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title: The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a froz… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 645 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 13 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 Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.

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**Tests:** 6 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 645 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/645-pg23661-part13/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Oi, where'd the pair of them end up, mate?

- **1.** At the North Pole — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** On a frozen lake — no support
- **3.** Somewhere near the Equator in a hot desert — no support
- **4.** Stuck in a snowy cave beneath the glacier — 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/645-pg23661-part13/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what?

- **1.** Quite scary but nice — no support
- **2.** Terrible but beautiful — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Well, he was really big and scary but also quite lovely — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Yeah, it was terrifying but also really gorgeous to see — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 642, line 6: «Who: Harry and Effie, two children who ride a dragon that is "as big as the dining room."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «dragon» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/645-pg23661-part13/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why'd Jane start bawling, innit?

- **1.** George hit her — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She was cold — no support
- **3.** The dragon was very loud — no support
- **4.** The dwarfs said scary things — **✓ 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/645-pg23661-part13/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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How did George shut Jane up without getting chilblains, bruv?

- **1.** Told her to pretend to howl — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** He told her to hum a song — score 1
- **3.** He gave her a sweet treat — score 1
- **4.** He shouted loudly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 643, line 9: «The new tale is about George and Jane, who live in Forest Hill and are told not to do something on the eleventh of December.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2). Against it: the same doer «george» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Them dwarfs were proper minging, weren't they?

- **1.** They wore sealskin coats — no support
- **2.** They were made of sealskin — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** They were cold and grumpy — no support
- **4.** They were smelly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 645, line 15: «The dwarfs say they are "made, throughout, of the very best sealskin," and their hearts are "like little fat sealskin purses."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+5); the same thing acted on «dwarfs» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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What's the big deal with George's cap, mate?

- **1.** It was his dad's sealskin cap — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nothing special, it was just a cap from the big ship his dad had sailed — no support
- **3.** It's his dad's old sealskin — no support
- **4.** The dwarfs wanted it because it was his father's cap and they hated it — 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/645-pg23661-part13/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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How were they tied up, like, with what?

- **1.** Chains — no support
- **2.** Ropes — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** Snow-wreaths — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Frozen vines — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 585, line 7: «Where: Brer Fox is tied up at Miss Meadows's place, and the contest is at a big flint rock down the road.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tie up» (+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/645-pg23661-part13/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why'd the dwarfs want the dragon up and about, bruv?

- **1.** To fight the children — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** To eat everyone but them — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** So the dragon would melt the Pole and drown everyone — score 3
- **4.** Because they wanted the dragon to carry them across the sea — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 645, line 5: «The dwarfs tie the children to the Pole and pile up fires to thaw the dragon, who will eat them first when he wakes.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dwarfs» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/645-pg23661-part13/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what?

- **1.** A huge mountain of snow with caves going down into it — no support
- **2.** No, it was a tall curved wall of ice like a giant — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** A bowl like a frozen lake — no support
- **4.** A pillar like a giant diamond — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 645, line 7: «What: the children find the North Pole, which is "made entirely of ice," and George says it could not be made of anything else.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «north pole» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Were the flames all wavy and wobbly, though?

- **1.** No, straight as lilies — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, wobbly — no support
- **3.** Yes, curled like ribbons — no support
- **4.** No, they were just bright and sat very still in the sky — 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/645-pg23661-part13/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Was it, like, a proper dragon or a lamppost?

- **1.** A wall of frozen snow — no support
- **2.** It was a lamppost made of ice, not a dragon at all — score 3
- **3.** A dragon made of ice — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** A statue of a bird — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 645, line 2: «The Pole is wrapped around a huge sleeping dragon made of ice, who is both terrible and beautiful.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «make» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Who got right in George's face, like, the bossy one?

- **1.** The youngest dwarf — no support
- **2.** George — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** The chief dwarf — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The tallest dwarf — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 311, line 16: «In her dream a strange boy has "rent the film that obscures the Neverland," and she sees the children peeping through the gap.», 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 «children» (+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/645-pg23661-part13/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Did the dwarfs think their hearts were squishy?

- **1.** No, their hearts were made of iron and ice like the Pole — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Yeah, their hearts were soft and wrinkled like old sealskin purses — score 1
- **3.** Yeah, like sealskin purses — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, like soft sealskin — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 588, line 16: «Old words: "haslett" means the inside parts of an animal, such as the heart and liver, which people still cook today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cook» (+2); the same thing acted on «heart» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/645-pg23661-part13/t13/)

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

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With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the North Pole is said to be composed.

- **1.** clear ice — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** snow — no support
- **3.** frozen sea — no support
- **4.** hard stone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 464, line 19: «Hard word: "without reserve" means telling everything with nothing held back; today we say "without holding anything back."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «hard word» (+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/645-pg23661-part13/e1/)

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

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Identify the means by which the children were secured to the Pole.

- **1.** snow-wreaths — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** string — no support
- **3.** sealskin straps — no support
- **4.** rope — 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/645-pg23661-part13/e2/)

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

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State the purpose for which the sealskin dwarfs kindled their fires.

- **1.** to thaw the dragon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** to melt the ice so the dragon could be woken up slowly — no support
- **3.** to melt the Pole — no support
- **4.** to frighten the children and keep them away from the dragon — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 645, line 16: «Why do they light fires? To "thaw the dragon," so he will wake, be hungry, and eat "everybody in the world except us."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «thaw» (+4); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/e3/)

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

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Indicate the reason Jane ceased weeping upon George's advice.

- **1.** she wanted to pretend to be a wolf and howl at the dragon — score 4
- **2.** she realised that crying would make her get chilblains on her hands — score 4
- **3.** George told her to be quiet — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** she began to pretend to howl — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 645, line 4: «Jane starts to cry, but George tells her to pretend to howl, and the dwarfs back away in fright.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same receiver «jane» (+2); the same doer «george» (+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/645-pg23661-part13/e4/)

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