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title: English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot tu… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 243 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 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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# English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 243 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/243-pg14241-part10/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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So the old dear got a pot, right, what was in it first?

- **1.** silver coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** coins — no support
- **3.** a heap of gleaming gold coins and jewels — no support
- **4.** gold pieces — **✓ 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/243-pg14241-part10/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Like, what did the pot turn into after the gold, mate?

- **1.** a lump of silver — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** silver — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** a lump of copper — no support
- **4.** a coin — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 243, line 12: «The pot changes first into "a great lump of shining silver", then into "a lump o' iron".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-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/243-pg14241-part10/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Howay, what was the thing she ended up dragging home?

- **1.** a stone — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a lump of iron — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a lump of lead — no support
- **4.** rust — 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/243-pg14241-part10/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Was she canny chuffed about her luck, or what?

- **1.** yeah, dead chuffed and well happy about it all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** aye, dead pleased — no support
- **3.** yeah, dead chuffed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** aye, she was made up and proper overjoyed — 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/243-pg14241-part10/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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What was the stone for, like, at her door?

- **1.** to hide — no support
- **2.** hold it open — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** keep it shut — score 0
- **4.** to block — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 243, line 11: «Why: she feels lucky about the stone because she was "terrible wanting something to hold my door open with".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Where did the stone go all wild at her gate?

- **1.** on the path — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** beside the big oak tree by the river — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** at gate — score 4
- **4.** in lane — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 243, line 13: «The stone becomes "as big as a great horse", with "four lanky legs" and "two long ears".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stone» (+3); the same property (+3). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Oi, how big did the thing get?

- **1.** big as a pony — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** big as a horse — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a cow — no support
- **4.** bigger than the biggest barn door in town — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/243-pg14241-part10/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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How many legs did it have, on the lot?

- **1.** sixteen — no support
- **2.** four — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** one — no support
- **4.** twelve — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 9: «He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go! Up we go!», until «pop! his snout came out into th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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How did it laugh at her, the cheeky thing?

- **1.** like a hen — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** like a sly grinning fox — no support
- **3.** rudely — score 4
- **4.** like a naughty mocking boy — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 61, line 18: «The barge-woman laughs till she cries: «I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.»», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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/243-pg14241-part10/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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What's the name of the creature, innit?

- **1.** the Hedley Kow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the kow — no support
- **3.** the Ruddy Bogle — no support
- **4.** the Hedley Hound — 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/243-pg14241-part10/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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What did she call herself after all that?

- **1.** the proudest old body who ever lived in the town — no support
- **2.** the luckiest body hereabouts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** a lucky lady — no support
- **4.** the happiest woman in town — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 2: «He prises up a flat stone, and out of the hole blinks a tiny wrinkled creature with yellow hair and a beard, who calls himself Yallery Brown.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/243-pg14241-part10/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Where'd she sit to think it all over?

- **1.** in bed — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** by door — score 2
- **3.** at the table — score 2
- **4.** by the fire — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 243, line 5: «The old woman goes indoors, sits by the fire, and thinks about how lucky she has been.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sit» (+2). 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/243-pg14241-part10/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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What's a hinny, like, in the north?

- **1.** a Geordie word for a tool — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a term of love like pet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a word for a small child — no support
- **4.** a kind of hat — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/243-pg14241-part10/t13/)

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

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What was the first substance the old woman observed when she lifted the lid of the object?

- **1.** coins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** copper pieces — no support
- **3.** gold coins — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** gold — 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/243-pg14241-part10/e1/)

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

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Into what creature did the stone transform when the old woman unfastened her shawl?

- **1.** a small cow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a horse-sized kow — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a pony-sized beast — no support
- **4.** a dog — 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/243-pg14241-part10/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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By what means did the old woman intend to employ the stone within her dwelling?

- **1.** as a doorstop — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a weight — no support
- **3.** to hold the gate — no support
- **4.** a gate — 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/243-pg14241-part10/e3/)

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

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How did the old woman describe her own condition at the conclusion of the tale?

- **1.** as the luckiest body hereabouts — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** as the luckiest woman who ever lived in this town — no support
- **3.** as the happiest soul in town — no support
- **4.** as the most fortunate old body in all the county — 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/243-pg14241-part10/e4/)

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