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title: Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungr… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1190 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 14 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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# Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungry wolf, then outwits the whole wolf pack's revenge plan

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**Tests:** 6 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1190 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/1190-pg3027-part56/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo so the wolf kept begging the mink to let him fish, right? what finally made the mink say yes?

- **1.** He felt sorry for him — no support
- **2.** He got tired of the begging — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** He got tired of all the begging and whining from the wolf — score 4
- **4.** The wolf kept on begging until the mink finally just gave in and said yes — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 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 1190, line 9: «Why the mink gives in: he "grew tired of it" and paddles to the shore so the wolf can jump in.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mink» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruh was the red egg warning sus or nah? what did the mink say about them?

- **1.** They'd burn your mouth — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **2.** They would kill you — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They're fine — no support
- **4.** They make you sick — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1190, line 14: «The mink's rudeness: he tells her she had better make her noise "outside" as he likes to be quiet.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-4). 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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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ok real talk, who got clapped in the end?

- **1.** The mink, for sure — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** The mink, obviously, since he won the whole thing — no support
- **3.** The wolf, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** The grandma, lowkey — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1049, line 20: «old word "Lochlann": the old Irish name for the lands of the Norsemen, which today would be parts of Scandinavia such as Norway.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «today parts» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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wait the grandma knew it was her grandson's skin just by looking?

- **1.** Yeah, she guessed it straight away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, she guessed it straight away from the smell and the colour — no support
- **3.** Yeah, she spotted it fast — no support
- **4.** Nah, she only realised after she searched the whole cottage for clues — 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/1190-pg3027-part56/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so how did the wolves plan to get the mink, like what was the move?

- **1.** A surprise attack at night — no support
- **2.** Hunting him in the forest — no support
- **3.** A big feast with invitations sent to every wolf in the area — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** A big feast and invitations — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 153, line 14: «Hard word: "deputation" means a group sent to speak for others; the Wolves send one to the Sheep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+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/1190-pg3027-part56/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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lowkey the mink set up the mouse, right? what did he ask her to do?

- **1.** Bite the rope — no support
- **2.** Gnaw the wolves' bows — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Chew the wolves' canoes — no support
- **4.** Gnaw through the wolves' bows and paddles before the feast — **← Mova's choice** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1190, line 4: «The wolves plan a great feast to catch the mink, but the mink secretly asks a mouse to gnaw through their bows and paddles.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same place «bows» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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the mouse was getting carried every night for a week, what was that for?

- **1.** A field of beans — score 6
- **2.** A patch of maize — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Some corn — score 6
- **4.** Food — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1190, line 18: «The mink's bargain: he promises to carry the mouse "every night for a week" to the patch of maize.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «mouse» (+4); the same action «carry» (+2); 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/1190-pg3027-part56/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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ngl the mink saw no guests at the wolves' place, what did that mean?

- **1.** The guests had gone home — score -1
- **2.** The wolves were planning a trap — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The wolves had set a trap and were waiting for him to come — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** It meant the wolves were planning some kind of trap for him to fall into — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 49, line 20: «When the moon rises, the old places seem to have «put on this pure new apparel» (apparel and raiment are old words for clothes) and wait «to see if they would…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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bro how did the mink even get out of the hut?

- **1.** He wriggled out through the tiny knot-hole in the wall — no support
- **2.** He escaped through a small hole in the wall of the hut — no support
- **3.** Through the chimney — no support
- **4.** Through the knot-hole — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1190, line 16: «The mink's answer: he sends word by a white hare that he would be "delighted to be present".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mink» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: 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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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wait the bows broke for real? why did they break?

- **1.** The mouse had gnawed through them in the night before — no support
- **2.** They were chewed — no support
- **3.** They had been gnawed through — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** They had been cut apart — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1190, line 17: «The mouse's job: gnaw the bows "so that directly they use them they will break", without anyone noticing.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «gnaw» (+3); the same thing acted on «bows» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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fr, why couldn't the wolves follow him through that hole?

- **1.** The hole was much too small for their big bodies to fit — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** It was too small for them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They were too big — no support
- **4.** The hole was too tiny — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 636, line 18: «where: The rock's point goes "into a hole that just fitted it in the stony sea bottom".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fit» (+2); the same doer «hole» (+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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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yo the wolves just bolted off, where to?

- **1.** To the rocky shore down by the sea where their canoes were parked — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** To the shore where the boats sat — no support
- **3.** To the sandy beach where all of their canoes were kept — no support
- **4.** To the beach where the canoes were — **✓ 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/1190-pg3027-part56/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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bruh the mink was so polite and smiley, what was his trick?

- **1.** He was nice — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He hid his rage — no support
- **3.** He was just kind — no support
- **4.** He smiled while plotting — **✓ 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/1190-pg3027-part56/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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so the old wolf wanted to avenge his grandson, right? what did he say?

- **1.** "we shall find the mink" — no support
- **2.** "we will avenge him and bring the mink to justice" — score -3
- **3.** "we will punish them" — no support
- **4.** "we will avenge him" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 1135, line 10: «fact: When: he says "Call all the head men of Senna here to the river's bank."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «fact» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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At which location does the young wolf commence his angling expedition, according to the narrative?

- **1.** Where the wide river slowly debouches into the sea beyond the forest and the hills — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Where the river debouches into the sea — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** At the place the river meets the lake — no support
- **4.** At a favourite spot where the great river finally debouches into the open sea — 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/1190-pg3027-part56/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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By what means does the mink ultimately dispatch the young wolf?

- **1.** By hitting him over the head with a club — score -2
- **2.** By drowning him — no support
- **3.** By stabbing him through the heart with a knife — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** By shooting him in the chest with an arrow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1190, line 12: «What the mink does: he "stabbed him to the heart with his knife", and the wolf "died without moving".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/e2/)

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

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What stratagem does the mink employ to frustrate the wolves' vengeful assembly?

- **1.** He enlists a mouse to gnaw through their weapons — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** He persuades a friendly mouse to quietly gnaw through every one of the wolves' weapons at night — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** He tricks the wolves with a false feast — score 0
- **4.** He enlists a mouse to secretly gnaw through all of the wolves' bows and paddles — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1190, line 18: «The mink's bargain: he promises to carry the mouse "every night for a week" to the patch of maize.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+4); the same thing acted on «mouse» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «mink» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/e3/)

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

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Through what opening does the mink effect his escape from the feast?

- **1.** Through a knot-hole too small for the wolves — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Through a narrow gap beneath the roof beam — no support
- **3.** Through a tiny knot-hole in the wall that was far too small for the wolves — no support
- **4.** Through a small hole in the wooden wall — 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/1190-pg3027-part56/e4/)

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