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title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)

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**Tests:** 9 of 19 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 15 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 37 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/).

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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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Jack: «Badger was well chuffed to get visitors that night, he loves company.» (chuffed = pleased) Put it right.

- **1.** He grumbled and scolded at the door for ages, shouting that nobody should ring at such an hour, until at last he recognised Ratty's voice and softened — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was cross at first, but warm once he knew the callers were his friends — no support
- **3.** He grumbled at being disturbed, and only got friendly when he heard it was Ratty — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He was very cross at being disturbed, and grumbled loudly at the door until he heard it was Ratty, lost in the snow — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Grandad, reading aloud: «down at heel, love — like my old slippers». What does «down at heel» mean?

- **1.** Worn out and squashed down at the back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Badly fitting, pinching the heels — no support
- **3.** Ill, with a sore heel that has been rubbed raw by walking through the snow for many long miles — no support
- **4.** Worn out and squashed down at the back, like slippers that have been trodden on for years by a tired walker — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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«It's bare cold out here, bruv, ring again.» (bare = very) Who rang the bell at the end of chapter III, and how?

- **1.** The Rat pulled the bell hard in the frost — score 3
- **2.** The Badger rang it from inside the door — score 7
- **3.** The Mole rang it while the Rat watched — score 7
- **4.** The Mole swung on the bell-pull while the Rat hammered — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 5: «The Mole falls over backwards in delight and praises the Rat's clever step-by-step thinking at great length. «But as you haven't» got my brains, snaps the Rat,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «bell pull» (+4); the same action «swing» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «mole» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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The writer says it would «take too long to explain why» table manners matter. What is he doing?

- **1.** Avoiding the question with a weak excuse — no support
- **2.** Making a little joke, like a grown-up who can't quite explain — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Making a little joke, since he would be a long time explaining, like a grown-up who cannot say why to a child — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** Talking down to the reader in a stern way — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 2: «That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This is the real life for a gentleman! Talk about your old river!» The Rat says quietly that he d…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «say» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Mia from Glasgow: «Dreich night, they come in, and Badger gives them a right telling-off.» (dreich = cold, grey, wet) Put it right.

- **1.** He scolds them with a stern telling-off and never once says «I told you so» about the Wild Wood — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He gives them a right telling-off about the snow, the Wild Wood and the Rat's pranks all at once — no support
- **3.** He gives them a warm welcome — no support
- **4.** He never says «I told you so» — **✓ 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 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 4: «Then comes a huge supper. Nobody talks for a long time, and when they do, they talk with their mouths full and their elbows on the table — and Badger doesn't m…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Badger's kitchen is in a grand palace above ground.»

- **1.** True: it is a grand palace above ground, with many towers and gilded doors facing the river — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** True, the kitchen is a huge palace hall lit by a thousand candles, high above the river and the wood — no support
- **3.** False: it is underground, down a long shabby passage — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** False: it stands high in the trees, reached by ladder — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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«Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.» Can plates really grin?

- **1.** Yes, they are very happy plates — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, they only sparkle in lamplight — no support
- **3.** No — the whole room just looks cheerful — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Why does the kitchen feel so wonderful to Rat and Mole after this night?

- **1.** They have just escaped the cold, frightening Wild Wood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** After hours of terror in the dark Wild Wood, the kitchen's warmth, food and kindness feel like a rescue beyond words — no support
- **3.** They have at last reached a warm and safe home — no support
- **4.** They are finally safe and dry — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Looking back: in chapter I, how did the Badger behave at the picnic by the river?

- **1.** Gave them a cold, grumpy welcome — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Grunted «H'm! Company» and turned away, then sulked all afternoon before leaving them alone by the river — no support
- **3.** Grunted «H'm! Company» and turned away — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Grunted «H'm! Company» and turned away, refusing even to look at the Mole's picnic basket or lunch — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 14: «Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same doer «badger» (+2). 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Looking back: in chapter III, the Rat told the Mole how to meet Badger. What did he say?

- **1.** Take him not only as you find him, but also when you find him, and never grumble if he is cross at you — score 10
- **2.** Take him not only as you find him, but when you find him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **3.** Never trouble him at night, Mole — score 8
- **4.** Wait at the door until he opens it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 28, line 11: ««a firm paw gripped him by the back of his neck. It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel him laughing, right down his arm and through…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «rat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Looking back: how did the Mole cut his shin in chapter III?

- **1.** On an old broken stone by the gate — score 3
- **2.** On Badger's door-scraper, which was hidden in the snow, when he hurried up to the front door — no support
- **3.** On Badger's door-scraper, hidden in the snow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** On a wire trap set by weasels, hidden deep in the snow near the entrance to the Wild Wood — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 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 36, line 19: «The Rat: «But as you haven't, I suppose you're going to sit on the snow all night and talk? Get up at once and hang on to that bell-pull». The Mole swung on it…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «snow» (+3); the same doer «mole» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Looking back: what did the Rat take into the Wild Wood to find the Mole?

