--- title: Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 617 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 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/617-pg236-part18/) [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/) / 617 # Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 617 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/617-pg236-part18/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo, so who's the white seal that's lowkey the main character? - **1.** Sea Vitch — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Kotick — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Kotick the white seal — no support - **4.** Sea Lion — 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/617-pg236-part18/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} bruh, why did the hunters even bring the seals up to the pens? - **1.** To club the young bachelor seals for their skins and fat — no support - **2.** To sell the fur overseas — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** Because the old bulls ordered it every single season — no support - **4.** To make seal-skin jackets — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 488, line 1: «An old hunter sells his dog to a well-dressed stranger and later finds that the stranger is a devil who lives in a city on a mountain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sell» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} ok so like, who got clubbed the hardest, the whole herd? - **1.** The four-year-old seals — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The young white seals — no support - **3.** The bulls — no support - **4.** The grey old bachelors — 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/617-pg236-part18/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} wait, is Kerick actually nice or nah? - **1.** Yeah, he is nice to the young ones — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, he's a ruthless chief — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, he's pretty fair — no support - **4.** Nah, he's just tired — 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/617-pg236-part18/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} lol, what did the sea lion say when Kotick freaked out? - **1.** "Wow" — no support - **2.** "Nonsense!" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** "Silly seal!" — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** "No!" — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 617, line 6: «Who: Kotick, a young white seal, is the main character, and his coat is "almost pure white now", which makes him feel "very proud of it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «main character» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «kotick» (-1). 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/617-pg236-part18/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} so what was Kotick's whole plan, like, what did he want? - **1.** An island without men — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A quiet beach at night — no support - **3.** To become the leader of all the seals in the north — no support - **4.** To find a new mate — 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/617-pg236-part18/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} no cap, which place is way out past the Salt House? - **1.** Sea Vitch — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Walrus Islet — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Salt Island — score 5 - **4.** The rocks — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 338, line 15: «Old word: "falteringly" means speaking in a shaky, unsure way, and it is still used in books today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «old word» (+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/617-pg236-part18/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off? - **1.** Half an hour — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Until the sun went down behind the hills — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Until the tide turned — no support - **4.** A whole day — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 576, line 1: «Brer Rabbit hops into a well bucket to nap, and down he sinks out of sight.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sink» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). 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/617-pg236-part18/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} ok real talk, what do the seal hunters do to the seals' skin? - **1.** Cut it up — no support - **2.** Salt it down whole — no support - **3.** Boil it in big pots — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Rip it off in one piece — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 571, line 13: «Old word "palaver" means idle talk or a long fuss; today we would say "chit-chat" or "a big argument."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «idle talk» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: 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/617-pg236-part18/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} wait, why did Kerick think the white seal was a ghost? - **1.** Because the white seal looked exactly like his dead son — no support - **2.** He thought the white seal had come up from the drowned boats — score 1 - **3.** Seals never come back home — no support - **4.** He had been lost in the gale — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 617, line 14: «Why: Kerick is afraid to touch the white seal and thinks he may be "old Zaharrof's ghost", a sailor lost in a big gale.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «big gale» (+3); the same action «lose» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} lowkey wild, what's a walrus's manners like when it's awake? - **1.** Rude — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Polite — no support - **3.** No manners at all — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Very loud and bossy — 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/617-pg236-part18/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim? - **1.** Hunted fish and built nests along the sandy shore — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Lay still in the sun — no support - **3.** Rolled and told stories — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Sang and played games — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 361, line 3: «Charney builds a little house of firewood around the plant and writes down its doings with soot ink on his handkerchief.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «build» (-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/617-pg236-part18/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway? - **1.** The sea lion sent him there — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** The sea lion told him where the walrus lived and he went at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Fear of the hunters — no support - **4.** He wanted a new home — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 617, line 5: «A sea lion tells him that men do this every year, so Kotick swims to Walrus Islet to ask old Sea Vitch if any place exists where men never come.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following describes the principal action undertaken by the protagonist Kotick in the present part of the narrative? - **1.** He attacks the hunters at the killing-grounds — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** He petitions Sea Vitch for a refuge — no support - **3.** He withdraws from the killing-grounds and petitions the walrus Sea Vitch concerning a refuge free from human presence — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **4.** He escapes the killing-grounds and seeks out the walrus Sea Vitch to ask for an island where no human ever lands — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 617, line 4: «Kotick follows the herd to the killing-grounds, where the men club the seals and rip off their skins, and he runs back to the sea sick with horror.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «killing grounds» (+4); the same doer «kotick» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2); a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} With reference to the text, what reason does Kerick Booterin give for allowing the drove to rest before the clubbing commences? - **1.** The skins of hot seals would tear when the men tried to strip them — no support - **2.** Hot seals would bite the men and then fight back at the clubs — no support - **3.** The seals must cool so the hunters may count the herd properly before the clubbing begins at dusk each day — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** The fur of overheated seals would detach in patches upon skinning — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 617, line 10: «Where: the drove goes "past Sea Lion's Neck, past Webster House, till they came to the Salt House" before the clubbing begins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «clubbing» (+3); 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/617-pg236-part18/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and state the distance which the swim entails according to the passage. - **1.** The Salt House, a distance of four miles — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Walrus Islet — no support - **3.** Walrus Islet, a distance of six miles — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Walrus Islet, about two miles away — 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/617-pg236-part18/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Explain the meaning of the term "holluschickie" as employed in the passage, and identify the group of seals to which it refers. - **1.** Young male seals not yet mated, referred to as bachelors — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** Young female seals waiting for their first mate to come — no support - **3.** Pups of any sex who were born in the spring and are being driven to the killing-pens by the men of the islands — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** Young male seals who have never swum far from the rookery and are still too weak to fight the older bulls for mates — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 617, line 8: «What: the men drive the seals "just like sheep" up to the killing pens, to be turned into seal-skin jackets later on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «men» (+3); the same place «killing pens» (+3); the same action «drive» (+2). 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/617-pg236-part18/e4/) - ← previous: [616. The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/616-pg236-part17/) - next →: [618. The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/618-pg236-part19/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)