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title: The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 625 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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, Toomai of the Elephants, part 26: Toomai is scolded, then brought before Petersen Sahib

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**Tests:** 6 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 625 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/625-pg236-part26/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bruh, what did Toomai love most about camp?

- **1.** the cool shade of the big trees — no support
- **2.** the tall stockade posts where he could sit above the crowd and watch — score 1
- **3.** the wide road to the old village — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** the steep paths only elephants could climb — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 159, line 3: «Weeks go by, the Boy loves the Rabbit so hard that he goes shabby, and then the Boy falls ill with a fever.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); the same action «love» (+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/625-pg236-part26/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, why was Big Toomai so mad?

- **1.** cause Toomai went catching wild elephants on his own — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** cause Toomai ran off to the jungle lines — no support
- **3.** cause Toomai went out alone at night and joined the drive without asking anyone's permission — no support
- **4.** cause he stayed out at the river all night — 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/625-pg236-part26/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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no cap, who yanked Toomai up in the trunk?

- **1.** the big elephant Pudmini — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Big Toomai — score 7
- **3.** Kala — score 7
- **4.** Kala Nag — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 625, line 10: «How Kala Nag reacted: he "caught him in his trunk, and handed him up to Big Toomai".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «trunk» (+4); the same thing acted on «toomai» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «kala» (-1). 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/625-pg236-part26/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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lol, who's Petersen Sahib supposed to be?

- **1.** the chief of the Keddah men — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the head of the wild drive — no support
- **3.** a tracker — no support
- **4.** the boss of all the Keddah stuff — **✓ 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/625-pg236-part26/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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sus, what did Toomai do with the rope?

- **1.** threw it down to the men below — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** swung it round his head and flung it over the stockade to a driver in the far pen — no support
- **3.** threw it up to a driver in the pen — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** threw the loose end up to a driver standing high in the pen — 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/625-pg236-part26/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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so what did Toomai yell to Kala Nag?

- **1.** maro, mar, hit him, hit him, hit him hard, you big old tusker! — score 1
- **2.** maro, mar, hit him, hit him, go on, Kala Nag, get that wild bull — score 1
- **3.** hit him, hit him, get him now — score 1
- **4.** maro, mar, hit him, hit him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 625, line 3: «During the last drive he climbed a post and yelled to Kala Nag, then threw a rope to a driver, and Kala Nag lifted him up in his trunk.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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fr, what did the laughing men find so funny?

- **1.** the melons, cause they all taught elephants that trick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** the boy's answer about the green crops — score 3
- **3.** the melons, cause every one of them had taught their elephants that same trick back at camp — score 9
- **4.** the sahib's odd remark about the corn — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 625, line 17: «Why the men laughed: "Most of them had taught their elephants that trick when they were boys."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «teach» (+5); the same receiver «elephants» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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bet you can't guess who called him a young jungle-cock?

- **1.** Machua Appa — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Toomai — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** Petersen Sahib — score -1
- **4.** Big Toomai — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 624, line 19: «OLD WORD: A mahout is the man who drives an elephant, and the text calls the Toomais "mahouts"; today we would say elephant driver.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/625-pg236-part26/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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what's a keddah, though?

- **1.** a stockade for catching wild elephants — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a big hut where elephants are fed grain — no support
- **3.** a wooden corral for keeping tame horses — no support
- **4.** a wild camp — 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/625-pg236-part26/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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did Toomai get told off or nah?

- **1.** yep, Big Toomai scolded him next morning and sent him off to wash the elephants — score 9
- **2.** yep, Big Toomai scolded him next morning — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** yep, Big Toomai scolded him harshly the next morning and made him wash the whole herd — score 9
- **4.** nope, he got a warm welcome — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 625, line 11: «Big Toomai's reaction: he "slapped him then and there", and next morning he gave him a scolding.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toomai» (+3); the same property (+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/625-pg236-part26/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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wait, how tiny was he?

- **1.** so small that he could hide behind a picket-pin all day — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** smaller than a picket-pin in the lines at camp — no support
- **3.** smaller than a picket-pin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** as tall as a fence post — 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/625-pg236-part26/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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lol, what was Toomai's excuse for the corn?

- **1.** melons, not green corn — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a bag of green beans — no support
- **3.** green peas, not corn — no support
- **4.** melons, the trick was for melons, not green corn from the fields — 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/625-pg236-part26/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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ngl, where did they get paid?

- **1.** at the stockade by the river — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** under a tree at a table — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** under a big tree at a table set up beside the stockade gate — no support
- **4.** in a tent by the lines — 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/625-pg236-part26/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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fr, why was Toomai scared of Petersen?

- **1.** cause the drivers were mad at him — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** cause the sahib knew his father well — no support
- **3.** cause he was late — score 3
- **4.** cause the boss was about to hear his name — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 625, line 14: «Petersen Sahib rode his clever she-elephant Pudmini, and he "had ears all over him" because he listened to the wild elephants.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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What was the principal cause of Big Toomai's displeasure with his son on the morning following the drive?

- **1.** the boy had meddled in the work of the drivers and the sahib's keddah men all night long — no support
- **2.** the boy had stolen the elephants' food — no support
- **3.** the boy had broken a rope in the pen — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** the boy had meddled in the work of the jungle folk — **✓ 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 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 625, line 3: «During the last drive he climbed a post and yelled to Kala Nag, then threw a rope to a driver, and Kala Nag lifted him up in his trunk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toomai» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «rope» (+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/625-pg236-part26/e1/)

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

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What was the designation of the official seated beneath the tree who disbursed wages to the drivers?

- **1.** the camp tracker — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the cook — no support
- **3.** a native clerk — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a village headman — 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/625-pg236-part26/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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What was the reply of Little Toomai when questioned concerning the purpose of his elephant's training?

- **1.** He said the corn was for the horses — score 1
- **2.** He said it was a trick for the sahib — no support
- **3.** He answered that the trick was for melons, and that he had been taught it in the camp by his father — score 5
- **4.** He answered that the trick was for melons — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 625, line 5: «Petersen Sahib sees the boy held up before him, asks his name, and teases him about stealing corn, and Toomai answers "melons".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «answer» (+3); the same doer «toomai» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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What was the approximate stature of the child, as remarked by Petersen Sahib in reference to a picket-pin?

- **1.** smaller than a picket-pin — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** about the height of a stool — no support
- **3.** smaller than a picket-pin used for the tents — no support
- **4.** as tall as a tent stake — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 625, line 19: «Old word "picket": a stake or post where an elephant is tied; the text says Toomai is "smaller than a picket-pin".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/625-pg236-part26/e4/)

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