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title: Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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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# Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

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The 15 questions of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t1/) — Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant? — right ✓ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t2/) — Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. How many ears is that? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t3/) — Why might a herd led by a young matriarch do worse in a drought? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t4/) — My uncle says elephants can grow a new tusk if one is cut off. Right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t5/) — What would you expect if poachers kill mostly elephants with big tusks for many years? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t6/) — An elephant always uses its left tusk to dig, and that tusk is worn shorter. What is this like? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t7/) — get out of the way!! the elephant's got its ears spread and its head shaking — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t8/) — The saying is "an elephant never forgets". How true is it? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t9/) — Your friend says the oldest elephant leads because she's the biggest. What's the better reason? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t10/) — A one-year-old calf is surrounded by its mother and two aunts. Why do the aunts help? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t11/) — Which animals besides elephants have passed the mirror test? — right ✓ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which an elephant herd is led by its eldest female. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the thermoregulatory function of the elephant's auricles? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/e3/) — It is given that tusks are composed of ivory. Determine which anatomical category they belong to. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/e4/) — State the approximate duration of gestation in the elephant, being the longest among terrestrial animals. — right ✓ · exam

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