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title: The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 646 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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 dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 646 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/646-pg23661-part14/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, proper mad innit

- **1.** the sealskin dwarfs — no support
- **2.** the children, George and Jane, who had been buried under the feathers — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** the two children — no support
- **4.** George and Jane — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 646, line 1: «The children freeze, and the white grouse covers them with a warm blanket of feathers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «white grouse» (+2); the same thing acted on «children» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/646-pg23661-part14/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, who actually got the moths to come, was it the grouse?

- **1.** the grouse — score 3
- **2.** the white grouse — score 3
- **3.** the sealskin dwarfs — score 3
- **4.** the Arctic moth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 644, line 13: «Jane is brave and polite: she asks the moth "quietly if it would please step outside for a moment".», 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 «moth» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/646-pg23661-part14/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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bruv the dwarfs got wiped out by moths, that is so gutted for them

- **1.** the moths ate all their sealskin coats and then the dwarfs fell down dead — score 4
- **2.** the moths ate their fur — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** the moths came out of the cold and ate every bit of their fur away — score 4
- **4.** the dwarfs were eaten — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 646, line 7: «What: the grouse's feathers keep the children warm, and the moths eat the dwarfs' fur until they are gone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «moths» (+2); the same thing acted on «fur» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/646-pg23661-part14/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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dragons can go uphill as easy as downhill, no joke, so that's wicked

- **1.** no, not true — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** true, the narrator says so — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** true, the dragon agreed — no support
- **4.** false, the narrator is wrong — 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/646-pg23661-part14/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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proper long slide to the Crystal Palace then, yeah?

- **1.** to the Palace — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** south, down the old road — no support
- **3.** north, back to the Pole — no support
- **4.** south, from the North Pole — **✓ 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/646-pg23661-part14/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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did the dragon really eat the collector and the sportsman, like actually?

- **1.** no, on the hill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, on the slide — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** not really — no support
- **4.** no — 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/646-pg23661-part14/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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so the dragon melted and nothing was left, mega sad or what

- **1.** nothing was left at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** a little was left — no support
- **3.** there was not a bit left — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a bit of him stayed — 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 374, line 14: «The Dog hides the truth at first, saying "Nothing at all" and "Oh, just a trifle!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «nothing» (+2); the same place «all» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/646-pg23661-part14/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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why did the fires make the dragon poorly, was it the heat or what

- **1.** the fires made him feel faint — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** it was the fires, so he felt faint — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** the fires — no support
- **4.** it was the heat, not the cold — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 646, line 9: «Why: the dwarfs fail because they "had gone the wrong way to work," since the fires made the dragon feel faint instead of warm.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+4); the same property (+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/646-pg23661-part14/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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so the kids get grounded or what at the end, lol

- **1.** they stayed up — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** they were sent to bed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** they got a telling off — no support
- **4.** no — 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/646-pg23661-part14/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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the grouse is dead polite, but was he clever like, or nah

- **1.** yes, he is very polite and also quite clever, as far as birds can be clever — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, he is polite and bright — no support
- **3.** no, he is polite enough but he was not at all clever about the moths — no support
- **4.** no, he is polite but not clever — **✓ 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/646-pg23661-part14/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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did the moths eat up the feathers as well, like the grouse ones

- **1.** yes, the moths ate all the grouse feathers and then the dwarfs as well — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** yes, they ate the feathers — score 4
- **3.** no, the moths ate the dwarfs — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** no, they ate the snow — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 646, line 3: «The Arctic moths come in a swarm, and the greedy moths eat every sealskin dwarf down to nothing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «greedy moths» (+2). 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/646-pg23661-part14/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah?

- **1.** no, a fish — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes, a dwarf in a seal coat — no support
- **3.** yes, a seal — no support
- **4.** yes, a dwarf dressed in seal fur — **✓ 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/646-pg23661-part14/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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was the dragon actually friendly or was he dodgy

- **1.** he was friendly and gave them a lift — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** he was friendly and gave them a lift all the way to Forest Hill and the Palace — score 4
- **3.** he was friendly and gave them food — score 4
- **4.** he was friendly at first, but then he tried to eat the children on the slide — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 646, line 15: «The dragon melts at the bonfire, leaving the children sitting in "a large pool of water" with wet boots.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+2); the same thing acted on «children» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/646-pg23661-part14/t13/)

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

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Which of the following describes the fate of the sealskin dwarfs in this passage?

- **1.** They were consumed by a swarm of moths and perished on the snow. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The moths ate them. — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** They were attacked by a flock of moths and dropped dead on the ice. — no support
- **4.** They were frozen by the cold. — 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 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same thing acted on «dwarfs» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/646-pg23661-part14/e1/)

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

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According to the passage, why did the dragon's condition worsen when the fires were lit?

- **1.** Because he had been frozen solid all night and the heat of the fires caused him severe distress and near death. — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Because he was frozen and the fire made him feel extremely faint. — score 2
- **3.** Because he was frozen solid and the heat caused him severe distress. — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** Because the flames made him feel deeply unwell and faint. — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 546, line 5: «Deianeira soaks a sacrificial robe in the blood, the fire heats the poison, and Heracles dies in agony.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «heat» (+1); the same doer «fire» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/646-pg23661-part14/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which phrase accurately identifies the mode of travel the dragon adopted after leaving the North Pole?

- **1.** He crawled south. — no support
- **2.** He travelled southward down the slide carrying the children on his back. — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** He crawled southward along the great slide with the children on his back. — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** He flew south. — 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, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 646, line 4: «The dragon wakes up cold and hungry, carries George and Jane off south down the slide, and gobbles two men on the way.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); the same thing acted on «george» (+1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/646-pg23661-part14/e3/)

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

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Which statement correctly summarises the children's condition at the close of the passage?

- **1.** They were sent indoors and to bed, having arrived with wet and muddy boots. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** They were sent indoors and to bed at once, having arrived with wet and muddy boots and a great deal of grey pool water on their coats. — score 6
- **3.** They were sent indoors and to bed after a long night, arriving home with wet and muddy boots and very cold feet. — score 6
- **4.** They were scolded indoors after walking home in wet and muddy boots. — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 520, line 8: «Hera was still angry, so she "visited Athamas, the husband of Ino, with madness", and the child was sent to the nymphs of Mount Nysa.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+4); the same thing acted on «child» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/646-pg23661-part14/e4/)

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