--- title: Dogs and rabbits in your care — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday description: Lesson 62 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 9 of 19 tests right, exam 3 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/) [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/) / 62 # Dogs and rabbits in your care **Tests:** 9 of 19 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 19 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 62 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/). 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} A girl in Edinburgh asks why carrots should be only a treat for her rabbit. What is the reason? - **1.** Rabbits cannot bite through carrots — no support - **2.** Carrots are sugary; hay keeps its teeth and gut healthy — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Carrots make rabbits thump their feet and get cross with each other — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **4.** Carrots are poisonous for rabbits — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 62, line 18: «A rabbit thumps its back foot as a warning that it senses danger.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «thump» (+5); the same doer «rabbit» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} A boy in Dallas lets his dog off the lead in the park, but the dog never comes when called. What could happen? - **1.** It will soon learn to come back by itself — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** It could run off and be hit by a car — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** It will stay close because it is free — score 4 - **4.** Nothing, dogs always find their way back — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 21, line 8: «A boy in Texas kept patting a dog that had gone stiff, licked its lips and showed the whites of its eyes; it snapped and bit his hand.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dog» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Why might a gentle family dog bite its owner after being hit by a bike? - **1.** It thinks the owner hit it with the bike — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** A dog in pain may bite even people it loves — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Dogs always bite after a shock — score 4 - **4.** It wants to make the owner go away forever — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 18, line 6: «A boy in New Jersey saw a car hit a bike and drive away, but he could not remember the colour or the plate; the police had little to go on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hit» (+3); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} A family in Sydney plans to watch the New Year fireworks. What is the best plan for their nervous dog? - **1.** Let it run loose in the garden all evening — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Leave it tied up alone in the yard — no support - **3.** Keep it indoors with doors and windows shut and someone calm nearby — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Take it along to the fireworks so it gets used to the bangs and stops being frightened — 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} While brushing his dog, a boy in Vermont feels a small round lump stuck to its skin. Why is it good that he noticed? - **1.** It shows the brush is too hard — no support - **2.** It may be a tick, and brushing helps find ticks and lumps — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Brushing makes lumps go away by itself — no support - **4.** Lumps mean the dog needs a lot more brushing every day — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 14: «A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+3); the same doer «dog» (+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/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} A child picks up a rabbit, it kicks hard and falls to the floor. Why is this so dangerous? - **1.** A rabbit can break its back if it falls or kicks out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The rabbit's ears can get hurt — no support - **3.** The rabbit will run away and hide — no support - **4.** Rabbits cannot land on their feet at all, unlike cats — 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} A rabbit lives alone in a tiny hutch at the bottom of the garden. What is wrong with this? - **1.** Nothing, rabbits like to be alone — no support - **2.** It should have two hutches to choose from, one for sleeping and one for eating — score 3 - **3.** Rabbits are social and need a friend and space to run — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14 - **4.** Rabbits should live inside a cupboard — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 14, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 62, line 3: «A rabbit is a gentle animal with a fragile back and teeth that never stop growing; it needs hay to chew, space to hop and a rabbit friend to live with.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+4); the same doer «rabbit» (+4); the same thing acted on «hay» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Which of these is a sign that a pet rabbit is happy? - **1.** It thumps its back foot on the floor — **← Mova's choice** · score 12 - **2.** It jumps and twists in the air — **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **3.** It hides away and will not come out — no support - **4.** It suddenly stops eating its hay — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 62, line 4: «Animals show us how they feel: a rabbit that thumps its back foot is warning of danger, and a rabbit that leaps and twists in the air, called a binky, is happy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «thump» (+4); the same doer «rabbit» (+4); the same thing acted on «back foot» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Which is true about rabbit teeth? - **1.** They fall out and grow back every year — no support - **2.** They are only used for eating carrots — no support - **3.** They stop growing when the rabbit is one year old — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** They keep growing and need chewing to wear them down — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 62, line 3: «A rabbit is a gentle animal with a fragile back and teeth that never stop growing; it needs hay to chew, space to hop and a rabbit friend to live with.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow» (+2); the same doer «fragile back» (+1). 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/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} can i take the big dog out by myself, he pulls heaps - **1.** Yes, if it is a short walk — no support - **2.** Yes, if you go near the road — no support - **3.** Yes, just hold the lead tighter with both hands — no support - **4.** No, walk a strong dog only with an adult — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 8: «A child walks a big or strong dog only with an adult, because it can pull a child over or into a road.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+1); the same thing acted on «big dog» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} threw a stick for the dog, she loves it - **1.** Any stick is fine as long as it is big and thick — no support - **2.** Sticks are the best and safest toy — no support - **3.** Sticks are safe if they are wet — no support - **4.** A ball or rubber toy is safer, sticks splinter — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 10: «Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «splinter» (+4); the same doer «sticks» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} bunny keeps thumping her back foot, wot does that mean - **1.