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title: Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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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# Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

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The 15 questions of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 81 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/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t1/) — Your little brother finds a chick halfway out of its egg and wants to pull the shell off. What should you say? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t2/) — In a cartoon a goose flies alone at the front for the whole trip. What really happens? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t3/) — my sister says the white bit of bird poo is calcium from eggshells. is it? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t4/) — What would happen to a duck covered in oil from a spill at sea? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t5/) — If birds had heavy jaws full of teeth like crocodiles, what problem would they have? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t6/) — A goose flies a little behind and to the side of the one in front. Why there? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t7/) — shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t8/) — What is the air pocket at the wide end of an egg for? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t9/) — In a game, birds have solid heavy bones to make them tough. Why would real flying birds be worse off? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t10/) — A barn swallow ringed in a Devon barn is found in South Africa in winter. What does this show? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/t11/) — Why do birds sing loudest at dawn? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/e1/) — Identify the principal function of the hooked barbules of a feather. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the formation of geese in flight? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/e3/) — Ascertain the role of grit retained within the avian gizzard. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/e4/) — It is given that eggs are produced by hens maintained without a cockerel. Determine the consequence. — wrong ✗ · exam

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