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title: Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 187 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 11 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

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**Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 187 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/).

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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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«Jerry from Tom and Jerry is like 80 years old, mice live forever lol» What is right?

- **1.** Real house mice live only a few years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Mice live exactly eighty years — score 1
- **3.** Right, mice can live for many centuries — score 1
- **4.** Mice never get old — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1, line 19: «House mice live in and around buildings and mainly eat seeds, grain and crumbs; the cartoon idea that mice love cheese above everything is not true.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2). Against it: the same doer «house mice» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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«grandad got his parrot when he was a kid, it's still alive, impossible» What is right?

- **1.** Parrots never get old — no support
- **2.** Right, parrots only live for about two years — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** It must be a different parrot — score 3
- **4.** Big parrots can live over sixty years — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 187, line 13: «Big parrots such as macaws and cockatoos can live over sixty years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «live» (+2). Against it: the same doer «big parrots» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«Jonathan hatched around 1832, it's 2026 now, about how old»

- **1.** About 94 years — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** About 194 years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** About 294 years — no support
- **4.** About 32 years — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«3 cicadas buzzing and 2 mice, how many legs»

- **1.** 30 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 26 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 24 — no support
- **4.** 20 — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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«loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right?

- **1.** Right, nothing is louder — no support
- **2.** Fish make no sound at all — no support
- **3.** The sperm whale makes the loudest sound of any animal — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** The tiny house mouse is the loudest, squeaking in the walls — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 175, line 4: «Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat on the top floor and riding back down before sunrise: it is the biggest journey animals ma…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2). Against it: the same doer «biggest journey animals» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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In SpongeBob, Mr Krabs pinches with his claws. Which real crustacean stuns fish with a bang from its claw?

- **1.** The pistol shrimp — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** The krill — no support
- **3.** The lobster at dinner — no support
- **4.** The hermit crab — no support

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**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 187, line 1: «The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no longer than your finger that snaps its claw…», 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 thing acted on «lion» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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«the immortal jellyfish can't ever die» What is right?

- **1.** It can turn young again, but most are eaten — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** It is a robot — no support
- **3.** It dies after one day — no support
- **4.** Right, nothing in the whole sea can ever kill it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 187, line 10: «The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+5); the same thing acted on «most» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What would happen if a farmer counted the rings on a bristlecone stump?

- **1.** He could tell roughly how many years it grew — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nothing, trees have no rings — no support
- **3.** He would learn how tall it was when it was cut — no support
- **4.** He would learn its colour — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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«a fish that lives 8 weeks?? that's shorter than summer holidays» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, the coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks — **✓ the right answer** · score -6
- **2.** No fish lives for less than a year, not even the tiniest — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** It is a mayfly, not a fish — score 3
- **4.** Fish live forever — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 169, line 3: «Under the ice swim some of the oldest animals on Earth: bowhead whales that may live over two hundred years and Greenland sharks that may live about four hundr…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5); the same property (+3). The right option, 1, scored -6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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«cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding»

- **1.** Underground for thirteen or seventeen years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** In the clouds — no support
- **3.** Inside trees as seeds waiting for the spring rain — no support
- **4.** In other countries — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Which is usually true of animal lives?

- **1.** Small animals always live longest — no support
- **2.** Big animals always die first — no support
- **3.** All animals live the same time — no support
- **4.** Small, fast-living animals live short lives and big ones longer, with exceptions — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 110, line 14: «Many zoo animals live longer than wild ones thanks to food, medicine and safety from predators, but some, like elephants and orcas, have often lived shorter li…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same thing acted on «shorter lives» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the animal which produces the most intense sound known in the animal kingdom.

- **1.** The sperm whale — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The African lion — no support
- **3.** The cicada — no support
- **4.** The howler monkey — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Ascertain the method by which the age of the clam known as Ming was determined.

- **1.** The examination of its teeth — score 4
- **2.** The enumeration of annual growth rings upon its shell — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Its weight in comparison with younger clams — no support
- **4.** Records maintained by fishermen — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 187, line 3: «Scientists find these ages by counting rings, like the rings in a tree stump or on a clam's shell, one ring for each year of growth.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «count» (+3); the same thing acted on «rings» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the immortal jellyfish?

- **1.** It is capable of reverting to a juvenile polyp when injured or aged — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12
- **2.** It transforms into a fish upon maturity — score 7
- **3.** It survives for one day only — score 7
- **4.** It is immune to all predators — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 187, line 10: «The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though…», 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 action «turn back» (+3); the same doer «immortal jellyfish» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the lifespan of small mammals.

- **1.** All survive for several centuries — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Most live only a few years, although the naked mole-rat exceeds thirty — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** All small mammals live precisely ten years — no support
- **4.** The house mouse is the longest-lived of rodents — 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/e4/)

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