--- title: The nocturnal house: night animals by red light — how Mova does on the tests · Biology description: Lesson 95 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 0 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/) [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/) / 95 # The nocturnal house: night animals by red light **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 95 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/). 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1} 3 armadillo mums each have their usual 4 babies. how many babies in total - **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** 9 — no support - **3.** 7 — no support - **4.** 16 — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} 5 bats hanging upside down, then 2 fly off. how many wings still hanging there - **1.** 14 — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** 6 — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** 4 — no support - **4.** 10 — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Ella watched a video of a slow loris tickled with its arms up and said it was so cute. What is the truth? - **1.** It is waving hello to the camera — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is laughing because it really likes being tickled — no support - **3.** It is frightened, and the trade harms wild lorises — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It is stretching after a nap — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} In old Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons, a big bat sucks blood from people's necks. What would you fix? - **1.** Real vampire bats are as big as a person — no support - **2.** Vampire bats live only in the castles of Transylvania in Europe — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** All bats suck human blood at night — score 4 - **4.** Only three small kinds of bat lap a little blood, mostly from animals — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 95, line 12: «Only three of more than 1,400 kinds of bat drink blood; they live in Central and South America, make a tiny cut on sleeping animals and lap the blood.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+3); the same doer «bats» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} "blind as a bat" my dad says. is he right - **1.** Yes, all bats are fully blind from the day they are born — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Yes, but only fruit bats — no support - **3.** No, bats can see, and many also use echoes — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** No, bats see only in daylight — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 69, line 5: «The ear also keeps your balance, which is why the world spins after a roundabout; and many favourite «facts», like carrots giving night vision or bats being bl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «bats» (+1). 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} A cat's eyes shine green in the car lights. Why? - **1.** Its eyes make their own light, like a glow-worm does — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** A shiny layer at the back of the eye reflects the light — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Its eyes are full of fire — no support - **4.** It is angry at the car — no support **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 92, line 4: «In the dark deep-sea gallery, fish glow with their own light, because far down where sunlight never reaches, making light is the only way to be seen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «light» (+2); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all through the zoo day? - **1.** The night animals would sleep while visitors came — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The animals would all turn into day animals overnight — no support - **3.** Nothing, night animals are always awake — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** The animals would glow in the bright light — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 95, line 1: «The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's daytime and bright at night when the zoo is closed, so the night animals are awake when yo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «night animals» (+2); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Woodpeckers do not live on Madagascar. Who does their job of finding grubs in wood there? - **1.** The aye-aye — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** The armadillo — score 10 - **3.** The slow loris — score 10 - **4.** The kiwi bird — score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 35, line 15: «Woodpeckers hammer wood up to about 20 times a second to find grubs, dig nests and drum to claim a territory.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+6); the same thing acted on «grubs» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Why could the kiwi live on the ground at night in New Zealand? - **1.** It is poisonous to every hunter — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It runs far too fast for any hunter to catch it — no support - **3.** There were no ground mammals there to hunt it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It could always fly away — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Why do night animals so often have big eyes? - **1.** Big eyes help them smell food much better in the dark — score 2 - **2.** Big eyes keep them warm — score 0 - **3.** Big eyes make them look scary — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Big eyes let in as much dim light as possible — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 3: «Arctic animals are built like thermos flasks: thick fur and fat, small ears, short legs and snouts, and tricks like sleeping under a bushy tail or living in tu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «arctic animals» (+2); the same action «build» (+1). 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11} A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk. What is that called? - **1.** Crepuscular — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nocturnal — no support - **3.** Migratory — no support - **4.** Hibernating — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} How many fingers does an aye-aye have on each hand, counting its long thin one? - **1.** One — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Three — no support - **3.** Four — no support - **4.** Five — **✓ the right answer** · 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the principal reason for which nocturnal exhibits are illuminated with dim red light. - **1.** Numerous nocturnal species perceive red light poorly — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Red light induces sleep in the animals — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Red light repels insects from the enclosure and its visitors — no support - **4.** Red light raises the temperature of the room — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 17: «Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence, to find food, lure prey and signal; the anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its m…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the vampire bat? - **1.** It is the largest of all bats — no support - **2.** It is one of three species that lap small quantities of blood — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It is entirely blind and navigates by smell alone — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** It sucks the blood of human beings throughout Europe by night — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 69, line 5: «The ear also keeps your balance, which is why the world spins after a roundabout; and many favourite «facts», like carrots giving night vision or bats being bl…», 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 (+2); the same doer «bats» (+1); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the slow loris raising its arms when touched. - **1.** The posture denotes enjoyment of the contact — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The posture is a request for food — no support - **3.** The posture denotes fear and preparation for defence — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The posture denotes sleepiness — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} It is given that two nine-banded armadillos produce litters of the customary size. Ascertain the aggregate number of offspring. - **1.** Two — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Eight — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Eighteen — no support - **4.** Four — 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/e4/) - ← previous: [94. Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/) - next →: [96. The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/)