--- title: Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks the Lapp,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1244 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 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/1244-pg3282-part45/) [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/) / 1244 # Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks the Lapp, the fish and the asp **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1244 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/1244-pg3282-part45/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Oi, the fox was proper sly with that brook trick, weren't he? - **1.** He faked a wash in the brook, then set up loud shrieks that sent everybody scattering into the woods for good — score 2 - **2.** He pretended to wash then yelled at everyone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** He faked a wash and then shrieked till everyone ran off — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **4.** He splashed about and cried out till the animals fled — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1236, line 16: «Why: the fox whines because a man might rob them, so the fox calls the boy "Cousin" and they share a pillow.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «fox» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Bruv, why did the Lapp go mental when the fox dumped bones on him? - **1.** Cos the fox had secretly swapped all the good reindeer meat for mouldy old bones while the Lapp slept in his tent — score 1 - **2.** Cos the fox had nicked the meat and left bones in its place — score 1 - **3.** Cos the fox had told the wolves about the reindeer and they ate all the meat before he got home from fishing — score 1 - **4.** Cos the fox had swapped the good reindeer meat for bones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 1244, line 5: «The salmon gets boiled, boiling water blinds the fox, and he swaps his eyes with an asp.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fox» (+2); the same action «swap» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Innit wild that the ermine got a hook chucked at it? What's the sitch with its tail? - **1.** The hook tore its whole tail off, and a new black tail-tip grew back over the summer months — no support - **2.** It was a snow-hare and it shed its winter coat fast — no support - **3.** The hook made its fur turn grey and it never grew back — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Its tail-tip stayed black ever since the hook touched it — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 336, line 13: «Hook makes Peter kick him instead of stab, and says "Bad form" as he goes "content to the crocodile".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hook» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Did the salmon actually get boiled, or is that just a massive fib? - **1.** It was cooked, but the fox ate it whole — score 4 - **2.** It was grilled and the bees stung the fox — no support - **3.** It got boiled in a pot and the fox stole it, then the steam burned his eyes — score 0 - **4.** It got boiled and the water blinded the fox — **← 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, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1244, line 5: «The salmon gets boiled, boiling water blinds the fox, and he swaps his eyes with an asp.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «blind» (+4); the same doer «boiling water» (+2); the same thing acted on «fox» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Yo, the fox asked the bee for eyes, what was that all about? - **1.** He needed a spare pair of eyes after getting blinded — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** He had dropped his eyes and needed to find them — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** He had been blinded by the boiling pot and needed spare eyes to go on with his trickery — score 1 - **4.** He wanted a new pair to see the salmon better — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1242, line 14: «At the start of the fox tale, the fox was "feeling very dull and rather cross," so he decided to pretend to be dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «fox» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Mate, that fish race was mad, who even won? - **1.** Nobody won, because the fox got stuck in the middle and the Lapp called the race off — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The eel, who swam fastest of all — no support - **3.** The pike, who yelled that it had won — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The eel won — 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/1244-pg3282-part45/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} So the fox just swapped eyes with a snake and ran off? Proper weird, yeah? - **1.** Yes, he got burnt — no support - **2.** Yeah, he ran away — score 2 - **3.** Yeah, he swapped with a snake and the snake got stung — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Yeah, he gave the asp his eyes and the asp got burnt — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1108, line 17: «The Tsar's dream tells him that his daughter grieves for "the youth who drove the unclean spirit out of her".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «youth» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Did the queen's cat really have a kitten, or was it just a story? - **1.** The cat had a kitten, but the queen had no baby girl — score 2 - **2.** The cat was a witch and the kitten was a fairy — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** The cat had a kitten, and the queen had the baby girl, who was then taken to the forest by the fairy as a gift — score 2 - **4.** The cat had a kitten, and the queen had the baby girl — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 586, line 14: «Uncle Remus says witches "comes diffunt," so they can look like a cow or a cat, and a big black cat with yellow eyes in the road is a witch "fresh fum de Ole B…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «witch» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/1244-pg3282-part45/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Bro, where did the kitten go missing from? Was it in the bookshelves? - **1.** It went missing from the kitchen one day — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It vanished from the baby's room one evening — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It was taken from the royal library shelves one stormy night when the queen was asleep in her chamber upstairs — no support - **4.