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title: The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out th… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Nigel must work out the dragon's sleep, and the dragon turns to stone

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**Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 649 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/649-pg23661-part17/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, so where's Nigel first clock the Princess, innit?

- **1.** Down by the old harbour wall at dusk — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** On a windy hill above the town — no support
- **3.** On the rocky ledge over the sea — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** At the harbour — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 649, line 21: «Old word: "rule-of-three" was an old school method for finding a missing amount in a sum; today we call the same idea proportion.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Nah, what colour's her hair, like proper?

- **1.** Blonde and golden, honestly fam, sick — no support
- **2.** Dead proper golden, like, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** Golden — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Brown — 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 536, line 10: «What the baby wore: Creusa hung "some golden charms round his neck" to ask the gods for protection.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same thing acted on «golden charms» (+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/649-pg23661-part17/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruv, what time's the dragon kipping today?

- **1.** Nine — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Seven — no support
- **3.** Eleven — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Ten — 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/649-pg23661-part17/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Be honest, did Nigel get the sum right first go?

- **1.** Nah, he got loads of different answers, honest, bruv, no cap, fam — no support
- **2.** Nah, he got different answers every time — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **3.** No, he got loads of wrong answers, and then he got a proper different one — score 4
- **4.** No, he got loads of different answers — **✓ 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 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 649, line 3: «Nigel tries every kind of sum he knows and gets a different answer each time, so the Princess brings him a magnolia leaf with the answer scratched on it.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «different answer» (+4); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/649-pg23661-part17/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Like, what's the griffin's job at home?

- **1.** Doing the housework and mending everyone's clothes too — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Doing the housework — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Sweeping and dusting all the rooms in the house — no support
- **4.** Fetching the water — 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/649-pg23661-part17/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Who was on the cooking rota, mate?

- **1.** The dragon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Griffin — no support
- **3.** Nigel — no support
- **4.** The griffin — no support

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**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/649-pg23661-part17/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Was the Princess mint at sums or what?

- **1.** Pretty decent — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Rubbish at them — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Awful — no support
- **4.** Bad — 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/649-pg23661-part17/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Init the tail like a fat silkworm?

- **1.** Nah, like a snake — no support
- **2.** Nah, more like a big old pipe — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Yeah, a big green worm — no support
- **4.** Yeah, a massive fat silkworm — **✓ 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 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 582, line 14: «Old word: "bob-tail" means a tail cut short, so today we would say a short-tailed rabbit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «old word» (+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/649-pg23661-part17/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Wait, how long did Nigel sit on that sum, fam?

- **1.** Two hours — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Nine hours — score 5
- **3.** Seven hours — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Like seven hours, maybe a bit more than that — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 118, line 2: «One day he sits in his horse's ear and steers the cart into the forest for his father.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+3); the same action «sit» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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What's the answer on the leaf, like?

- **1.** Nine days — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** After nine days — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Day nine — score 2
- **4.** After eight days — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 353, line 15: «Philip's Spartan answer is one word, "IF," meaning the Spartans are not afraid.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «spartan answer» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Proper gutted, what did the dragon end up as?

- **1.** Stone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Stone, like a proper statue, innit bruv — no support
- **3.** Ash — no support
- **4.** Dust — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 649, line 18: «The dragon turns to stone because he falls asleep near the whirlpools, and the text says that is "so unsafe".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+4); 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/649-pg23661-part17/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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What did Nigel tie to his arm, yeah?

- **1.** A cord — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** A long silk cord from his pocket — score 7
- **3.** Rope — score 7
- **4.** A tie — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 298, line 11: «At sunset he sings his evening hymn and spreads his arms towards "heaven, and wood, and sea."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Them two powers, what are they, sick?

- **1.** Love and Arithmetic — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Faith and good sense — no support
- **3.** Love and arithmetic, like, proper, bruv, innit — no support
- **4.** Love, sums, and loads of other powers, mate, sick — no support

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**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/649-pg23661-part17/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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What did the Princess hold in her left hand, bro?

- **1.** A silver spoon — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** A brass telescope — score 4
- **3.** A compass — score 4
- **4.** The ship's chronometer — **✓ the right answer** · 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 338, line 19: «The fairies live in nests at the tops of trees, and Wendy explains that "when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «first time» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «bear» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/t14/)

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

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Which colour is the gown worn by the Princess upon her first appearance?

- **1.** Yellow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Red — no support
- **3.** Green — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Tan — 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/649-pg23661-part17/e1/)

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

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What is the period of the dragon's daily slumber, expressed in minutes?

- **1.** Two — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Four — no support
- **3.** Five — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** One — 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/649-pg23661-part17/e2/)

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

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How many hours did Nigel expend in the attempt to resolve the sum?

- **1.** Two — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Seven — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Seven hours, which was an awful lot of time — no support
- **4.** Four — 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 320, line 14: «Why: Hook thinks the boys will die because they have "no mother" and do not know "how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boys» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «eat» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/649-pg23661-part17/e3/)

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

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What was the ultimate fate of the dragon upon the sands?

- **1.** Petrifaction into stone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Melted into the sand — no support
- **3.** Drowning — no support
- **4.** Burnt to ash on the beach — 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/649-pg23661-part17/e4/)

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