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# Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed

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

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Lesson 360 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/360-pg18442-part20/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro, the Casabianca kid just stood there while the ship was on fire, right?

- **1.** Yeah, he stayed right there on the deck, no cap, even when it blew up — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he left the deck, ya — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he stayed put, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, he ran off, no cap — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, what blew the ship up, like a bomb or something?

- **1.** A bomb — no support
- **2.** Lanterns in the hold — no support
- **3.** Powder in the hold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** A cannon ball hit — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 360, line 1: «Casabianca stays at his post on a burning ship while the others flee, until the powder in the hold blows the ship apart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ship» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/360-pg18442-part20/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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lowkey, did the butter lion actually save the dinner?

- **1.** No, it was ruined — no support
- **2.** Yes, it saved the feast — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** No, the guests ate the lion and nobody noticed the statue at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Yes, it fed the guests — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 360, line 4: «The guests praise the butter lion, the Count finds the boy, and Antonio is taken in to be trained as a great sculptor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «guests» (+4); the same thing acted on «butter lion» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/360-pg18442-part20/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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ngl Charney got locked up for no reason, yeah?

- **1.** Nope, he did it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, he was wrongly locked up — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, he was framed for theft — no support
- **4.** Yes, he was wrongly jailed — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy?

- **1.** A farmer — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He ran the big marble quarry and taught the whole village how to carve — no support
- **3.** He was a stone mason — no support
- **4.** He was a stone-cutter — **✓ 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/360-pg18442-part20/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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bruh, the statue guy broke the marble, what did he say?

- **1.** "Run!" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "Oh no!" — no support
- **3.** "What shall I do?" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** "Who broke it?" — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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was the poor boy a puny kid, like skinny and weak?

- **1.** No, he was strong but his grandfather kept him home from the stone yard entirely — score 6
- **2.** Yes, not strong enough to work — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, he was too weak to lift stone or do any heavy work in the yard — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Yes, too frail for hard work — no support

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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 334, line 1: «Wendy gives the boys her "last words," and Smee ties her to the mast while Hook plans to make them walk the plank.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wendy» (+4); the same thing acted on «last words» (+2); 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/360-pg18442-part20/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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how heavy was that lump of butter, like for real?

- **1.** Two hundred pounds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Three hundred pounds — no support
- **3.** About two hundred — no support
- **4.** Fifty pounds — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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was Charney's plant just dead, like nothing to see?

- **1.** It was growing stronger each day, with two new leaves and a stem — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was growing stronger — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It had died in the night and was lying flat on the paving stones — no support
- **4.** It was growing weaker — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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how did Charney even spot the seed, was it a big deal?

- **1.** A small patch of grass — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A bit of green sprout pushing up through a crack in the wall — no support
- **3.** A little mound of earth — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A little mound of earth pushed up between two paving stones — 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/360-pg18442-part20/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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bro, was the Count gonna be mad about the broken statue?

- **1.** No, he would be pleased — no support
- **2.** Yes, he would be angry — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yes, he would — no support
- **4.** No, he would laugh because the statue was only made of clay anyway — **← 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 360, line 2: «In Italy, poor little Antonio Canova helps his grandfather in the stone-yard and dreams of making statues.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same thing acted on «statues» (+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/360-pg18442-part20/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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did the guests think a grown-up made that lion?

- **1.** Yes, a famous sculptor from Rome had come to the feast and made it — no support
- **2.** No, a girl — no support
- **3.** No, a little boy named Antonio who was puny made the lion from butter — no support
- **4.** No, a little boy made it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 152, line 2: «Her father does not want a lion for a son-in-law, but he does not want to upset the Lion either.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «father» (+4); the same thing acted on «lion» (+2); 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/360-pg18442-part20/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem?

- **1.** No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it, a famous English poet of the early 1800s — score 5
- **3.** Yes, a boy — no support
- **4.** No, Mr. Scott wrote it — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 33, line 2: «Summer ends. Frost and mud keep them indoors, the river races past too fast for boating, and the Rat sleeps a lot and writes poems by the fire. The animals tel…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «write» (+4); the same thing acted on «poems» (+2). 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/360-pg18442-part20/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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To what was the explosion aboard the vessel attributable?

- **1.** Gunpowder stored in the hold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A stray spark from a lantern that fell among the sails above deck — no support
- **3.** Sparks from the galley fire — no support
- **4.** Gunpowder that had been carelessly stored in the hold of the ship — 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/360-pg18442-part20/e1/)

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

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Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented at the banquet?

- **1.** Clay — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yellow butter from the dairy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yellow clay from the river — no support
- **4.** Yellow butter carefully collected from the dairy of the Count's estate — 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/360-pg18442-part20/e2/)

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

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What circumstances enabled Antonio's advancement into formal artistic training?

- **1.** A prize — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A visit from the local priest — no support
- **3.** Praise from the village folk — no support
- **4.** Praise from the Count's guests — **✓ 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/360-pg18442-part20/e3/)

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

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Which action of Charney's indicates his compassion toward the emergent plant?

- **1.** He watered it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He watched it — no support
- **3.** He protected it from the guards — no support
- **4.** He refrained from crushing it — **✓ 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/360-pg18442-part20/e4/)

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