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title: Budgies and canaries — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 205 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 7 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Budgies and canaries

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**Tests:** 7 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 205 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/).

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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/205-budgies-and-canaries/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right?

- **1.** Wild budgies are all green and yellow; blue was bred in pets — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Wild budgies are every colour — no support
- **3.** Wild budgies are black — no support
- **4.** Yes, all wild budgies are blue, just like the sky they fly about in — 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 205, line 6: «All wild budgies are green and yellow; the blue, white and other colours were bred in pet budgies.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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«he chats to the mirror all day, so he's got a mate, sorted» What is right?

- **1.** Budgies hate other budgies — no support
- **2.** A real budgie friend is much better than a mirror — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Mirrors make budgies sing like canaries, and that is the same as having a friend — no support
- **4.** A mirror is all he needs — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 205, line 2: «That is why a budgie chatters, whistles and bobs its head all day, why it stares into a mirror as if at a friend, and why it is happiest with another budgie be…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«Pip's all puffed up and quiet since yesterday, prob just cold lol» What should happen?

- **1.** Give him a cold bath — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Leave him another week — no support
- **3.** Take him to a vet soon, a fluffed-up quiet bird may be ill — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Put him in the kitchen near the hot oven to warm him up quickly — 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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«keep the cage in the kitchen so he's got company while we cook» What is wrong with this?

- **1.** Birds hate company — no support
- **2.** Nothing at all is wrong — no support
- **3.** Cooking fumes and smoke can harm or even kill small birds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** Birds get too fat in kitchens from all the crumbs they are given — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 205, line 11: «Birds' lungs are very sensitive, so cooking fumes and smoke can harm them, and fumes from overheated non-stick pans can kill small birds; cages should not be k…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+5); the same thing acted on «small birds» (+3); the same doer «fumes» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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«budgie's grinding his beak at bedtime, is he angry??» What is right?

- **1.** He is furious with you for turning off the light — no support
- **2.** He has toothache — no support
- **3.** He is sharpening it for a fight — score 1
- **4.** It usually means he is content and relaxed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 205, line 15: «A budgie grinding its beak softly at bedtime is usually content and relaxed, and budgies often sleep standing on one leg with the head tucked into the back fea…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «budgie» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«mum says seeds are bird food so seeds only, end of» What is right?

- **1.** Budgies should eat crisps too — no support
- **2.** Budgies need vegetables and pellets too, not only seeds — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Seeds only is perfect — no support
- **4.** Budgies need meat every day, like the wild birds in the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 201, line 8: «Like people, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need it every day from foods such as peppers and leafy greens, or they get scurvy with sore j…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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In a cartoon a canary teases a cat and sings in every scene. What is true of real canaries?

- **1.** Male canaries sing most, and they must be kept safe from cats — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Canaries never sing in real life — score 0
- **3.** Canaries are brave enough to scare cats away by singing at them — score 2
- **4.** Female canaries sing most — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 198, line 7: «Real cats often catch mice, and people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years for this job; the Tom and Jerry story where the mouse always wins is…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered big window?

- **1.** It would never fly near it — score -3
- **2.** It would fly through the glass — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** It would stop at the glass perfectly — no support
- **4.** It might fly into the glass and get hurt — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 205, line 12: «Pet birds need time out of the cage to fly every day in a safe room, with windows and mirrors covered or marked so the bird does not fly into the glass, and ot…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fly» (+4); the same place «glass» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Count them: 3 budgies and 2 canaries in an aviary, a big bird cage. How many wings?

- **1.** 10 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 5 — no support
- **3.** 8 — no support
- **4.** 20 — 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Count them: two budgies sleep, each standing on one leg. How many feet are on the perch, and how many tucked up?

- **1.** 4 on the perch and none tucked up — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 1 on the perch and 3 tucked up — no support
- **3.** 2 on the perch and 2 tucked up — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 2 on the perch and 4 tucked up — 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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«how do I know if mine's a boy or a girl» Which clue helps with an adult budgie?

- **1.** The colour of its feet only — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The number of feathers in its tail — no support
- **3.** Whether it likes seeds — no support
- **4.** The colour of the cere above the beak — **✓ the right answer** · 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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«why did old miners take a little yellow bird down the pit» What is the answer?

- **1.** It sang to keep them awake — score 5
- **2.** It ate the rats — score 6
- **3.** It was harmed by bad gas before people noticed it, so it warned them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** It found coal for them by tapping on the rock walls with its little beak — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 205, line 10: «Male canaries sing the most, and coal miners once took canaries underground because the birds were harmed by dangerous gas before the miners noticed it.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «harm» (+4); the same thing acted on «birds» (+4); the same doer «dangerous gas» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/t12/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the colouration of wild budgerigars?

- **1.** Wild budgerigars are predominantly blue, the green birds having arisen solely through breeding in captivity — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Wild budgerigars are uniformly green and yellow, other colours having arisen through breeding — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Wild budgerigars occur in every colour — no support
- **4.** Wild budgerigars are entirely white — 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/e1/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which a bird cage ought not to be situated in a kitchen.

- **1.** The odour of food induces excessive singing — no support
- **2.** Kitchens are insufficiently illuminated — no support
- **3.** Birds are invariably averse to human company — no support
- **4.** Fumes and smoke from cooking may injure or kill small birds — **← 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 205, line 11: «Birds' lungs are very sensitive, so cooking fumes and smoke can harm them, and fumes from overheated non-stick pans can kill small birds; cages should not be k…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+5); the same thing acted on «small birds» (+3); the same doer «fumes» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/e2/)

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

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It is given that a budgerigar has remained fluffed up and motionless for a prolonged period. Ascertain the appropriate course of action.

- **1.** The bird ought to be bathed in cold water — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No action is required, as this denotes contentment — no support
- **3.** The bird ought to be confined in darkness for a week — no support
- **4.** Veterinary advice ought to be sought without delay — **✓ the right answer** · 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diet of the budgerigar.

- **1.** Budgerigars require no food whatsoever when kept indoors in winter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Meat ought to be supplied daily — no support
- **3.** A diet consisting solely of seeds is ideal for the health of the bird — no support
- **4.** Seeds alone are insufficient, and vegetables and pellets are also required — **✓ the right answer** · 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/e4/)

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