--- title: The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 616 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 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/616-pg236-part17/) [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/) / 616 # The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 616 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/616-pg236-part17/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo did Sea Catch look proper wrecked after his fight? - **1.** Yeah, he was covered in deep scratches and bleeding all over his face and body after the fight — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Yeah, he was scratched in like twenty places — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, he got bit up pretty bad on his neck — no support - **4.** Yeah, he was totally cut up, bleeding from his flippers, his neck, his chest and his back — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 459, line 3: «Her three sons ask their father where she is, and he admits he does not know, so the youngest, Prince Vasily, sets out alone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+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/616-pg236-part17/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} bruh, what colour was baby Kotick, like, sus right? - **1.** White, totally unexpected — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** White, duh — no support - **3.** Black, lol — no support - **4.** Grey, kinda normal for a pup — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 73, line 18: «To quiet naughty babies they said «the terrible grey Badger would up and get them» — «a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was ra…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «babies» (+3); the same property (+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/616-pg236-part17/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} be honest, did Matkah wanna go to Otter Island? - **1.** Yeah, it'd be way less packed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nope, it's full of bulls — no support - **3.** Yeah, but it's way too cold — no support - **4.** Yeah, but she'd never say it out loud cuz everyone would judge her hard — 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/616-pg236-part17/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} lol, why didn't the seals just chill at Otter Island? - **1.** Cuz if you go there everyone thinks you're a bachelor, so nobody wants to risk it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cuz only the holluschickie go there, dude — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Cuz the seals would look proper scared if they went there, and everyone would talk — no support - **4.** Cuz that place is only for the bachelors — 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/616-pg236-part17/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} was the beach mad loud, like proper noisy? - **1.** Yeah, super loud — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, mad noisy — no support - **3.** Yeah, it was crazy with seals fighting — no support - **4.** Yeah, a million seals were going off — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/616-pg236-part17/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} did Kotick nearly drown at first, innit? - **1.** Yeah, he got swept out by a huge wave and nearly sank, then his mum had to rescue him — no support - **2.** Yeah, a current dragged him way out — no support - **3.** Yeah, a massive surf knocked him over and he panicked, swallowed water, and almost died — no support - **4.** Yeah, a wave took him out too deep — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 616, line 13: «What happens: a wave carries Kotick "out beyond his depth," and he would have drowned if it had not thrown him back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wave» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «kotick» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/616-pg236-part17/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} what's Sea Pig's whole deal, bro? - **1.** He's the old fish who knows the tides — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** He's the wise old porpoise who can smell storms coming and shouts warnings at the beach — score -1 - **3.** He's a porpoise who warns everyone about gales and knows all the currents and stars — score -1 - **4.** He's the wise porpoise who feels the gales — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 364, line 16: «The word "tended" is an old word meaning looked after or taken care of, so today we would say the boy minded the sheep.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «word» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/616-pg236-part17/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south? - **1.** East, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Head north, mate, cuz the tingle means a gale is coming soon — no support - **3.** North, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Go north, bro, the Sticky Water is over that way, so don't go south — 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/616-pg236-part17/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} hold up, what fish did Kotick leave alone? - **1.** All the small slippery fish near the rocks, cuz they make him sick — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Flying fish, cuz they're all bony — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Herring, cuz they're too slimy — score 2 - **4.** Sharks, cuz they're too fierce — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 324, line 15: «Old word: "marooned" means left alone on a lonely place with no way to escape; today we use it for being stranded anywhere.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (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/616-pg236-part17/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} did Kotick get proper homesick at the end? - **1.** Nah, he just liked the island more — no support - **2.** Yeah, he missed the beach and the fights — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, he missed the cold and the rocks — no support - **4.** Yeah, he missed the beach so much that he cried every night and swam back to it — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 **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 616, line 4: «Kotick plays with the other babies, learns to swim the hard way, and grows strong on the beach.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kotick» (+3); the same place «beach» (+3); a different action (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/616-pg236-part17/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} wait, how far is the home beach from Juan Fernandez? - **1.** Seven thousand miles, no cap — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Maybe three thousand miles — no support - **3.** Super far, probably over the other side of the big sea, I think — no support - **4.** Around five thousand miles — 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/616-pg236-part17/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} is the holluschickie thing like a seal teen phase? - **1.** Yeah, young males stay on their own beach — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, the young bulls stay apart — no support - **3.** Yeah, it's when young males are kicked off the main beach and have to fight for space — no support - **4.** Yeah, young bachelor seals keep their own grounds — **✓ 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/616-pg236-part17/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} lowkey, did Matkah sing to her pup? - **1.** Yeah, a crooning song about swimming late — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, a sleepy tune about the tides — no support - **3.** Yeah, she sang a whole chorus about the sea, the sand, the storms and the bulls — no support - **4.** Yeah, a long crooning song about never going in the sea until she was big and strong — 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/616-pg236-part17/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which statement most accurately characterises Matkah's attitude toward the colony's reputation? - **1.** She felt the seals should mix freely with the bachelors on the rocks — no support - **2.** She argued that the colony's reputation depended on the young bulls staying away from the rookery and the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** She held that the seals must preserve appearances and avoid Otter Island — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** She thought the holluschickie deserved to be ignored by the colony — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 53, line 17: «Toad likes that: he can leave «in some style», with his «reputation for being a desperate and dangerous fellow» unspoilt.», 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/616-pg236-part17/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following is the principal reason Kotick nearly drowned on his first sea visit? - **1.** He was too small — no support - **2.** He swallowed too much salt and sank under the shallow surf — no support - **3.** Cold water — no support - **4.** A wave carried him beyond his depth before he could swim — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 616, line 13: «What happens: a wave carries Kotick "out beyond his depth," and he would have drowned if it had not thrown him back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wave» (+3); the same action «carry» (+2); the same thing acted on «kotick» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/616-pg236-part17/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following accurately describes the navigational advice given by Sea Pig the Porpoise? - **1.** If the tail itches, the seal should swim south — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** When the tail tingles south of the Equator, one must head north — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Whenever the tail tingles anywhere in the southern ocean, the seal should find the nearest shelter immediately — no support - **4.** A tingling tail means the gale comes from the north — 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/616-pg236-part17/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which feeling at the end of the passage best indicates Kotick's longing for his former home? - **1.** A heavy, aching nostalgia for the cold sands of the place where he was born, and the bulls — score -1 - **2.** A deep and steady yearning for the wild, cold beach where all his old friends still fight — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** A bored longing for the fish and waves of the far southern sea — no support - **4.** A languid restlessness recalling the firm beaches of Novastoshnah — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 12: «On Toad: «He wouldn't show his face here alone, not for a whole hatful of golden guineas, Toad wouldn't.» (a guinea = an old gold coin).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (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/616-pg236-part17/e4/) - ← previous: [615. The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dance…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/615-pg236-part16/) - next →: [617. Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick see…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/617-pg236-part18/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)