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title: How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and ow… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 302 «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» 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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# How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths

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The 15 questions of lesson 302 «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» 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/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t1/) — Count them: a pellet holds the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews. How many animals did the owl eat? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t2/) — Count them: two owls blink. How many eyelids do they have altogether? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t3/) — Count them: you have 7 neck bones. How many more does an owl have? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t4/) — In Winnie-the-Pooh, Owl is the clever one who knows everything, yet spells his own name «Wol». What is true about real owls? — right ✓ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t5/) — «bruv, owls can spin their heads right round like in the cartoon» What is right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t6/) — «gross, we're poking owl poo in science??» What is the best answer? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t7/) — What would happen if an owl had flight feathers as stiff and smooth as a pigeon's? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t8/) — Grandad says an owl calling at night means bad luck is coming. What is true? — right ✓ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t9/) — You see a short-eared owl hunting over a field at noon. What is most likely? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t10/) — Why might an owl bob and sway its head when it looks at you? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/t11/) — What would happen to an owl's brain if the arteries in its neck were pinched when it turned? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/e1/) — Identify the principal function of the comb-like leading edge and soft fringes of the flight feathers of owls. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the rotation of the head of an owl. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an owl pellet? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/e4/) — Ascertain the reason for which an owl obtains sufficient water without frequent drinking. — wrong ✗ · exam

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