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title: Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 345 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 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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# Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk

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**Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 345 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/345-pg18442-part5/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that?

- **1.** 'Cause his hair and beard were black as coal from birth — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 'Cause everyone reckoned his hair and beard looked black in the sun — no support
- **3.** 'Cause his beard was dark — no support
- **4.** 'Cause his hair and beard were black — **✓ 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/345-pg18442-part5/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with?

- **1.** Sir William Wallace — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Some English lord who ruled the border lands — no support
- **3.** King Edward, I think — no support
- **4.** King Robert Bruce — **✓ 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/345-pg18442-part5/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Which castle was the Scots' target, innit?

- **1.** The one the English seized — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The one the Scots lost — no support
- **3.** The castle near the moor — no support
- **4.** The one the English nicked early on — **✓ 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/345-pg18442-part5/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Yeah but what were the English lot up to?

- **1.** Scoffing ale and having a laugh — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Snoring in the great hall — no support
- **3.** Getting drunk on wine and telling stories in the courtyard all night long — no support
- **4.** Gambling their wages away and singing rude songs in the great hall — no support

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**Why:** It could not read the question into a frame, 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/345-pg18442-part5/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Did the watchman clock the dodgy shapes?

- **1.** He said they were horses — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** He reckoned they were cows — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** He saw nothing — score 4
- **4.** No, he didn't — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 345, line 11: «The woman sees "dark objects moving" toward the wall, but the watchman says they are "the farmer's cattle".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «watchman» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Hang on, how were the Douglas lot getting up?

- **1.** Creeping along with shields up high — no support
- **2.** Sneaking through the dark trees — no support
- **3.** Crawling along with ladders on the grass — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** Dragging ladders quietly along the edge of the moat in the dark — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 1: «Outside the house a whole crowd arrives with ladders, and after a lot of shouting they decide that poor Bill, a lizard, must climb down the chimney to deal wit…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «lot» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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What did the mum sing to her nipper?

- **1.** Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** Bonnie lad, bonnie lad, sleep ye now the night is long and dark tonight — no support
- **3.** Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree — no support
- **4.** Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, the Douglas is coming up the hill — score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 345, line 15: «She sings "Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye" to her child, a soft lullaby.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hush» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «ye» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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What happened when she turned round, like?

- **1.** An English knight was standing there — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Scots had caught her and the child trying to escape through the gate — no support
- **3.** The Black Douglas was stood there — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A tall Scottish lord with a dark beard was standing right in front of her — 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/345-pg18442-part5/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Did the Scots get the castle back, or nah?

- **1.** Nah, the English kept it — score 5
- **2.** Yeah, they took it back proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Yeah, they got it back — score 7
- **4.** Yeah, they stormed the walls and held it for the rest of the war — 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 345, line 7: «What: the Scots want to take back a castle that the English had seized "early in the war".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take back» (+3); the same doer «scots» (+3); the same thing acted on «castle» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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So what happened to the mum and nipper after?

- **1.** Stayed there — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They went back south — no support
- **3.** They got sent back to England — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** They were sent to Carlisle — 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/345-pg18442-part5/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Did the English kids get scared of him?

- **1.** Yeah, mums used him to get them good — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, kids had nightmares — no support
- **3.** Nah, not really — no support
- **4.** Nah, they only feared the English soldiers — 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/345-pg18442-part5/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Why'd the English get caught napping, innit?

- **1.** Nobody warned them early — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They had no guards up — no support
- **3.** They were drunk — no support
- **4.** They weren't expecting the Scots lot — **✓ 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/345-pg18442-part5/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Was the mum scared when the Douglas popped up?

- **1.** Nah, she wasn't scared at all — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, she screamed loudly — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** Yeah, she was terrified — no support
- **4.** Yeah, she jumped and dropped the child right where she stood — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 304, line 17: «Drinking "Duus" means friends clink glasses and call each other "Duus Brodre," thou brothers, and then use "thou" for ever after.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same doer «friends» (+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/345-pg18442-part5/t13/)

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

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Pray state by what means the Scottish party gained entry to the castle.

- **1.** By climbing a rope ladder — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By ascending ladders placed against the outer wall — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Through a breach made by the cannon fire — no support
- **4.** By scaling a ladder set against the wall — 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/345-pg18442-part5/e1/)

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

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Pray state the reason the watchman dismissed the woman's concern.

- **1.** He believed the figures were only shepherds — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** He assumed the shapes were merely horses — score 6
- **3.** He thought the shapes were simply the farmer's cattle returning from the pasture at dusk — score 6
- **4.** He judged the approaching figures to be cattle — **✓ 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 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 345, line 12: «The watchman thinks the farmer has forgotten to bring the cattle in from the fields.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «watchman» (+3). 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/345-pg18442-part5/e2/)

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

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Pray state the fate accorded to the woman and her infant.

- **1.** The Black Douglas ordered that neither the woman nor her infant be harmed in any way whatsoever — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Black Douglas forbade that they be harmed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Scots kept them as hostages there — no support
- **4.** They were shipped off to a Scottish prison — 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/345-pg18442-part5/e3/)

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

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Pray state the condition of the English garrison at the time of assault.

- **1.** They were engaged in festivity and unprepared — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They were feasting and off guard — no support
- **3.** They were busy drinking and unarmed — no support
- **4.** They were drinking heavily and had neglected to post any sentries at all — 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/345-pg18442-part5/e4/)

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