--- title: Reading a story: characters, plot and setting — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 22 «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Reading a story: characters, plot and… # Reading a story: characters, plot and setting The 14 questions of lesson 22 «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t1/) — «Nell's just bored, that's why she got the towel». Which clue shows she is kind, not bored? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t2/) — ★★ Cause and effect: Hansel drops breadcrumbs; birds eat them. What is the effect? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t3/) — ★★ A girl in a story says she «didn't even want» the part in the play, after she didn't get it. Which story is like this? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t4/) — «the setting is the bit where she sets the table lol». What's right? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t5/) — ★★★ «Ravi pretended he wasn't scared of the dark. But every night he left the hall light on "by accident".» Which is the best summary of Ravi? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t6/) — ★★★ A summary of Tim's race: which is best? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t7/) — In a cartoon, a hero is good at everything and never changes. Why do many good stories let characters change? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t8/) — What would happen to a story with no problem in the middle? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t9/) — Mum: «Did you like the ending?» Leo: «Nah, it was mid.» Mum: «Why?» Leo: «Dunno.» What's missing from Leo's opinion? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/t10/) — «the wee boy's a right numpty, he keeps losing his shoes». Why might an author make a character keep making the same mistake? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/e1/) — Identify the principal trait demonstrated by a character who assists a hostile, hissing kitten. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the setting of a narrative? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/e3/) — Ascertain the moral conveyed by the fable in which a fox, unable to reach certain grapes, declares them to be sour. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the failure of the breadcrumb trail in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [21. 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