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title: The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monk… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 609 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 14 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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# The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped

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**Tests:** 1 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 609 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/609-pg236-part10/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo did u see the monkeys go nuts, like where was the panther even hiding

- **1.** down in the deep water tank beneath the old city — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in the old well — no support
- **3.** behind the dome — no support
- **4.** in the water tank — **✓ 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/609-pg236-part10/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruh Mowgli landed on his feet, how he even do that lol

- **1.** he landed on a pile of leaves — no support
- **2.** he was super light and the fall was not very far at all — no support
- **3.** cause Kaa caught him fast — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** cause Baloo taught him to fall — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 609, line 13: «What: Mowgli gives the Snake's Call, "We be of one blood, ye and I", so the snakes in the rubbish will not harm him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «snakes» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «mowgli» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/609-pg236-part10/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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ok real talk, who came over the wall and scared em all off

- **1.** Baloo — no support
- **2.** Bagheera the panther — no support
- **3.** Kaa the big snake — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the huge python Kaa who came over the west wall — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 11: «Who: Kaa is a python "thirty feet long" who climbs in over the "west wall".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «python» (+3); the same place «west wall» (+3); 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/609-pg236-part10/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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no cap the monkeys were lowkey scared of Kaa, why tho

- **1.** cause he could hiss one word that froze every monkey in the city — no support
- **2.** cause he was super strong — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** cause he was really long — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** cause he hissed a word — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 11: «Who: Kaa is a python "thirty feet long" who climbs in over the "west wall".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kaa» (+3); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/609-pg236-part10/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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wait so Baloo was like mad smushed but still wild, what did he do

- **1.** he chased em off — no support
- **2.** he called Kaa over to help him batter all the monkeys — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** he threw em down — no support
- **4.** hugged and batted em — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 15: «Why: Baloo "could not help chuckling" when he hears Bagheera asking for help, because Bagheera is hiding in the water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «baloo» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «bagheera» (+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/609-pg236-part10/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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fr what did Mowgli keep doing, like the snake call thing

- **1.** none — no support
- **2.** once — no support
- **3.** he kept going — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** gave it twice — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 604, line 15: «He holds a burning branch and calls fire "the Red Flower which ye, dogs, fear."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mowgli» (+3); the same action «hold» (+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/609-pg236-part10/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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innit, what did Bagheera yell when he was stuck in the tank

- **1.** help, he begged Mowgli for a hand — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** help, help, he kept shouting the name of the panther's friend Baloo — score 5
- **3.** help, he called the snake call — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Mowgli! — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 602, line 12: «Bagheera calls Mowgli "Little Brother" and teaches him to fling himself through the branches for honey.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bagheera» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same receiver «mowgli» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/609-pg236-part10/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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lol Kaa hissed one word and the monkeys just froze, how

- **1.** the word stopped em — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** they ran — score 5
- **3.** they heard the sound — score 2
- **4.** it froze em — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 548, line 19: «Old word: "abdicated" means gave up a throne, so when Theseus "voluntarily abdicated the throne" he chose to stop being king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «word» (+3); the same action «stop» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/609-pg236-part10/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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dude how far did Mowgli fall from the top, like, a lot

- **1.** about the height of a tall tree in the jungle — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** as far as the whole height of the summerhouse roof — no support
- **3.** fifteen feet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** twenty feet — 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/609-pg236-part10/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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bro the monkeys went up on the walls and screamed, where tho

- **1.** along the battlements of the whole city and down the stairs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** across the courtyard — no support
- **3.** up on the broken walls and all the way along the ditch — no support
- **4.** along the battlements — **✓ 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/609-pg236-part10/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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ngl what's the bat called, the one flying round the jungle

- **1.** Chil — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Mang — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Kaa — no support
- **4.** Ra — 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/609-pg236-part10/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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wait who got the nastiest hit, like the one that knocked em flat

- **1.** Kaa's bite — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The big hit Baloo gave when he hugged them all at once — no support
- **3.** Kaa's first strike — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Baloo's big swing — 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/609-pg236-part10/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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fam what did Mowgli do to laugh at the monkeys from the trap

- **1.** hissed like a snake — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** barked like a dog — no support
- **3.** hooted like an owl — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** laughed — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 5: «Kaa hisses the monkeys into silence, and Mowgli waits in the dome, still stuck in the trap.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hiss» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-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/609-pg236-part10/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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true, what did the snakes say when Mowgli nearly stepped on them

- **1.** move back little brother — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** keep still, little one — no support
- **3.** stand still little brother — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** run away now — 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/609-pg236-part10/t14/)

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

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Which creature is described as having stopped the Monkey-People by the means of a single hissing word?

- **1.** Kaa, the python — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Bagheera, the cat — no support
- **3.** Baloo — no support
- **4.** Kaa — 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/609-pg236-part10/e1/)

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

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Upon what part of the city does Mowgli remain confined at the conclusion of this passage?

- **1.** The summerhouse roof — no support
- **2.** The broken dome — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The dark underground tanks beneath the broken city wall — no support
- **4.** The old water tanks — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 2: «Bagheera fights alone in the monkey crowd and dives into a water tank to save himself.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+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/609-pg236-part10/e2/)

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

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What is the principal reason given for the monkeys' reluctance to engage in combat?

- **1.** Odds of a hundred to one — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The panther is too big — no support
- **3.** Because Kaa had frozen the whole army of the monkeys in place — no support
- **4.** The monkeys believed Mowgli had already been eaten by the snake — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 609, line 13: «What: Mowgli gives the Snake's Call, "We be of one blood, ye and I", so the snakes in the rubbish will not harm him.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «mowgli» (+2); the same doer «snakes» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/609-pg236-part10/e3/)

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

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By what means did Mowgli survive the fall from the summerhouse without serious injury?

- **1.** He landed well — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** By landing on his feet — no support
- **3.** Falling as Baloo taught — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Using the soft ground below — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 139, line 10: «The Mouse and the Frog were "not well mated," because the Mouse lived on land and the Frog could live on land or in water.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/609-pg236-part10/e4/)

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