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title: Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1136 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 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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# Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina

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**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1136 of the books 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.

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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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, so who's the bloke who keeps saying he's "greater" every five minutes?

- **1.** Oi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the bloke Chi-gwisa-miti — no support
- **3.** Bruv — no support
- **4.** Makoma — **✓ 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mate, did the fire bloke, like, just blow a massive flame at him?

- **1.** blew a flame at Makoma — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** he dropped his sack — no support
- **3.** sent a burst of heat — no support
- **4.** yeah, he blew a massive flame at the giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1059, line 11: «What: the Carl's blow sends Cael's head "spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «blow» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruv, why'd the river man's moustache trip Makoma up, innit?

- **1.** it stuck to his feet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a rope of hair wound round his ankles — no support
- **3.** his big moustache — no support
- **4.** a long hair wrapped round his 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Wait, what did the giant say his name was, like, proper?

- **1.** Chin-debou Mau-giri — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Chi-debou — no support
- **3.** Chin-debou Mau-giri of the river — no support
- **4.** Mau-giri — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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So the giants got shrunk to fit in a sack, that's well mad, yeah?

- **1.** they got smaller — score 3
- **2.** shrank small enough to fit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** they hid inside the big bag — no support
- **4.** they shrank — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1136, line 1: «Makoma finds a giant digging river-beds, and knocks him down until he shrinks small enough to go into his sack.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shrink» (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Did the hero actually bother to tell his mates bye, or what?

- **1.** he gave them their gifts back and walked off alone — score 3
- **2.** he gave them their gifts back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** he gave them their gifts back and never looked behind — score 3
- **4.** he took the gifts with him — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 328, line 19: «Old word: "nettled" means slightly annoyed or irritated, so Peter is a little cross when Tink's name comes up.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «old word» (+2). Against it: 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Why's his hammer such a big deal, like, what does it actually do?

- **1.** it's just a hammer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** knocks giants flat in one hit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** it smashes trees in half — no support
- **4.** it crushes stone walls down — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Is he proper gassed about going after Sakatirina, or just well scared?

- **1.** he is really excited but also quite nervous about it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** he went alone, as ordered — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** he took his two friends — no support
- **4.** he went alone, as ordered, and didn't look back — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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How many heads has this Sakatirina dude got, like, sorted?

- **1.** seven — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** five — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** two — score 2
- **4.** three — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 676, line 12: «The lindworm lives by a stream with "poisonous" waters, and he has "seven heads."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1); the number the lesson gave for it (+1). 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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So where does he finally find the big fella, then?

- **1.** in the clouds, with his legs as high peaks — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in the forest, near the falls — no support
- **3.** in the clouds, legs as peaks — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** under a river, lying flat — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Hang on, what's the old word for angry, the one in the book?

- **1.** furious — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** wroth — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** mad — no support
- **4.** most enraged indeed — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Right, who gave Makoma the fire power he used on the hair?

- **1.** the river giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** the forest spirit — score 2
- **3.** the spirits of his fathers — score 2
- **4.** the flame-spirit — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1087, line 19: «Riquet's Fairy gave the Princess the power to make the one she loves "extremely handsome," as he is now.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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State the name by which the hero, in his own words, describes his rank beside the other giants.

- **1.** "greater" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** "the greatest of all" — no support
- **3.** "taller" — no support
- **4.** "lesser" — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the precise location in which the flame-spirit was discovered by the hero.

- **1.** a barren and rocky region past the great river valley — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a barren and rocky region beyond the forest — no support
- **3.** a barren and rocky region — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a green and sandy coast — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/e2/)

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

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Specify the number of heads possessed by the being named Sakatirina, as stated in the narrative.

- **1.** two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** five — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** one — no support
- **4.** three — 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/books/1136-pg3027-part2/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Indicate the substance of which the river giant's moustache was composed, according to the narrative.

- **1.** grey fog — no support
- **2.** brown bog-moss — no support
- **3.** grey fever-mist — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** mist — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1136, line 13: «what: the river giant's moustache is "the grey fever-mist that hangs above the water".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1136-pg3027-part2/e4/)

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