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title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wrec… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)

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**Tests:** 3 of 16 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 10 of 20 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 32 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/).

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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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Ben, gurt (big) fan of Toad: «Toad helped push the cart out of the ditch, proper job.» (proper job = well done) Put it right.

- **1.** He pushed the cart out of the ditch and then wouldn't stop talking about it — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He was too proud to push, so he rode off in the motor-car instead — no support
- **3.** He wouldn't budge from the road — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He pushed the cart out nicely — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 1: «The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash! The lovely canary-coloured cart lies on its side, smashed beyond repai…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «deep ditch» (+4); the same thing acted on «cart» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Why is Toad smiling while his cart lies smashed?

- **1.** He's sure the crash was the best thing that ever happened to him — score 2
- **2.** He's been told he will get a new cart and a horse by Christmas — score 3
- **3.** He's in love with the motor-car — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** He's dreaming of more crashes — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 19: «The chapter ends: «Toad went up to Town by an early train this morning. And he has ordered a large and very expensive motor-car.»», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«Here to-day—in next week to-morrow!» What is Toad trying to say?

- **1.** Cars are fast, so trips take less — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cars are so fast you'd be days ahead — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Cars go so fast that you'd arrive at a place days before you ever left it — no support
- **4.** Cars are so fast that a journey of a week becomes a single afternoon's pleasant drive — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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The Rat says Toad is «possessed». Has the Rat seen this before?

- **1.** No, the Rat has never seen Toad so dreadful before, not with boats or caravans at all — score 5
- **2.** Yes, it always takes him that way, and the Mole should have expected it by now — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** Yes, last year with the caravan — no support
- **4.** Yes — «it always takes him that way» — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 29, line 2: «The Mole, who is honest and no poet, says he doesn't think much of it. The ducks don't either, laughs the Rat — they say it's nonsense to sit on banks making p…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «mole» (+3). 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Why does the Mole not want to leave Toad in the road?

- **1.** Another car might come — it's not safe — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He wants to ask the farmer for help with the cart and the horse before dark — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Toad might get hurt again soon — no support
- **4.** A horse might come along the road — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 4: «The Rat flatly refuses: he's sticking to his river, and so is the Mole. The loyal Mole agrees — but adds, wistfully, that it sounds rather fun. The Rat sees ho…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+3); the same action «want» (+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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Chloe, aye (yes) sure: «Toad complained to the police about the car.» Is she right?

- **1.** Yes, he went straight to the police — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No — he says «Me complain» of that «heavenly vision»! He wants a car himself, and is delighted — no support
- **3.** No — he says «Me complain» of that «heavenly vision»! — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, but only after he complained of the motor-car to a policeman in the town square — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Toad says to the Rat «I owe it all to you, my best of friends!» Why is this so annoying for the Rat?

- **1.** Toad never thanks anyone — score 0
- **2.** The trip wrecked everything — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Toad is thanking him only because the trip was a disaster for both of them — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** Toad thanks him so much that the Rat has to pay for the whole motor-car — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 32, line 4: «They walk five or six miles to the nearest town, Toad trailing after them, thanking the Rat for bringing him on the trip where he saw that «swan, that sunbeam,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «thank» (+2); the same doer «toad» (+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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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«And if ever you catch me going a-pleasuring with this provoking animal again!» What is the Rat promising himself?

- **1.** Never to go on a trip with Toad again, not even for a single afternoon by the river — score 4
- **2.** Never to go on a trip with Toad again — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** To take Toad to the town next week — score 4
- **4.** To go on every trip with Toad from now on, and to keep his temper for ever more — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 14: «The Rat: «He is now possessed. He has got a new craze, and it always takes him that way, in its first stage. He'll continue like that for days now, like an ani…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «continue» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Looking back: what did the Rat say about Toad in part 1 — «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you». Has Toad been good company today?

- **1.** Yes, he was good company, but he was selfish, dreamy and rather noisy at times — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No — tired and quite grumpy — no support
- **3.** No — selfish, dreamy and no help at all — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes — cheerful and kind all day — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Looking back: at the start of the trip, Toad said carts were «the real life». What does he call carts now?

