---
title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom t… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 749 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/749-pg2591-part25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 749

# Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home

<!-- .vintro -->
**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

<!-- .vabout -->
Lesson 749 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.

<!-- .vabout -->
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/749-pg2591-part25/).

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

<!-- .q -->
Dude, so Tom got eaten by a cow, right?

- **1.** Yep, then a wolf ate him too, and the cow too — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Yeah, a wolf got him too — no support
- **3.** Yep, then a wolf ate him too — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Nah, the cow spit him out — score 1

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 673, line 3: «The emperor's eldest and middle sons are eaten after a hare leads them into the mill, so the youngest goes looking for them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+2). 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/749-pg2591-part25/t1/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

<!-- .q -->
Wait, how'd he even get in the cow?

- **1.** The cook shoved him in the hay right before the cow was fed — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** The parson tossed him in a pail — no support
- **3.** The cook shoved him in the hay — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He climbed into the cow's stall and hid in the hay bin — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 518, line 11: «The bribe: Hermes gives Battus "the finest cow in the herd" to keep quiet, and Battus promises to keep the secret.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same thing acted on «finest cow» (+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/749-pg2591-part25/t2/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

<!-- .q -->
Why'd the parson kill the cow, bruh?

- **1.** He thought she was bewitched — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** He figured the cow was bewitched by a wolf or something, bruh — score 3
- **3.** He thought she had swallowed a whole boy and wolf — score 2
- **4.** He thought she was haunted — score 2

<!-- .why -->
**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 749, line 2: «The maid hears his voice, the parson thinks the cow is bewitched, and the cow is killed.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «bewitch» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/t3/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

<!-- .q -->
What'd Tom tell the wolf about, like?

- **1.** A house with loads of grub — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** A house full of good eats — no support
- **3.** Lots of food — score 4
- **4.** A barn with tons of food — score 4

<!-- .why -->
**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 677, line 5: «Tiidu, a lazy boy from a poor family, refuses to work, and an old man tells him to buy pipes and play for money, so he sets off secretly and grows rich.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old man» (+3); the same action «tell» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/t4/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

<!-- .q -->
Lol, how'd the wolf get stuck?

- **1.** He ate too much — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He got stuck — no support
- **3.** He stuffed himself too much — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** He was too fat, lol — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 749, line 13: «What: the wolf eats so much that he cannot leave "by the same way he came in".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: the same doer «wolf» (-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/749-pg2591-part25/t5/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

<!-- .q -->
So Tom yelled loud to wake the house, yeah?

- **1.** Nah, he just whispered — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Nope, quiet — no support
- **3.** Yup, loud as he could — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yup — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 748, line 10: «Why: The woodman sells his son only after Tom whispers, "Take the money, father, and let them have me; I'll soon come back to you."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «whisper» (+4); the same doer «tom» (+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/749-pg2591-part25/t6/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

<!-- .q -->
Did his dad almost whack him or what?

- **1.** Nah, the dad whacked the wolf right on the head with a big stick — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, the dad whacked the wolf with an axe and saved Tom — no support
- **3.** Yup, he whacked the cow — no support
- **4.** Nah, the dad whacked the wolf — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/t7/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

<!-- .q -->
Dude, where'd Tom say he'd been, like?

- **1.** A hay bin and a sack — score 7
- **2.** Mouse-hole and snail-shell — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** A wolf and a cow's gut — score 7
- **4.** A mouse-hole, snail-shell and a wolf's belly, lol — score 8

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 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 749, line 16: «Where: Tom says he has been "in a mouse-hole--and in a snail-shell".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tom» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «mouse hole» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/t8/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

<!-- .q -->
Was his outfit ruined after all that?

- **1.** Yeah, clothes kinda torn — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, clothes all dirty now — no support
- **3.** Yeah, kinda — no support
- **4.** Yeah, clothes totally trashed — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/t9/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

<!-- .q -->
So he got food and new clothes, right?

- **1.** Yep, mom gave him cake — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yep, mom and dad hugged him tight and bought him new clothes too — no support
- **3.** Yep, mom and dad hugged him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yep, mom and dad hugged him and gave him a big feast — no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/t10/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

<!-- .q -->
Bruh, what's the big lesson from Tom?

- **1.** Don't trust wolves, bruh — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Be brave — no support
- **3.** Stay away from cows — no support
- **4.** Home is the best place — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/t11/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

<!-- .q -->
Wait, who's the miller's girl the king loves?

- **1.** The girl who spins gold — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** The one spinning straw — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The baker — no support
- **4.** A spinner — no support

<!-- .why -->
**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 749, line 19: «What: the miller boasts that his daughter "could spin gold out of straw" to the king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «spin» (+4); the same thing acted on «gold» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/749-pg2591-part25/t12/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

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

<!-- .q -->
Which of the following describes the manner in which the wolf was dispatched by the woodman?

- **1.** He was struck repeatedly upon the head with a heavy axe until dead — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** He was hit on the head — score 2
- **3.** He was hit with an axe and lay still — score 2
- **4.** He was struck upon the head and killed — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 119, line 17: «Rescue: after the father strikes the wolf, the parents cut its body open and Thumbling says, "Thank heaven, I breathe fresh air again!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «strike» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/e1/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

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

<!-- .q -->
To what location did the wolf proceed in order to consume the provisions?

- **1.** The pantry of the dwelling — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The cellar — no support
- **3.** The kitchen of the house — no support
- **4.** The larder of the cottage — no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/e2/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

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

<!-- .q -->
What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by his original route?

- **1.** Excess of food consumed — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Excess of weight gained — no support
- **3.** Too heavy — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **4.** Too much — score 8

<!-- .why -->
**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 362, line 5: «The Wolf runs off with the Dogs at his heels and scolds himself for turning piper when he should have kept to his butcher's trade.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+7); the same thing acted on «wolf» (+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/749-pg2591-part25/e3/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

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

<!-- .q -->
Following his restoration, what form of sustenance and apparel was provided to the subject Thumb?

- **1.** Nourishment and new attire — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Clothes — no support
- **3.** Refreshment and fresh garments — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Sustenance and fresh clothing — no support

<!-- .why -->
**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/749-pg2591-part25/e4/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [748. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, part 1: tiny Tom…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/748-pg2591-part24/)
- next →: [750. Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the q…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/750-pg2591-part26/)
- ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)