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title: Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 293 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 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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# Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 9 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 293 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/).

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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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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«camel's hump is a water tank, that's how it crosses the desert» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, the hump is full of water that sloshes about — score 4
- **2.** The hump stores fat; a camel drinks a lot when it finds water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** The hump is full of air — no support
- **4.** The hump stores sand to keep the camel heavy in the wind — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 293, line 11: «Camels were tamed about 3,000 years ago and made desert trade possible; the hump stores fat, not water, and a thirsty camel can drink about 100 litres in about…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «store» (+4); the same doer «hump» (+2); the same thing acted on «fat» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Count them: a camel caravan has 6 camels, each with 1 hump. How many humps and how many legs?

- **1.** 24 humps and 6 legs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 6 humps and 12 legs — no support
- **3.** 12 humps and 24 legs — no support
- **4.** 6 humps and 24 legs — **✓ 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Count them: at a petting zoo 3 llamas and 4 chickens. How many legs?

- **1.** 24 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 20 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** 28 — no support
- **4.** 14 — 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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«circus elephant can do tricks so it's tame, like a cow» What is right?

- **1.** It was trained, but elephants as a kind were never tamed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** All elephants are born tame — score 4
- **3.** Yes, elephants are just as tame as cows on a farm — no support
- **4.** Elephants were tamed long before dogs, in the Stone Age — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 236, line 9: «Elephants can hold a paintbrush in their trunk, but painting elephants are trained and often guided by keepers, and many experts think the shows are for touris…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «train» (+2); the same thing acted on «painting elephants» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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«why can't we just ride zebras, they're horses in pyjamas» What is the problem?

- **1.** It is against the law in every country of the world — no support
- **2.** Zebras panic, kick and bite and have never been tamed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Zebra stripes are sharp and hurt to sit on for long — no support
- **4.** Zebras are too slow — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 293, line 4: «Not every animal can be tamed. Zebras kick, bite and panic, and a working elephant in Asia, however gentle, was usually caught wild and trained, not tamed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «panic» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What would happen if a farmer for 50 generations chose only the calmest junglefowl to breed?

- **1.** Nothing would change at all, because birds never change — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The birds would become tamer, like chickens — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They would turn into ducks — no support
- **4.** They would slowly grow teeth and fur — 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«llama spat at me, they hate people» What is closer to the truth?

- **1.** They spit only at sheep, which they hate — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Llamas spit at every single person on sight — no support
- **3.** Llamas never spit — no support
- **4.** Llamas spit when annoyed, mostly at other llamas — **✓ 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 293, line 2: «Taming is not the same as training. Training teaches one animal tricks in its lifetime; taming, or domestication, means people choose the calmest animals to ha…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «people» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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In a cartoon a rooster is the boss who lays all the eggs. What is real?

- **1.** Both hens and roosters lay eggs every day — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Roosters lay the biggest eggs in the coop — score 2
- **3.** Only chicks lay eggs, before they grow up — score 2
- **4.** Hens lay the eggs; roosters lay none — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 212, line 5: «A hen lays eggs with or without a rooster; shop eggs are not fertilised, because no rooster mated with the hen, so they could never hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lay» (+2); the same doer «hen» (+2); the same thing acted on «eggs» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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«aurochs, never heard of it, made up» What is right?

- **1.** It was a real wild ox, drawn in cave paintings, the ancestor of all cattle — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** It is a cartoon dragon that breathes fire in old films — no support
- **3.** It is an alien from a video game, not a real animal at all — no support
- **4.** It is a dinosaur — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 293, line 8: «All cattle come from the aurochs, a huge wild ox with long horns drawn in cave paintings; it was tamed about 10,000 years ago, and the last one died in a Polis…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «draw» (+2); the same place «cave paintings» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Why could a farmer with tame cows and goats stay in one village instead of wandering?

- **1.** Cows carried the whole village — no support
- **2.** Animals gave milk, meat and wool close to home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Wild animals all left the area — no support
- **4.** Villages had no animals — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 293, line 3: «After the dog came sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs, about 10,000 years ago; later horses, camels, llamas and chickens. They gave milk, wool, meat, eggs a…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «sheep» (+1); the same thing acted on «milk» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Why did China guard the secret of silk so carefully?

- **1.** Silk moths were dangerous and stung anyone who came near — no support
- **2.** Nobody wanted silk, so they kept it hidden from shame — no support
- **3.** Silk was precious and sold for a lot along trade routes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** Silk was poisonous — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 293, line 13: «Silk comes from the cocoons of a moth caterpillar tamed in China about 5,000 years ago; the tame moths can no longer fly, and silk cloth was so precious and so…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sell» (+7); the same circumstance (+3). 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/t11/)

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

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Identify the wild progenitor of all domestic cattle.

- **1.** The water buffalo of Asia — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The aurochs, a large wild ox which became extinct in 1627 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The American bison, which still roams the plains in herds — no support
- **4.** The mountain yak of the Himalaya and the high plateau of Tibet — 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/e1/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the contents of the camel's hump.

- **1.** It contains a reserve of fat rather than of water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It contains air for buoyancy — no support
- **3.** It contains a reserve of milk — no support
- **4.** It contains a reserve of water — 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/e2/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between domestication and training?

- **1.** Training alters a species over many generations, whereas domestication instructs a single animal within its lifetime — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Domestication and training are identical processes — score 5
- **3.** Domestication pertains exclusively to circus animals — no support
- **4.** Domestication alters a species over many generations, whereas training instructs an individual animal — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 293, line 2: «Taming is not the same as training. Training teaches one animal tricks in its lifetime; taming, or domestication, means people choose the calmest animals to ha…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «training» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/e3/)

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

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Ascertain the wild species from which the domestic chicken is descended.

- **1.** The ostrich of the African savannah and desert — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The red junglefowl of the Asian jungles — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The wild turkey of the forests of North America — no support
- **4.** The common pheasant of the woods of Europe — 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/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/e4/)

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