Velveteen Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, part 3: a tear grows a flower, a Fairy makes the Rabbit Real

Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 160 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.

Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the Rabbit gutted after his cry, or was he buzzing?

1. happy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. sad — no support
3. glad — no support
4. gutted — ✓ 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

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

What popped out of the blossom, like, a bee or a fairy?

1. a bee — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. a fairy — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a rabbit — no support
4. a moth — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 13: «Alice says she tried "How doth the little busy bee" but "it all came different".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «bee» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

What was the Fairy's dress made of, like?

1. silver and moonbeams — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. pearl and dew-drops — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. silk and moonlight — no support
4. spun gossamer with pearl and dew-drops and frost — 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

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Fairy take him to the wood or to the shops?

1. the wood — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. home — no support
3. shops — no support
4. the shop — 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

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the wild rabbits just stand there gawping or nick off?

1. hid — no support
2. stand and gawp — no support
3. ran off — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. stand and stare — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 159, line 2: «They want him to hop and dance, but he has no hind legs, so he cannot, and when they sniff him they say he is not real and run off.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rabbit» (+4); the same action «run off» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the Fairy call him, like a new mate?

1. a new companion — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. a brand new playfellow for the Boy to share — no support
3. a new playfellow — ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. a new mate — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 160, line 20: «Old word: "playfellow" means a playmate, a friend to play with, which is what the Fairy calls the Rabbit for the wild rabbits.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «fairy» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Did his legs turn up dead sudden, or did he have to wait ages?

1. his legs turned up dead sudden after he waited for ages in the wood — no support
2. he waited ages — no support
3. he found hind legs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. he got legs fast — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 160, line 5: «He finds hind legs, brown fur and long whiskers; later, the Boy sees a spotted rabbit that looks just like his lost Bunny.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hind legs» (+4); the same action «find» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was his fur still dingy velveteen, or proper brown and shiny?

1. dusty and grey — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a deep glossy brown with a lovely soft shine all over his back — no support
3. soft proper brown and shiny like the wild rabbits' fur — no support
4. brown and shiny — ✓ 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

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where did the Fairy go when he looked round, like, did she nick off?

1. gone — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she had hid — no support
3. left — no support
4. she had gone — ✓ 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

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Which season came after Winter, like, the warm one?

1. Spring — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. the warm season called Summer — no support
3. Fall — score 7
4. Snow — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 31, line 17: «The car came first as «a faint warning hum; like the drone of a distant bee», then «a small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy», and «a faint "Poop-po…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same action «come» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Which bug ran over his paws in the wood?

1. the small spotted ladybirds and busy little ants on the moss — no support
2. wild beetles — score 7
3. little ants — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. a long line of busy black ants in the grass — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 68, line 16: «The Rat runs round with weapons for «four little heaps»: «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-…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same action «run» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

What illness did the Boy get that lost his Bunny?

1. measles — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. chicken pox — no support
3. flu — no support
4. scarlet fever — ✓ 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

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the other rabbit the Boy's old Bunny, innit?

1. it was a wild rabbit — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. yes, it was the old Bunny the Boy had lost in the scarlet fever — score 6
3. it was the Skin Horse's cousin come back from the golden blossom wood — no support
4. it was his own Bunny — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 159, line 6: «Who: the Velveteen Rabbit, a toy loved by a Boy, and two wild rabbits who are "quite furry and brand-new".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «two wild rabbits» (+4); the same thing acted on «two wild rabbits» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Boy suss it out straight away?

1. he knew it was Bunny — no support
2. he did not realise at first and only thought it looked a little like Bunny — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. he just thought it looked like Bunny — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. no, he did not, and he spent a long time looking at the spotted rabbit before he realised anything at all — score 5

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 160, line 15: «What: in the Spring the Boy sees two rabbits, and thinks one looks "just like my old Bunny that was lost".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+4); the same action «think» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Upon what did the Rabbit's tear descend, and what arose therefrom?

1. a bush grew from the ground — no support
2. a bright white flower sprang up out of the soft warm earth in the wood — no support
3. a flower sprang from the earth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. the earth received the tear and from it a tall flower sprang up quickly, glowing in the moonlight — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 65, line 5: «The chapter's title, «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears», comes, changed a little, from a line in Tennyson's poem «The Princess»; a summer tempest is a sudde…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

To whom did the Fairy refer as the new playfellow?

1. the Fairy — score 3
2. the wild one — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. the Velveteen Rabbit who lay in the wood — no support
4. the Rabbit — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 160, line 20: «Old word: "playfellow" means a playmate, a friend to play with, which is what the Fairy calls the Rabbit for the wild rabbits.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which reason did the Fairy state for the Rabbit's being Real?

1. the fact that the Skin Horse had told him all about Real things — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. his being loved by the Boy — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. his being kind to the Boy — score 5
4. his being loved by the Boy every single night of the whole year — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 160, line 3: «A lovely Fairy steps out of the blossom, kisses him, and says she turns the toys children have loved into Real.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «lovely fairy» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the Boy suppose the spotted rabbit to be?

1. his former Bunny — ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. his old friend — score 8
3. his Bunny — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. his lost Bunny — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 105, line 2: «The father says the throne should be Dummling's, but the brothers nag him into one more test.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «father» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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