--- title: Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mous… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 400 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 1 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/400-pg21-part21/) [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/) / 400 # Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 400 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/400-pg21-part21/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, so the country mouse invites the town mouse over, right? - **1.** yeah fr, the country mouse totally invites the town mouse over to his place lol — score 4 - **2.** yeah, fr, he invites him to his place — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** yeah, fr, he invites him to his place for a big chill dinner — score 4 - **4.** yep, he invites the town one over — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 400, line 8: «WHAT: the Country Mouse invites his friend to "partake of his country fare."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «invite» (+4); the same doer «country mouse» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait, what's the country mouse eating on the plowlands? - **1.** wheat and figs from the town — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** just roots — no support - **3.** wheat and roots from the hedgerow — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** wheat, roots — 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/400-pg21-part21/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} so the town mouse is like, extra, right? - **1.** yeah, he totally brags about his luxury and the feast he has at home lol — score 6 - **2.** yeah, he brags about his luxury food and his fancy house all day long — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** yep, he flexes his fancy stuff — no support - **4.** yeah, he brags about his luxury — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 400, line 2: «The Town Mouse brags about his grand house, full of bread, figs, honey, raisins, and cheese, and the Country Mouse is thrilled.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «brag» (+4); the same doer «town mouse» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} why'd they both bolt when the door opened? - **1.** someone came in and they got scared, running off to hide in the wall — no support - **2.** cause someone came in through the door and they both got scared and ran away lol — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** somebody walked in, they panicked — no support - **4.** someone came in and they got scared — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 303, line 14: «The shadow's escape: he says "Be useful, and do me a service", and the shadow goes in through the half-open balcony door.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go in» (+1); the same place «open balcony door» (+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/400-pg21-part21/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole? - **1.** two, but they gotta squeeze — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** two, but they gotta squeeze real hard to get in there — score 7 - **3.** two, they squeeze in tight — score 7 - **4.** two, but they gotta squeeze, cause that hole is super tiny and narrow lol — score 7 **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 400, line 3: «Just as they start to eat, a door bangs open, and the two mice squeak off and squeeze into a narrow hole.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same action «squeeze» (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} did the country mouse like the cheese or nah? - **1.** yeah, he was well happy about it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, he was pretty happy — no support - **3.** nah, he was kinda bored — no support - **4.** yeah, he was well happy about it, like super excited for the cheese — 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/400-pg21-part21/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} the second visitor opened the cupboard, what then? - **1.** they froze in the corner — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** they ran off — no support - **3.** the mice ran back, trembling — no support - **4.** the mice hid again, shaking — **✓ 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/400-pg21-part21/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} why was the country mouse starving at the end? - **1.** he skipped dinner, too scared — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** he hadn't eaten, he was too scared — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** he hadn't eaten a single bite, cause he was too scared the whole time — score 5 - **4.** he hadn't eaten, he was too scared to go back for the food — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 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); the same thing acted on «simple dinner» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} so what's his final take, the country mouse? - **1.** his farm is safer, he's out — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** farm wins — no support - **3.** home is safer, he's gone — no support - **4.** he's out — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 392, line 4: «A worn-out lion lies dying while a boar, a bull, and an ass each take a turn hurting him, and the lion complains that the ass's insult is the worst.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «worn out lion» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} does the story say the town is safe? - **1.** nah, it's full of danger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, it's full of danger, like cats and people opening doors lol — no support - **3.** yeah, it's full of food — no support - **4.** yeah it's safe for sure, but actually nah, it's full of danger at every turn — 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/400-pg21-part21/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} what's the lesson here, mate? - **1.** peace is better than food — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** peace beats posh food with fear — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** fancy food beats quiet peace — no support - **4.** peace beats posh food with fear, so chill at home with your roots — 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/400-pg21-part21/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} is the country mouse like a gamer or a baller? - **1.** he's chill with simple roots and doesn't need fancy stuff at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** he's chill with simple roots — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** he's a baller with big food — score 1 - **4.** he's kinda a gamer, yeah — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 145, line 9: «Why: the Town Mouse thinks his friend lives "no better than the ants" and wants to show off his own food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+4); the same doer «town mouse» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/400-pg21-part21/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which provisions were set before the Country Mouse upon his arrival by the Town Mouse? - **1.** Wheat-stocks, roots, beans, figs, honey, bread, and barley — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and cheese — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and roots — no support - **4.** Bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, cheese, nuts, and a fine silver cup of wine — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 18: «They «instructed his housekeeper to feed him, undress him, and put him to bed», then sculled home to «their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «put» (+2). Against it: the same doer «friends» (-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/400-pg21-part21/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} What circumstance caused the two Mice to abandon their first repast? - **1.** The unexpected opening of the door by another party — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The sudden arrival of a hungry cat at the table — no support - **3.** The unexpected opening of the door by another party, who then shut the cupboard and left the room — no support - **4.** Someone knocked — 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/400-pg21-part21/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which description most accurately characterises the refuge into which the Mice retreated? - **1.** A passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing, hidden deep inside the cold stone wall of the house — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** A passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** A dark tunnel under the floor — score 1 - **4.** A passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing, and it led straight back to the cupboard — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 394, line 2: «The frightened Mice hide deep in their holes, so the Cat cannot reach them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same property (+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/400-pg21-part21/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What principle is illustrated by the Country Mouse's final decision? - **1.** That safety is preferable to luxury amid constant danger, so a mouse should stay home in the fields — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** That safety is preferable to luxury amid constant danger — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** That wealth brings happiness to every mouse in town — no support - **4.** That luxury is preferable to safety at home always — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 400, line 12: «The Country Mouse is "much delighted at the sight of such good cheer," so he is easily persuaded to stay.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+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/400-pg21-part21/e4/) - ← previous: [399. Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/399-pg21-part20/) - next →: [401. Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/401-pg21-part22/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)