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title: Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1488 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 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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# Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1488 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/1488-pg503-part75/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky, right?

- **1.** Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a square — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Nah, he used six sticks — score 2
- **3.** Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a row — score 2
- **4.** Nah, he fixed seven sticks in a ring — score 2

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**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 1464, line 19: «Old word: a "distaff" was a stick that held wool or flax while spinning; today it is a museum object.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruv, who was buzzin' most about the horse show?

- **1.** The guards, dunno — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Emperor, he was well happy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Emperor, he was well grumpy — no support
- **4.** Nobody, bruv — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/1488-pg503-part75/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky?

- **1.** The rider fell off — no support
- **2.** It tore a hole and the horse bolted — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** It made a hole and the rider fell off — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** It kicked the hanky and nobody fell — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 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 629, line 4: «He wades off into the dark, sleeps beside the cannon, and hears a mule kick a camel for shouting "Thieves and fire!"», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mule» (+5). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). 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/1488-pg503-part75/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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no cap, did Gulliver get proper freedom or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, he swore the oath and then got it straight away with a big feast — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Yeah, he swore the oath and got it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, he begged and got a small cage — no support
- **4.** Nah, he swore the oath and got nothing — no support

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**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 1486, line 18: «Old word: a "quiver" was a case worn on the back to hold arrows; we still use the word for that same case today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+1); 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/1488-pg503-part75/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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innit wild that they had to hold their foot to swear?

- **1.** Nah, just a handshake — no support
- **2.** Nah, they shook hands, mate — no support
- **3.** Nah, right hand on heart, proper weird — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Yeah, right foot in left hand, proper weird — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1488, line 14: «The oath was sworn by holding "my right foot in my left hand" and placing a finger on the head and a thumb on the ear.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «left hand» (+4); the same property (+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/1488-pg503-part75/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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who was the big-head admiral who hated the giant for no reason?

- **1.** Bolgolam, the admiral of the realm — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Flimnap, the treasurer — no support
- **3.** Limtoc, the general of the whole army — no support
- **4.** Reldresal, the secretary — 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/1488-pg503-part75/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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what was the mad war about, like seriously?

- **1.** Eggs, that's all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Who got the last bit of cake — no support
- **3.** Breaking eggs — no support
- **4.** Breaking eggs the wrong end — **✓ 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/1488-pg503-part75/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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so the Blefuscu lot were gonna invade, yeah?

- **1.** Nah, they were making a massive fleet of little boats to take the whole island tomorrow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, they were making a massive fleet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, they were making a massive fleet and planning to hit the beach at dawn — no support
- **4.** Nah, they were making a massive feast — 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/1488-pg503-part75/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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how wide was the bit of water between the two islands?

- **1.** Eight hundred yards, that's dead wide — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Six hundred yards, that's dead wide — no support
- **3.** Only a few yards — score 2
- **4.** Like a hundred yards — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 289, line 19: «fact: "Ribands" was an old word for ribbons, and "odour" was an old word for a smell, which we now call a scent.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+2); the same circumstance (+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/1488-pg503-part75/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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bro, how deep was the channel in the middle at high water?

- **1.** About six feet, like seventy glumguffs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Like ten glumguffs, bro — score 2
- **3.** About six feet, like seventy yards — score 2
- **4.** About four feet, like forty glumguffs — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1108, line 8: «Where: the young man stands "in the very middle of the church", fenced in by his laths and boards.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «middle» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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so did Gulliver swim the whole way across?

- **1.** Nah, he waded and swam a bit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** Nah, he flew — no support
- **3.** Yeah, all swimming — no support
- **4.** Nah, he rode a horse across — score 2

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**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 973, line 15: «The shadow pretends to sigh, and the princess says it is "policy" to put the mad shadow out of the way, which is a cold word for getting rid of someone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «way» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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how many enemies jumped out and swam for it?

- **1.** Twenty thousand, at most — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** Thirty thousand, at least, all leaping off their ships at once — no support
- **3.** Thirty thousand or so, at least, and then they all got back on the ships — no support
- **4.** Thirty thousand, at least — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**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 684, line 11: «Why do the robbers' signal words matter? Each man must cry "Hop! I am here." when he jumps the ditch.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «jump» (+2). Against it: the same doer «man» (-1). 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/1488-pg503-part75/t12/)

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

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What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-Mountain from his obligations?

- **1.** Skyresh Flimnap, lord high treasurer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Flimnap, the treasurer — no support
- **3.** Skyresh Bolgolam, admiral of the realm — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Skyresh Bolgolam, lord high admiral — 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/1488-pg503-part75/e1/)

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

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According to the text, what was the depth of the channel at its middle, at high water, in glumguffs?

- **1.** Seventy glumguffs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Sixty glumguffs — no support
- **3.** Seventeen glumguffs — no support
- **4.** Ten glumguffs — 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/1488-pg503-part75/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Which garment did the narrator remove before entering the sea, in addition to his shoes and stockings?

- **1.** His coat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Hat — score 1
- **3.** Cape — score 1
- **4.** His jacket — score 1

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**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 1337, line 8: «Why: his mother fell ill soon after his birth and "could not take care of him herself".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). Against it: the same doer «mother» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/e3/)

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

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What was the approximate number of soldiers who, according to the text, fled from the enemy fleet onto the shore?

- **1.** No more than thirty thousand — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Not fewer than thirty thousand — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Not fewer than thirty thousand soldiers from the enemy fleet — no support
- **4.** About thirty thousand — 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/1488-pg503-part75/e4/)

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