Electric discharge from the muscles of the fish — no support
- **4.** Light reflected from the surface of the sea — no support

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**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/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relative mortality as between sharks and human beings?

- **1.** Sharks kill many millions of persons annually, whereas human beings kill very few sharks — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Human beings kill many millions of sharks annually, whereas sharks kill a very small number of persons — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** The numbers killed on each side are approximately equal — score 3
- **4.** Neither party is ever responsible for the death of the other — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 134, line 11: «Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+3); the same thing acted on «many millions» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the manner in which a pelican separates fish from the water collected in its pouch.

- **1.** The fish are released and the water retained for drinking — score 2
- **2.** The head is tilted so that the water drains away before the fish are swallowed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** The water is swallowed and the fish are subsequently regurgitated — score 5
- **4.** The water is retained in the pouch for the provision of the young — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 134, line 14: «Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «heads» (+3); the same action «tip» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/e4/)

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