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title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 25 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 16 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)

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**Tests:** 4 of 16 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 11 of 20 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 25 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/).

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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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Jayden says: «the Mole loved spring-cleaning, he finished it all and went out for a reward, no cap.» (no cap = honestly) Put it right.

- **1.** He cleaned all the rooms quickly — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He finished it all, then went out for a reward at the shops — no support
- **3.** He hated the whole job from start — no support
- **4.** He got fed up and left it unfinished — **✓ 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Why is «Onion-sauce!» a cheeky thing to shout at rabbits?

- **1.** Onions make the Mole look silly — no support
- **2.** Rabbits hate onions — no support
- **3.** It was eaten with roast rabbit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** Onions are rude — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 19: «Pat says he is "Digging for apples, yer honour!" ("yer honour" = sir), which is nonsense, since apples grow on trees; the Rabbit calls him "you goose" (silly),…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «thing» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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The rabbits shout «How stupid you are! Why didn't you tell him—» after the Mole has gone. What is the writer laughing at?

- **1.** They are sad — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Arguing about what to do when it's too late — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They are being rude — no support
- **4.** Teasing the Mole for taking a long road home — 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.» Is the writer being serious?

- **1.** Yes, serious: he really wants the Mole to rest in the sun all day long — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Partly: he means it but only for the rabbits — no support
- **3.** Not really: it's a cheeky joke that's a bit true — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, he is serious, and he means every word about resting in holidays — 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Lily, lowkey mardy (a bit sulky): «the Mole had lived by the river all his life, so what's the big deal.» Is she right?

- **1.** Yes: he knew all about the stream — no support
- **2.** Yes, he had lived beside the river since he was very small indeed — score 4
- **3.** No: he'd never seen a river before — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** No, he has seen rivers but never a big one like this — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 13: «The Mole had never seen a river before, and was «bewitched, entranced, fascinated»; it seemed to him «this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuc…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+3); the same action «see» (+2); the same property (+2); the same thing acted on «river» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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How does the Rat's face appear to the Mole bit by bit?

- **1.** A whole face at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** A twinkle, an eye, then a face round it — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** A loud voice and then a wave of arms — no support
- **4.** A hat, then a beard, then a grin — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 16, line 3: «Then a grin appears in the air: the Cheshire Cat. Bit by bit its eyes and its head appear, and Alice tells it all her complaints. When she notices the Queen li…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «appear» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What would have happened if the Rat hadn't had a boat?

- **1.** The Mole would have stayed on his own bank — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He would have swum — score 2
- **3.** The Mole would have gone home — no support
- **4.** He'd have drowned — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «In a hole in the opposite bank something twinkles: an eye, then a whiskered brown face. It is the Water Rat. The Rat rows across in a little blue-and-white boa…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «face» (+2); the same thing acted on «water rat» (+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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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The Mole says «Oh, it's all very well to talk» rather pettishly when the Rat asks him over. Why is he a bit cross?

- **1.** He doesn't like the Rat much — score 3
- **2.** He is shy and wants to stay inside — no support
- **3.** He can't see how he could get across — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** He is hungry — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 15: «When the Rat asks «Would you like to come over?», the Mole answers «rather pettishly» (a bit crossly) «Oh, it's all very well to talk», because he is new to th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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The Rat crashes into the bank while praising boats. Why is that funny?

- **1.** He hits the bank on purpose — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** It is a joke — no support
- **3.** He talks about rivers while nobody listens — score 5
- **4.** He's praising boats while steering badly — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 18: «The Rat: «there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.» While saying it he hit the bank and fell on his back wi…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hit» (+2); the same doer «rat» (+2); the same thing acted on «bank» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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«Whether you get away, or whether you don't ... you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular.» What is the Rat saying?

- **1.** Holidays should be spent in bed and at rest — no support
- **2.** Getting somewhere doesn't matter; the fun does — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Rowing is hard work and nobody should try it — no support
- **4.** Boats are for travelling far, and rowing a boat needs great skill and strength — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 5: «The Rat is amazed, and dreamily tells him there is nothing «half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats» — and crashes into the bank while he say…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «rat» (+3); the same thing acted on «boat» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Finn, wee (small) brother of Isla, says the Rat was angry at the Mole after the crash. Put it right.

- **1.** He rowed off without a word — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He got up «with a pleasant laugh» — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He sat down and scolded the Mole — no support
- **4.** He got up and shouted angrily at the Mole for steering badly — 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Which word list is the sound of the Mole digging?

- **1.** «hissed and hummed and whistled and sang» — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** «rattled and rumbled and roared and rang» — no support
- **3.** «went the spade and went the tap and went the shovel across the stone» — no support
- **4.** «scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged» — **✓ 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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How do we know the Mole is happy when he first comes up into the meadow?

- **1.** He rushes around the meadow shouting and waving at the trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He rolls over in the warm grass — no support
- **3.** He waves his paws in the air — no support
- **4.** He jumps off all four legs at once — **✓ 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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★★★ Count the times the Mole says «Up we go!» in: muttering to himself, «Up we go! Up we go!» How many?

- **1.** 1 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 3 — no support
- **3.** 0 — no support
- **4.** 2 — **✓ 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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★★★ Alice (lessons 1–24) also starts her adventure on a bank. How is the Mole's start different?

- **1.** Alice falls down a well; the Mole climbs down a ladder into a cave — no support
- **2.** The Mole goes down a rabbit hole — no support
- **3.** Alice goes down a hole after a Rabbit; the Mole comes up out of one — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Alice swims away — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 2: «He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixpence to let him pass, and runs on through the fields while everyone else is busy. He feels…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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★★★ «Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!» Who is in the wrong, as we'd see it today?

- **1.** The rabbit, because the road belongs to everyone who walks it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Both a bit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Rabbit alone — no support
- **4.** The Mole only — 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/t16/)

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

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Identify the occupation in which the Mole was engaged at the commencement of the narrative.

- **1.** The whitewashing and dusting of every room in his underground home — no support
- **2.** Digging a new tunnel for winter — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** The spring-cleaning of his dwelling — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Painting the walls of his hall — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, 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: the same action «dig up» (+2). 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the consideration demanded by the elderly rabbit in respect of passage along the private road.

- **1.** A shilling — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two pence — no support
- **3.** Sixpence and a cabbage — no support
- **4.** Sixpence — **✓ 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/e2/)

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

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It is given that the Mole had not previously beheld a river. Select the response which most accurately characterises his reaction upon first doing so.

- **1.** He felt the river was too cold and wet to be enjoyed at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** He was disappointed because it was not as wide as he expected — no support
- **3.** He was puzzled by the water — no support
- **4.** He was bewitched and entranced — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 2: «He is so happy that he knocks over a fussy old rabbit who wants sixpence to let him pass, and runs on through the fields while everyone else is busy. He feels…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+2); the same doer «mole» (+2). The right option, 4, 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/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the Rat's declaration upon the merits of boats?

- **1.** He hated boats — no support
- **2.** He praised the sun and fishing and then rowed backwards into a tree — no support
- **3.** He praised messing about in boats and struck the bank whilst so doing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** He sank a boat — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 18: «The Rat: «there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.» While saying it he hit the bank and fell on his back wi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «mess» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/e4/)

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