--- title: Caring for pets — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 27 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 10 of 19 tests right, exam 4 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/) / 27 # Caring for pets **Tests:** 10 of 19 right · **Exam:** 4 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 16 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 27 of the everyday 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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/). 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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/). ### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1} Zoe in Vancouver wants to share her chocolate bar with her dog as a treat. Why should she not? - **1.** Chocolate can poison dogs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Chocolate makes dogs bark all night — score 4 - **3.** It will make the dog's teeth fall out at once — no support - **4.** Dogs do not like sweet things — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 10: «Chocolate, grapes, raisins and onions can poison dogs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «dogs» (+3); the same action «poison» (+2); the same doer «chocolate» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t1/) ### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2} Harry's family in Wales brings home a bunch of lilies. They have a cat. What should they do? - **1.** Keep the lilies out of the house — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Put them on the cat's food bowl — no support - **3.** Let the cat sniff them to learn — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **4.** Nothing, lilies are safe for cats — score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 23, line 5: «Let a cat come to you, stroke it gently on its cheeks, chin and the base of its ears, and stop as soon as its tail starts to twitch, its skin ripples or its ea…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «cat» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «let» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t2/) ### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3} Which is true? - **1.** A hamster sleeps in the day and wakes at night — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A hamster sleeps all night like us — no support - **3.** Fish do not need clean water — no support - **4.** A rabbit is happiest on its own in a tiny hutch — no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t3/) ### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4} Mia's rabbit has had no fresh water since yesterday. Why is this a problem? - **1.** Animals need clean water every day to stay healthy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Rabbits drink once a week — score 1 - **3.** Water is only needed in summer — score 5 - **4.** Rabbits get all the water they need from the morning air — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 8: «Pets need fresh, clean water every day.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fresh clean water» (+4); the same action «need» (+2); the same property (+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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t4/) ### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5} A boy wakes his hamster at noon to play. Why might it bite him? - **1.** Hamsters always bite at noon — no support - **2.** It thinks his finger is a carrot — no support - **3.** It was woken from its daytime sleep and is scared — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Hamsters bite whenever they are hungry, whatever the time — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 2: «Every kind of animal needs its own kind of care: a dog needs walks, a rabbit needs hay, space and a rabbit friend, a hamster sleeps in the day and is awake at…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+2); the same doer «hamster» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t5/) ### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6} A family wants a puppy for Christmas, and the children promise to look after it «for a while». What have they forgotten? - **1.** Puppies only live for one year — no support - **2.** Puppies stay small forever — no support - **3.** Dogs look after themselves — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** A dog needs care for its whole life, often over ten years — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 22, line 13: «Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looking after puppies.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same doer «dog» (+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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t6/) ### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7} What is the kindest way to handle a pet? - **1.** Chasing it to give it exercise — score 8 - **2.** Gently, letting it rest when it wants — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Squeezing it tightly so it cannot escape — **← Mova's choice** · score 12 - **4.** Holding it up high by its legs — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 26, line 1: «Wild animals are not pets: even a calm-looking bear, alligator, kangaroo or fox can bite, scratch or charge if it feels cornered, surprised or protective of it…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same thing acted on «pets» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t7/) ### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8} Why do pets need check-ups at the vet even when they seem well? - **1.** Pets get bored at home — no support - **2.** Vets give pets new names — no support - **3.** A vet can catch problems early and give vaccinations — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Check-ups make pets grow taller and stronger than other pets — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 10: «A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less likely to be strained.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «warm up» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, 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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t8/) ### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9} A girl in Adelaide keeps her goldfish in a small bowl that she never cleans. What will happen? - **1.** The fish grows into a big fish — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The water gets dirty and the fish gets ill — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The fish cleans the water itself — no support - **4.** Nothing, fish do not need clean water — no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t9/) ### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10} can the dog have a bit of my chocolate - **1.** Yes, if it's a treat day — no support - **2.** Yes, dark chocolate only — no support - **3.** Yes, just a small piece is fine — no support - **4.** No, chocolate can poison dogs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 20: «Chocolate, grapes and raisins can poison dogs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «poison» (+2); the same doer «chocolate» (+2); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t10/) ### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11} nan brought lilies, cat's sniffing em - **1.