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title: Nuts, beans, seeds and spices — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 348 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 12 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Nuts, beans, seeds and spices

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 348 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/).

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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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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In Ice Age, Scrat the squirrel risks everything for one acorn. Which nut-like treat in your lunchbox actually grows underground?

- **1.** The peanut — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** The walnut — no support
- **3.** The acorn — no support
- **4.** The cashew — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 348, line 1: «Nuts, beans and many spices are seeds or other plant parts that plants pack with food or guard with strong tastes. A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cou…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Count them: 4 pea pods with 7 peas in each. How many peas?

- **1.** 47 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 21 — no support
- **3.** 28 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 11 — 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Count them: a crocus has 3 red threads. How many threads would one hundred flowers give?

- **1.** 3000 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 300 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 100 — no support
- **4.** 30 — 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«only nuts left in my lunchbox, Sam's allergic but it's my food, tough» What is the kind thing to do?

- **1.** Eat them right next to Sam to prove that nuts are fine — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Share them with Sam in secret — score 1
- **3.** Throw them at Sam's table — score -1
- **4.** Keep to the class nut rule so Sam stays safe — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 163, line 16: «Golden bamboo lemurs eat young bamboo that contains cyanide, a poison; their bodies cope with a poison that would harm other animals, and eating a food no one…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+1); the same thing acted on «food» (+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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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In the old cartoon, Popeye's spinach gives him huge muscles. Which plant foods really give plenty of protein to people who eat no meat?

- **1.** Lettuce and cucumber — score 4
- **2.** Sugar and jam — score 4
- **3.** Apples and grapes — score 4
- **4.** Beans, lentils and nuts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 343, line 16: «Beans, lentils, nuts, tofu and eggs give plenty of protein to people who do not eat meat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «plenty» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «beans» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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«gonna nibble these dried kidney beans from the bag, they're like crisps» What is the best answer?

- **1.** No, they are too sweet — no support
- **2.** Fine, they are just the same as crisps, only healthier — no support
- **3.** Fine, but only five — no support
- **4.** No, raw kidney beans can make you sick; they must be boiled hard — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**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 348, line 10: «Raw or undercooked kidney beans contain a natural substance that makes people sick, proper boiling destroys it, and tinned beans are already cooked and safe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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In a sunflower's spirals, which number comes after 21 and 34?

- **1.** 45 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 68 — no support
- **3.** 41 — no support
- **4.** 55 — **✓ the right answer** · 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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«why'd anyone pay rent in pepper, that's mental» Why did it make sense in the Middle Ages?

- **1.** Landlords wanted to sneeze — no support
- **2.** Pepper came from far away and was very valuable — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** Money had not been invented — no support
- **4.** Pepper was the only food people had left to eat in winter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 348, line 14: «Black, white and green peppercorns are the same berry of a climbing vine from India, and pepper was once so valuable it was used to pay rent; a peppercorn rent…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «pepper» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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A farmer grows wheat in the same field every year and the wheat gets weaker. What could help?

- **1.** Painting the soil black — no support
- **2.** Growing wheat twice a year — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Planting the wheat deeper — no support
- **4.** Growing beans in that field one year, to enrich the soil with nitrogen — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 3: «Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunshine, the cheese came from milk from a cow that ate grass, so you are at the end of food cha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wheat» (+3); the same action «grow» (+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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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«saffron's crazy dear, what a rip-off» Why is it really so expensive?

- **1.** It grows only on the Moon — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is made from gold dust — no support
- **3.** It is just dyed sugar — no support
- **4.** Each flower gives only three threads, picked by hand, and huge numbers are needed — **✓ the right answer** · 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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«coconuts grow in the sea, that's why they're on beaches» What is the true story?

- **1.** Coconuts grow on palms, but their husks let them float and sprout on far beaches — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **2.** They are laid by turtles — score 0
- **3.** Yes, they grow on the sea bed and the waves wash them up onto the sand — no support
- **4.** They are dropped by seagulls — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 10, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 348, line 11: «A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant pushes out of it; its thick husk lets it float for months and sprout on far beaches.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+5); the same doer «thick husk» (+3); the same thing acted on «coconut» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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In a cartoon, a squirrel cracks a fresh cashew in its shell and munches it. What would happen in real life?

- **1.** The squirrel would grow a cashew tree inside — score 2
- **2.** Nothing, cashew shells are sweet — no support
- **3.** The oily shell would burn its mouth and skin — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** The cashew would explode — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 348, line 3: «Some seeds protect themselves. Raw kidney beans hold a substance that makes people sick until they are boiled hard, and the shell of a cashew holds an oil that…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+4); the same thing acted on «skin» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the location at which the pod of the peanut develops.

- **1.** At the summit of a tall tree — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Upon the surface of standing water — no support
- **3.** Beneath the surface of the soil, the flower stalk having bent downward — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Within the flower at the apex of the plant — 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/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the contribution of Gregor Mendel?

- **1.** He invented the first method of freezing peas — score 0
- **2.** He demonstrated that peas grow beneath the soil — score 0
- **3.** He discovered the bacteria that inhabit the roots of beans — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** By counting the features of peas on thousands of plants he discovered how features pass from parents to offspring — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 348, line 7: «A pea pod usually holds about five to ten peas, and Gregor Mendel, a monk, counted the colours and shapes of peas on thousands of plants and discovered how fea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «discover» (+2); the same doer «gregor mendel» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/e2/)

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

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Ascertain the reason for which dried kidney beans must be boiled vigorously before consumption.

- **1.** Boiling removes their bitter shells — no support
- **2.** They would otherwise germinate within the stomach — no support
- **3.** They contain a natural substance, destroyed by proper boiling, that causes illness — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Boiling renders them red in colour — no support

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**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 348, line 10: «Raw or undercooked kidney beans contain a natural substance that makes people sick, proper boiling destroys it, and tinned beans are already cooked and safe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «destroy» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «substance» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning black, white and green peppercorns.

- **1.** All three are the berry of the same climbing vine, differing in ripeness and treatment — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** They are derived from three unrelated species of plant — no support
- **3.** White pepper is obtained from the root of the vine — no support
- **4.** Green pepper is a variety of chilli — no support

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**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 348, line 14: «Black, white and green peppercorns are the same berry of a climbing vine from India, and pepper was once so valuable it was used to pay rent; a peppercorn rent…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same thing acted on «same berry» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/e4/)

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