- **1.** Two pistols and a stout cudgel — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14
- **2.** Two pistols, a stout cudgel, a lantern, a rope, and a basket of cold food for the journey — score 14
- **3.** A map and some bread — score 9
- **4.** Some bread and a warm blanket — score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 14, tied with another option at 14 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 34, line 18: ««he re-entered the house, strapped a belt round his waist, shoved a brace of pistols into it, took up a stout cudgel» (a brace = a pair; a cudgel = a thick hea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+5); the same doer «rat» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «pistols» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Looking back: in chapter I the Rat said nobody interferes with Badger — «They'd better not.» What fits that warning now?

- **1.** He is big and strong, the master of his house in the wood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** He keeps a warm house in the wood — score 3
- **3.** He is big and strong, the master of his house in the wood, and nobody dares to cross him at all — score 3
- **4.** He is feared by weasels and stoats — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 26, line 3: «The Mole points to a dark wood on one side. «That's just the Wild Wood,» says the Rat shortly. Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but t…», 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 «rat» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Ollie, lowkey bored: «it's giving cosy cabin, but it's just a kitchen.» (it's giving = it looks like) Why does the book spend so long on the kitchen?

- **1.** To make us feel the warmth and safety after the terror outside, and to set the scene for the long winter ahead — no support
- **2.** To make us feel the warmth and safety after the terror of the Wild Wood, and to show the Badger's deep love of home — no support
- **3.** To make us feel the warmth and safety after the terror outside — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** To explain how the animals lived long ago — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 1: «Alice notices she has slipped on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves: she is shrinking again, and fast, because of the fan in her hand, so she drops it just in tim…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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The Badger thinks the Rat «has been up to some of his pranks again». Is he fair?

- **1.** Not really — the Mole was the one who went in alone to the door, and the Rat had nothing to do with it — no support
- **2.** Yes, quite fair, since the Rat is always up to pranks and it is very likely he started the trouble again — score 3
- **3.** Yes, the Rat always starts the trouble — score 2
- **4.** Not really — it was the Mole who went in alone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 37, line 10: «He thinks the Rat has «been up to some of your pranks again» — though really it was the Mole who went into the Wild Wood alone.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+3); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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What would happen if the Rat had not said his name at the door?

- **1.** The Badger would probably have shut the door on them at once — no support
- **2.** We can't be sure — but the gruff Badger might have stayed suspicious — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** We can't be sure, but the gruff Badger might have stayed suspicious, and the two friends could have frozen on his step all night long in the snow — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Badger would have stayed suspicious and shut the door, leaving them to wander back through the Wild Wood in the dark snowy night without any help at all, as the Rat feared — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 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 10: «The Mole: «You told me the Wild Wood was all right, you know.» The Rat, «evasively» (avoiding a straight answer): «O, I know, I know, so it is ... But I think…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wild wood» (+5). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t17}

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★★★ Count the animals at the supper table in this part (count the Badger too).

- **1.** 3 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Four, counting the Mole's sore leg as one — no support
- **3.** Five, the Badger, the Rat, the Mole, the Mole's cousin — no support
- **4.** Two of them, not counting the Badger 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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★★★ «Which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was.» What is the joke?

- **1.** Mole is praised like a detective — after being so slow with the door-mat — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Mole sounds clever, but he is really wrong about the slippers — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Mole is praised like a detective, though the joke is that he got the slippers right only after being so slow with the door-mat and the knocking — no support
- **4.** Mole is praised ironically for being slow at the door — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sound» (+2); the same doer «mole» (+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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t18/)

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### Test 19 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t19}

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★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». Whom is he gently correcting?

- **1.** The Rat — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Mole — no support
- **3.** Rat — no support
- **4.** The Badger — **✓ 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t19/)

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

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Identify the circumstance which occasioned the alteration in the Badger's manner of address.

- **1.** His recognition of the Rat among the visitors — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The arrival of the Mole's sore shin — no support
- **3.** The Mole's injury at the bell-pull — no support
- **4.** His hunger — 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/e1/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Badger's conduct during the narration of the animals' misadventure?

- **1.** He listened in silence to the whole long tale, showing neither surprise nor reproach, and then sent them to the kitchen — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** He interrupted with angry questions — score 5
- **3.** He grumbled and scolded them throughout — score 5
- **4.** He listened gravely, without surprise or reproach — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 37, line 9: «He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed». He pats both their heads and says «This is not the sort o…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «badger» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/e2/)

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

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It is given that the Mole sustained an injury to the shin. Ascertain the treatment administered by the Badger.

- **1.** Warm water rubbed on with a cloth — no support
- **2.** He washed it and wrapped it up — no support
- **3.** Bathing with warm water and sticking-plaster — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Cold water — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 14: «Badger gives them dressing-gowns and slippers, and «bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bath» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/e3/)

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

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Badger's view of table manners.

- **1.** He thought them rude — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** He held them unimportant, not frequenting Society — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** He thought them foolish, yet kept them — score 4
- **4.** He cared for them, though not much — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 37, line 10: «He thinks the Rat has «been up to some of your pranks again» — though really it was the Mole who went into the Wild Wood alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «badger» (+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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/e4/)

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