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# Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part 3: Dorothy gets silver shoes and sets off down the yellow road to the Emerald City

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1588 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/1588-pg55-part3/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, so how did the Witch bail, like, for real?

- **1.** She vanished — score 3
- **2.** She stamped her foot and left — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** She jumped up and flew off — no support
- **4.** She whirled round three times and vanished — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 464, line 17: «The witch swears "On my troth" she will not deceive them, but the heroes still burn her in the fiery fount at the end.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+3); the same thing acted on «feet» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Dude, were Dorothy's old shoes totally wrecked?

- **1.** Yeah, they were torn up — no support
- **2.** Yeah, they were worn out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Nah, they were fine, but she had lost one of them — no support
- **4.** Yeah, they were worn out and her toes were showing through the holes — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1406, line 11: «The wagon is pulled by "twelve pair of donkeys," and their feet wear "laced shoes made of leather."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wear» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «laced shoes» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Did Dorothy go hungry, or what? She had bread, right?

- **1.** Nah, she ate a big meal of roast chicken and pie — score -3
- **2.** She had bread, but she ate it with honey and cold meat — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** She ate bread with butter — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** She drank milk and ate jam — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 127, line 5: «In the forest the girl shares her bread with three dwarfs, who reward her with gold and a King, while the spiteful stepsister's rudeness brings her toads and a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «girl» (-1); the same thing acted on «bread» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Wait, was the brook water muddy and gross?

- **1.** Nah, it was green and slimy — no support
- **2.** Nah, it was clear and sparkling — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, it was brown and smelly — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** Nah, it was dry — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 12: «In February floods the brown water runs by his best bedroom window; in dry times the mud «smells like plum-cake» and he finds things «careless people have drop…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brown water» (+3). 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/1588-pg55-part3/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Lol, Toto barked at the birds, right?

- **1.** He barked at the cows in the field — score 0
- **2.** He barked at birds in the trees — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Nah, he barked at a big grey wolf sitting under the old willow tree — score 0
- **4.** Yeah, he barked at the birds and then chased a rabbit into the grass — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1290, line 2: «He follows the horse tracks, and a yellow dog, a grey hawk and an otter each warn him and send him on his way.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «way» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: 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/1588-pg55-part3/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Was the party at Boq's place like a total hoedown?

- **1.** Yeah, with dancing, fiddlers, and tables piled high with cakes — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Nah, with games and sweets — no support
- **3.** Yeah, with singing and drums — no support
- **4.** Yeah, with dancing and fiddlers — **✓ the right answer** · 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 934, line 16: «Old word: "Allah" is the Arabic word for God, which the merchants bow down to in the story.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «arabic word» (+1); 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/1588-pg55-part3/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Did Boq think Dorothy was, like, a mega-witch?

- **1.** Nah, a wicked one — no support
- **2.** Yeah, a kind old lady — no support
- **3.** Yeah, a witch — no support
- **4.** Yeah, a friendly witch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1588, line 12: «Why she is a witch to them: blue is the colour of the Munchkins and white is the witch colour, so they think she is "a friendly witch".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dorothy» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Was the road to the Emerald City kinda hard to find?

- **1.** Nah, it was easy to see — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Yeah, hard — no support
- **3.** Nah, hidden — no support
- **4.** Yeah, very hard to spot — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1519, line 1: «The youngest brother waves goodbye to his father where three roads meet and goes off alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «three roads» (+3); the same action «meet» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Did the Munchkins' houses look normal, or super weird?

- **1.** Square, plain — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tall, grey — no support
- **3.** Square, with red paint and roofs — no support
- **4.** Round, with blue paint and domes — **✓ 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/1588-pg55-part3/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Did Dorothy's sheets have, like, the coolest colour?

- **1.** Green linen — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Blue cloth — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Soft white cotton with a patterned border — no support
- **4.** Silk — 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/1588-pg55-part3/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Did the baby pull Toto's tail, or was it the other way round?

- **1.** Nobody did — no support
- **2.** Toto pulled the baby's ear and then the baby pulled his tail — score 1
- **3.** The baby pulled his tail — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** Toto pulled her — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1294, line 4: «A wolf climbs down into the same tree, and Antoine pulls its tail, since a wolf cannot turn its head to look back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pull» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «tail» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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So why did everyone bow to Dorothy on the road?

- **1.** They feared she had come to rule the land — no support
- **2.** They knew she had beaten the Wicked Witch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** They knew she had beaten the Wicked Witch and freed the Munchkins from her spell forever — score 1
- **4.** They had heard she had come from the sky and wanted to see the magic shoes — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1588, line 12: «Why she is a witch to them: blue is the colour of the Munchkins and white is the witch colour, so they think she is "a friendly witch".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «friendly witch» (+2). Against it: the same doer «dorothy» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/t12/)

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

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Which object did the cap become when the little old woman counted?

- **1.** A slate bearing a written message — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A leather book with a silver lock and a written note inside — no support
- **3.** A slate — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **4.** A slate bearing a long written message of advice and instructions — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 828, line 3: «The paper cries "Ugh" as it burns, then its words turn to fire and it shouts that it is mounting up to the sun.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «words» (-3). 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/1588-pg55-part3/e1/)

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

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By what means did the Witch of the North protect Dorothy from harm?

- **1.** By bestowing a kiss upon her forehead — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** By giving her a silver wand to hold — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **3.** With a spell — no support
- **4.** By sending a bird to watch over her — score -5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -4, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1588, line 4: «By evening she reaches a Munchkin party, where rich Boq feeds her, gives her a bed, and the people think she is a witch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «give» (-2); the same receiver «dorothy» (-2). 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/1588-pg55-part3/e2/)

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

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What colour was principally favoured by the inhabitants of the eastern country?

- **1.** Red — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Green — no support
- **3.** Blue — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Tan — 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/1588-pg55-part3/e3/)

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

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Which garment did Dorothy select for her journey?

- **1.** The gingham frock with white and blue checks and a lace collar — score -4
- **2.** The plain cotton frock with a sash, a pink sunbonnet, and boots — score -3
- **3.** The gingham frock with white and blue checks — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **4.** The silver shoes with bright buckles — **← Mova's choice** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 698, line 19: «Old word: a "progress" is a royal journey round the kingdom, made to check that the governors are honest; the word is rarely used now.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-1); the same circumstance (-2). The right option, 3, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1588-pg55-part3/e4/)

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