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title: Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 221 «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city 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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# Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs

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The 15 questions of lesson 221 «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city 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/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t1/) — «pigeon in the station keeps nodding its head like it's listening to music lol» What is really going on? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t2/) — Count them: 6 pigeons stand on a ledge. How many legs and how many wings? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t3/) — «my mate reckons pigeons are just flying rats, they're gross» What is the best answer? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t4/) — What would happen if you took a homing pigeon 300 kilometres away and let it go? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t5/) — In a cartoon a pigeon tips its head right back to gulp water like a hen. What is true? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t6/) — «never seen a baby pigeon in my life, do they even exist» What is right? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t7/) — A girl feeds the same pigeons every day; a boy chases them. Next week, what might the pigeons do? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t8/) — «loads of crumbs for all the pigeons, the more the better yeah?» What is best? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t9/) — Count them: a pair of pigeons has 2 chicks in the nest. How many beaks and how many feet altogether? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t10/) — What would a pigeon most likely use as a nest site if a town had no buildings? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/t11/) — «heard a pigeon saved soldiers in a war, that's made up surely» What is right? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which the head of the pigeon appears to move rhythmically during locomotion. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the ancestry of the urban pigeon? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the drinking behaviour of the pigeon. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/e4/) — Ascertain the reason for which the young of the pigeon are seldom observed by the public. — wrong ✗ · exam

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