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title: Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1915 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 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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# Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1915 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/1915-pg7277-part52/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bruv, so who sat in the big bear's chair first, innit?

- **1.** The Middle Bear — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The Great Huge Bear, who was the father — score 3
- **3.** The Wee Bear — score 5
- **4.** the Great Huge Bear — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1745, line 8: «Where: in a forest clearing he meets three women, one "sat on a golden chair" and was "beautifully and grandly dressed."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+3); the same place «golden chair» (+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/1915-pg7277-part52/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Proper mad, which voice actually woke her up?

- **1.** the deep gruff bear voice — score -3
- **2.** the shrill little Wee Bear voice — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **3.** the shrill little Wee Bear voice from upstairs — score -3
- **4.** the shrill little Wee Bear voice that woke her up from her dream — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1886, line 20: «Old word: "feigned" means pretended or made up, so a feigned voice is a fake voice that hides who is speaking.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fake voice» (+1). Against it: the same doer «feigned voice» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1915-pg7277-part52/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Was she, like, sleeping right through the big voice?

- **1.** no — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, she was dead asleep — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** no, she was wide awake — no support
- **4.** yes — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Wait, where did the bears go to search, upstairs or what?

- **1.** downstairs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** into the garden — no support
- **3.** outside — no support
- **4.** up the stairs — **✓ 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Lol, what did the bears find on the Wee Bear's bed?

- **1.** a pillow — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** her hat — score 5
- **3.** the old woman's hat — score 5
- **4.** the old woman's head — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1888, line 9: «The Fairy gave him dreams of adventure, and she fed him with good things "while he was asleep", so he never felt hungry.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+6). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Was the old woman a proper vagrant or what?

- **1.** a bit, yes — no support
- **2.** she had no home at all and wandered the woods — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** she had no home, sort of — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** no, not really — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1027, line 18: «old word: a "lightning conductor" is a metal rod that carries lightning safely into the ground; the woman jokes she has one in her toe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «woman» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/1915-pg7277-part52/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Did she jump out the window, innit?

- **1.** yes, she jumped out — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yes, she climbed out — no support
- **3.** no — no support
- **4.** yes, she ran — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Mate, did the bears ever see her again, like ever?

- **1.** no, they never saw her again, though they looked for years — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** no, saw her in town — no support
- **3.** no, never saw her again — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** no, they never saw her again in the forest or the town — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1915, line 12: «The Little Wee Bear sees "the little old woman's ugly, dirty head" on his pillow, and says "she had no business there".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); the same doer «little wee bear» (+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/1915-pg7277-part52/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by?

- **1.** a sat-on pillow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a broken chair — no support
- **3.** a sat-on cushion — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a sat-on cushion that was very flat and hard — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Was the Wee Bear's chair totally trashed, like?

- **1.** no, the back was just bent — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, the bottom was sat out — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** no, it was fine — no support
- **4.** yes, the seat was torn off — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Sick, did the bears reckon they needed to search more?

- **1.** yes, so they went outside — no support
- **2.** yes, so they went upstairs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** yes, so they went upstairs and looked under all the beds again — score 4
- **4.** yes, so they went upstairs to look in every room — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1915, line 11: «Upstairs, the Great Huge Bear finds "the pillow ... pulled out of its place".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «great huge bear» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1915-pg7277-part52/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Gutted for the bears, bruv, what did the Middle Bear's chair have squatted on it?

- **1.** his cushion — **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **2.** a seat — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** his cushion, which had been sat on by someone — no support
- **4.** the stool — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 503, line 19: «Old word: a casting-vote is the deciding vote that breaks a tie; chairs of meetings still use one today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «chairs» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-1). The right option, 1, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1915-pg7277-part52/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Was she a proper thief or what, like?

- **1.** no, she was a guest — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, she was in their house and took their food — no support
- **3.** yes, she was in their house — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** no, she was just lost — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which of the three bears first discovered that an unauthorised person had occupied his chair?

- **1.** the Little Wee Bear — score -1
- **2.** the Great, Huge Bear, who was the largest of the three — no support
- **3.** the Great, Huge Bear — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** the Great, Huge Bear, who had come home first from the woods — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1418, line 10: «Who knocks on the window? "a great big white bear" rapped "three times against the window-pane" and wants the youngest daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «great big white bear» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1915-pg7277-part52/e1/)

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

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By what means was the intruder awakened from her slumber?

- **1.** by a sharp cry from the Middle Bear's room — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** by the shrill voice of the Little, Small, Wee Bear — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** by a loud noise — score 2
- **4.** by the gruff voice of the Great Bear — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1910, line 19: «Old word: "beheld" means saw or looked at; today we would say "saw" or "looked at".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/1915-pg7277-part52/e2/)

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

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In what manner did the intruder depart from the premises?

- **1.** by the door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** by crawling under the bed — no support
- **3.** by jumping from the window — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** by climbing down the stairs — 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/1915-pg7277-part52/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Which correctional institution is mentioned as a possible destination of the intruder?

- **1.** the House of Correction — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the House of Correction in the county town — no support
- **3.** the House of Correction where thieves are sent to be punished — no support
- **4.** the village court 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/1915-pg7277-part52/e4/)

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