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title: English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 263 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 14 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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# English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found

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**Tests:** 5 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 263 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/263-pg14241-part30/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, why's she called Catskin, like?

- **1.** Cos she hunts cats — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cos her cloak is stitched from fur — no support
- **3.** Cos her dress is made of cat skin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Cos she was born in a cat's basket — 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/263-pg14241-part30/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Mate, where'd she stash her posh frocks?

- **1.** At the edge of the forest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Under the kitchen stairs — no support
- **3.** Inside an old oak tree — no support
- **4.** In the attic — 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/263-pg14241-part30/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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What did the cook chuck at her face, innit?

- **1.** Some milk — score -1
- **2.** A cup — score -1
- **3.** A basin of water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** A bucket of ashes — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 263, line 7: «The cook is cruel: she calls Catskin "a dirty impudent slut" and dashes "a basin of water" into her face at the first ball's preparations.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cook» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «basin» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/263-pg14241-part30/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Which dress was the silver one, bruv?

- **1.** The velvet coat sewn with a thousand tiny silver bells from the palace — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The gown of silver cloth embroidered with pearls and roses — no support
- **3.** The dress of golden lace — no support
- **4.** The coat of silver cloth — **✓ 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/263-pg14241-part30/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wasn't the first sign the Basin of Water, like?

- **1.** Yeah, the Feather Coat thing — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, the cat — no support
- **3.** Yeah, the Basin of Water — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, the Ladle — 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/263-pg14241-part30/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What got smashed on her back, proper?

- **1.** The long wooden spoon used for stirring the pot — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A frying pan — no support
- **3.** A heavy iron skillet from the hearth — no support
- **4.** A ladle — **✓ 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/263-pg14241-part30/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Did the lord go mental after the first ball?

- **1.** He vowed to marry the cook — no support
- **2.** He fled the hall — score 5
- **3.** He went to bed — no support
- **4.** He swore to wed only her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 245, line 17: «Why: he cannot stay at Court, because he "had sworn never to look on his granddaughter's face".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «swear» (+4); the same doer «lord» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/263-pg14241-part30/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Wait, which outfit for ball three, fam?

- **1.** The gown of green satin — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The silk gown — no support
- **3.** The cloak of blue velvet — no support
- **4.** The coat of 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/263-pg14241-part30/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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How did the lord sus out her house, mate?

- **1.** A servant told him the way — score 5
- **2.** He sent his best hunters to track her through the whole country for many weeks — no support
- **3.** She told him herself at dawn — no support
- **4.** He followed her to the forest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 263, line 3: «The lord follows her to the forest and sees her change into her catskin, so he knows she is his scullery-maid.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+4); the same doer «lord» (+4); the same place «forest» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/263-pg14241-part30/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Bro, why was the lord laid up in bed?

- **1.** He was hungry — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was ill from being refused — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He was sad from the wine — no support
- **4.** He had a fever — 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/263-pg14241-part30/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Who reckoned he'd die, innit?

- **1.** The doctor — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** The cook — no support
- **3.** The old nurse — no support
- **4.** A priest — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 263, line 12: «The doctor says her son "would die" if the lady does not consent, so the lady "had to give way" and summons Catskin.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «doctor» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/263-pg14241-part30/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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What did the cook say about the kid, like?

- **1.** Such dirty beggars' brats have no place in a proper house and should be whipped out — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Beggars should stay in the street — no support
- **3.** Such brats never learn manners — no support
- **4.** Beggars' brats take to one another — **✓ 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 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 13: «The Cat says she was born in the house, but the Parrot calls her voice "a perfect nuisance."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «house» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «cat» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/263-pg14241-part30/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Who kissed the little lord, fam?

- **1.** The lady of the silver dress — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The cook's son — score 5
- **3.** The coachman — score 5
- **4.** The beggar woman's child — **✓ 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 263, line 13: «The little lord gives money to a beggar woman's child, who "leant forward and kissed the little lord," and the cook mocks it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kiss» (+4); the same thing acted on «little lord» (+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/263-pg14241-part30/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Where'd they drive to find her dad?

- **1.** Along the river to a farm — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Through the forest to an inn — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Through the forest and across the river to a small inn by the bridge — no support
- **4.** Over the hill to a town — 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/263-pg14241-part30/t14/)

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

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Upon whose representation did the young lord's mother relent regarding the marriage?

- **1.** After the servants' pleading that the lord was dying — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Upon the physician's representation that her son would perish — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Upon the king's command that the lady must marry him — no support
- **4.** On the doctor's word — 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/263-pg14241-part30/e1/)

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

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By what means did the young lord ascertain the identity of his partner at the third assembly?

- **1.** By hiring a spy from the town who followed her carriage through the forest and reported back to him each morning — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By pursuing her all the way to the forest and secretly watching her change into her rags behind a tree at dusk — no support
- **3.** By pursuing her to the forest and witnessing her change of attire — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By searching every village in the kingdom for the girl — 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/263-pg14241-part30/e2/)

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

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What did the father of Catskin declare he would surrender in order to behold his daughter once more?

- **1.** The whole of his worldly possessions — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** The farm, the cattle and the house — no support
- **3.** Every coin he had in the bank — no support
- **4.** Everything he owned in the world, down to the last silver spoon in his house — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 263, line 16: «The old father calls himself "a hardened sinner" and says he would "give all my worldly goods" to see his daughter once.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «old father» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/263-pg14241-part30/e3/)

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

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What was the composition of the garment Catskin donned for the second assembly?

- **1.** A coat of beaten gold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A cloak of blue velvet — no support
- **3.** A dress of silver lace — no support
- **4.** A gold cloak — 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/263-pg14241-part30/e4/)

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