--- title: Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is s… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 388 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/388-pg21-part9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 388 # Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 388 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. 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/388-pg21-part9/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo so the cat dresses up like a doctor, right? what does he even say to the birds? - **1.** he's like "I can cure all ya birds, no cap, trust me, I'm the best doc around" — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** he goes "yo I can heal everyone here, no cap, just let me in" — no support - **3.** he's like "I can cure ya, no cap" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** he was like, I'm here to help, lol — no support **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/388-pg21-part9/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} ok but why did the jackdaw steal feathers, was he tryna be king or nah? - **1.** he wanted to be the top bird — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** he was tryna be the most beautiful bird ever seen no cap — score 2 - **3.** he wanted to be the hottest bird — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** he wanted to be the hottest bird in the whole flock fr — score 2 **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 388, line 2: «A jackdaw sticks borrowed feathers all over himself to win Jupiter's crown, but the birds pluck every feather off him and he is left just a jackdaw.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jackdaw» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/388-pg21-part9/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr? - **1.** yeah, they clowned him — no support - **2.** yeah, they roasted him hard — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah, they cooked him bad — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** yeah they dragged him hard — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 326, line 12: «What: The Never bird makes an effort to save Peter by pushing her nest against the rock, and she gives up her eggs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bird» (+4); the same action «make» (+3). 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/388-pg21-part9/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} the kid was on a roof dissing the wolf, how was that not sus? - **1.** the wolf said the roof was the real reason he was mocked, bruh — score 4 - **2.** the wolf said the roof was the real reason — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** the wolf got really upset with him — no support - **4.** the wolf claimed the kid was on the roof to flex on him fr — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 388, line 11: «WHAT: The wolf says it is the roof, not the kid, that mocks him, so "time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/388-pg21-part9/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} the old lady's doctor kept stealing her stuff, did she just let him? - **1.** nah, she dragged him to court and made him pay back everything — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **2.** yeah she kept quiet but then went to the king and cried — score 7 - **3.** nah, she dragged him to court — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah she hired a new lawyer — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 388, line 4: «A blind woman's doctor steals all her goods while he treats her eyes, then she wins in court by saying she is still blind and can see none of her things.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «doctor» (+4); the same place «court» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+3). 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/388-pg21-part9/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} so in court she said she was still blind, that's lowkey genius - **1.** she said she couldn't see her stuff — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** she said she was totally blind — score 3 - **3.** she was lying — no support - **4.** she said she never saw him — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 253, line 6: «Who: the fool is a young man who lives with his mother, and she says he is "no more fit to look after thyself than an unborn baby".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/388-pg21-part9/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} the frog tried to be as big as the beast, did she get it? - **1.** nah, her son said she'd burst — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah she did — no support - **3.** nah, her friend said no — no support - **4.** nah she didn't — no support **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/388-pg21-part9/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} the farmer's sons dug up the whole vineyard for gold, did they find it? - **1.** nah, no gold, but the harvest of grapes was huge and sweet — no support - **2.** nah, but the grapes went crazy — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, they just found dirt — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** nah, but the crop was fine — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 371, line 9: «Why: at harvest they find that "the treasure their father had told them about was the wealth of a bountiful crop".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sons» (+4); the same action «find» (+3). 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/388-pg21-part9/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} the cock who won the fight got grabbed by what? - **1.** an eagle, it was bad — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a hawk, it was sad — no support - **3.** a big eagle, and it was honestly the worst thing ever — no support - **4.** an eagle swooped down and carried him off, it was really bad — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 379, line 4: «Two Cocks fight for the farmyard, and the winner crows from the hen-house until an Eagle swoops down and carries him off.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «eagle» (+5); the same action «carry off» (+4); the same thing acted on «cock» (+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/388-pg21-part9/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} the horse said the soldier turned him into an ass, lol, was he right? - **1.** yeah, he made him carry wood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10 - **2.** yep, he did — no support - **3.** yeah he did — no support - **4.** yeah, he made him dig holes — score 10 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 113, line 17: «Old word: "hussar" means a soldier who rides a horse, and "copse" means a small wood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «soldier» (+4); the same thing acted on «horse» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/388-pg21-part9/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} the members stopped helping the belly, so what happened to the body? - **1.** it got weak and sick, but then the members said they were sorry — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** it got weak, they got bored — no support - **3.** it got weak, they said sorry — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it got really weak, and the members all came back and said sorry — no support **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/388-pg21-part9/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} the widow woke her maids up at cockcrow, then they killed the rooster, what happened next? - **1.** she woke them at midnight, the middle of the night, to get back at them — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** she woke them at midnight — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** she woke them in the middle of the night and scolded them all — score 1 - **4.** she woke them at dawn — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 135, line 4: «But the Widow does not hear the cock, so she wakes them earlier than ever.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wake» (+1); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+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/388-pg21-part9/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which animal, dressed in the guise of a physician, approached the aviary, and what reply did its occupants give? - **1.** The fox, told the birds were fine and to leave — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The fox, who was told the birds were sick and should stay — no support - **3.** The fox, who was told to leave — no support - **4.** The cat, who was told the birds were well and should depart — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/388-pg21-part9/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Explain the outcome of the Old Woman's suit before the Judge, and state which party's claim was upheld. - **1.** The Physician's claim succeeded because the Judge believed the Old Woman was cured — no support - **2.** The Physician's claim failed because the Old Woman argued she remained blind — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The Physician's claim failed because the Old Woman argued she remained blind, so the Judge ruled that the doctor must receive nothing at all for his treatment — no support - **4.** The Old Woman's suit failed because the Judge ruled that she must pay the Physician in full for every single one of her treatments — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 349, line 5: «The judges order the miser to give half his gold so the horse can live in a warm stall and green pasture.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «judges» (+4); the same action «give» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/388-pg21-part9/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} State the moral conveyed by the fable of the Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, as expressed in the text. - **1.** Fight hard — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Pride goes before destruction — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Always fight to win the battle — no support - **4.** Pride is bad — no support **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/388-pg21-part9/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Identify the reason the Widow's maidens resolved to kill the cock, and the consequence of their act. - **1.** They resented early waking, and the Widow then woke them at midnight — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** They wished to sleep until noon, and so the Widow locked the door and woke them at midnight with a loud bell and a lamp — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **3.** They feared the Widow's temper, so she stayed up all night — no support - **4.** They hated the rooster's noise, and the Widow then sent them away — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 117, line 10: «The maiden who is freed says he "should have her whole kingdom" if he returns in a year.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «maiden» (+4); the same thing acted on «maiden» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3). The right option, 1, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/388-pg21-part9/e4/) - ← previous: [387. Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/387-pg21-part8/) - next →: [392. Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/392-pg21-part13/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)