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description: Lesson 241 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 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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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away

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**Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 241 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/241-pg14241-part8/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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oi, who reckoned the laundry girl was worth more than the whole lot put together?

- **1.** the master's missus and her sister — no support
- **2.** the master's missus — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** the laundry girl — score 0
- **4.** the master's wife — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 8: «His wife will not hear the laundry-maid blamed, for she is "the best servant she had and worth all the rest put together."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «wife» (+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/241-pg14241-part8/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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bruv, what words did she shout that got the men splashing in the pond?

- **1.** "By virtue of my three feathers" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** "By the power of my two feathers" — no support
- **3.** "By virtue of my three feathers and my shining crown" — no support
- **4.** "By virtue of my three feathers, be soaked, all of you" — 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/241-pg14241-part8/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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so proper, where did the men end up after all the slashing?

- **1.** in the ditch — score 8
- **2.** in the pond — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** in the pond behind the stables — score 9
- **4.** rolling about in the muddy pond all day — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 241, line 11: «Where: the story happens in the house, at the hall door and in the hall, and the men end up in the pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end up» (+5); the same doer «men» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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bet the butler was well gutted, what did the girl do to his shutters?

- **1.** made them shake — score 6
- **2.** made them bang all day — score 6
- **3.** made them rattle till dawn — score 6
- **4.** made them clap all night — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 10: «The butler says, "That was nothing to what she served me," and tells of the shutters clapping all night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «clap» (+1); the same doer «shutters» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper?

- **1.** Sam — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** James — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Harold — score 5
- **4.** Tom — 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 241, line 9: «The coachman asks James, "Do you know how that girl served me," and William then tells about the clothes.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «serve» (+5); the same receiver «coachman» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). 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/241-pg14241-part8/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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did the master hear what started the row, innit?

- **1.** no, he spoke to empty air — score 4
- **2.** no, they were all too loud — no support
- **3.** no, none of them could hear him — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** no, not one of them heard him at all that whole day long — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 4: «The Badger lays it out: Toad has ignored every warning, is wasting the money his father left him, and is giving all the animals a bad name with his crashes and…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «toad» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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wicked, what did the bird-husband come back as after seven years and a day?

- **1.** his own shape again — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** as a tall stranger — score 6
- **3.** back in his own shape again with a crown — score 6
- **4.** as a grey fox — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 70, line 5: «The chapter's title, «The Return of Ulysses», points to an old Greek story: the hero Ulysses (Odysseus) came home after years of adventures, found strangers fe…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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right, what did he tell her to do with the men's savings?

- **1.** give them back — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** spend them — no support
- **3.** pay them out — no support
- **4.** give them back to the men at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 18: «He does not tell of the feathers, but he bids her give the men back their savings: "leave them each their own."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give back» (+3); the same receiver «savings» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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/241-pg14241-part8/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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did he tell the mistress about the feathers, bruv?

- **1.** yes, he told her all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** no way, he kept quiet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** no way, he kept quiet and never spoke of them again — no support
- **4.** yes, he told the mistress everything about the feathers at once — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 238, line 9: «Why she is given fruit: each brother tells her not to break the apple, pear or plum "till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal could be in".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «daughter» (+4); the same action «tell» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/241-pg14241-part8/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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so where did they end up, like a mad rich castle?

- **1.** home — no support
- **2.** to the big house — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** to their castle — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** back — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 238, line 4: «She climbs to a glass hill she cannot climb, serves a smith for seven years for iron shoes, and ends up at the washerwife's house.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end up» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/241-pg14241-part8/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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how did the girl end up, the best what ever?

- **1.** the finest washer around — score 1
- **2.** the cook — score 1
- **3.** the best laundress ever known — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** the best maid of all — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 9: «There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls them «creatures»; she is proud of knowing the word «jurors», because she thinks very few l…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+5); the same doer «few little girls» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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what did the mistress reckon about the laundry girl, dead good?

- **1.** she was worth more than all the rest put together — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** she was better than them — no support
- **3.** she was worth all the rest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** she was worth every penny and all the rest of the staff — 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/241-pg14241-part8/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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did the men leave the house straight away, mate?

- **1.** no, they drew their pay but stayed on — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** no, they drew their pay, went to the pond, but still stayed on at the house — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** no, they took their pay and stayed — score 5
- **4.** no, they drew their pay and left the house that very night — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 3: «The men start shouting over who suffered most, come to blows, and shove one another into the pond.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «pond» (+4); the same doer «men» (+3). 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/241-pg14241-part8/t13/)

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

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Which servant did the master's wife state was "worth all the rest put together"?

- **1.** the butler — no support
- **2.** the laundry-maid — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** the master's wife — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **4.** the cook — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 231, line 14: «The Sultan says "I am convinced that some day or other I shall find you useful as well as agreeable."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «sultan» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/e1/)

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

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What spell did the laundry-maid pronounce upon the master and the male servants?

- **1.** "By virtue of my two feathers" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "By the power of my three feathers" — no support
- **3.** "Three feathers" — no support
- **4.** "By virtue of my three feathers" — **✓ 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/241-pg14241-part8/e2/)

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

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In what manner did the bird-husband return to claim his wife after seven years and a day?

- **1.** as a bird — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in a tall silver coat — no support
- **3.** on a white horse at dawn — no support
- **4.** in his own shape again — **✓ 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/241-pg14241-part8/e3/)

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

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What instruction did the bird-husband give to the wife concerning the men's savings?

- **1.** to hand them to the cook — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** to give each one his share — no support
- **3.** to keep them — score 6
- **4.** to restore them to each man — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 241, line 18: «He does not tell of the feathers, but he bids her give the men back their savings: "leave them each their own."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «husband» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «savings» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/241-pg14241-part8/e4/)

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