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title: Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor i… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 134 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 16 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow

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**Tests:** 5 of 16 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 20 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 134 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/134-pg11339-part4/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv?

- **1.** To sneak up on the birds — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** To hunt — no support
- **3.** To scare birds — no support
- **4.** To catch mice in the barn — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 95, line 4: «And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails an…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2); the same doer «cats» (+1). 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/134-pg11339-part4/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Wait, what did the birds tell him, mate?

- **1.** Get lost, we've had enough of you — no support
- **2.** Stay out, we've seen enough of you, so take your medicine and go home now — score 2
- **3.** Stay out, we've seen enough of you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Stay out, we've seen enough of you, and don't come back to the aviary again — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 113, line 10: «The sisters are cruel because they are jealous; the eldest says "you will see his beautiful claws!" to scare the bride.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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That swallow thing, was the bloke daft for ditching his coat?

- **1.** Yeah, he thought summer had landed early, so he sold his coat for nothing — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Yeah, he reckoned winter had gone — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he thought summer had landed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, he was daft, thought summer had landed and then the frost came and he froze — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 134, line 10: «What the Spendthrift does wrong: he thinks summer has come, so he sells his coat, and then the frost kills the Swallow.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «sell» (+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/134-pg11339-part4/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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So the frost killed the swallow, proper gutted, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, a sharp frost got it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Yeah, a sharp frost got it, proper gutted, and the boys took the body home — score 6
- **3.** Yeah, a heavy snow got it — no support
- **4.** Nah, a boy with a stone — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 134, line 10: «What the Spendthrift does wrong: he thinks summer has come, so he sells his coat, and then the frost kills the Swallow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «frost» (+4); the same thing acted on «swallow» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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The doctor who made the old lady pay up, what did he nick?

- **1.** Some silver from her shelf — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Her cash — no support
- **3.** Stuff out of her house — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Her coat from the hallway — 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/134-pg11339-part4/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Why'd the old lady not pay him, innit?

- **1.** She said she was blinder than ever, so the cure had failed and no fee was owed — score 5
- **2.** She said he had not cured her — score 5
- **3.** She said she was blinder than ever — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** She claimed he robbed her blind — 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, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 87, line 1: «A week after the picture-letter muddle, Taffy slips off to go carp-fishing with her Daddy again instead of helping Mummy hang hides. She giggles about the Head…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Where'd they take the case, the magistrates?

- **1.** Prison — **← Mova's choice** · score -5
- **2.** Home — score -5
- **3.** To the court — **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **4.** To the town hall — score -5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 133, line 18: «The Fox's last words are his excuse: the grapes "are quite sour" now, so he did not need them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «words» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 3, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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The moon wanting a gown, why couldn't her mum make one?

- **1.** She keeps moving about — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** She keeps changing shape — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** She keeps changing shape every night so the gown never fits her well — score 5
- **4.** She's too busy — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 134, line 4: «The Moon cannot have a gown, because her shape keeps changing, and Mercury rewards an honest woodman but punishes a greedy one.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2). 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/134-pg11339-part4/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first?

- **1.** A bronze axe — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Silver — score 7
- **3.** A spade — score 7
- **4.** A golden axe — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 44, line 1: «The field-mice sing an old carol about standing in the cold and snow, about Joseph and Mary finding a stable, and about the animals in the stable being the fir…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+6); the same doer «field mice» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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That greedy one who went fishing for axes, what did he shout?

- **1.** "That's mine, that's mine, the golden one is definitely mine to keep" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** That's mine, that's mine — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** "That's mine, that's mine, I dropped it in the river and want it back" — no support
- **4.** "Hand it over now, please" — 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/134-pg11339-part4/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the greedy woodman get any axe back, sus?

- **1.** Nah, he lost it all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, he got nowt back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, he got his axe — no support
- **4.** Nah — 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/134-pg11339-part4/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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The ass and the fox, who got eaten first?

