--- title: The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon scares the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 654 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 tests right, exam 4 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/654-pg23661-part22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 654 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon scares the town and the Prince sets out to hunt it **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 4 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 654 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. 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/654-pg23661-part22/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Mate, was the Princess actually doing all the cleaning herself, like, the whole palace? - **1.** Yeah, she did every bit, even the dusty corners — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, a servant did the sweeping — no support - **3.** Nah, she had maids for the dusty corners — no support - **4.** Yeah, all of it — no support **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/654-pg23661-part22/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, so the dragon wasn't even a proper dragon at first, innit? - **1.** Nah, it was just a big lizard, innit — score 5 - **2.** Right, it was too small and too big to be one, like a lizard that had ballooned — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, at first it was just a weird lizard thing, then it got bigger and bigger — score 5 - **4.** Right, it was too small and too big to be one — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 651, line 3: «The dragon catches his leg and asks him to mend its loose wing, promising to eat him last.», 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 «dragon» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). 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/654-pg23661-part22/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Did the kids go out for the may, or did they just stay in the town? - **1.** They went to the river, very late — no support - **2.** They went out to the wood, proper early — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** They ran to the fields, dead early — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** They stayed in town — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same doer «kid» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Why did the nurse lock the door, bruv? Was she being dead strict? - **1.** She wanted the princess to stay in — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Yeah she was strict, she locked everything up because the Prince said so and she obeyed — score 1 - **3.** She was hiding the Princess from the mad hippos — score 1 - **4.** She was keeping the Princess safe from the dragon — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 654, line 10: «WHEN: It is May Day, and "the children go out to get flowers in the wood".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nurse» (+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/654-pg23661-part22/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Did the Prince actually go after the dragon, or did he chill at home? - **1.** He rode off with his guards to chase — score 4 - **2.** He rode out with his hippos to hunt it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** He sent his hounds to hunt it — score 6 - **4.** He chilled at home — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 446, line 6: «Who: Prince Ivan, a kind prince who is miserable because he misses his home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ivan» (+2); the same thing acted on «home» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Those hippos sound well mental, what noise do they make? - **1.** They snort like pigs — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They bark like hounds, not like pigs — no support - **3.** They grunt like pigs, not like hounds — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** They howl like wolves, not like pigs — no support **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/654-pg23661-part22/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Did the hippos jump over the hedges or what? - **1.** Yeah, they leapt over them — no support - **2.** Nah, they ran round — no support - **3.** Nah, they went under them — no support - **4.** Nah, they just crashed through them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 654, line 15: «Hippopotamuses "grunt like pigs" and do not bay like hounds, and they crash through hedges.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crash» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Was the Prince proper generous when the farmers moaned about their crops? - **1.** Yeah, he gave them a bit — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Nope, he never paid them a penny — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Nope, he never paid them a penny and called them lazy for complaining — score 4 - **4.** Yeah, he paid them a few coins but only after they begged him in the square — score 3 **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 204, line 6: «Who: Camaralzaman, a prince, and the old gardener who gave him his passage and a cottage to live in.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same thing acted on «passage» (+2). 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/654-pg23661-part22/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Who was the Princess's cousin, anyway? Was he a good egg? - **1.** Yeah, he was a good chap — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, he was a bit grumpy — no support - **3.** Nah, he was nice — no support - **4.** Nah, he was a right evil Prince — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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/654-pg23661-part22/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} So did the Princess keep her kingdom, or what? - **1.** Nope, her cousin took everything — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** Nope, she gave it away — score 0 - **3.** Yeah, she kept some of it, but her cousin took the castle and the fields — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** Nope, her cousin took everything, the palace, the fields and the gold — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 180, line 2: «They feast him, sing, dance and keep him company, and each day he opens a new door full of wonders.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princesses» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «keep» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} What did the children shout when they ran, like, screaming all over? - **1.** "Help, help, the huge fiery dragon is coming down the high street!" — no support - **2.** "The fiery dragon is coming!" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** "The hippos are coming!" — no support - **4.** "The fiery dragon is coming, run for your lives, run!" — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 654, line 4: «The children run screaming out of the wood, shouting that the fiery dragon is coming, and bang the town gate shut.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on (-1); the same doer «fiery dragon» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} Did the green-grocer enjoy the Prince's hunts, or was he gutted? - **1.** Yeah, he loved them — no support - **2.** He hated it at first then loved it — no support - **3.** He was gutted every time the Prince showed off — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** He enjoyed the parades and loved it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 654, line 17: «The green-grocer and the crockery merchant suffer every time the Prince shows off his pack.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «green grocer» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Where did the dragon go after it trampled the ferns, mate? - **1.** Back into the covert of the wood and under the roots of the great oak — no support - **2.** Back to the old barn — no support - **3.** Over the far hill — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Back into the covert of the wood — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 651, line 2: «He goes down for coal with a lantern and finds a huge dragon filling the far side of the dungeon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «huge dragon» (+1); the same property (+1). 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/654-pg23661-part22/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the action by which the Princess's nurse secured the tower against the creature? - **1.** She locked the great door of the tower, bolted the windows, and placed the key in her pocket and then waited by the stairs — score 8 - **2.** She bolted the iron gate and dropped the key down the well — no support - **3.** She locked the great door of the tower and placed the key in her pocket. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** She bolted the gate and hid the lamp beneath her apron — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 654, line 13: «The nurse locks the tower door and says "My business is to take care of you, my precious."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lock» (+5); the same thing acted on «tower door» (+2); 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/654-pg23661-part22/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the reason given by the Prince for ignoring the complaints of the farmers regarding their damaged crops. - **1.** He said the farmers should have cut their own hedges — score 4 - **2.** He stated that the farmers had left their crops standing in people's way. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** He stated that the farmers had been warned repeatedly, had left their crops standing in the lanes, and deserved nothing at all — no support - **4.** He stated that the farmers had left their crops standing in people's way and that the hunt was more important than their harvest — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 650, line 15: «Old word: agriculture means farming, so the rubies were used to help farmers grow crops.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «farmers» (+2); the same thing acted on «crops» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} State the manner in which the hippopotamuses conducted the pursuit across the countryside, as described in the narrative. - **1.** They crashed through the hedges and lumbered through the standing corn, flattening every gate in the valley — score 7 - **2.** They crashed through the hedges, lumbered through the standing corn, and splashed across the river before the hunt ended — score 7 - **3.** They crashed through the hedges and lumbered through the standing corn. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** They trampled the fields and smashed the gates — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 654, line 15: «Hippopotamuses "grunt like pigs" and do not bay like hounds, and they crash through hedges.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «hedges» (+4); the same action «crash» (+2); the same doer «hippopotamuses» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/654-pg23661-part22/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Describe the appearance of the creature glimpsed by the Princess at the rose-thorny hedge on May Day morning. - **1.** Bright and shining, roughly the length of a hearthrug, resembling a dragon and a lizard. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Dark and scaly, roughly the length of a rowing boat, resembling a toad and a snake — no support - **3.** Bright and shining with a long coiling tail, roughly the length of a hearthrug and as tall as a door, resembling a dragon, a lizard, and a great hunting hound — no support - **4.** Bright and shining, roughly the length of a hearthrug, with wings and a long tail, resembling a dragon and a lizard combined with a hippo — no support **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/654-pg23661-part22/e4/) - ← previous: [653. 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