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title: Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag b… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 375 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 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's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag borrows wheat on the Wolf's word

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**Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 375 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/375-pg19994-part14/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, the Boy got stung by a Nettle, so where'd he run off to?

- **1.** off to the park, laughing — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** down the lane to his mate's place, sulking loudly all the way — score -1
- **3.** straight home to Mum, bawling his eyes out in the kitchen — no support
- **4.** home to Mum, bawling — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 308, line 3: «The boy says his name is Cupid, then bends his bow and shoots an arrow straight into the poet's heart, and laughs as he runs away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mum said grasp the Nettle proper hard, yeah? Then what happens to it?

- **1.** it gets slippery and wet — no support
- **2.** it goes soft and smooth in your hand like a piece of silk — score 6
- **3.** it goes soft like silk — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** it turns into a snake — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 375, line 2: «A Boy runs home from a Nettle, and his mother tells him to grasp it firmly so it turns soft.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «nettle» (+4). 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/375-pg19994-part14/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Aw, the old Lion was done for, right? Who had a go at him first?

- **1.** a Boar — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** a Ram — score 2
- **3.** a Cub — score 2
- **4.** the Bear from the thicket up the hill — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 140, line 9: «Why: the Lion and the Boar make up because they see vultures waiting to feed on a carcase.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); 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/375-pg19994-part14/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Bro, the Fox was well sly, dancing for the Pheasants. What made them fall out the tree?

- **1.** they were spooked by a loud noise — score 5
- **2.** the Fox climbed up and pushed each Pheasant off the branch with his strong paws — score 5
- **3.** they got dizzy and dropped off one by one — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** the Fox shook the tree and they fell — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 3: «Thieves find only a Cock and want to cook him, but he begs for his life by saying he wakes honest men.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «honest men» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «fox» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Two blokes met a Bear. One legged it up a tree, what did the other one do?

- **1.** he shouted back at the Bear — no support
- **2.** he offered the Bear some food — no support
- **3.** he climbed up into the tree and hid behind the highest branch of the oak — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** he played dead on the ground — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 375, line 4: «Two Men meet a Bear, one climbs a tree, and the other plays dead; a Porcupine and a Monkey also get their turn.», 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 action «climb» (+1). 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/375-pg19994-part14/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Nah, mate, the Snakes booted out the Porcupine? Nope, they were the ones that got booted! What made them go?

- **1.** he pricked the Snakes' tails — no support
- **2.** they could not stand his spines — score -4
- **3.** the Snakes were angry about his loud singing that kept them awake all night — score -2
- **4.** his quills kept pricking them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 375, line 11: «Why: the Snakes wanted the Porcupine gone because "his sharp quills pricked them at every turn."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «prick» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Mad that the Monkey got voted king just for dancing, eh? What did the Fox do about it?

- **1.** he made a bargain with the Wolf — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **2.** he hid the treasure in a hole — no support
- **3.** he ran off — score -1
- **4.** he set a trap with a fake treasure — **✓ the right answer** · score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 140, line 4: «A Kid jeers at a Wolf from a roof, a Fox who lost his tail tries to make the others cut theirs, and a Jackdaw in borrowed feathers gets caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «make» (-1). 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/375-pg19994-part14/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Dead giveaway, the Wolf sat under the window all day! Why'd he leave with nothing?

- **1.** the Dogs barked — no support
- **2.** the Father saw him at the window — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** the Father came back with the Dogs — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** the Mother locked the door — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 130, line 17: «Old word: "chamber" means a bedroom or private room, so the tree is seen from her "chamber window," not from a hall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+2); the same place «chamber window» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Flies went mental for that honey, right? What got them stuck?

- **1.** the honey had gone bad and poisoned each one of them where they sat — score -2
- **2.** the honey was too sticky — score -1
- **3.** a spider caught them in its web — no support
- **4.** their wings and feet glued in the goo — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 375, line 14: «Why: the Flies died because their wings stuck together and "they could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass."», 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 «wings» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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The Eagle was on about getting hitched. What did the Kite promise he could carry?

- **1.** a Pigeon — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** an Ostrich — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** a sack of grain and his own nest — score 1
- **4.** a Donkey — score 1

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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 327, line 12: «Who gets home first? Peter reaches home "almost as soon as Wendy", who was carried by the kite.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+1); the same doer «kite» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). 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/375-pg19994-part14/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Ha, the Kite brought back a tiny Mouse! What did the Eagle think of that?

- **1.** she was furious and refused to speak to him for the rest of the whole season — no support
- **2.** she was well miffed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** she was really happy — no support
- **4.** she thought it was a fine present and kept the tiny Mouse in her own nest for good — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 183, line 4: «An eagle grabs the meat and carries him to its nest, where the merchants scare it away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «eagle» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «eagle» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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The Stag wanted wheat off the Sheep, yeah? Who did he say would back him up?

- **1.** the Wolf who lived in the cave — no support
- **2.** the Shepherd who kept watch over the whole flock at night — no support
- **3.** the Wolf — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the Fox — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 141, line 11: «Lion: it attacks him, and he runs well until he comes to "a wood", where his antlers get caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stag» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/375-pg19994-part14/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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The Sheep said no way, the Wolf is a cheat, but why's the Stag a problem too?

- **1.** he would eat all the wheat before she could sell it — score 0
- **2.** he runs so fast she'd never catch him to get paid back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** he would never pay her back the grain she needed — no support
- **4.** he is too slow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 141, line 11: «Lion: it attacks him, and he runs well until he comes to "a wood", where his antlers get caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2). Against it: the same doer «stag» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/t13/)

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

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Which of the following statements about the Stag's request to the Sheep is correct?

- **1.** The Stag asked for a measure of wheat and offered the Wolf as surety. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** The Sheep offered the Stag a measure of wheat and named the Wolf as surety. — no support
- **3.** The Stag offered the Sheep a gift. — no support
- **4.** The Stag asked for gold. — 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 375, line 5: «The last tale starts when a Stag asks a Sheep for wheat and names the Wolf as his surety, and the Sheep is not so sure.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «stag» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/e1/)

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

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Which of the following describes the outcome of the Fox's trick upon the Monkey?

- **1.** The Fox was caught fast in the trap after grasping for the meat. — score 4
- **2.** The Monkey was chased away by the Fox after reaching for the treasure. — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** The Monkey grabbed the meat, the trap snapped shut, and then the whole flock of birds came down to share the feast with the Fox. — score 1
- **4.** The Monkey was caught fast in the trap after grasping for the meat. — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 138, line 12: «What: the Fox finds a trap with meat in it and calls it "a dainty morsel" he saved for "our King".», 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 «fox» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/375-pg19994-part14/e2/)

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

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Which of the following is the moral drawn at the close of the Boy and the Nettle?

- **1.** Act with care and think before you speak. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Never give up. — no support
- **3.** Whatever you do, do with all your might. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Be kind to 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/375-pg19994-part14/e3/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the animal that the Eagle accepted as her mate?

- **1.** the Raven — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a Hen — no support
- **3.** the Kite — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the Owl — 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/375-pg19994-part14/e4/)

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