- **1.** The lion — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** The fox — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** The ass was eaten first by the lion who was hungry — score 7
- **4.** The mouse — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 77, line 4: «Back on the empty veldt the hungry Leopard and the hunter eat rats and beetles, get a terrible tummy-ache, and ask the wise Baboon, Baviaan, where all the anim…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «rats» (+5); the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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So the mouse saved the lion, bare ace, what with?

- **1.** Its teeth on the rope — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Its paws — score 7
- **3.** Its claws on the net — score 7
- **4.** Its teeth on the ropes — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 18, line 1: «The Queen wakes a Gryphon sleeping in the sun (a creature that is half eagle, half lion), orders it to take Alice to the Mock Turtle, and goes off to see about…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «creature» (+4); the same thing acted on «half eagle» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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Crow dropping stones in a jug, how did that help her?

- **1.** Water fell — no support
- **2.** It drowned — no support
- **3.** The water rose up to the top — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** The pebbles sank below the jug — 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 134, line 18: «What the Crow does: she drops pebbles into the pitcher so the water rises "until at last it reached the brim".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «rise» (+3); the same doer «water» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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Boys chucking stones at frogs, what did a frog say?

- **1.** Stop, it's death to us — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Stop, you're hurting us — no support
- **3.** Stop, it's a game for you but death to us, so please stop now — no support
- **4.** Please, you're killing us — 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/134-pg11339-part4/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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Wind and sun, who got the traveller's coat off?

- **1.** The wind, by blowing hard — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The sun, by being warm — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The wind — no support
- **4.** The sun — 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/134-pg11339-part4/t16/)

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

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Which of the following statements is correctly attributed to the Spendthrift in the fable concerning the Swallow?

- **1.** He claimed the Swallow had flown south and left him alone in the cold weather — score -1
- **2.** He stated that the Swallow's death had caused his own suffering from cold, and that the frost had killed his sheep in the fields as well — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** He stated that the Swallow's death had caused his own suffering from cold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He stated that the Swallow's death had caused his own suffering from cold, and that he would never sell his coat again in any season soon — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 134, line 2: «A spendthrift sells his coat on a warm-looking spring day, but a sharp frost kills the swallow and leaves him freezing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+1); the same doer «sharp frost» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). 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/134-pg11339-part4/e1/)

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

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With reference to the Doctor and the Old Woman, which condition governed the payment of the fee?

- **1.** Fee was set by the magistrates after each visit to the house — no support
- **2.** Payment was due only upon the successful cure of her blindness — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Payment was due only upon the successful cure of her blindness, which the magistrates would later confirm in full at court — no support
- **4.** Payment was due only upon the successful cure of her blindness, and the doctor was allowed to take goods from the house meanwhile — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 134, line 11: «What the Doctor agrees: a high fee if he cures her, but "nothing" if he fails, and he takes something from the house on every visit.», 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 «doctor» (+2). Against it: a different doer (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/134-pg11339-part4/e2/)

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

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According to the fable of the Lion and the Mouse, what action by the Mouse secured the release of the Lion?

- **1.** The Mouse bit the lion gently on the nose to wake him — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** The Mouse gnawed through the ropes of the net with its teeth — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** The Mouse gnawed through the ropes of the net with its teeth, after the lion had promised it a reward for its help — score 5
- **4.** The Mouse gnawed through the ropes of the hunter's net with its teeth, then ran off into the forest unseen by anyone — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 43, line 4: «Just as the Rat gets the sardine tin open, there are scuffling feet and tiny voices outside: «Now, all in a line — hold the lantern up a bit, Tommy». It's the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «lantern» (+2); the same thing acted on «field mice» (+2). 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/134-pg11339-part4/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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What is the principal moral conveyed by the fable of the North Wind and the Sun?

- **1.** Strength is greater than kindness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Persuasion is more effective than force — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Patience always wins over hasty anger — no support
- **4.** Persuasion is more effective than force, as the traveller's own choice to remove his cloak shows clearly — 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/134-pg11339-part4/e4/)

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