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title: Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 373 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 373 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/373-pg19994-part12/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut?

- **1.** Sniffin' at the bins — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Lurkin' near the sheep pen — no support
- **3.** Eyein' a sheep — no support
- **4.** Watchin' them scoff a roast lamb — **✓ 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/373-pg19994-part12/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, who got butted by the bull's mate?

- **1.** The lamb that was stuck in the cave when the bull went in — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The goat that got left behind in the field — no support
- **3.** The sheep that ran off — no support
- **4.** The goat that got left behind — **✓ 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/373-pg19994-part12/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why'd the beetle wreck the eagle's nest?

- **1.** Cos the eagle nicked her hare right out from under her nose — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cos the eagle nicked her egg — no support
- **3.** Cos the eagle had nicked her hare and wouldn't give it back — no support
- **4.** Cos the eagle nicked her hare — **✓ 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/373-pg19994-part12/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be?

- **1.** Dead proper sick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Dead ill — no support
- **3.** Proper bad off — no support
- **4.** Well knackered out — 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 155, line 5: «A sick lion is told to wrap himself in a wolf's skin, so he kills the wolf by mistake, and the fox just laughs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Who did the lion end up eating, mate?

- **1.** All the neighbours who came round thinkin' he was poorly — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The sheep that wandered in — no support
- **3.** The visitors who came round to check on him and never left — no support
- **4.** The visitors who came round — **✓ 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 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 21: «The King: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.»», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). 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/373-pg19994-part12/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah?

- **1.** He was being sneaky — no support
- **2.** He was being dead careful — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He was bein' dead careful and didn't fancy goin' in with the rest — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **4.** He was proper wary — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 142, line 8: «Where: the fight happens on open ground, and the Fox has been "prowling round" to see it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: the same doer «fox» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). 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/373-pg19994-part12/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Oi, what did the ass do to get fussed over?

- **1.** Ran round and barked — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Went mental and jumped on his master — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Kicked up a right fuss — no support
- **4.** Went mental — 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/373-pg19994-part12/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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What's the milkmaid's big dream, then?

- **1.** A new frock — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A nice cow to sell — no support
- **3.** A sick new frock for the fair — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A cool new hat for 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/373-pg19994-part12/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Gutted, what happened to all her milk?

- **1.** It splashed on her feet — no support
- **2.** It spilled all over the ground — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It all spilled out over the ground when the pail fell off her head — no support
- **4.** It spilled all over the ground and the dogs came to lick it up — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 95, line 1: «Very angry now, the Woman makes a Still Magic so that she will never say a third word of praise. The Cave grows so still that a little mouse creeps out. «Ouh!…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «milk» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/373-pg19994-part12/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git?

- **1.** Kicked it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Chucked a stone and snapped its horn — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Chucked a rock and cut it — no support
- **4.** Hit it with a stick — 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/373-pg19994-part12/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Why was the miser so gutted?

- **1.** His gold got nicked — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** He lost it — no support
- **3.** His coins got stolen — no support
- **4.** His gold got nicked out of the ground while he was at the pub — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 373, line 17: «The Miser answers: "I never touched the gold. I couldn't think of spending any of it."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «miser» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «gold» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Who nicked the miser's gold, innit?

- **1.** A mate who'd been nosey — no support
- **2.** A thief who'd been watchin' him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** A bloke who'd been knockin' about — no support
- **4.** A thief — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 373, line 4: «A Thief who has been watching him steals the gold one night and runs off with it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «thief» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «thief» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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What did the stranger tell him to do, though?

- **1.** Cover up the big stone and take the gold somewhere else entirely — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cover up the stone — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Cover up the stone with dirt and leave it be for good — no support
- **4.** Count the coins — 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/373-pg19994-part12/t13/)

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

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To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure?

- **1.** To a thief who had stolen his gold from the buried chest — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** To the theft of his gold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** To a fire in the barn — no support
- **4.** To a flood — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 373, line 3: «A greedy Miser buries his gold in the garden and digs it up every day to count it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bury» (+2); the same doer «greedy miser» (+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/373-pg19994-part12/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Upon what occasion did the Wolf express his reflections on mankind?

- **1.** Upon watching the Shepherd's sheep graze — no support
- **2.** Upon observing the Shepherd's family feasting on lamb — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Upon observing the Shepherd's whole household gathered at a roast dinner of fresh lamb — no support
- **4.** Upon observing the Shepherd's family quarrelling loudly over a dinner of goat meat and bread — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 373, line 1: «A sly Wolf creeps near the Shepherd's hut and sees the family feasting on roast lamb.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feast» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/e2/)

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

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By what means did the Beetle avenge the disrespect shown to her?

- **1.** By stealing the Eagle's young ones — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** By flying up to the Eagle's nest and pushing out every single egg — no support
- **3.** By rolling all of the Eagle's precious eggs out of the nest and onto the ground — no support
- **4.** By rolling the Eagle's eggs from the nest — **✓ 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/373-pg19994-part12/e3/)

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

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In what manner did the Ass attempt to win his Master's favour?

- **1.** By imitating the conduct of the Lap Dog and fawning all over his Master at dinner — score 7
- **2.** By imitating the conduct of the Lap Dog — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** By begging like the Shepherd's Dog — no support
- **4.** By trying to imitate the conduct of the Lap Dog who sat by the fire every night — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 350, line 1: «Napoleon leads sixty thousand men over the Alps, where there is no road, and says a man who means to win never says "Impossible."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lead» (+4); the same thing acted on «thousand men» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/e4/)

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