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title: The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests C… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)

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**Tests:** 4 of 18 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 18 of 22 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 68 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/).

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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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Max, big yikes (that's bad): «Toad's dad didn't trust him with a secret?! That's harsh.» Why didn't he?

- **1.** Toad «cannot hold his tongue» — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Toad «talks in his sleep» — score 3
- **3.** He thought Toad was too lazy — no support
- **4.** Toad had once sold the family silver to a weasel and lied about it — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 20: «Badger: «I haven't said my last word yet. Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+3); the same thing acted on «tongue» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Why is it funny that Toad «knows every inch» of Toad Hall?

- **1.** The passage was hidden from him all along — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** A whole tunnel under it was hidden from him — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** He never looked in the cellars at all — score 0
- **4.** He never went down there — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 68, line 1: «Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall. Toad says that's nonsense, he knows every inc…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bit» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What would happen if Toad told someone about the passage before tonight?

- **1.** The weasels might hear and the plan would fail — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Badger would be very angry with him — score 5
- **3.** The weasels might hear, the plan would fail, and Toad would be sent home to bed — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Everyone in the wood would know, and the weasels would hide their weapons and not come — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 12: «Mole comes in «very shabby and unwashed, with bits of hay and straw sticking in his fur», and praises Toad: «you clever, ingenious, intelligent Toad!» — while…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+5); the same thing acted on «toad» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Sophie, spill the tea (tell the gossip): «so Badger snuck into Toad Hall himself to find out about the party?» Put it right.

- **1.** No: Otter went to the back door disguised as a sweep, and Badger waited in the wood — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No: Otter went round the back of the house disguised as a sweep and asked the cook a question — no support
- **3.** No: Otter went to the kitchen as a gardener — no support
- **4.** No: Otter went to the back door disguised as a sweep — **✓ 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Why are the weasels «suspecting nothing» a big help?

- **1.** Because they think the friends are at home asleep and will not come to the banquet at all — no support
- **2.** They will be eating without any guards — score 3
- **3.** They will be feasting with no weapons — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** They will sing and dance all night — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 68, line 2: «Badger has also sent Otter, disguised as a chimney-sweep, to the back door. Tomorrow night is the Chief Weasel's birthday banquet: all the weasels will be feas…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feast» (+2); the same doer «weasels» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Badger thinks they need every sword and pistol the Rat has.»

- **1.** False: four sticks will do, he says — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** True: he says every pistol is needed — score 5
- **3.** True: the pistols are needed — score 1
- **4.** True: Badger says they need every sword, pistol, and gun the Rat can make — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 3: «A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet. Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up s…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same doer «toad» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Arlo, «I dinnae ken» (I don't know): «what's wrong with 'learn 'em' anyway?» Best answer?

- **1.** It is correct — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Badger is always right about words — no support
- **3.** Standard English says «teach 'em»; «learn 'em» is dialect — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is just a joke; nobody says 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why does the Rat get «rather muddled» about learn and teach?

- **1.** He had never learned to read properly — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Badger insists so firmly that Rat starts to doubt — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** The Rat was thinking about the banquet — score 3
- **4.** Badger insists so firmly that Rat starts to doubt, and then Toad joins in to tease him about it — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 65, line 4: «Inside, Toad is still muttering «But it was fun, though! Awful fun!», but out loud he says sweetly, «Quite right, Ratty! How sound you always are!» He promises…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+2); the same doer «rat» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Looking back: in chapter IV, what did Badger say about the old underground city under the Wild Wood?

- **1.** Weasels dug it, then the toads left it — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** People came and built and went; the badgers stayed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It was built by the weasels long ago — score 5
- **4.** Many animals came, but none ever stayed long — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 19: «Toad: «I shall go and enlist for a soldier» (enlist = join up). Badger: «There are more ways of getting back a place than taking it by storm.» (taking by storm…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «more ways» (+3); the same doer «badger» (+2). 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Looking back: in chapter III, how did Rat find Badger's door in the snow?

- **1.** A door-scraper, then a door-mat, then the door — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** He followed the footprints to the wall — score 8
- **3.** He felt for a door-scraper, then a door-mat, then the door, which he found after a long search in the snow — score 8
- **4.** He felt along the hedge and found the gate — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 15: «The Rat: «It's best to be on the safe side … I've never heard him ask for a lawyer! If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «door» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Looking back: in chapter IV, how did Badger send Rat and Mole home?

- **1.** Through a long tunnel to the edge of the wood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** By the old road across the open fields — score 8
- **3.** Through the front gate and down the hill — score 6
- **4.** Through a long tunnel to the edge of the wood, where they were met by a sleepy otter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 40, line 3: «The Badger promises to pass the word around: any friend of his can walk where he likes. Back in the kitchen the Rat is restless, overcoat on and pistols in his…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «badger» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «rat» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Looking back: in chapter VIII, Toad escaped prison in disguise. How is tonight's plan the same and different?

