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title: Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house — how Mova does on the tests · Biology
description: Lesson 332 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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# Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house

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**Tests:** 7 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 14 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 332 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/).

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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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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«just put a tracker chip in the cat, now i can see where she goes on my phone right» What is right?

- **1.** No, the chip only works on dogs — no support
- **2.** Yes, every microchip sends a map of where she is to your phone — no support
- **3.** Yes, but only at night — no support
- **4.** No, a microchip only holds a number a scanner reads up close — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 76, line 3: «Pull the wishbone after a Sunday roast and you hold a bone T. rex had too; look at a pigeon's scaly feet and sharp claws and you are looking at a dinosaur's fo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bone» (+3); the same action «hold» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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«we moved ages ago, never bothered changing the chip details, whatever» What would happen if the dog got lost?

- **1.** The chip would lead the finder to the old address — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The chip would ring the owner's phone — no support
- **3.** The chip would update itself — no support
- **4.** The dog could not be scanned at all — 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«cat's been gone 2 days, bloody hell, she's probably miles away» What is a good first step?

- **1.** Drive to the next city and shout her name as loudly as you can from the car — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Search neighbours' sheds and garages and call quietly at night — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Buy a new cat straight away — no support
- **4.** Wait a month before doing anything — 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 332, line 4: «Pets also get lost in other ways: a cat let out too soon after moving house may wander back to the old home, and a scared cat hides silently in a shed instead…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+3). 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why might a scared cat not come when you call its name?

- **1.** Cats forget their names in two days — score 4
- **2.** Cats cannot hear quiet human voices — score 3
- **3.** Cats will only ever answer to whistles — score 5
- **4.** Scared cats tend to hide silently — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 332, line 4: «Pets also get lost in other ways: a cat let out too soon after moving house may wander back to the old home, and a scared cat hides silently in a shed instead…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «scared cat» (+2); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Grandad says: «butter the cat's paws when you move, then she'll stay.» What is right?

- **1.** It works on every cat — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** It does not help; keep her inside for a couple of weeks instead — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** It works only with salted butter — no support
- **4.** It works, but only if you butter all four paws twice with salted butter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 327, line 15: «Kittens knead their mother's tummy to make her milk flow, and many cats keep kneading all their lives when happy; cats purr when content but sometimes also whe…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «knead» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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«fireworks tonight, gonna take the dog to watch» What is the best answer?

- **1.** Keep him inside with the curtains shut and a den; bangs sound louder to him — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Leave him tied up in the garden — score 5
- **3.** Dogs love fireworks, take him — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **4.** Take him, but cover his eyes with a scarf so the flashes do not scare him at all — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 196, line 14: «Hearing dogs help deaf people by touching them and leading them to sounds such as a doorbell, an alarm clock or a smoke alarm, and many were once rescue dogs g…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «hearing dogs» (+3); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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Why might a cat prefer a pet sitter at home to a cattery?

- **1.** Cats cannot sleep in a cattery — score 1
- **2.** Sitters let cats go outside on holiday — score 4
- **3.** It can stay calm in its own home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Catteries never feed cats — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 332, line 12: «Kennels, catteries, pet sitters or friends can look after pets during holidays; kennels ask for proof of vaccinations, and a sitter lets a pet stay calm in its…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «stay» (+2); the same place «own home» (+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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why do countries make rules about animals coming in?

- **1.** To stop pets eating any foreign food — score 1
- **2.** To count how many pets are on holiday — score 1
- **3.** To make pets learn a new language — score 1
- **4.** To keep diseases like rabies out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 332, line 13: «To cross many borders pets need a microchip, a rabies vaccine and papers, and dogs coming into Britain also need a worm treatment; the rules keep diseases like…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «keep» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «diseases» (-1); 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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A cartoon dog walks home across a whole country and a friend says it is all made up. What is true?

- **1.** All lost dogs find their way home within a day, because they follow their own smell — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Only cartoon dogs can find their way home — score 7
- **3.** Pets cannot find their way across one street — score 4
- **4.** Some real pets have found their way home, and scientists still do not know how — **✓ 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 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 332, line 11: «Bobbie the Wonder Dog was reported to walk about 4,000 kilometres home across the USA in 1924, and scientists still do not know how some pets find their way ho…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same thing acted on «way» (+1); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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«there's a dog in the park, no owner, it's wagging, i'll just grab it» What is the risk?

- **1.** Even a friendly scared dog may bite if grabbed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Wagging dogs never bite — score 2
- **3.** Touching a dog's collar breaks its chip — no support
- **4.** The dog will run home by itself in a second — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 332, line 16: «A found dog should not be grabbed, because a scared dog may bite; a grown-up can call the dog warden or take it to a vet, who scans the chip for free.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «bite» (+3); the same doer «scared dog» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Count them: at the kennels there are 4 dogs and 2 cats in the cattery next door. How many ears and how many tails are there?

- **1.** 12 ears and 6 tails — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** 6 ears and 6 tails — score 1
- **3.** 24 ears and 6 tails — score 1
- **4.** 12 ears and 4 tails — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 104, line 14: «Bilbies are small desert marsupials with huge ears that rarely need to drink; foxes and rabbits brought from Europe harmed them, so Australians sell chocolate…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «huge ears» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «huge ears» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/t11/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of a microchip implanted in a domestic animal?

- **1.** It records the sounds heard by the animal — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** It bears a unique number, readable by a scanner at close range, linked to the owner's registered details — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It requires replacement of its battery at annual intervals — no support
- **4.** It transmits the position of the animal continuously to a satellite, permitting it to be traced upon a map — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 322, line 15: «Cobras hear sounds in the air poorly; a charmer's cobra follows the swaying pipe as if it were a threat, and India banned snake charming in 1972.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+3); the same thing acted on «sounds» (+3). 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/e1/)

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

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Identify the principal reason for which an owner is required to amend the details registered against a microchip upon a change of residence.

- **1.** The law requires a new microchip at each change of address — score 2
- **2.** The microchip number is linked to those details, which alone permit the return of the animal — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** The microchip ceases to function in a different postal district — no support
- **4.** The microchip is otherwise unreadable by any scanner — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 332, line 6: «A scanner held close reads the chip's number, which links to the owner's details on a list, so owners must update their details when they move.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «link» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the retention of a cat indoors following a change of residence.

- **1.** Immediate release on the first night is recommended — no support
- **2.** Confinement for a period of approximately two weeks assists the animal in learning its new home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The application of butter to the paws renders confinement unnecessary — score 1
- **4.** Cats are incapable of learning a new home under any conditions — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 332, line 14: «After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «learn» (+3); the same thing acted on «new home» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/e3/)

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

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Ascertain the conduct appropriate for a child who discovers an unaccompanied dog in a public park.

- **1.** Refraining from seizing the animal and informing an adult, who may arrange for the scanning of its microchip — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Pursuing the animal until it is exhausted — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Feeding the animal with confectionery in order to calm it — no support
- **4.** Seizing the animal by the collar and removing it to the child's own residence, there to await its owner — 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 325, line 7: «Dogs are pack animals and should not be left alone for more than about four hours; some dogs left too long bark, howl or chew out of worry.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 1, 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/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/e4/)

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