The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)

Tests: 5 of 16 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 9 of 20 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 31 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.

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 · ★★ · right ✓

Joe, howay (come on) man: «Toad did all the work on the trip, he's a grafter.» (grafter = hard worker) Put it right.

1. Toad did — no support
2. The horse and the Mole did it — no support
3. The Rat and the Mole did it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nobody did — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 3: «Next morning Toad sleeps and sleeps, while the Rat and the Mole do all the work, the Mole walking miles for milk and eggs Toad forgot. Toad strolls out fresh a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

«This is the real life for a gentleman!» What's funny about Toad saying it?

1. He is very rich — score 4
2. He is a gentleman — no support
3. He is boasting while the others are doing all the work for him — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. He's had the easy part while others did the work — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 1: «They find Toad in a garden chair with a big map on his knees. He jumps up, shakes their paws, dances round them and says he was just about to send for them — h…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «boast» (+4); the same doer «toad» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The Rat says «I think about it—all the time!» What is he feeling?

1. Worried that Toad will never let him go home again — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Homesick for his river — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Sad that the camp is wet — no support
4. Angry at the bad weather — 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 ✓

Why does the Rat stay with Toad though he's homesick?

1. He's a loyal friend who thinks Toad needs looking after — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. He thinks the trip is good for him and his health, and he wants to see the whole of the countryside with Toad — score 4
3. He promised the Mole he would stay on the trip — score 4
4. He is afraid Toad will get into serious trouble on the road without anyone else to keep him safe and sensible — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 28, line 11: ««a firm paw gripped him by the back of his neck. It was the Rat, and he was evidently laughing—the Mole could feel him laughing, right down his arm and through…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same doer «paw» (+1); the same thing acted on «rat» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Lucy, mid (so-so) about the trip: «the horse loved it, he volunteered.» Put it right.

1. He was not asked, and he was annoyed about being made to pull the heavy cart across the rough fields — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He never liked the trip at all — no support
3. He wasn't asked and was annoyed — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He had not been asked first, and then he was very cross indeed with the Mole and Toad for doing 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

Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓

Why is Toad «by no means so rapturous» after the second day?

1. He had to do his share of the work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. He had been made to sleep in the damp tent — score 3
3. He had to wash the dishes — no support
4. He got lost — no support

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 31, line 15: «When made to do his share, Toad «was by no means so rapturous about the simplicity of the primitive life» and «attempted to resume his place in his bunk, whenc…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «share» (+2); the same doer «toad» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The writer says the car is «immense, breath-snatching, passionate». Does the writer describe it like a machine or like a wild animal?

1. Like a monstrous creature that breathes fire and rushes wildly through the valley — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Like a huge, beautiful wild horse galloping across the open plains — no support
3. Like a loud train — no support
4. Like a wild animal — ✓ 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 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The car flashed past very close to the cart. Why was that dangerous?

1. It drove so fast and close that the dust blinded everyone and nearly tipped the cart over — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It could have hit them — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It knocked over the cart — no support
4. The driver shouted rude things at them and then drove off into the distant forest without stopping — 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 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: what did the Otter say Toad had «no» of in chapter I?

1. Stability — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Common sense and steady habits — no support
3. Good manners — no support
4. Patience — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: what did the Rat say when Toad asked him to come?

1. «I refuse, and I mean it, Toad» — no support
2. «I'm not coming, and that's flat» — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. «Never!» — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. «No!» — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 27, line 2: «A stripy head peeps out of a hedge: Badger. «H'm! Company,» he grunts, and turns his back and disappears. That's just like him, says the Rat — he hates crowds…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter I, who else said «O my! O my! O my!» besides these rabbits?

1. The Rat, when Toad lost his temper with the car — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Mole, the Rat, and the Otter all at the backwater and at the picnic and on the road — no support
3. The Badger at the wood, on the first morning — no support
4. The Mole, at the backwater and the picnic — ✓ 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 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter I, the Mole tipped a boat over because of pride. In this part, who is being selfish?

1. The Rat, who is greedy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Toad, who leaves all the work to others — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The horse, who refuses to be led anywhere — no support
4. Mole, who is proud — 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 ✗

Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do?

1. Ended in a terrible accident — no support
2. Last until he was bored and then ended quietly in the autumn — no support
3. Left him feeling very sorry — ← Mova's choice · score 9
4. Never take very long — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 5: «In the big boat-house all the fine boats hang up unused, and the place feels deserted. The Rat understands at once: Toad is done with boating. What is his new…», 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 action «feel» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ The motor-car is a bee at the start and «a droning bee once more» at the end. Why does the writer do this?

1. To show the car is loud but has no real effect — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's far away at both ends, near only for a flash — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. To make it sound fast — no support
4. It is a bee — 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 15 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ How many nights do they spend on the road before the motor-car (the car comes on the third afternoon)?

1. 0 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 1 — no support
3. 2 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Four — 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 16 · ★★ · right ✓

★★★ «disaster momentous indeed to their expedition, but simply overwhelming in its effect on the after-career of Toad». What does the writer hint?

1. This changes the rest of Toad's life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It was just a small accident for Toad — no support
3. Toad will go on his trip — no support
4. The car is very fast and loud — 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the creature which, without having been consulted, was assigned the dustiest task of the expedition.

1. The young brown pony — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Mole — no support
3. The old grey horse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The Water Rat's dog — 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the sentiment expressed by the Rat concerning his river on the first night.

1. That he did not speak of it but thought of it continually — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. That he loved it best — no support
3. That he thought about it only at breakfast each day — score 5
4. That he spoke of it often but never really missed it — no support

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 31, line 2: «That night, on a lonely common under the stars, Toad boasts: «This is the real life for a gentleman! Talk about your old river!» The Rat says quietly that he d…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «talk» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response which most accurately characterises Toad's conduct on the first morning.

1. He lay asleep in his bunk all morning long while the Mole and Rat worked very hard to make the breakfast, the tent and the fire — score 2
2. He slept soundly while his companions performed the labour — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. He lay in bed while his friends worked hard on the camp — no support
4. He walked ahead of his friends and never looked back at them — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 13: «Next morning Toad «slept very soundly, and no amount of shaking could rouse him»; the Mole «trudged off to the nearest village, a long way off, for milk and eg…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+2); the same doer «toad» (+2); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the first indication of the approach of the motor-car.

1. A faint warning hum like a bee in the far distance — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. A faint warning hum, like the far-off drone of a bee among the flowers of the hedgerow, rising slowly — no support
3. A faint warning hum like the drone of a distant bee — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. A warning hum like the drone of a bee in a field — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 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 (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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