--- title: Kindness to wild animals — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 226 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/) [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/) / 226 # Kindness to wild animals **Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 226 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/). 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} «found a baby deer all alone in the field, poor thing, let's take it home!!» What is right? - **1.** Yes, it has been abandoned for ever — no support - **2.** Yes, and give it cow's milk from a bottle every hour — no support - **3.** No, its mother is probably feeding nearby; leave it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** No, deer babies live alone all their lives — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 226, line 6: «A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while its mother feeds nearby, so it should be left alone.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same thing acted on «baby deer» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Count them: 4 children each catch 2 frogs and put them in jars. How many frogs need to go back to the pond? - **1.** 2 — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** 4 — score 6 - **3.** 6 — score 6 - **4.** 8 — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 32, line 8: «Frogs breathe partly through their thin, moist skin and drink through their skin, so they need damp places and are harmed quickly by pollution.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+4); the same doer «frogs» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} «just poking the ants nest with a stick lol, they're only ants» What is the best answer? - **1.** Leave them; even small creatures matter and feel threatened — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Fine, ants feel nothing at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Poke harder so they all come out to play with you in the sun — score 5 - **4.** Fine, it helps the ants get exercise — no support **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 182, line 10: «Saharan silver ants come out at the hottest time of day to find animals killed by the heat, while the lizards that hunt them hide from it; silver hairs reflect…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «saharan silver ants» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} In a famous cartoon a fawn's mother is lost, so people think every fawn alone needs rescue. What is true in real life? - **1.** Fawns live with rabbits, not with their mothers, until they are grown — score 2 - **2.** Every fawn alone has lost its mother for ever — score 4 - **3.** Fawns are always left alone at birth for ever — score 4 - **4.** A fawn alone is usually hidden while its mother feeds nearby — **← 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 226, line 6: «A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while its mother feeds nearby, so it should be left alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feed» (+2); the same doer «mother» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} «the fishing line's tangled, just chuck it in the bushes» What could happen? - **1.** Birds like swans could get tangled and hurt — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** The fish would use it to make their nests — no support - **3.** Nothing, because birds never touch fishing line — no support - **4.** The line would grow into a new plant — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 226, line 9: «Fishing line left on a riverbank tangles swans, ducks and other birds and can badly hurt them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «swans» (+5); the same action «tangle» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} «hedgehog in the garden, give it a saucer of milk» What is best? - **1.** Give it nothing, because hedgehogs never drink — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Give it water; cow's milk upsets its stomach — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Give it lemonade for energy — no support - **4.** Give it milk, hedgehogs love it — 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} What would happen if a child kept a frog in a jar on a sunny windowsill? - **1.** Nothing, frogs like hot glass and lots of bright sunshine — no support - **2.** The frog would grow bigger and happier — score -1 - **3.** The frog would turn into a toad — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** The frog would get too hot and dry and could die — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 12: «Poison dart frogs warn enemies with bright colours; they get their poison from ants and mites they eat in the wild, so zoo frogs fed on fruit flies are not poi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} «bat in the house!! grab it with a towel and chuck it out?» What is safest? - **1.** Hit it with a broom — no support - **2.** Grab it in your hands and throw it — no support - **3.** Open the windows, turn off the lights and let it fly out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** Put all the lights on so that it can see the door and fly out — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 226, line 14: «If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «open» (+4); the same thing acted on «windows» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} «there's a dog chained in next door's yard all day every day, none of my business tho» What is kindest? - **1.** Tell an adult, who can contact an animal welfare charity — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Climb over and set it free — no support - **3.** Throw it food over the fence — no support - **4.** Ignore it, dogs love being alone — 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} «ok the bird's hurt, let's keep it in my room and feed it bread» - **1.** Yes, birds like living in bedrooms — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Better tell an adult to call a wildlife rescue — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Put it out on the road so it can fly — no support - **4.** Yes, bread will make it better — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 216, line 11: «Winter feeding helps small birds survive, because short days leave little time to find food and on a cold night a small bird can lose a noticeable part of its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «survive» (+2); the same doer «small birds» (+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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Count them: a summer water dish is visited by 3 blackbirds and 2 hedgehogs. How many legs came to drink? - **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** 20 — score 0 - **3.** 10 — score 0 - **4.** 14 — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 113, line 8: «Computer programs find pairs that are least related, so the population keeps many different genes and can cope with disease and change; sometimes the chosen pa…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «get along» (+5). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-5). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the appropriate course of action upon the discovery of a solitary fawn concealed in long grass. - **1.** The fawn should be conveyed to the nearest agricultural holding — no support - **2.** The fawn should be left undisturbed, since the mother is probably feeding nearby — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** The fawn should be removed to a domestic dwelling and fed with cow's milk — no support - **4.** The observer should remain beside the fawn until the arrival of the mother, however long — no support **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 143, line 6: «A mother deer hides her fawn for hours while she feeds nearby; the fawn has very little smell and stays still, and a fawn found alone should usually be left.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same thing acted on «fawn» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the hazard to wildlife presented by discarded fishing line? - **1.** The growth of bankside vegetation is thereby prevented — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Fish are permanently deterred from the watercourse in which the line lies — no support - **3.** Birds such as swans and ducks may become entangled and sustain injury — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The water is contaminated by dyes released from the line — 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established guidance in respect of a bat which has entered a dwelling. - **1.** The windows should be closed so that the bat may be retained — no support - **2.** The bat should be captured in the bare hands and released — no support - **3.** The windows should be opened and the lights extinguished, so that the bat may depart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** All lights should be illuminated so that the bat may perceive the exit and depart — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 226, line 14: «If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «open» (+4); the same thing acted on «windows» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Ascertain the reason for which a glass jar is unsuitable as accommodation for a wild frog. - **1.** Frogs are unable to perceive the walls of a glass vessel — no support - **2.** The jar is suitable provided that a lid is fitted — no support - **3.** The jar is excessively cold and damp for the animal — no support - **4.** The jar is excessively hot, dry and confined for the animal — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 226, line 15: «Wild animals belong in the wild; a jar is too hot, dry and small for a frog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jar» (+2); the same property (+1); 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/e4/) - ← previous: [225. Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/) - next →: [227. The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/227-the-vet/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)