--- title: Wolves and dogs — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 24 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 1 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/) [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/) / 24 # Wolves and dogs **Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 24 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/). 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} everyone knows wolves howl at the full moon, like in the cartoons yeah? - **1.** No, wolves never howl at all — score 3 - **2.** No, they point up so the howl carries, not at the moon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 - **3.** Yes, but only in winter — no support - **4.** Yes, the full moon makes them howl at it, every night of the month — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 4: «Cartoons show wolves howling at a full moon and a Big Bad Wolf hunting children; real wolves point their heads up so the howl carries kilometres to the pack, n…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+5); the same doer «howl» (+5); 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} My mate says the pack leader is the toughest alpha who beat the others. What do scientists say now? - **1.** Wild packs are mostly parents leading their own family — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Wolves have no leaders, they never meet up — no support - **3.** The leader is chosen by howling loudest — no support - **4.** Yes, the leader must fight and win a new battle every day — 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} A chihuahua and a wolf in a picture side by side. Which is true? - **1.** They are not related at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Both come from the same ancestors; the chihuahua is a bred wolf descendant — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The wolf came from the chihuahua — no support - **4.** The chihuahua came from a fox — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Count them: a pack of five wolves trots past. How many legs and how many tails? - **1.** 25 legs and 5 tails — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 20 legs and 5 tails — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** 20 legs and 10 tails — no support - **4.** 10 legs and 5 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} What would happen to the trees by Yellowstone's rivers if the wolves were taken away again? - **1.** The trees would grow faster than ever — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** The rivers would freeze over and stay frozen all year — no support - **3.** The beavers would eat the elk — score 2 - **4.** Elk would graze them more and fewer would grow — **✓ the right answer** · 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 12, line 6: «A tree grows one new ring of wood each year, light spring wood and darker summer wood; wide rings mean good years and thin rings mean hard dry years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+2); the same doer «tree» (+2). 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Why might a blue toy be a better buy for your dog than a red one? - **1.** Dogs see blue well, but red looks dull to them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** Dogs are afraid of blue things — no support - **3.** Dogs hate the smell of the red paint used on toys — no support - **4.** Red toys are too heavy for dogs — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 16: «Dogs see mostly blues and yellows because they have two kinds of colour cells instead of our three, so red and green look much alike to them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+5); the same doer «red» (+5). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} In the Big Bad Wolf story the wolf hunts people. What is real? - **1.** Wolves live in houses in the forest — score 3 - **2.** Wolves only eat grandmothers who live alone in little houses in the forest — no support - **3.** Wild wolves are usually very shy of people, and attacks are rare — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 11 - **4.** Wolves hunt people every night — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 4: «Cartoons show wolves howling at a full moon and a Big Bad Wolf hunting children; real wolves point their heads up so the howl carries kilometres to the pack, n…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wild wolves» (+5); the same property (+2); the same circumstance (+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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Why could a dog nose print work like a fingerprint? - **1.** Every dog's nose has its own unique pattern of ridges — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** All dogs have exactly the same nose — no support - **3.** Nose prints change every day — no support - **4.** Dogs leave prints only with their tails, never their noses — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} get your hands off that dog, you don't even know whose it is - **1.** Wrong, all dogs love being grabbed — no support - **2.** Wrong, strangers' dogs are always safe to touch and to grab — no support - **3.** Right, ask the owner first and let the dog sniff you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** Right, because dogs never bite anyone — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 17: «Never approach a strange dog or a wild animal, because even friendly-looking ones may bite if scared or protecting food or young; to stroke a dog, ask its owne…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2); the same thing acted on «owner» (+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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche. Which sense does it use most? - **1.** Smell — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Hearing only — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** Sight — no support - **4.** Taste — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 15: «Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+4); the same doer «dogs» (+4). 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Why is panting a good way for a dog to cool down, but not much use on a very humid day? - **1.** It works by evaporation, and wet air slows evaporation — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Humid air makes dogs' tongues smaller — no support - **3.** Dogs stop breathing on humid days — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Panting only works in winter — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 13: «Dogs hardly sweat through their skin, so they cool down by panting: water dries off the tongue and takes heat with it, which is called evaporation, and it work…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dog» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (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/24-wolves-and-dogs/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the animal from which, according to the established evidence, all domestic dogs are descended. - **1.** The red fox — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The spotted hyena — no support - **3.** The grey wolf — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The brown bear — 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the composition of a wild wolf pack? - **1.** It consists solely of adult females, the males living apart from the pack — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** It consists principally of a breeding pair and their offspring — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It consists of unrelated males contending for dominance — score 4 - **4.** It consists of several distinct species — 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 1, line 8: «European robins once followed wild boar and deer that churned up the soil; now they follow gardeners for worms, and both males and females sing in winter to de…», 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 «males» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Ascertain the principal mechanism by which a dog dissipates excess bodily heat. - **1.** Panting, whereby moisture evaporates from the tongue — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The shedding of the coat — no support - **3.** Profuse sweating across the entire skin — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** The flapping of the ears — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 13: «Dogs hardly sweat through their skin, so they cool down by panting: water dries off the tongue and takes heat with it, which is called evaporation, and it work…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sweat» (+2); the same place «skin» (+2). 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning colour vision in the domestic dog. - **1.** It perceives chiefly blues and yellows, and confuses red with green — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It perceives more colours than a human does, including red and green — no support - **3.** It perceives red more vividly than any other colour — no support - **4.** It perceives nothing but shades of grey — 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/e4/) - ← previous: [23. Bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/23-bears/) - next →: [25. Horses, zebras and donkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)