** It vanished from the baby's room one evening, after the servants had searched the whole palace garden and the stables — 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/1244-pg3282-part45/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Ngl the princess's ball went proper far, didn't it? Where did it land? - **1.** Into the lake near the far field — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **2.** In a clump of rose-bushes in the garden — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **3.** On the top of the castle wall — score -1 - **4.** In the pond — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 6, line 5: «Left alone, she cries again, until she hears little footsteps and hopes the Mouse is coming back: a funny part with a sad ending, about not always noticing how…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «land» (+1). Against it: the same doer «words» (-2). 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/1244-pg3282-part45/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Honestly, the cat's job for the queen was dead important, yeah? - **1.** She rode to the town to buy some medicine — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** She went to the forest to ask a fairy for help, and then she brought back a magic herb to cure the baby — score 2 - **3.** She travelled to the mill to find a cure — score 2 - **4.** She went to the forest to ask a fairy for help — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 863, line 4: «They sit under the acacia, watch the sunset glow on the mountains, and feel perfectly happy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+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/1244-pg3282-part45/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Bruv, the fox is a right trickster, innit? What did he do to the Lapp's reindeer? - **1.** He got all the dead reindeer for himself — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** He got all the dead reindeer for himself, after blaming the bear and wolves for killing them in the snowy valley — score 5 - **3.** He took the reindeer meat home alone — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** He tricked the Lapp into giving him all the fish, bones, and reindeer skins, then left the Lapp with nothing but an empty sledge — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 402, line 11: «What happens next: "a just retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle" when she carries burning meat to her nest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fox» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «carry» (+1); the same thing acted on «burning meat» (+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/1244-pg3282-part45/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Ngl, the fox pulled that salmon trick, but who does the salmon belong to? - **1.** The salmon belonged to the boatman in the end — no support - **2.** The salmon was caught by the fox from the water, and then the boatman claimed it as his own catch for the family dinner — score -1 - **3.** The salmon was caught by the fox from the water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** The salmon was given to the fox by the pike after the race, since the pike had lost and owed him a fish — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 994, line 17: «The fox's skin was found "fastened to the bell-pull of a young man who always went to early lecture."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «young man» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which creature was the fox obliged to make the Lapp believe had slain the reindeer? - **1.** The fox's comrades were the creatures falsely accused by him. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** The bears were the ones he blamed — score 1 - **3.** The wolves — no support - **4.** The wolves and bears were blamed for the deed — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 191, line 3: «Sindbad sails home with gold, presents and ivory, and reaches Bagdad safely.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «sindbad» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means did the fox obtain the eyes that he subsequently bestowed upon the asp? - **1.** He begged the bee for the eyes and got them slowly — score 2 - **2.** He asked a wise old owl in the forest for a pair of eyes, and the owl gave him a pair from its own nest of chicks — score 1 - **3.** He removed his own eyes from his head and transferred them. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** He removed his own eyes from his head and transferred them to the asp, who had asked him for help with his tail — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 535, line 21: «Where were the Graeae? On the "borders of Oceanus," and Perseus took their one eye and tooth until they gave him directions.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same thing acted on «one eye» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1244-pg3282-part45/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What is the principal consequence for the ermine upon the Lapp's attack with the hook? - **1.** Its tail-tip remains black permanently after the strike, and its whole body turns dark until the next winter — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It loses its winter coat and its tail goes white completely — no support - **3.** Its tail-tip remains black permanently after the strike. — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The ermine flees north, its whole tail is torn off, and it never returns to the Lapp's valley again — 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/1244-pg3282-part45/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} In what manner did the fox first induce the boatman to fling him into the stream? - **1.** He loudly complained that his boat had sprung a leak — score 1 - **2.** He repeatedly wished aloud that he had a boat to mend. — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** He repeatedly wished aloud that he had a boat to mend, until the boatman, feeling sorry for him, gave him one — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** He kept saying he needed a boat to repair today — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 1244, line 4: «The fox tricks a boatman into tossing him onto an island, then begs the fish to carry him across.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «fox» (-1). 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/1244-pg3282-part45/e4/) - ← previous: [1243. Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1243-pg3282-part44/) - next →: [1245. 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