--- title: Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1156 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1156-pg3027-part22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1156 # Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1156 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. 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/1156-pg3027-part22/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Did you see the weaver whack the flies with a massive rock, like, proper dead dangerous? - **1.** Yeah, he got the flies with a rock, then flattened the old lady and ran off to the village, proper mental, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, he hit a bloke with a stone, bare mental — score 4 - **3.** Yeah, and he flattened the old lady by accident, mental — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, the farmer was the one who swatted them with a huge stone and flattened the whole house, bruv, mad — score 0 **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 1156, line 2: «He hits the flies so hard that he kills the poor old woman, then runs off and finds a village of weavers.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «weaver» (+2). 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bruv, the weavers swam across a ravine that was totally dry, innit? - **1.** Yeah, they were well daft, like a bunch of muppets — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, the ravine was flooded, proper wet, bruv — no support - **3.** Nah, the ravine was flooded, mad, like a bunch of idiots — no support - **4.** Yeah, proper daft, innit — 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} How did the farmer sort out their counting mess? - **1.** He made each of them stand in a line and whacked them with his stick while they counted out loud — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** He whacked each of them with his stick while counting — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** He sorted it by hitting each one, proper clever — score 5 - **4.** He made them count out loud, cheeky sod — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 345, line 12: «The watchman thinks the farmer has forgotten to bring the cattle in from the fields.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring in» (+4); the same doer «farmer» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Did the weavers reckon the farmer was a wizard or summat? - **1.** Yeah, a wizard or summat, well weird — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, just a farmer, bruv — no support - **3.** Yeah, a magician, proper gobsmacked — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, a wizard, mad — 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} That lad's dad left him a falcon, a cat and a greyhound, right? - **1.** Yeah, that's the lot, mate, proper sick — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, he got a falcon, a cat, a greyhound and a whole farm full of goats, bruv, proper inheritance, innit — no support - **3.** Yeah, innit, a falcon, a cat, a greyhound and a load of gold coins from the old man, peak inheritance — no support - **4.** Yeah, innit, that's the lot, peak inheritance — **✓ 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Wait, the cat actually sorted the rats out in the barn? - **1.** Yeah, dead quick, every rat got caught, sick — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Nah, the rats ran off to the fields, the cat was too slow and lazy, proper rubbish, mate, honest — score 0 - **3.** Yeah, the cat was dead quick and not one rat got away from the barn, mint, innit, bruv — score -2 - **4.** Yeah, proper quick, not one got away, mint — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 18: «The Rat: «there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.» While saying it he hit the bank and fell on his back wi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pick up» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Who was the mysterious bloke who took him to the lake? - **1.** The ogre, obviously, well creepy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A tall stranger, innit, creepy — no support - **3.** Some weird bloke, mate, dodgy — no support - **4.** A farmer, bruv — 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} So the magic stone was in his turban, yeah? - **1.** Nah, it was in his pocket, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, tucked in his sash, proper cool — no support - **3.** Yeah, hidden in there, sick trick — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, in his boot, mate — 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} What did he get when he wished for a camel, then? - **1.** A proper camel and fancy robes, mint — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** A proper camel plus fancy robes and a load of silver, mint, innit, bruv — score 1 - **3.** A camel and a tent, proper sick — score 1 - **4.** Some silver coins and a horse, mint — score -4 **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 861, line 19: «Old word "fop": A fop is a vain man who cares too much about his clothes and looks; today we would say a show-off.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Did his mum believe him when he asked her to tell the king? - **1.** Yeah, but only after the stone, proper sick — no support - **2.** Nah, she reckoned he was daft, well confused — score 0 - **3.** Nah, she thought he'd lost his mind, proper confused, and wouldn't go near the king at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** Nah, she thought he'd gone mental, proper confused — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1091, line 2: «A rich, well-loved King loses his beautiful Queen, who makes him swear never to remarry unless he finds someone more beautiful than her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+1). 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} So the king was just gonna chuck her out, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he laughed — no support - **2.** Nah, he just listened, gravely, mad — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** Nah, he was dead serious, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, he chucked her out, proper rude — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1150, line 6: «WHO: the duckling is the ugly bird who turns out to be a swan, and the girl is the stepdaughter who is sent down the well.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn out» (+3); the same doer «ugly bird» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Bro, the weaver had actually got away with the flies thing, right? - **1.** Yeah, he got away clean, proper lucky, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Nah, he got done for murder by accident and then ran off to a village, proper trouble, innit — no support - **3.** Nah, he got done for murder sort of, proper trouble — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, he got nicked for the old lady, mad — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 853, line 15: «fact: She wants Rudy because "a boy whom I had kissed, but had not kissed to death" got away from her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «get away» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/books/1156-pg3027-part22/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In which village did the weaver arrive after fleeing the farmer's house, and what did the other weavers ask of him? - **1.** He arrived at a village of weavers. — score -1 - **2.** He arrived at a village of weavers and was asked to leave the group for the market. — score -1 - **3.** He reached a village of potters and was asked to help carry clay for their kilns. — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** He arrived at a village of weavers and was asked to join their journey for wool — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1156, line 2: «He hits the flies so hard that he kills the poor old woman, then runs off and finds a village of weavers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hit» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} What happened to the seven weavers as they crossed the dry ravine, and how did the farmer resolve their confusion? - **1.** The seven weavers, while crossing the ravine, failed to count themselves, so the farmer struck each of them while counting, and then they all walked home together to buy wool. — score 6 - **2.** One weaver fell into the ravine, so the farmer called the others to count to seven in a line. — score 7 - **3.** Each weaver failed to count himself, and the farmer struck each while counting to seven — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **4.** They forgot to count, so the farmer hit them. — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1156, line 11: «How: the farmer settles it with his stick, counting "One! two! three!" up to seven.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «count» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «farmer» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which possessions did the dying father bequeath to his son, and in what manner did the son employ them? - **1.** A horse, a goat and a greyhound, used to herd sheep and guard the house. — score 1 - **2.** A falcon, a cat and a greyhound, which the son trained carefully to hunt fat gazelles, catch rats in the barn, and bring back birds to the house. — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** A falcon, a cat and a greyhound, employed to hunt game and kill vermin — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** A greyhound, a falcon and a cat, passed down with the silver and used to hunt game, kill vermin, and guard the family's farm and flocks from thieves at night. — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 469, line 2: «Each night she rises from her coffin and conjures horrors, but he traces a circle, keeps reading and never looks behind him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trace» (+2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} What did the magic stone grant the son, and what did he ask of his mother when he returned home? - **1.** It granted all his wishes, and he begged her to ask the ogre for his silver back. — no support - **2.** It granted wishes, so he asked for gold. — no support - **3.** It granted his wishes, and he asked her to petition the king for the princess's hand — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** It turned his stone to silver, and he asked her to beg the farmer for his daughter's hand. — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1125, line 12: «Why Ivan got the fife: he gave St Peter the incense, asking for "a fife of such a sort that whenever I play upon it, every one will be obliged to dance".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1156-pg3027-part22/e4/) - ← previous: [1155. Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1155-pg3027-part21/) - next →: [1157. Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1157-pg3027-part23/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)