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title: Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and so… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1409 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1409 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/1409-pg500-part22/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo, did the donkey really get sold for four cents?

- **1.** yep, four cents, lowkey wild — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yep — no support
- **3.** nope, two — no support
- **4.** nope, it was just two — 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/1409-pg500-part22/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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bruh, why did the buyer even want that donkey?

- **1.** for fun — no support
- **2.** just for his skin, for a drum — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** for the meat — no support
- **4.** only for his bones, for glue — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. 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 cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «last words» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1409-pg500-part22/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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ngl, was the sea trick real or fake?

- **1.** the sea did it, Pinocchio says — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** nobody knows, the story says — score 4
- **3.** fake, obviously — no support
- **4.** the sea made it, he said — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 618, line 1: «Sea Vitch tells Kotick to run away, so Kotick leaps in the air and shouts "Clam-eater!" until the gulls and puffins join in.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «sea» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1409-pg500-part22/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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fr, what did the Manager hit him with?

- **1.** the whip handle, hard, on the nose, and laughing — no support
- **2.** the handle, on his back side — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** the whip handle, on the nose, twice — score 5
- **4.** the whip handle, on the nose — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1409, line 11: «Why is he hit? The Manager strikes him "on the nose with the handle of the whip" to teach him good manners.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «manager» (+3); the same action «strike» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1409-pg500-part22/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so the Fairy just vanished from the box, right?

- **1.** no — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, she stayed here — no support
- **3.** maybe — no support
- **4.** yeah, she was gone — **✓ 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/1409-pg500-part22/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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sus, what was the medallion showing?

- **1.** a Marionette, like Pinocchio, with strings — score -5
- **2.** a wooden boy, not him — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** a Marionette, like Pinocchio — **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **4.** a clown, just like the Manager — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1387, line 17: «The men "bowed themselves to the ground" to show respect before the Sun and Moon.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «men» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/1409-pg500-part22/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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lol, did the crowd cheer when he jumped?

- **1.** nah, they just laughed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah — no support
- **3.** yes, loudly — no support
- **4.** nah, he fell in a heap — **✓ 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/1409-pg500-part22/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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wait, what happened to his legs at the ring?

- **1.** they bent, he slipped away — score 3
- **2.** they got caught in the hoop, he crashed hard — score 5
- **3.** they got stuck, he fell — score 4
- **4.** they got caught, he crashed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 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 651, line 3: «The dragon catches his leg and asks him to mend its loose wing, promising to eat him last.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2); the same thing acted on «leg» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1409-pg500-part22/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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that vet guy said what about him, bro?

- **1.** he'll never walk right again, the vet said that — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** he'll recover next week — no support
- **3.** he'll be lame forever, sadly, bro — no support
- **4.** he'll be lame forever — **✓ 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/1409-pg500-part22/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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no way, who untied the rope in the end?

- **1.** the old guy with the drum plan — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** the buyer, the man with coins — score 2
- **3.** the Fairy — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** the old man with the rope — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1324, line 17: «Why: the black man is the guardian of the wood, so he tells Kynon which way to go.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «way» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1409-pg500-part22/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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bro, what did the sea do to the Donkey?

- **1.** turned him back to wood, hard and cold, in the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** turned him back to wood — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** it drowned him — no support
- **4.** turned him back to wood and sank him — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1378, line 16: «What happened next: "the storm ceased at once" and the sea became "as calm and smooth" as matting.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sea» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «become» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1409-pg500-part22/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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ok so what's the vibe of the whole part?

- **1.** the story is calm and funny — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Pinocchio's life is a mess and he's sad — no support
- **3.** Pinocchio is happy now — no support
- **4.** Pinocchio's life is a mess — **✓ 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/1409-pg500-part22/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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lowkey, which trick did the Donkey fail first?

- **1.** the fire, he jumped — no support
- **2.** the hoop — no support
- **3.** the rings, he crashed — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** the drum — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1270, line 14: «What: when words fail, the young man waves his hand "upward and downward" before a face, a sign of gratitude.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fail» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «words» (-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/1409-pg500-part22/t13/)

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

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Identify the character who is cruelly sold for the sum of four cents.

- **1.** the Donkey, once the wooden boy who lied to everyone — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the Manager's dog, Lampwick — no support
- **3.** the Donkey, formerly Pinocchio — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the Donkey, formerly Pinocchio, the naughty boy — 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/1409-pg500-part22/e1/)

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

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State the reason the Manager gives for disposing of the animal at market.

- **1.** he is lame and of no use — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** he bites and is of no use — no support
- **3.** he kicks, so he's useless — no support
- **4.** he is sick — 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/1409-pg500-part22/e2/)

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

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Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide.

- **1.** to make shoes and bags — no support
- **2.** to fashion a drumhead — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** to make a drum head — no support
- **4.** to fashion a drumhead for the band — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1409, line 15: «Why does the buyer buy him? He wants "only his skin" to make a drumhead for his village band.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «drumhead» (+2). 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/1409-pg500-part22/e3/)

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

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Describe the mechanism by which the Marionette reappears upon the water's surface.

- **1.** the rope was hauled from the water — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the rope was pulled from the cliff — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the sea rose — no support
- **4.** by a boat — 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/1409-pg500-part22/e4/)

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