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title: Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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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# Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru

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The 15 questions of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 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/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t1/) — An old story tells of a hunter who found an anaconda as long as a bus, about 12 metres. What would a scientist say? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t2/) — In a cartoon a snake wraps a hero and you hear his bones crack like twigs. What is true for anacondas? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t3/) — «they say a tiny fish swims up into you if you wee in the Amazon» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t4/) — A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs. How many caimans probably? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t5/) — A capybara family of 5 grazes while one caiman lies on the same bank. How many legs on the bank altogether? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t6/) — What would happen if the black caimans came back to a river where they had been hunted? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t7/) — «red touches yellow, that snake's harmless, I'll pick it up» What is the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t8/) — An electric eel leaps out at a hand. Why jump instead of staying in the water? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t9/) — «why's that big frog eating a mouse, frogs eat flies» What is right? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t10/) — Smoke rises where forest is being cleared. Which is a likely result? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/t11/) — A giant armadillo moves out of its burrow. Who might move in? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/e1/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the maximum length of the green anaconda. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which the electric eel may leap from the water against a threatening animal. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the reports of the candiru attacking human beings? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/e4/) — Ascertain the consequence observed upon the killing by hunters of the majority of black caimans. — wrong ✗ · exam

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