** It's fine, cats love flowers — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Only the stems are bad — no support - **3.** Only the leaves are bad — no support - **4.** Keep them away, lilies poison cats — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t11/) ### Test 12 · right ✓ {#t12} hamster's asleep, wake him to play? - **1.** Yes, tap the cage — no support - **2.** No, hamsters sleep in the day — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Yes, he wants to play now with you — no support - **4.** Yes, if you're gentle — no support **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 27, line 2: «Every kind of animal needs its own kind of care: a dog needs walks, a rabbit needs hay, space and a rabbit friend, a hamster sleeps in the day and is awake at…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+2); the same doer «hamster» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t12/) ### Test 13 · wrong ✗ {#t13} dog hasn't eaten all day and is acting weird - **1.** Give him chocolate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Take him to the vet — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Wait a few weeks — no support - **4.** He's just fussy — no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t13/) ### Test 14 · right ✓ {#t14} can i give the dog some of my chocolate, he's begging - **1.** Yes, if he eats it slowly — score 3 - **2.** No, chocolate can poison dogs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** Yes, if it is milk chocolate — no support - **4.** Yes, a small bit is fine — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 20: «Chocolate, grapes and raisins can poison dogs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «poison» (+2); the same doer «chocolate» (+2); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t14/) ### Test 15 · right ✓ {#t15} we're popping into the shop, leave the dog in the car? - **1.** No, cars get hot fast and the dog can die — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Yes, if you crack a window open for air — no support - **3.** Yes, if it is only ten minutes — no support - **4.** Yes, if the car is in the sun — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 21: «A parked car can get dangerously hot within minutes, even when it is not very hot outside.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «parked car» (+2); 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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t15/) ### Test 16 · wrong ✗ {#t16} forgot to give the hamster water for 3 days - **1.** Wait and see if it gets thirsty — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is fine, hamsters do not drink — no support - **3.** Give it extra food instead — no support - **4.** Give it water now and tell an adult, it may be ill — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t16/) ### Test 17 · right ✓ {#t17} did u hear the Taylors' dog nearly died cos it ate a whole box of chocolates at Easter - **1.** Real lesson: chocolate can poison dogs, so keep it out of reach — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **2.** It is gossip, so chocolate is fine for dogs — score 3 - **3.** Real lesson: dogs only get sick from Easter eggs, not other chocolate — score 3 - **4.** It proves dogs should not be kept at Easter — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 20: «Chocolate, grapes and raisins can poison dogs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «poison» (+2); the same doer «chocolate» (+2); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t17/) ### Test 18 · right ✓ {#t18} my cousin says u should pick a rabbit up by the ears, that's how farmers do it - **1.** He is right, farmers know best about rabbits — no support - **2.** That is wrong and cruel; rabbits must never be picked up by their ears — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** He is right, ears are the strongest part — no support - **4.** He is right, if the rabbit is small — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 15: «Rabbits must never be picked up by their ears.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «rabbits» (+3); the same action «pick up» (+2); the same doer «ears» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t18/) ### Test 19 · wrong ✗ {#t19} someone says Zara's hamster died cos she forgot to feed it, everyone's talking about it - **1.** Spread it, and add that she did not care — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Spread it, so she never gets another pet — no support - **3.** Spread it, because it is a lesson for everyone — no support - **4.** Do not spread it; she is probably sad and the rumour may be untrue — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/t19/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following foods are recognised as poisonous to dogs? - **1.** Apples without seeds and green beans — no support - **2.** Chocolate, grapes, raisins and onions — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Carrots, rice, plain chicken and water — no support - **4.** Cooked eggs and plain pumpkin — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 7: «A boy in Leeds gave his dog chocolate as a treat; the dog was sick, shaking and had to go to the vet.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «dog chocolate» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the hazard presented by lilies to domestic cats. - **1.** Lilies are harmless to cats but poisonous to dogs — score 6 - **2.** Lilies are harmful to cats only when eaten in large quantity — no support - **3.** Lilies, including their pollen, are severely poisonous to cats — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** Lilies cause cats merely to sneeze — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 11: «Lilies are very poisonous to cats, even the pollen.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «lilies» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the requirements of rabbits. - **1.** Rabbits require abundant hay, room in which to hop and, usually, another rabbit as company — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Rabbits require no fresh water if given vegetables — score 3 - **3.** Rabbits require only pellets and a small cage — score 3 - **4.** Rabbits prefer to live alone without company — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 2: «Every kind of animal needs its own kind of care: a dog needs walks, a rabbit needs hay, space and a rabbit friend, a hamster sleeps in the day and is awake at…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «hay» (+3); the same action «need» (+2); the same doer «rabbit» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} It is given that a pet has ceased eating and conducts itself strangely. Determine the appropriate course of action. - **1.** The pet should be examined by a veterinary surgeon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The pet should be given chocolate to restore its appetite — no support - **3.** The pet should be exercised more vigorously — no support - **4.** The pet should be left alone for some weeks — no support **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/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/e4/) - ← previous: [26. Wild animals: keep away, never feed](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/26-wild-animals/) - next →: [28. Farm animals and horses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)