--- title: Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 15 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 11 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/) [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/) / 15 # Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops **Tests:** 4 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 15 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/). 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Zoe at the zoo says look at that monkey, pointing at a gorilla. What should you tell her? - **1.** It is an ape, not a monkey: no tail — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13 - **2.** It is a kind of baboon — no support - **3.** She is right, gorillas are the biggest monkeys — score 13 - **4.** It is a monkey because it has hands — score 13 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 13, tied with another option at 13 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 17: «Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans are apes, not monkeys: apes have no tail; gibbons, the acrobats of Asian forests, are smaller apes with no tail t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «gorillas» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «apes» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} In a cartoon, a monkey from Africa hangs by its tail eating a banana. Name the two mistakes. - **1.** African monkeys have no tails and eat only meat — score 10 - **2.** Monkeys never climb trees, and they never eat any kind of fruit at all — no support - **3.** No African monkey can hang by its tail, and wild monkeys never ate sweet shop bananas — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 - **4.** Nothing is wrong with that picture — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 12, against 10 for the next best. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hang» (+4); the same doer «spider monkey» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} A spider monkey hangs on with its tail and both feet and picks fruit with both hands. How many grippers does it have in all? - **1.** 2 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 6 — no support - **3.** 5 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** 4 — 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} 3 howler monkeys, 2 baboons. how many tails lol - **1.** 5 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 10 — no support - **3.** 3 — no support - **4.** 0 — 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} a baboon's at the car window at the safari park, should i give it my sandwich - **1.** Only if it says please — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, but only bread — no support - **3.** No, keep the windows shut, they grab food and can bite — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, they are tame and gentle, and they love sandwiches — 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} What would happen to a young capuchin that never watched the older monkeys crack nuts? - **1.** It would invent a better tool at once — no support - **2.** It would probably never learn to use the stones — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It would know exactly how to do it from the day it was born — no support - **4.** It would crack the nuts with its teeth — **← Mova's choice** · score 12 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 15, line 11: «Bearded capuchins in Brazil crack hard palm nuts on a flat rock with a heavy stone, and the young take years to learn it by watching older monkeys.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «crack» (+4); the same doer «bearded capuchins» (+4); the same thing acted on «hard palm nuts» (+4). 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Why could a pygmy marmoset live in a tree full of big monkeys without fighting them for food? - **1.** It eats only the biggest fruit first — score 3 - **2.** It eats gum and sap from holes it gnaws, food big monkeys cannot use — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** It frightens the big monkeys away with its loud, high screams — score 4 - **4.** It eats the big monkeys' leftovers only — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 16: «The pygmy marmoset from the Amazon is the smallest monkey, about 100 grams; it gnaws holes in bark to lap up gum and sap, and fathers and older brothers and si…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «gnaw» (+3); the same doer «marmoset» (+3); the same thing acted on «holes» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Two baboons sit picking through each other's fur. My mate says they are just eating fleas. Is he right? - **1.** Yes, it is only a snack, and they stop as soon as the fleas are gone — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, they are counting their babies — no support - **3.** Only partly: grooming cleans the fur but mainly builds friendships and calms them — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** No, they are fighting quietly — 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Which nose belongs to a monkey from Peru, in South America? - **1.** A long floppy drooping nose — no support - **2.** A red nose with blue ridges — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** A flat nose with nostrils pointing sideways — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A narrow nose with nostrils pointing down, like an African monkey's — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 4: «The Lion King opens with every animal bowing on Pride Rock; real herds keep well away from lions, Rafiki's mandrill-like face belongs to a rainforest monkey, a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «belong» (+5); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} A proboscis monkey falls out of a tree into a river. What happens next? - **1.** It sinks to the bottom, because no monkey can swim at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** It swims away, it is a great swimmer with partly webbed feet — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** It floats on its big nose — score 4 - **4.** It waits for its troop to fish it out — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 13: «Male proboscis monkeys of Borneo have a long floppy nose that makes their calls louder; they swim well with partly webbed feet and jump into rivers from trees.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «swim» (+2); the same doer «monkeys» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring. How many ears are poking out? - **1.** 32 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 16 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** 24 — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the principal distinction between monkeys and apes. - **1.** Apes are invariably smaller than monkeys and possess longer tails — score 6 - **2.** Apes inhabit only the Americas — no support - **3.** Monkeys possess hands, whereas apes possess hooves — score 2 - **4.** Apes possess no tail, whereas most monkeys possess one — **← 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, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 17: «Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans are apes, not monkeys: apes have no tail; gibbons, the acrobats of Asian forests, are smaller apes with no tail t…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «apes» (+4); the same thing acted on «tail» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the prehensile tail? - **1.** It is characteristic of the monkeys of Africa — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** It is characteristic of the great apes — score 4 - **3.** It is possessed by every species of monkey in Africa, Asia and the Americas — no support - **4.** It is confined to certain monkeys of Central and South America — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 2, line 18: «Gibbons are small apes with very long arms and no tail; they swing arm over arm through the canopy, which is called brachiation; they are reported to reach abo…», 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 «arms» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Ascertain the reason for which a zoological garden in England withdrew bananas from the diet of its monkeys. - **1.** The high sugar content of cultivated bananas impaired their teeth and digestion — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The cost of procurement became excessive — no support - **3.** The monkeys declined to consume them in any quantity, preferring the food of the visitors — no support - **4.** Bananas were found to be poisonous to all primates — 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the vocalisations of howler monkeys. - **1.** They are emitted solely for the purpose of attracting rain — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They are produced exclusively at midnight — no support - **3.** They are inaudible beyond the tree occupied by the troop, being no louder than a whisper — no support - **4.** They may be heard at a distance of approximately five kilometres — **✓ 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/e4/) - ← previous: [14. 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