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title: Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 631 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 0 of 13 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant

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**Tests:** 0 of 13 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 631 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/631-pg236-part32/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, so who got called a total coward by the mule?

- **1.** the camel — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Vixen — score 4
- **3.** Two Tails — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Billy — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 629, line 4: «He wades off into the dark, sleeps beside the cannon, and hears a mule kick a camel for shouting "Thieves and fire!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «shout» (+1); the same doer «mule» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bro, what did the troop-horse brag his cousin was?

- **1.** a racehorse — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a champion of the track — no support
- **3.** a Melbourne Cup favourite — no support
- **4.** Carbine, Melbourne Cup winner — **✓ 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/631-pg236-part32/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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No way, why did the two animals stop going at it?

- **1.** elephant's voice shut them up — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** an old elephant trumpeted and both animals stopped fighting right away — no support
- **3.** the bullocks came running in — no support
- **4.** the elephant's voice shut them up before the whole herd ran away — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 379, line 8: «Where: in the forest, where the animals run away "just as if he were King Lion himself."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of?

- **1.** little barking dogs — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** any small dog that barks very loudly at night and chases him — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** little barking dogs running loose through the yard — no support
- **4.** small wild foxes — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 94, line 4: «One busy morning the Baby cries outside the Cave. The Cat pats his cheek and tickles him with his tail, and the Baby laughs. The Woman, not seeing who it is, s…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cat» (+2); the same thing acted on «cat» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/631-pg236-part32/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Mate, which animal's dad was a donkey?

- **1.** the old camel — score 5
- **2.** the mule — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** Billy — score 5
- **4.** Billy the mule — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 631, line 18: «Old word "Brumby": it means a wild horse without any breeding, and today it is used for wild horses in Australia.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Chill, what did Two Tails call being betwixt and between?

- **1.** the famous phrase Pachydermatous Anachronism — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Pachydermatous Anachronism — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** betwixt and between — no support
- **4.** a Prehistoric Ungainly Relic — 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/631-pg236-part32/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Dude, what did the bullocks think blood looked like?

- **1.** something warm and red that the sun dries away — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** red stuff that soaks in — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a thick red sort of juice — no support
- **4.** the red stuff that soaks in and then dries — 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/631-pg236-part32/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Bruv, where was Two Tails stuck for the night?

- **1.** chained to a picket beside the big camel and the cattle — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** tied up on a picket rope in the cold yard — no support
- **3.** tied up on a picket — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** tied to the fence rail — 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/631-pg236-part32/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Ngl, how long since Two Tails had a proper bath?

- **1.** a week — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** about two weeks — no support
- **3.** a whole month — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a whole month since the rain last fell — 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/631-pg236-part32/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up?

- **1.** bad dreams at night — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** strange calls outside — no support
- **3.** bad dreams at night from the wild horses — no support
- **4.** the terrible noise of the bullocks in the yard at night — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 631, line 16: «The bullocks on blood: they say it "is red stuff that soaks into the ground and smells."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «bullocks» (+3). 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/631-pg236-part32/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Wait, what does Vixen do to the elephant?

- **1.** runs in circles yapping at the elephant's big feet all morning — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** yaps round his big feet and wakes everyone up — no support
- **3.** nips at the cattle's hooves — score -1
- **4.** yaps round his big feet — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 631, line 17: «Why Two Tails stops trumpeting: Vixen comes and "yapped round his big feet," because an elephant fears a little barking dog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same action «yap» (-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/631-pg236-part32/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Honestly, what does the narrator hide from Vixen?

- **1.** his skill with horses — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** he understands beast talk — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** that he can understand every word the animals say to each other — score 3
- **4.** that he has been secretly listening to the animals talk for years — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 196, line 19: «To hide the death, the men carry the body to a Jewish physician, and the purveyor props it up "in the street".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «hide» (+1); the same doer «men» (+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/631-pg236-part32/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Bro, what's the troop-horse's last line about?

- **1.** the fights are always fair and never last long — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** they fight in different ways — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** both of them are brave — no support
- **4.** they fight in different ways, so nobody ever wins — 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/631-pg236-part32/t13/)

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

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Which animal is described in the passage as a "Pachydermatous Anachronism"?

- **1.** the mule Billy who is a donkey's son — no support
- **2.** Billy — no support
- **3.** the captain — no support
- **4.** Two Tails — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 483, line 18: «OLD WORD: "skazka" is a Russian fairy tale, so "only a skazka can describe" means only a fairy tale could describe it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «russian fairy tale» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which word is used to describe a wild horse without any breeding?

- **1.** Brumby — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Mustang — no support
- **3.** Mare — no support
- **4.** Colt — 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/631-pg236-part32/e2/)

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

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Which creature does the elephant regard as the most frightening of all?

- **1.** a little barking dog — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** a hungry tiger — score 4
- **3.** a snake — score 4
- **4.** a small noisy bird — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 128, line 2: «A kitchen-boy sees a Duck that is really the Queen, and after three nights the King's sword brings her back to life.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «see» (+1); the same doer «kitchen boy» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/e3/)

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

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By what means does the narrator conceal his understanding of animal speech from his dog?

- **1.** By pretending that he cannot understand any beast at all, ever — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** He never lets her know, and speaks only in English at home — score 3
- **3.** He never lets her know — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** By speaking English only — no support

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**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 558, line 11: «Where are the men hidden to escape? They are tied under the bellies of the sheep, and Odysseus clings to the wool of the finest ram.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «men» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/e4/)

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