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title: Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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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# Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth

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The 15 questions of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 98 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/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t1/) — Jack: "My dog's 3, so he's 21 in dog years, simple maths." Vet: "That's a myth, actually." What's closer? — right ✓ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t2/) — Ruby: "My hamster's 2. Two isn't old!" What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t3/) — Ben's grandad: "This tortoise was my dad's, and it'll see me out, I reckon." ("See me out" means outlive me.) Is that possible? — right ✓ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t4/) — Lily: "Cat's 10. Is that, like, old?" Mum: "Kind of middle-aged." Why? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t5/) — Kai: "Mayfly lives one day? That's grim, bro." ("Grim" means sad.) What's he missing? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t6/) — Mia: "He grew 6 cm and I only grew 4, it's well unfair!" What's the best answer? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t7/) — Gran, from Newcastle: "You'll be taller than me by 13, pet." ("Pet" means love.) Holly is 9 and 140 cm; Gran is 160 cm. At about 5 cm a year, is Gran right? — right ✓ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t8/) — Ethan's mum: "Double digits now, our kid!" ("Our kid" means my lad, in the North.) How old is Ethan? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t9/) — Which would you expect: a tiny shrew's heart beating faster or slower than a horse's? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t10/) — Max: "When I'm 18, I can do whatever I want, fr fr." ("Fr fr" means for real.) Dad: "You'll still have to be on time for work." Who's right? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/t11/) — A cartoon dog says, "I'm 7 in dog years because I'm 1!" Fix the joke. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the rule whereby the age of a dog is multiplied by seven? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/e2/) — Given that a cat's first year corresponds to fifteen human years, its second to a total of twenty-four, and each subsequent year to four, ascertain the human equivalent of a cat aged ten years. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/e3/) — A child of 140 centimetres grows at a rate of five centimetres per annum. Determine the number of years required to attain 160 centimetres. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heart rates of animals. — wrong ✗ · exam

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