** She is trying to dig a hole — no support - **2.** She is very happy and playing — no support - **3.** She senses danger and is warning — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** She wants a carrot right now — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 18: «A rabbit thumps its back foot as a warning that it senses danger.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sense» (+4); the same thing acted on «danger» (+4). 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} rabbit hasnt eaten or pooped since yday - **1.** Wait a week and see what happens, it'll probably sort itself out — no support - **2.** It is fine, rabbits often skip days — no support - **3.** Tell an adult, it may be a gut emergency — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** Give it lots of carrots to cheer up — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 14: «A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same receiver «adult» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} it's super hot, the bunny's hutch is in full sun - **1.** Give the rabbit a hot bath — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cover the hutch with a black sheet to keep the sun off — no support - **3.** Leave it, rabbits like heat — no support - **4.** Move it into shade and give fresh water now — **✓ the right answer** · 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t14/) ### Test 15 · ★ · right ✓ {#t15} wanna walk the dog at noon, pavement's boiling - **1.** Go but walk faster — no support - **2.** Go now, dogs have tough feet, they don't feel it — score 1 - **3.** Put socks on the dog and go — score 1 - **4.** Wait till it is cooler or walk on grass — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 16: «After walking in long grass you check your skin for ticks, especially in warm, hidden places.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «long grass» (+2); the same action «walk» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t15/) ### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16} Lily says rabbits are happy alone in a little hutch. right? - **1.** Yes, unless it is cold — no support - **2.** Yes, they sleep all day — score 4 - **3.** Yes, rabbits like small spaces where they feel safe — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** No, they need space and usually a rabbit friend — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 62, line 18: «A rabbit thumps its back foot as a warning that it senses danger.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rabbit» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «sense» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t16/) ### Test 17 · ★ · right ✓ {#t17} heard a dog choked on a stick at the park and the vet had to operate, it was so bad - **1.** Real lesson: sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth, so throw a ball — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** It is gossip, so sticks are fine — no support - **3.** Real lesson: dogs should never be allowed to play at parks without a muzzle on — score 1 - **4.** It proves vets operate on every dog — score 2 **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 62, line 10: «Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sticks» (+2); the same action «stab» (+1); the same thing acted on «mouth» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t17/) ### Test 18 · ★ · right ✓ {#t18} my mate says u can let any dog off the lead in the park, they always come back - **1.** He is right, if the park is big — no support - **2.** He is right, all dogs come back once they've had a good run and a bark at the ducks — no support - **3.** Wrong; let a dog off only where allowed and if it comes back when called — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** He is right, all dogs come back — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 9: «A dog is let off the lead only where it is allowed and only if it comes back when called.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let off» (+4); the same thing acted on «dog» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t18/) ### Test 19 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t19} the Patels' dog ran off on bonfire night, people say they're useless owners, pass it on - **1.** Pass it on, because they lost it — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Pass it on, so they buy a lead — score 6 - **3.** Pass it on, and say it was found hurt by the road and they did not even go and look for it — score 6 - **4.** Do not pass it on; fireworks frighten many dogs and it could happen to anyone — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **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 21, line 6: «For example, a dog lying under a table with its ears back, licking its lips and showing the whites of its eyes is telling you: «Leave me alone.»», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «dog» (+4); the same action «leave» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/t19/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the proper manner of holding a rabbit? - **1.** Holding it high above the head — no support - **2.** Holding it by the scruff of the neck with one hand, as one would a kitten — no support - **3.** Supporting its hindquarters and hind legs, the rabbit being kept low — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** Lifting it by the ears — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 15: «You hold a rabbit by supporting its bottom and back legs and keep it low, because a fall or a kick can break its back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «rabbit» (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the arrangement under which a child may walk a large or strong dog. - **1.** Alone, provided the dog is old and slow — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Alone, provided the lead is long — no support - **3.** Only in the company of an adult — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Only along busy roads with lots of traffic — 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/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} It being given that a dog has swallowed a sock, select the appropriate course of action. - **1.** To pull it out through the mouth oneself, however far down the sock may have gone — no support - **2.** To feed the dog a large meal — no support - **3.** To wait until it passes naturally — no support - **4.** To inform an adult straight away, as a veterinary surgeon may be required — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 14: «A dog that eats medicine, a sock or other wrong things may need a vet, so you tell an adult straight away.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «adult» (+4); the same property (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Select the response that is consistent with established guidance concerning a dog in pain. - **1.** It should be hugged closely in order to comfort it and calm it down — no support - **2.** It should be lifted by the child — no support - **3.** It will remain gentle with children — no support - **4.** It may bite even its own family, so an adult should handle it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 12: «A dog in pain may bite even its own family, so an adult must handle an ill or injured dog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «adult» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same action «handle» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/e4/) - ← previous: [61. Cats and dogs up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/) - next →: [63. Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/)