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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends

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**Tests:** 6 of 18 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 12 of 22 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 97 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/).

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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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Leo: «Suleiman did the magic to scare the Queens, he planned it all, no cap.» (no cap = honestly) Put it right.

- **1.** Balkis did it for the Butterfly; he planned it — no support
- **2.** He did it for the Butterfly; Balkis planned the rest — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Balkis did it for the Queens, and Suleiman was only the one who laughed — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **4.** He did it for Balkis; the Butterfly planned it — no support

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**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 97, line 3: «The quarrelling Queens rush out, terrified. Balkis tells them calmly that a Butterfly complained about his wife, and the King taught her a lesson. When they se…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «balkis» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Why does this magic NOT shame Suleiman, unlike the great dinner?

- **1.** It was done to look very grand — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was for a joke, not for pride — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It was for a joke, and nobody got hurt, and the Butterfly was happy — no support
- **4.** Because the Queens were frightened only for a moment, and then they laughed a lot — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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What would have happened if Balkis had not spoken to the Butterfly's Wife?

- **1.** They'd be happy — no support
- **2.** Nothing — no support
- **3.** The Queens might never have been frightened — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Suleiman would never have laughed at all — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 1: «Balkis has heard everything. She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «balkis» (+5). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Which is TRUE in this part?

- **1.** The Queens are angry that Suleiman invited a Butterfly to dinner at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Queens think the King is joking, and nothing else would frighten them — no support
- **3.** The Queens think the King can do anything — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The Djinns are all asleep in the earth — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Suleiman calls the Butterfly «most great magician». Is he serious?

- **1.** Yes — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, he is sincere — no support
- **3.** No, he is joking — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Partly — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Grace from Wellington: «sweet as, so who's the real hero of this story?» (sweet as = great) What does Kipling hint?

- **1.** Suleiman, because he was the King and did the magic — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Butterfly, who stamped his foot and boasted about the Palace — no support
- **3.** The Djinns who lifted the Palace — no support
- **4.** Balkis, who quietly made the plan — **✓ 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Real life: what does «a just-so story» mean to scientists today?

- **1.** A neat explanation nobody has tested — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A scientific rule that has been tested again and again by many people — no support
- **3.** A very old story about the sun and moon that everyone believes — no support
- **4.** An explanation that scientists have proved — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Real life: where was Kipling born?

- **1.** In India — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** In Madras, now Chennai, India — no support
- **3.** In Bombay, now Mumbai, India — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** In London — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Real life: why are the stories called «Just So»?

- **1.** They were named after a famous old ship — no support
- **2.** They were short — no support
- **3.** They were told in a quiet room — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** They had to be told the same way each time — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 89, line 19: «Real life: Kipling's own daughter Josephine, the first «Best Beloved» for whom he told these stories, died of an illness in 1899 when she was six, three years…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stories» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Looking back over the book: what did the Elephant's Child get from the Crocodile?

- **1.** A tail — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** A big bath — score 5
- **3.** His trunk — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Hay — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 8, line 3: «Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into little cakes; Alice eats one, shrinks, and runs past the crowd into a thick wood.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «alice» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Looking back over the book: who invented the first letter and, a week later, the alphabet with her Daddy?

- **1.** Taffy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The Elephant's Child's little sister — no support
- **3.** Ann — no support
- **4.** The little girl from the Just So Stories book — **← Mova's choice** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 14, line 4: «The jokes are word tricks: the sisters «draw» treacle from the well, and also «draw» pictures of things that begin with M, like the moon, memory and «muchness»…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «alice» (+4). 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Looking back over the book: which animal said «Humph!» and got a hump?

- **1.** The Eagle — score 1
- **2.** Bear — score 1
- **3.** Ox — score 1
- **4.** The Camel — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 16

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 16, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 75, line 3: «The Djinn (a magic spirit) in charge of All Deserts finds the Camel admiring himself in a pool and warns him not to say "Humph!" again; the Camel says it anywa…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «camel» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help?

