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title: Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 363 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 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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# Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 363 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/363-pg19994-part2/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, who even went to the posh gaff in the city?

- **1.** The country one, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Town Mouse, obviously — no support
- **3.** the Country Mouse, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The Country Mouse, which is a bit of a surprise, innit — 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/363-pg19994-part2/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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So what was the grub at the country lunch, like?

- **1.** A load of wheat stalks and roots, which was well dodgy, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Wheat stalks, roots and acorns, proper rough stuff, mate — no support
- **3.** Acorns and some wheat, love — no support
- **4.** wheat stalks and acorns, mate — **✓ 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/363-pg19994-part2/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Did the Town Mouse wolf her food down, or nibble it?

- **1.** Nibbled it, very fast — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Wolfed it — no support
- **3.** Gobbled it, quite rudely — no support
- **4.** nibbled it, dead polite — **✓ 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/363-pg19994-part2/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Why did the Town Mouse pretend to like the simple food?

- **1.** She was just trying to be polite and kind to her mate, bro — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Cause she didn't want to be rude to her mate, bro, at all — score 6
- **3.** she was just being polite, bro — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** She liked it, honestly, mate — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 145, line 19: «In the end the Country Mouse prefers the simple food of home, because there he can "enjoy my simple dinner ... in peace".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mouse» (+5); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/363-pg19994-part2/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Where did they kip after their long chat, then?

- **1.** a cosy nest in the hedge — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A soft pile of straw in the corner of the big country barn — no support
- **3.** A warm burrow by the pond — no support
- **4.** A snug hole in 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/363-pg19994-part2/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What was the dream the Country Mouse had, like?

- **1.** Cheese, fam — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She ate grand food, fam — no support
- **3.** she was a Town Mouse, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A dog, fam — 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/363-pg19994-part2/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Did the Country Mouse say yes to going to the city?

- **1.** yeah, she said yes straight away — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Yeah, she said yes at once — score 8
- **3.** No way, mate — no support
- **4.** Nah, she said no to that — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 363, line 16: «She says she prefers "my plain food and simple life in the country."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «mouse» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/363-pg19994-part2/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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What was on the table at the mansion, then?

- **1.** leftovers from a massive feast — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Remains of a grand dinner — no support
- **3.** The crumbs from a huge banquet that the Town Mouse's family had eaten earlier — no support
- **4.** Leftovers from a massive feast laid out by the servants for the guests — 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/363-pg19994-part2/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What set off the whole panic in the house?

- **1.** A huge Cat suddenly mewing and scratching at the big front door of the house — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a Cat mewing and scratching the door — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A Cat scratching at the wall — no support
- **4.** A Cat mewing and scratching the door, very loudly, in the hall — 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/363-pg19994-part2/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Where did the mice hide, then?

- **1.** Behind the big curtain, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** in a hiding place, mate — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Down in a dark secret hole under the stairs, mate, honest — score 6
- **4.** In a hiding place behind the big cupboard, mate, really dark — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 145, line 13: «When the door opens, the mice "scampered off and hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+4); the same doer «mice» (+2). 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/363-pg19994-part2/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Who turned up after the servants?

- **1.** The big Cat, obvs — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** The Farm Dog, mate — score 6
- **3.** the House Dog, obvs — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** The House Dog and the Cat, who both came in together, obvs — 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 108, line 21: «Old word: "grubbing" means digging up roots from the ground; "turnips" are a round root vegetable.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dig up» (+5); the same circumstance (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/363-pg19994-part2/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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What did the Country Mouse grab on her way out?

- **1.** her carpet bag and umbrella — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Every bit of her luggage, including the carpet bag and brolly — score 7
- **3.** Her bag and her umbrella — score 7
- **4.** Her carpet bag, umbrella, and a bunch of the acorns she had brought — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 363, line 5: «When the servants and the House Dog come, the Country Mouse grabs her bag and umbrella and runs home, glad of her quiet life.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grab» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «bag» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/363-pg19994-part2/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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So was the Country Mouse happy to go back home?

- **1.** Nah at first, but then yeah, she said her simple life was peace, in the end — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Yeah, peace was what she liked — no support
- **3.** Nah, the city was too loud for her — no support
- **4.** yeah, she said her plain life was peace — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 145, line 5: «The Country Mouse has had enough, says goodbye, and goes home to his quiet meal of roots and corn.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); the same doer «country mouse» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/363-pg19994-part2/t13/)

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

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Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion?

- **1.** A hungry Cat from the stables outside — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Owl — no support
- **3.** a Cat — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Fox — 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/363-pg19994-part2/e1/)

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

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What was the principal reason the Country Mouse returned to her home?

- **1.** She found the city dangerous, and she preferred the safe and quiet life of her own country home. — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** She wanted peace over fancy food. — score 8
- **3.** She preferred security to luxury. — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** She was frightened by the Cat, so she wanted to escape the noisy and dangerous luxury of the mansion. — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 363, line 16: «She says she prefers "my plain food and simple life in the country."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «prefer» (+4); the same doer «mouse» (+4); the same thing acted on «plain food» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/363-pg19994-part2/e2/)

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

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What did the Town Mouse's manner reveal regarding the simple meal?

- **1.** That she ate only out of courtesy. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** That she secretly hated the country meal but ate it all anyway to keep her friend happy and polite. — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **3.** That she enjoyed the simple food. — score 2
- **4.** That she was pretending to like the plain food so that she would not hurt her friend's feelings at all. — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 359, line 1: «The captain is seated in the king's palace when a horde of rats and mice eats the whole dinner.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «whole dinner» (+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/363-pg19994-part2/e3/)

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

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Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants had departed?

- **1.** The House Dog — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** The Fox — no support
- **3.** The Farm Dog — score 1
- **4.** A big Hound — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 281, line 2: «In the first hearts he sees a room of casts of crooked limbs, then a holy church with a white dove, then a sunny garret with a sick mother and her daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «room» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/363-pg19994-part2/e4/)

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