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title: Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs? — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 150 «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?

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The 15 questions of lesson 150 «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t1/) — «lemmings are dumb, they just follow each other off cliffs, everyone knows that» What is right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t2/) — In the old game «Lemmings», little lemmings walk off ledges one after another. Why is the game not proof? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t3/) — «4 lemmings and 1 stoat in the burrow, wait no, 5 lemmings, how many legs» — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t4/) — What would happen to snowy owls in a year when lemming numbers crash? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t5/) — «snow's freezing, how come lemmings don't freeze to death all winter» How do they survive? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t6/) — A warm spell brings rain, then a hard frost turns the snow into an icy crust. What happens to lemmings under it? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t7/) — «lemmings swimming across the river, they're just chucking themselves in» What is right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t8/) — Why would an Arctic fox mother have over ten cubs one year and only a few the next? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t9/) — A person who copies whatever the crowd does is called «a lemming». Is that fair to real lemmings? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t10/) — «a squeaky lemming just stood up and squared up to me, they're cowards though?» What is right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/t11/) — In a cartoon a lemming falls out of a storm cloud. Where might that idea come from? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/e1/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the alleged leaping of lemmings from cliffs. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/e2/) — Identify the principal cause of the periodic collapse in the numbers of lemmings. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the winter habitat of the lemming? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/e4/) — Ascertain the effect upon lemmings of rain falling upon snow and subsequently freezing. — right ✓ · exam

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