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title: Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turt… — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 402 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 5 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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# Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 402 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/).

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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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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«the Mock Turtle is a real animal, it's in a book innit» What is true?

- **1.** No: Carroll made it up from mock turtle soup, which was made from a calf's head — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Yes: it lived in the cold sea near England until about 1900, when fishermen caught the last one — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** No: it is just another name for a tortoise — no support
- **4.** Yes: it is a rare kind of turtle with the head of a calf — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 11: «The leatherback is the biggest turtle alive: about 2 m long and over 500 kg, with a tough leathery skin instead of hard plates; it eats jellyfish, which are mo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «cold seas» (+4); the same doer «turtle» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Why does the Mock Turtle in the pictures have hooves and a calf's head?

- **1.** Because the pretend soup was made from a calf's head — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** Because Carroll did not know what a turtle looks like — score 2
- **3.** Because he is half cow, like the Gryphon is half lion — no support
- **4.** Because real turtles have hooves on their back legs — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 3: «Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: people who could not afford soup made from real sea turtles made a pretend one from a calf's head. So Carroll inven…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «soup» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«found a lobster on the beach, gonna teach it to dance like in Alice lol» What is the real problem?

- **1.** Lobsters need a partner of the same colour — no support
- **2.** Lobsters live under water and soon die out of it — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Lobsters only dance at night when no one looks — no support
- **4.** Lobsters can only dance with whiting, not people — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 5: «Lobsters live on the sea floor, walk on thin legs and have ten legs in all, counting the two big claws; they cannot live long out of water, so a dance on the b…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lobsters» (+1); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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A lobster in a fish shop is bright red. What can you tell?

- **1.** It is very angry — no support
- **2.** It is very young — no support
- **3.** It is a rare red kind — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** It has already been cooked — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 367, line 10: «Most lobsters are dark greenish brown, and a blue one is often said to be about 1 in 2 million; all lobsters turn red when cooked because heat frees the red pi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «blue one» (+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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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A boy says a whiting swims around with its tail in its mouth. What do you tell him?

- **1.** Live whiting swim normally; the tail-in-mouth was how cooks served them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** No, whiting have no tails, only fins — score 3
- **3.** Yes, that is how all the fish in the cod family swim, so they can steer and stay together — score 1
- **4.** Yes, but only when they are dancing the quadrille — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 7: «A whiting is a real silvery fish of the cod family from the North Sea; Victorian cooks served it fried with its tail fixed in its mouth, and that is where the…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «swim» (+5); the same doer «live whiting» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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The Mock Turtle cries all through his story. Which real animal really does have «tears»?

- **1.** A sea turtle, which gets rid of salt that way — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** A whiting, which cries out of its gills — no support
- **3.** A lobster, which cries when it is cooked — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** A tortoise, which cries when it is cold — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 230, line 7: «Sperm whales hunt squid more than a kilometre down in total darkness with clicks that are among the loudest sounds any animal makes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «animal» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Is a porpoise a fish?

- **1.** Yes, a kind of whiting with a round nose — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, a mammal like a dolphin that breathes air — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, a fish with no scales that lives in rivers — no support
- **4.** No, a kind of turtle without a shell — 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Your little sister says the Gryphon is real because she saw one carved on an old building. What is right?

- **1.** They were dinosaurs that died out with the others — no support
- **2.** They are a kind of eagle still found in the mountains — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Griffins are legends; people carved them, but none ever lived — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** They lived in Greece until the Romans hunted them all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 323, line 9: «The Steller's sea eagle, with a giant orange beak, is one of the heaviest eagles at up to about 9 kilograms; it nests in Russia's far east and many winter in J…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «one» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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The Caterpillar in the book gets cross when Alice says it will turn into a butterfly one day. Who is right about real caterpillars?

- **1.** The Caterpillar: caterpillars stay caterpillars all their lives — score 3
- **2.** Neither: caterpillars become worms when they grow up — score 1
- **3.** Alice: it will become a chrysalis, then a butterfly or moth — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Alice, but only if it eats a magic mushroom first — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 4: «Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they bec…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «mushroom» (+2); the same doer «alice» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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«Alice ate a mushroom and grew huge, wanna try that with the ones by the path» What would you say?

- **1.** Only if they are the red ones with white spots, because those are the magic ones in all the books — score 3
- **2.** Yes, but only eat the right side, like Alice did — no support
- **3.** No: no mushroom changes your size, and wild ones can poison you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Yes, if you cook them first they are always safe — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 4: «Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they bec…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «change» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «size» (+1). 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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What would happen if a whiting tried to breathe on the beach like a porpoise does at the surface?

- **1.** It could not, because fish take air from water with gills — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** It would hold its breath like a turtle — score 6
- **3.** It would grow lungs after a few minutes — no support
- **4.** It would breathe through its blowhole easily — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 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 400, line 3: «Bodies are built for their lives: an owl swings one toe back to grip struggling prey, a dolphin sleeps with half its brain so it can keep coming up to breathe,…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+6); 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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★★★ In the Lobster Quadrille each dancer has a lobster partner. If 6 sea creatures each take one lobster and the Gryphon says, «the lobsters are to be thrown out to sea and you swim after them», how many animals are swimming in the sea at the end, counting the lobsters?

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** 6 — score 4
- **3.** 18 — score 4
- **4.** 7 — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 190, line 10: «The megamouth shark, which lives deep and eats plankton (tiny animals and plants drifting in the sea), was discovered in 1976 off Hawaii, and fewer than three…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «sea» (+6); the same doer «tiny animals» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/t12/)

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

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Identify the source from which mock turtle soup was customarily prepared.

- **1.** The head of a calf, in imitation of genuine turtle soup — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The flesh of a rare species of sea turtle — no support
- **3.** A preparation of seaweed and shellfish — no support
- **4.** The shells of turtles boiled for many hours — 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/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 colour of a living lobster?

- **1.** It is white, acquiring colour only from its diet — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** It is invariably red, both when alive upon the sea floor and when cooked for the table — score 9
- **3.** It is ordinarily dark greenish brown or bluish, reddening only when cooked — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** It is green when young and red in old age — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 342, line 4: «Shop eggs never hatch, because most come from hens kept without a cockerel, so there is no chick inside. And the shell colour, white, brown or even blue, only…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «shell colour» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the creature known as the Gryphon.

- **1.** It is an extinct bird whose bones are displayed in museums — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is a variety of large eagle native to Greece — no support
- **3.** It is a legendary beast, part eagle and part lion, which never existed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is a species of lion still found in remote mountains — 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/e3/)

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

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Ascertain the correct sequence of development of a butterfly.

- **1.** Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Caterpillar, egg, adult butterfly, chrysalis — no support
- **3.** Egg, chrysalis, caterpillar, adult butterfly — no support
- **4.** Egg, adult butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis — 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/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/e4/)

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