--- title: The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, part 1:… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1677 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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/1677-pg640-part1/) [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/) / 1677 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, part 1: the cat and mouse hide a pot of fat in the church, and the cat secretly eats it **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1677 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/1677-pg640-part1/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, the cat told the mouse she had a cousin with a baby, bruh, but that was total fake news - **1.** Lowkey a lie, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Totally true, fr fr — no support - **3.** Yeah bruv, she was lying through her teeth, no shade — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Real talk, that's the tea — no support **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 1447, line 10: «What: the cat lies down "as if he had been dead" and a "rash and foolish young rabbit" jumps into his bag.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lie down» (+2); the same doer «cat» (+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/1677-pg640-part1/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Did the cat really go to a christening or nah? - **1.** Nah, she went to the church, ate the fat, then spent the day on the roofs — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Nah, she went to the church to eat the fat — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Nah, she went to the church to eat the fat and lied about the baby — score 5 - **4.** Yeah, she went to a wedding up the road — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1246, line 19: «Old word: a "muff" was once a tube of fur for warming the hands, but here the cat wears it round his neck like a collar.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «cat» (+1). 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/1677-pg640-part1/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} The mouse asked for a drop of red christening wine, so she was basically trusting the cat, right? - **1.** Yeah, bruv — no support - **2.** Yeah, the mouse was way too trusting and the cat took full advantage of that — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Nah, she was just being polite — no support - **4.** Yeah, the mouse was too trusting, mate — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1603, line 12: «The Queen of the Mice reminds them that the City is "a great way off, for you have had it at your backs all this time."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «city» (+2); the same doer «mice» (+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/1677-pg640-part1/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Bro, the cat stretched out on the roofs all day, lol, what a chill life - **1.** Nah, she was actually planning her next meal from the church pot all day long — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she was just vibing in the sun — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she was napping in the shade — no support - **4.** Yeah, she was just vibing in the sun while the mouse was stuck at home — 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/1677-pg640-part1/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} The cat licked the top off the pot, that's proper dodgy, innit - **1.** Nah, she was just tasting it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, that was a proper plan — no support - **3.** Yeah, that was well dodgy, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Proper fair — no support **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 1492, line 13: «The golden knight rides "as if it were no hill at all," and he is the only one who reaches the top.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «top» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «only one» (+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/1677-pg640-part1/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} So they hid the pot in the church, yeah, cos no one would nick it there? - **1.** Nah, they hid it in the church because the priest said it was safe there — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Nah, they hid it under the floor — score 4 - **3.** Yeah, that was the plan, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, that was the plan, innit, but the cat had other plans for the pot — score 3 **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 1677, line 8: «Where: they hide the little pot in the church, because "No one will trouble to take it away from there."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); the same thing acted on «little pot» (+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/1677-pg640-part1/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} The cat called the baby white with brown spots, like, that's a proper made-up detail - **1.** Yeah, she described it well — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she made that up, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, that was a real detail — no support - **4.** Yeah, true — 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/1677-pg640-part1/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Did the mouse twig that the cat was lying, or was she clueless? - **1.** She was clueless, bless her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** She twigged it straight away and said nothing to the cat about the lie — score 5 - **3.** She twigged it straight away — score 3 - **4.** She was clueless about the lie but she guessed the cat was up to something — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1595, line 5: «The Queen promises that her mice will help save the Lion, and the Woodman builds a truck while thousands of mice bring string.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «lion» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «mice» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1677-pg640-part1/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} What's the name of the mouse's bestie in this story, do you reckon? - **1.** Nobody says, it's just the cat and mouse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** I reckon the mouse's bestie is called Mabel and she lives in the barn — no support - **3.** Her bestie's called Nancy, I reckon, yeah — no support - **4.** Probably Lulu, she's the mouse's friend — no support **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 450, line 7: «What: he asks her for a cord, and it is she who is tied up, not the one who forges an eye.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «woman» (+2); the same doer «name» (+1). Against it: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1677-pg640-part1/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Did the cat go to the church first or the roofs first, mate? - **1.** She went to the church first, innit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** The church came after the roofs, innit — score 3 - **3.** She went to the roofs first, yeah — score 4 - **4.** She went to the roofs first, then the church, then back home, innit — score 4 **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 688, line 1: «Lucia tries on her bridal wreath and wishes her father Peter could lead her to church, and she weeps.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «church» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1677-pg640-part1/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Was the cat a sneaky type, or a proper honest one? - **1.** Proper honest, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Honest, fam — no support - **3.** Dead honest, mate, no lies — no support - **4.** Proper sneaky, fam — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1677-pg640-part1/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Why did the cat say she was going out, like, what was the excuse? - **1.** A wedding feast for her brother, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A christening, the cousin's baby, and she needed to be a godmother — no support - **3.** A christening, the cousin's baby — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A birthday party for her cousin's kid — 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/1677-pg640-part1/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} So the cat's story was just a load of lies, right? - **1.** Yeah, all made up, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, total porky pies — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, lies — no support - **4.** Nah, true — 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/1677-pg640-part1/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following describes the arrangement between the Cat and the Mouse at the beginning of the tale? - **1.** They agreed to move into a larger house together and split all the costs of the household fairly — score 3 - **2.** They agreed to share a dwelling and the household provisions — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** They decided to live apart and divide the food supplies equally — score 2 - **4.** They agreed to keep separate homes but split the household goods — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 736, line 7: «What: the cat says they must "make a provision for winter," so they buy a pot of fat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «provision» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «cat» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1677-pg640-part1/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} In what location did the Cat advise that the pot of fat be deposited for safekeeping? - **1.** By the north door wall — no support - **2.** In the church, in a corner — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** In the belfry of the church, high up beside the bells — no support - **4.** Inside the church, hidden in a dusty corner of the vestry — **← Mova's choice** · score -3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1677, line 3: «The cat chooses the church, saying no one will bother to take it there, and they hide it in a corner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «hide» (-1); the same place «corner» (-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/1677-pg640-part1/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What pretext did the Cat offer the Mouse to justify her absence from the dwelling? - **1.** Attendance as godmother at her cousin's child's christening — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Attendance as godmother at a christening of her cousin's child held at the village church on Sunday — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** Sitting as godmother at a christening for her cousin's son, who had been born in the spring — score 0 - **4.** Helping her cousin with a family matter at the farm — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1247, line 8: «The cat holds "on tight to this with all his four paws" and touches the ball with his tail.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cat» (+2). Against it: the same action «hold» (-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/1677-pg640-part1/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which action did the Cat undertake on arriving at the church, and in what manner? - **1.** She ate the pot — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** She ran off — no support - **3.** She nibbled the edge of the bread, quietly — score -2 - **4.** She licked the top from the fat, in secret — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1451, line 3: «They eat together, and the Prince finds a portrait of a handsome young man in her bracelet, a man who looks just like him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cats» (+2). Against it: the same action «eat» (-2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1677-pg640-part1/e4/) - ← previous: [1675. Italian Popular Tales, Ciccu: the veil, the ring…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1675-pg5615-part64/) - next →: [1678. Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1678-pg640-part2/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)