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# English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 5 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 248 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/248-pg14241-part15/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bruv, what even is a pixy, innit?

- **1.** Small fairies who steal milk — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cow thieves — no support
- **3.** Little elves who herd the sheep — no support
- **4.** Tiny magic folk who nick cows — **✓ the right answer** · 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/248-pg14241-part15/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Yo, did the farmer get proper scared or nah?

- **1.** Dead scared, he nearly bottled it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Quite scared, he hid in the closet — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **3.** Nah, he was dead calm — no support
- **4.** Dead scared, he nearly bottled it and hid behind the door — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 248, line 1: «The farmer finds his cows thin as ghosts and the fireplace full of ash, so he hides in a closet to watch.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «closet» (+4); the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «farmer» (+3). 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/248-pg14241-part15/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Wait, why's the cow all skinny and wisht?

- **1.** She's been starved all winter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She's been eaten and put back together — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She got eaten by the pixies and they stuck her back together — no support
- **4.** She got her bones mixed up — 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/248-pg14241-part15/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Is the giant proper mental or what?

- **1.** He eats travellers for his dinner — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He's proper nasty — no support
- **3.** He keeps a pet dog called Truncheon — no support
- **4.** He grinds people's bones for bread — **✓ the right answer** · 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/248-pg14241-part15/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Did Jack actually get a holiday or nah?

- **1.** Nah, he was stuck at the mill for seven years straight — no support
- **2.** Yeah, he legged it to the fair — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, he went home to his mum — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** Nah, he stayed at the mill — no support

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**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 244, line 9: «The wife scolds Jack, "You stupid," because he came home alone instead of telling a tale on the road.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jack» (+2); the same property (+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/248-pg14241-part15/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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How'd Jack get out of the mill, like?

- **1.** He skinned the dog and barked — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He climbed out the window — no support
- **3.** He cut a hole in the wall — no support
- **4.** He hid inside — 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/248-pg14241-part15/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Was Scrapefoot scared of them bears or what?

- **1.** Nah, he was brave and went in — no support
- **2.** Nah, not at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** Dead scared, but dead nosy too — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Dead scared, so he hid in the cave — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 248, line 16: «Who: Scrapefoot is a fox who "was very much afraid of the Bears," yet he wanted to know all about them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «all» (+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/248-pg14241-part15/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Did the little chair hold up or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, fine — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, it held firm — no support
- **3.** Nah, it fell — no support
- **4.** Nah, it broke into 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/248-pg14241-part15/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Which saucer was the best, mate?

- **1.** The middling one — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The middle one, it was warm — no support
- **3.** The little one, it was sweet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The biggest one, it was hot — 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/248-pg14241-part15/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Did Scrapefoot find a nice bed, like?

- **1.** Yeah, he curled up in the little bed and slept all night long — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Not yet, he tried the middling one but it was too hard — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he slept in the little one — no support
- **4.** Not yet, he tried the middling one — **✓ 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/248-pg14241-part15/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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So what's the vibe in that castle, then?

- **1.** Creepy, and the bears could come back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Creepy, and the bears left their dinner — no support
- **3.** Quiet, but the bears could come back — no support
- **4.** Dead quiet — 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/248-pg14241-part15/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Did the pixies stop being mad, or what?

- **1.** They ate and slept all day — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** They danced and partied all night — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They sang and cried all night — no support
- **4.** They got stroppy again later and started fighting over the bones — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 10, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 248, line 10: «How: the pixies ate every scrap of beef, and then the king said, "let no bone be broken."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+5); the same doer «pixies» (+5). 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/248-pg14241-part15/t12/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the means by which the farmer's cow was restored to life?

- **1.** The king struck the reassembled hide with a rod — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A blow from a silver hammer restored it — no support
- **3.** The king waved a wand over the bones — no support
- **4.** The king's men poured a potion over the reassembled bones and hide — 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/248-pg14241-part15/e1/)

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

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Identify the sequence in which Jack secured his escape from the mill.

- **1.** He stabbed the giant, then escaped on a horse — score 4
- **2.** He disguised himself, then blinded the giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** He hid in the mill — no support
- **4.** He blinded the giant, then disguised himself in the dog's hide — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 248, line 5: «Jack blinds the giant with his knife, tricks him with the dog's skin, and escapes; then Scrapefoot the fox sneaks into the bears' castle.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «giant» (+3); the same action «blind» (+2); the same doer «jack» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/248-pg14241-part15/e2/)

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

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State the reason the farmer kept a leg-bone close by the closet door.

- **1.** He feared the pixies — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He wanted to hit a pixy with it — no support
- **3.** He hoped the pixies would find it and leave — no support
- **4.** He feared the pixies would search there and discover him — **✓ 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/248-pg14241-part15/e3/)

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

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Explain why Scrapefoot found the little chair the most comfortable of the three.

- **1.** It was big and cosy, and it fit him — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was the largest and softest of the three, and it suited his small size perfectly well — no support
- **3.** It was soft and warm, and it suited his small size better than the others — no support
- **4.** It was soft and warm, and it suited his small size — **✓ 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/248-pg14241-part15/e4/)

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