- **1.** The Man who lived in the big house on the hill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Man in the canoe — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Sun in the sky — no support
- **4.** The Crab and the Armadillo who were both rather proud — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Looking back over the book: what do the Armadillo, the Crab and the Butterfly stories have in common?

- **1.** They are all told in verse, with animals speaking — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** A proud creature is put in its place, or a clever one wins — **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** Every one of them is set in the far East, long ago, with monsters — no support
- **4.** Each has a grumpy hero who learns a lesson about being kind to others — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 73, line 4: «Looking back over the whole book: a Mole flung down his spring-cleaning and found the River, a best friend in the Rat, the shelter of Badger's home in the snow…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «mole» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t15}

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Max from Vermont: «lowkey every story in this book is real science, wicked.» (lowkey = a bit; wicked = very) Put it right.

- **1.** They're made-up tales; science gives the true answers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They're made-up tales; scientists check the facts later — no support
- **3.** They're all true — no support
- **4.** They're all true, and scientists agree with each 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t16}

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★★★ The Djinns lift the Palace at the first stamp and bring it back at the second. If the Butterfly had stamped five times in all, where would the Palace be at the end?

- **1.** In the air — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Back on the ground, with the Queens dancing around the garden — no support
- **3.** At home — no support
- **4.** Sitting in the middle of the sea at the foot of the throne — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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★★★ Count the twelve tales: in how many is a little girl an important character?

- **1.** Three: the two Taffy stories and the Crab story and the Armadillo story — no support
- **2.** Four: all the Taffy stories and one more — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** Four: two Taffy stories, the Crab story, and a tale about the Elephant's Child — no support
- **4.** Three: the two Taffy stories and the Crab story — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 97, line 5: «That is the end of the twelve Just So Stories: twelve made-up «how it came to be» tales, told with the sound of a voice talking to one listening child, O Best…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «tales» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t18}

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★★★ Careful: «All the Queens except Balkis fell flat on their faces.» Who did NOT fall down?

- **1.** Suli — no support
- **2.** Egyptian — no support
- **3.** Balkis — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** One — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 3: «The quarrelling Queens rush out, terrified. Balkis tells them calmly that a Butterfly complained about his wife, and the King taught her a lesson. When they se…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «balkis» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t18/)

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

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Identify the counsel given by Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife.

- **1.** That she should accept his apology and never mention the Palace again at all — no support
- **2.** Ignore him — no support
- **3.** That upon his next boast she take him at his word and request him to stamp — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Scold him loudly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 1: «Balkis has heard everything. She calls the Butterfly's Wife to her finger and gives her a plan: next time he boasts, take him at his word and dare him to stamp…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «butterfly» (+2); the same place «word» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/e1/)

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

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Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for the Butterfly's sake.

- **1.** Seventeen thousand — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Four — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Two — 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/e2/)

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

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It is given that the Queens descended the marble steps. Select the response most consistent with their subsequent conduct upon beholding the King.

- **1.** They fell upon their faces, then rose and sang a loud hymn to the King of Kings in the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** They wept and begged the King to forgive them for it — score 5
- **3.** They laughed and bowed to the King with great respect — score 8
- **4.** They fell upon their faces and withdrew most mousy-quiet — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 97, line 3: «The quarrelling Queens rush out, terrified. Balkis tells them calmly that a Butterfly complained about his wife, and the King taught her a lesson. When they se…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «faces» (+4); the same action «fall» (+2); the same doer «queens» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression «a just-so story» as employed by scientists?

- **1.** A well-known theory that has been proven by all scientists — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** An explanation that is charming and has been tested by many scientists over many years — score 2
- **3.** An attractive explanation lacking supporting evidence — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A pretty tale for children that scientists have been using, with no proof, since the start of the modern world — no support

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**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 78, line 20: «Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panth…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «scientists» (+1). Against it: 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/e4/)

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