- **1.** «Ordinary carts for farmers» — no support
- **2.** «The most dreadful little carts on the whole wide road» — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** «Horrid, dusty, slow carts that no gentleman would ever drive» — no support
- **4.** «Horrid little carts—common carts» — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 32, line 3: «He won't help. «The poetry of motion! The real way to travel!» Carts are «horrid little carts» to him now. The Rat knows the signs: Toad has a new craze, and f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «carts» (+1); the same property (+1). 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Looking back: on the first night the Rat thought about his river «all the time». How does the chapter end for him?

- **1.** Home in his parlour, to his great joy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Home in his parlour, to his great joy, but still thinking of motor-cars all night — no support
- **3.** Out in the Wild Wood, looking for Toad — score 3
- **4.** Driving off again in a new motor-car with Toad, far away from his river home — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 18: «They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «joy» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Looking back: in chapter I the Otter laughed «no stability» about Toad. What proves it in this chapter?

- **1.** Boats, then a cart, now a car — all in one summer — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A house-boat, a caravan and a motor-car — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** A sailing boat, a punt, a house-boat, a caravan and then a car, all within one long summer season — score 3
- **4.** Boats, then a cart, now a car — all in one summer, and it's sure to be worse next year — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 27, line 3: «Toad is out on the river, says the Otter, in a brand-new racing boat with new clothes and new everything. The Rat and the Otter laugh: Toad is always mad about…», 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 «sailing» (+1). 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet with their waves?

- **1.** Passing barges in the reeds — no support
- **2.** Careless boys on the bank — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **3.** Old bottles — score 9
- **4.** Steam-launches near the bank — **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 32, line 9: «For a moment the Rat felt like a ship's captain whose boat had been driven aground by reckless sailors — remembering what he used to shout at steam-launches wh…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «parlour carpet» (+4); the same circumstance (+4); the same action «flood» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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★★★ Toad's crazes in order, from chapter I to the end of chapter II. Which list is right?

- **1.** Punting, wager-boat, caravan, cart, motor-car — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Punting, house-boat, cart, wager-boat, caravan, motor-car, sailing, and then a steam-launch — no support
- **3.** Sailing, punting, house-boat, wager-boat, caravan, motor-car — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Sailing, punting, house-boat, wager-boat, caravan, cart, horse, motor-car, and then a balloon — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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★★★ «bottles were certainly flung, and from steamers» (chapter I) and «roadhogs» (now). What do the Rat's two complaints share?

- **1.** Careless people with fast machines who ruin the peace of the river and the roads — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bad horses on the country road — no support
- **3.** Rich gentlemen who ride about in steamers and motor-cars and waste the fishing — no support
- **4.** Careless people with fast machines — **✓ 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t16}

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★★★ «I've done with carts for ever.» Toad said almost the same about boats earlier. What can we guess about the motor-car?

- **1.** He'll probably tire of it too — or it will get him into trouble — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He'll go back to carts again soon — no support
- **3.** He'll probably tire of it too, like everything else, and the car will end up in the river — no support
- **4.** He'll tire of it quickly, just as he did with the boats, and he'll then buy a caravan — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/t16/)

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

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Identify the immediate cause of the overturning of the canary-coloured cart.

- **1.** The horse ran off in fright — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The terror of the horse occasioned by the passing motor-car — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The cart's wheel hit a deep stone — no support
- **4.** A loose wheel — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the demeanour of Toad in the moments following the disaster.

- **1.** Furious and shouting at the Mole — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Shocked and frightened, hiding his face in his hands and sobbing for a long time — no support
- **3.** A happy trance, murmuring «Poop-poop!» — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A happy trance, murmuring «Poop-poop!», while he sits in the middle of the road alone — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/e2/)

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

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Select the response which most accurately characterises the Rat's diagnosis of Toad's condition.

- **1.** That he was possessed by a new craze and would be useless for some days — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** That he was possessed by a new craze and would be useless for some days, and would then quickly be cured — no support
- **3.** That Toad was just being silly today — no support
- **4.** That he had caught a nasty cold — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the conclusion of the second chapter?

- **1.** Toad walked home to the Hall — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Toad travelled to Town and ordered a large and very expensive motor-car — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Toad was taken home in a cart and sent for a doctor at once — no support
- **4.** Toad sold his canary-coloured cart — 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/e4/)

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