- **1.** Same: a disguise worn; different: Toad is not alone tonight — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Same: a secret way past guards and a disguise; different: this time the friends are together and planning a fight — no support
- **3.** Same: a secret way in; different: no prison walls at all — no support
- **4.** Same: a secret way past guards; different: friends together — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 12: «On Toad: «He wouldn't show his face here alone, not for a whole hatful of golden guineas, Toad wouldn't.» (a guinea = an old gold coin).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back: in chapter VI, Rat was tricked by Toad «playing at being» ill. How does Badger now handle Toad?

- **1.** He lets Toad roam — no support
- **2.** He treats Toad as a child — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **3.** He ignores Toad — score 6
- **4.** He keeps Toad firmly in order — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 61, line 11: «Toad, in the washerwoman's dress, lies to her: his married daughter has sent for him, he is «in the washing and laundering line», he has left his children and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3). 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Mia's mardy (sulky) little bro: «Toad's useless, why even bring him?» What is the best answer from the story?

- **1.** It is his house, and Badger knows how to keep him in order, so Toad is needed to lead the friends through the passage safely to the pantry — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Toad is a bit silly but he has a right to be in the fight, and Badger keeps him in order during the banquet at all times — score 8
- **3.** It is Toad's house, and Badger will keep him steady — score 8
- **4.** It is his house — and Badger knows how to keep him in order — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 33, line 7: «The Rat: «Badger'll turn up some day or other—he's always turning up ... But you must not only take him as you find him, but when you find him.»», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «badger» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+3). 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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What does Toad's dream about the passage that «twisted and turned round and shook itself» show?

- **1.** He is angry with the weasels — no support
- **2.** He is hungry — no support
- **3.** He is excited and nervous about tonight — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He is afraid of the dark and the water — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 63, line 3: «Then his heart turns to water. It is the very car he stole from the yard of the Red Lion, with the very same people in it! He collapses in a heap in the road,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «toad» (+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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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★★★ The Rat gives each of the four animals one sword and one pistol. How many weapons in the heaps after swords and pistols?

- **1.** 12 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** 4 — no support
- **3.** 8 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** 0 — 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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★★★ «Here's-a-sword-for-the-Rat, here's-a-sword-for-the-Mole, here's-a-sword-for-the-Toad, here's-a-sword-for-the-Badger.» In what order does the Rat name them?

- **1.** Rat, Mole — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** Rat, Toad, Mole, Badger — score 9
- **3.** Mole, Rat — score 9
- **4.** Rat, Mole, Toad, Badger — **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 33, line 9: «The Rat has «never even ventured to call on him at his own home myself», and says «we can't ... he lives in the very middle of the Wild Wood».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same action «call» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t18}

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★★★ «But we don't want to teach 'em. We want to learn 'em.» Why is Badger's answer a joke?

- **1.** He pretends the two words mean different things — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He pretends the two words mean different things, and then he laughs at Toad for believing him — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** He is pretending he did not hear right — score 1
- **4.** Badger is simply being silly today — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 17: «Badger: «What do you think your father, my old friend, would have said if he had been here to-night, and had known of all your goings on?»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same thing acted on «badger» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/t18/)

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

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Identify the reason assigned by Toad's father for withholding knowledge of the passage from his son.

- **1.** That his son was too greedy for gold — no support
- **2.** That his son could not hold his tongue and had once told the Chief Weasel about his car — score 7
- **3.** That his son could not hold his tongue, and would boast of it at every inn in the county — score 7
- **4.** That his son could not hold his tongue — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 68, line 1: «Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall. Toad says that's nonsense, he knows every inc…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+5); the same thing acted on «tongue» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the means whereby intelligence of the forthcoming banquet was obtained.

- **1.** A weasel boasted about it at the inn door, then the Badger wrote — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** The Otter, disguised as a sweep, enquired at the back door — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Otter, disguised as a sweep, enquired at the back door, then climbed the chimney to listen — no support
- **4.** The Mole crept round and listened at the kitchen window in the snow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 3: «The Mole points to a dark wood on one side. «That's just the Wild Wood,» says the Rat shortly. Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «weasels» (+2); the same circumstance (+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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/e2/)

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

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It is given that the passage terminates beneath a certain chamber. Select the response which correctly identifies that chamber.

- **1.** The butler's pantry adjoining the dining-hall — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The great kitchen beside the main stairs — no support
- **3.** The cook's larder near the back door — no support
- **4.** The butler's pantry and the dining-hall adjoining, with the chimney above and the cellar below — 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the dispute between the Rat and the Badger as to «learn 'em»?

- **1.** Both the Rat and the Badger agreed «teach 'em» was correct, but Toad insisted on «learn 'em» for the banquet tonight — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The Rat argued for learn, and the Badger said teach was fine — score 5
- **3.** The Rat said learn was wrong; Badger laughed and agreed with him — score 5
- **4.** The Rat held «teach 'em» correct; the Badger defended «learn 'em» — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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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 28, line 3: «The Mole has to trot up and down to dry himself while the Rat rescues the boat and dives for the picnic basket. Ashamed, the Mole says sorry with all his heart…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «teach» (+2). 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/e4/)

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