--- title: More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads an… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 154 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 12 tests right, exam 3 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/) [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/) / 154 # More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats **Tests:** 7 of 12 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 13 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 154 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/). 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/). ### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1} Tom falls off the roof, lands on his feet and walks off whistling. What is true for real cats? - **1.** Cats can fall from any height at all without getting hurt in the slightest — score 3 - **2.** Cats cannot twist in the air — score 4 - **3.** Cats always land on their heads — score 6 - **4.** They do twist to land on their feet, but high falls can still badly hurt them — **← 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 154, line 13: «Cats twist in the air with a righting reflex to land on their feet, but they can still be badly hurt in falls, so high open windows are a danger to them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+5); the same property (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} A cartoon camel unscrews its hump and pours water for a thirsty traveller. What is right? - **1.** Correct, but only in two-humped camels, which store twice as much water — score 4 - **2.** The hump holds fat; a camel copes by drinking a lot at once and losing very little water — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** The hump holds milk — no support - **4.** Correct, humps are water tanks — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 5: «At the zoo a camel kneels with its humps wobbling, and many people think the humps are water tanks; they are actually stores of fat, and a dromedary has one hu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «water tanks» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «humps» (+1). 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Two camels: one with one hump, one with two. How many humps altogether? - **1.** 2 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 1 — no support - **3.** 4 — no support - **4.** 3 — **✓ 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Three bulls run at a matador. How many horns and how many tails? - **1.** 12 horns and 3 tails — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 3 horns and 6 tails — no support - **3.** 6 horns and 3 tails — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** 6 horns and 6 tails — 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t5} «Mia touched a toad, she's gonna get warts lol» What is right? - **1.** Yes, unless she kisses the toad straight away to break the spell — no support - **2.** Yes, warts within a week — no support - **3.** Only if it was a green toad — no support - **4.** Warts come from a virus between people, not toads, but she should wash her hands — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 10: «Touching a toad does not give you warts, which are caused by a human virus, but toads have a bitter poison behind their eyes, so wash your hands.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wash» (+5); the same thing acted on «hands» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} «found a baby bird on the grass, I touched it, now its mum'll dump it» What is right? - **1.** Yes, birds hate human smell — score 2 - **2.** Yes, so take it home — no support - **3.** Its parents will not abandon it; a feathered fledgling is best left alone with them nearby — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Yes, so put it in a box with some bread and keep it in your room — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 93, line 6: «Walk-through aviaries let birds fly freely, which keeps them healthier and more natural, and double doors stop a bird slipping out when someone enters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «birds» (+3); the same action «keep» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7} «cut a worm in half, now I got two pets» What is right? - **1.** No, at best the front half survives and regrows a tail; usually the back half dies — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** Yes, worms do it on purpose — no support - **3.** Yes, and both halves grow new heads and go on living as two worms — score 3 - **4.** Yes, two worms for one — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 12: «Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the front part survives and regrows a tail, but the back part usually dies.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «regrow» (+5); the same thing acted on «tail» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8} In a cartoon a chameleon sits on a tartan blanket and turns tartan. What is true? - **1.** Chameleons never change colour — score 6 - **2.** Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, warmth and signals and cannot copy patterns like that — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** Chameleons only change colour on blankets and cushions, never on trees — score 9 - **4.** Chameleons copy any pattern exactly — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 30, line 5: «And cartoon chameleons turn into tartan or vanish against any background; real chameleons change colour mostly to show their mood and control their temperature…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+5); the same doer «real chameleons» (+3); the same thing acted on «colour» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t9} «every bee dies when it stings, so they only sting when they're really scared» What is the best correction? - **1.** Only honeybee workers usually die; bumblebees and wasps can sting again — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** No bee ever dies after stinging — score 3 - **3.** Only wasps die after stinging, because they leave their whole sting behind — score 8 - **4.** Correct for all bees and wasps — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 36, line 14: «Only female bees and wasps sting; a honeybee's barbed sting stays in human skin and the bee dies, while a wasp's smooth sting slides out, so it can sting many…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sting» (+5); the same doer «wasp» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10} A cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door. What should you really leave out? - **1.** Water and meaty cat or dog food — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Bread soaked in milk — no support - **3.** Chocolate biscuits — no support - **4.** Milk, but warm — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 17: «Hedgehogs should not be given milk, which can make them ill; leave out water and meaty cat or dog food instead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave out» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11} «owls are the cleverest birds, they've got the big wise face and the glasses» What is right? - **1.** Yes, real owls need glasses — no support - **2.** Owls are the least clever of all animals, which is why they only come out at night — score 5 - **3.** Their big faces are mostly eyes and ears; crows and parrots do better in puzzles — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **4.** Yes, owls win every bird puzzle test — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 14: «Owls are good hunters but not cleverer than other birds; an owl's big face is mostly eyes and ears for hunting, and crows, ravens and parrots do much better in…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «eyes» (+3); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «big face» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} A scientist waves a still red cape and a moving blue cape at a bull. Which will the bull most likely charge? - **1.** Both at the same moment — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Neither, bulls never charge — score 2 - **3.** The still bright red cape — score 5 - **4.** The moving blue cape — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 154, line 3: «The trick is to ask what the animal really sees, stores or does: a bull sees red poorly and charges at the moving cape, and a camel's hump is fat, not a water…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «charge» (+3); the same doer «bull» (+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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the response of bulls to the red cape of the matador. - **1.** The bull is provoked exclusively by the colour red — score 3 - **2.** The bull is provoked by the hat of the matador — no support - **3.** The bull is incapable of perceiving the cape at all, being entirely blind in daylight — no support - **4.** The bull is provoked by the movement of the cape and not by its colour — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 5: «Bulls are not angered by red; cattle see red poorly and charge at the cape because it moves, and in tests they charged moving capes of any colour.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «capes» (+4); the same action «move» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the substance principally stored within the hump of the camel. - **1.** Fat, drawn upon when food is scarce — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Milk, reserved for the nourishment of the young — no support - **3.** Air, which renders the animal buoyant — no support - **4.** Water, released when the animal is thirsty — 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the defence of the porcupine? - **1.** Quills are expelled only upon the animal sneezing — no support - **2.** Quills contain a venom that is sprayed upon the attacker — no support - **3.** Barbed quills detach upon contact and lodge in the attacker, a warning being given beforehand — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Quills are discharged at a distance in the manner of arrows — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 154, line 1: «Cartoons love animal tricks: a bull goes mad at a red cape, a camel unscrews its hump and pours out water, a porcupine fires quills like arrows, and Tom the ca…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fire» (+3); the same thing acted on «quills» (+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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} It is given that a person has handled a toad. Ascertain the consequence consistent with established fact. - **1.** The person will acquire warts within a week — no support - **2.** The person will not thereby acquire warts, though washing of the hands is advisable — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** The person will acquire immunity to all warts — no support - **4.** The person will acquire warts only upon the face and hands, and only after some months — 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 154, line 10: «Toads do not give people warts; warts are caused by a virus passed between people, but some toads have poison glands, so wash your hands after touching one.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wash» (+5); the same thing acted on «hands» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/e4/) - ← previous: [153. Myth check: are bats blind?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/153-are-bats-blind/) - next →: [155. The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/155-the-amazon-river/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)