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# Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 357 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/357-pg18442-part17/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell?

- **1.** Ralph lad — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Old Tom the Robber — no support
- **3.** Ralph the Rover — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Captain Gray, mate — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Innit, what colour was the pirate flag?

- **1.** Black, proper black — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Blue, yeah — no support
- **3.** Red, mate — no support
- **4.** White, like a ghost — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Mate, why was the bell quiet that dead calm day?

- **1.** No waves to shake it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No waves at all to shake the bell that day — no support
- **3.** Water was too flat — no support
- **4.** The wind was gone — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Bruv, what did the robbers chop with the axe?

- **1.** The chain on the buoy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** The rope on the boat — score 1
- **3.** The big iron chain that held the bell up top — no support
- **4.** The chain holding the buoy to the rock below — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 219, line 9: «Why: he cannot carry a thousand pieces of gold on the road safely, so he hides them under olives in a vase.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: 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/357-pg18442-part17/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Gutted, how far out was the rock from land?

- **1.** Right out at sea, a good twelve miles from the coast — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Twenty miles out — no support
- **3.** Twelve miles out, right in the open sea, bruv — no support
- **4.** Twelve miles out — **✓ 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/357-pg18442-part17/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Dead good, what did the sailors shout about the abbot?

- **1.** Cheers, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Bless the old man — score 2
- **3.** God bless him, yeah — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** Curse him, no way — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 236, line 2: «Then she finds a bag of groats hanging on the bed, and when a robber overhears Jan calling it "for Hereafterthis," she hands it over to him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «call» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/357-pg18442-part17/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Wait, what did the bell go into when it dropped?

- **1.** The sea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The sea, going splash — no support
- **3.** Waves, going whoosh — no support
- **4.** The water, going gurgle — **✓ 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/357-pg18442-part17/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening?

- **1.** Snow, proper cold, yeah — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Mist, yeah — score 6
- **3.** Thick grey fog, can't see nothing, proper scary — no support
- **4.** Thick fog, can't see — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 178, line 12: «The rider falls only after the third arrow, when "the horseman fell with a great crash into the sea."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+5); the same place «sea» (+1). 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/357-pg18442-part17/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Lol, what did the pilot reckon he could hear?

- **1.** Thunder booming far — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bell ringing near — no support
- **3.** Breakers crashing near — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Crashing — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship?

- **1.** Smashing into the rock — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Smashing into the rock in the fog, proper bad luck — no support
- **3.** Crashing into a wave — no support
- **4.** Hitting the rock, going down, mate, proper dead — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 357, line 4: «His ship strikes the rock and begins to sink.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «strike» (+4); the same thing acted on «rock» (+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/357-pg18442-part17/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Bro, what did Ralph say about the bell and the abbot?

- **1.** It was the abbot's — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** Just a joke — score 5
- **3.** It was his own joke — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** A prank — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 357, line 9: «Why: the abbot wants to stop sailors dying, saying "It is a pity that so many brave sailors should lose their lives."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+7); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «abbot» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/357-pg18442-part17/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Mate, who was the ship's robber boss?

- **1.** Ned the Bold Pirate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ralph the Rover, the mega pirate boss of the ship — no support
- **3.** Ralph the Rover — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Captain Black Tom — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying?

- **1.** Put a big bell on a buoy out at sea, yeah — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Put a bell on a buoy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Hired a rowing crew — no support
- **4.** Built a tall church — 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/357-pg18442-part17/t13/)

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

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Which of the following describes the location of the Inchcape Rock, as recorded in the account?

- **1.** It stands in the Atlantic, ten miles from any coast. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It lies in the North Sea, twelve miles from any land. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It lies in the North Sea. — no support
- **4.** It lies in the Irish Sea, nine miles from the shore. — 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/357-pg18442-part17/e1/)

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

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What action did Ralph the Rover take in relation to the buoy and its bell?

- **1.** He cut the chain and fastenings of the bell and then threw the whole buoy into the sea. — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** He stole the bell and sailed away with the buoy. — score 3
- **3.** He cut the bell free and rang it on his ship. — score 3
- **4.** He broke the chain and cut the fastenings of the bell. — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 357, line 2: «Ralph the Rover, a sea robber, sees the buoy on a calm day and has his men row out to cut its chain and drop the bell into the sea.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cut» (+4); the same thing acted on «chain» (+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/357-pg18442-part17/e2/)

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

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What was the principal cause of Ralph's ship being wrecked on the rock?

- **1.** He sailed into a storm with no lights aboard. — no support
- **2.** A storm drove his ship onto the sandbar at night. — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** He struck the rock in fog, having no bell to warn him. — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** He struck the rock in dense fog, having no bell to warn him, after cutting the buoy loose. — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 188, line 4: «Back in Bagdad he gives a tenth of his money to the poor, but he soon sets off on a sixth voyage, and a storm wrecks the ship on a rocky island.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «storm» (+4); the same thing acted on «ship» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/357-pg18442-part17/e3/)

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

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What did Ralph the Rover conclude about his own misfortune at the end of the account?

- **1.** He felt no regret at all. — no support
- **2.** He insisted the wreck was merely bad luck from the weather. — no support
- **3.** He swore the abbot had cursed his ship with the wreck. — no support
- **4.** He acknowledged it was the consequence of his joke upon the abbot. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 357, line 5: «Ralph cries out that he has been punished for the joke he played on the good abbot.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: 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/357-pg18442-part17/e4/)

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