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title: Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1771 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 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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# Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children

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

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Lesson 1771 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/1771-pg641-part22/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Dude, did Stan really scare the dragon off with a hundred kids?

- **1.** Yeah, he told the dragon about a hundred kids with forks and the dragon totally bolted home to his mum — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Yeah, he said he had a hundred kids and the dragon totally bolted — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Yeah, he claimed a hundred kids and the dragon just walked off — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he said he had a hundred kids and the dragon totally bolted, leaving all the gold behind for him — 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 1771, line 10: «Why again: Stan tells a clever lie, that he has "a hundred children" who are "always ready for a fight," and the dragon believes him.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, so why didn't Stan want the dragon to know his house?

- **1.** Cause the dragon might steal his sheep, innit — score 1
- **2.** Cause the dragon would be cross about the money, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** Cause the dragon might come back for his treasure, innit — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Cause it was his house, innit — 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, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1771, line 2: «Stan says he is ashamed to go home with so little money, so the dragon and his mother beg him to leave and offer seven times seven sacks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stan» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Lol, what did the dragon's mum even offer Stan?

- **1.** Six times six the number of purses — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Seven sacks of gold — score 4
- **3.** Like three sacks, I think — no support
- **4.** Seven times seven the number of sacks — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 341, line 17: «Old word: "bidden" means told or ordered, so "as he was bidden" means the servant did what the king commanded.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bid» (+3); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Bruh, what condition did Stan make before he left?

- **1.** The dragon had to carry all the money home himself and promise never to return — score 2
- **2.** The dragon had to carry the money home himself, and Stan would walk behind him — score 2
- **3.** The dragon had to count the coins twice — score 2
- **4.** The dragon had to carry the money home himself — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 1687, line 15: «fact: The Dragon "hummed and hawed", an old phrase meaning he hesitated and made noises of doubt because he did not know what to say.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Hang on, how many kids did Stan say he had?

- **1.** Ninety-nine, fam — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Two, fam — score 2
- **3.** A hundred, fam — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Ten, fam — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 362, line 11: «The Kid says "I know you are going to eat me" and asks for one last tune.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3). Against it: the same doer «kid» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Ngl, what were the kids holding when they charged?

- **1.** Sticks and stones — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Knives in the right hand, forks in the left — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Sticks in the right, spoons in the left — no support
- **4.** Axes in the right, clubs in the left — 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/1771-pg641-part22/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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What were the kids yelling, like?

- **1.** Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Give us dragon's bread, we want dragon's cake — no support
- **3.** Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh and we want it cooked — no support
- **4.** Food, food, food — 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/1771-pg641-part22/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why were the kids so starving, anyway?

- **1.** Their dad stole all the bread last week — no support
- **2.** They hadn't eaten since their dad left, and the whole village had run out of bread — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** They hadn't eaten since their dad left to sell the cows at the market in town — score 0
- **4.** They hadn't eaten since their dad left — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kid» (+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/1771-pg641-part22/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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So where did the dragon bolt to?

- **1.** Into the cave — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Away as fast as he could, no looking back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Into the dark forest beyond the river bank — no support
- **4.** Off over the hills to his mum's house — 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/1771-pg641-part22/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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For how long did the dragon stay gone?

- **1.** Forever, from that day on, until the whole village was gone — no support
- **2.** Forever, like from that day on — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** For about three long years — score 6
- **4.** Until the next full moon came — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 1771, line 16: «Old word: "lest" means "for fear that," so "lest some day he should come" means "for fear that one day he might come."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+5); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Wasn't Stan scared his mates would see him looking weak?

- **1.** Yeah, he didn't wanna get shamed in front of them, and he didn't wanna get caught either — score 2
- **2.** Yeah, he didn't wanna lose the gold to them — score 2
- **3.** Yeah, he didn't wanna get shamed in front of them, so he hid the sacks in a barn — score 2
- **4.** Yeah, he didn't wanna get shamed in front of them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1771, line 9: «Why: Stan does not want the dragon to know where he lives, "lest some day he should come to take back his treasure."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Lol, what would people call Stan if he went home empty?

- **1.** Stan who's gone as weak as a dragon and lost all the gold — no support
- **2.** Stan who's gone as weak as a dragon — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Stan who's gone as tired as a donkey — no support
- **4.** Stan the weakling — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 523, line 2: «People were so scared of the Furies that they called them the "well-meaning" ones, hoping to calm their anger.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+3). Against it: the same doer «people» (-1); a different thing acted on (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/1771-pg641-part22/t12/)

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

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Which of the following is the correct answer regarding Stan's stratagem against the dragon?

- **1.** He ran away fast — no support
- **2.** He persuaded the dragon that he had a hundred children who would attack — **✓ the right answer** · score -6
- **3.** He hid the gold — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** He persuaded the dragon that his hundred cows would stampede — score -6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1755, line 4: «The king reveals the answers: the oak hides gold, the ferryman must swap places, and the whale must give back the ships.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); the same thing acted on «gold» (+2). 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/1771-pg641-part22/e1/)

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

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Which of the following accurately describes the dragon's conduct when the children approached?

- **1.** He seized the sacks in anger and then charged at the children — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He dropped the sacks in terror and ran to the mountains — score 2
- **3.** He released the sacks from fright and then fled from the district without looking back at the cave — score 2
- **4.** He released the sacks from fright and then fled from the district — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 650, line 2: «The dragon drowns under the whirlpools, so Nigel and the Princess make a plan to deal with the griffin.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/e2/)

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

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Which of the following is the correct reason for Stan's reluctance to disclose his dwelling?

- **1.** He feared the neighbours would later demand his share of the money — no support
- **2.** He feared the dragon might later return to seize his treasure — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He wished the dragon would return to visit his farm — no support
- **4.** He feared the dragon might later return to seize his treasure along with his mother and children — **← 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 1761, line 13: «The dragon asks his horse, "Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?", and the horse says "you can never, never catch them".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different action (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/1771-pg641-part22/e3/)

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

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Which of the following best explains the meaning of the term "lest" as used in the passage?

- **1.** Because — no support
- **2.** Instead of; rather than — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Although — no support
- **4.** For fear that; in case — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 5, line 16: «Alice asks "What is a Caucus-race?", "not that she wanted much to know", but because the Dodo paused as if somebody ought to speak; the Dodo answers "the best…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «explain» (+3); the same thing acted on «way» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/e4/)

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