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title: The city as a habitat — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 14 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The city as a habitat

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**Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 8 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 14 of the biology course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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a fox in the garden looks tame, can i feed it by hand

- **1.** Yes, city foxes are tame pets that have got lost, so they like people — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, it is a wild animal; watch it but do not feed or touch it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, if you give it chocolate — no support
- **4.** Only if it wags its tail like a dog — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Leo says bats are blind and that's why they fly funny. right?

- **1.** Yes, every bat is totally blind, so it flies by bumping into things — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** No, bats see better than eagles in the dark — no support
- **3.** Yes, bats see only in daylight — no support
- **4.** No, all bats can see, and they also use echolocation — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 13: «Small bats like pipistrelles hunt insects around street lamps by echolocation, shouting and listening for echoes; bats are not blind, and one pipistrelle can e…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «bats» (+4); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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In a cartoon a rat lives in a palace kitchen and cooks food. What is true about real rats?

- **1.** They eat almost anything from bins and drains and can carry disease — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** They cannot squeeze through holes — score 1
- **3.** They are fussy and eat only cheese — no support
- **4.** They live only in deep forests far from people and never come near towns or houses — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 14, line 11: «Brown rats eat almost anything, have many babies and can squeeze through holes about the size of a coin; the saying that you are never more than 2 metres from…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «anything» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would happen to peregrines in a city if all the pigeons disappeared?

- **1.** They would stay and catch fish from the river instead — no support
- **2.** They would lose a main food and might leave — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nothing, they eat only fish — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** They would start eating bins — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 14, line 7: «Red foxes live in many cities, like London and Bristol, eating worms, rats, fruit and scraps, with dens in gardens, parks and railway banks.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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bloody gull nicked my chip again. how do i stop it

- **1.** Nothing works, gulls are faster than light — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Throw more chips so it gets full — no support
- **3.** Keep food covered and look straight at the gull, which slows it down — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Shout at it as loud as you can, because gulls are scared of human voices — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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A crow drops a nut on the road and waits by the traffic lights. What is it doing?

- **1.** Trying to stop the traffic — no support
- **2.** Using cars to crack the nut and collecting the pieces at the red light — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Planting a nut in a crack so that a new tree grows — no support
- **4.** Throwing rubbish away — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 15: «Carrion crows in Sendai, Japan, were filmed putting nuts on the road for cars to crack and picking up the pieces at the red light; crows can recognise human fa…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «crack» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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How many legs on 2 pigeons, 1 fox and 1 rat?

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 10 — no support
- **3.** 8 — no support
- **4.** 16 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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A pipistrelle eats about 3000 midges in a night. Why is a bat in the garden good news?

- **1.** It eats thousands of biting insects — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** It brings rain — no support
- **3.** It eats the weeds — no support
- **4.** It keeps foxes and rats away from the bins — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 13: «Small bats like pipistrelles hunt insects around street lamps by echolocation, shouting and listening for echoes; bats are not blind, and one pipistrelle can e…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same thing acted on «thousands» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green roofs?

- **1.** They would eat sugar from cafés and do even better than before — no support
- **2.** They would find far less food and become fewer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Nothing, bees need no flowers — no support
- **4.** They would turn into wasps — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1, line 13: «Red foxes now live in many towns, where they find food, shelter and few predators (animals that hunt them), eating scraps, worms and rats, and in some British…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+3); the same thing acted on «food» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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Why does a dandelion do well in a crack where nothing else grows?

- **1.** People water it every day — no support
- **2.** No other plants compete, and its long root finds water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** The pavement gives it extra food — no support
- **4.** The cracks are kept warm by the cars driving past all day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 12, line 16: «Lichen, like old man's beard, is not a plant but a fungus and a tiny green alga living together; beard lichens take water and food straight from the air, so th…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «water» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Gran says sparrows are everywhere in London, always have been. Is that true now?

- **1.** Yes, there are more than ever — no support
- **2.** Yes, they are the commonest bird on Earth and always will be — no support
- **3.** No, they were never in London at all, as sparrows only live in the countryside on farms — no support
- **4.** No, they have become much rarer in some cities, and the cause is still studied — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 16: «House sparrows have nested in holes in buildings beside people for thousands of years, but they have become much rarer in some cities like London, and scientis…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+4); the same doer «sparrows» (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the principal reason for which peregrine falcons establish nests upon tall urban structures.

- **1.** Such structures are maintained at a constant temperature by heating — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Such structures resemble natural cliffs and the city affords abundant prey — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Tall structures repel all other species of bird — no support
- **4.** Peregrine falcons are deliberately housed there by city councils — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the assertion that a person is never more than two metres from a rat?

- **1.** It is a popular myth unsupported by any genuine count — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is a scientifically established fact — no support
- **3.** It is accurate solely in respect of London — no support
- **4.** It is a deliberate understatement of the true distance — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Ascertain the means by which the pipistrelle locates its insect prey in darkness.

- **1.** The detection of the body heat of insects through its feet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The exclusive use of the light of street lamps — no support
- **3.** The emission of calls and the interpretation of their echoes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is blind and encounters its prey by chance — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the behaviour of carrion crows in Sendai, Japan.

- **1.** Nuts are placed upon the road so that passing vehicles crack them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Discarded keys are collected from parked vehicles — no support
- **3.** Vehicles are pursued in order to remove them from the territory — no support
- **4.** Nests are constructed upon the roofs of moving vehicles — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/e4/)

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