The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)

Tests: 6 of 17 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 12 of 21 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 35 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 ✓

Zoe, lowkey wicked (brilliant) chapter: «the Rat crept in quietly, scared stiff.» Put it right.

1. He crept in — no support
2. He crept in quietly and hid behind the door until the Mole called him — no support
3. He went in boldly, calling cheerfully — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. He walked in slowly, looking around — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 1: «The Rat marches into the darkening wood. Wicked little faces pop out of holes — and vanish at the sight of him, his pistols and his big ugly stick; the whistli…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why does the Rat call out «cheerfully», not fearfully?

1. Because he was frightened of the dark — score 3
2. To make the Mole think he's afraid — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Because he wanted the Mole to know that he was lost in the wood — score 3
4. To sound brave and comfort the Mole — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The Rat says «You shouldn't really have gone and done it». Is he angry?

1. Yes, he is cross and scolds him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No — he's gentle and kind about it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yes, he is furious and refuses to speak to the Mole for the rest of the journey — no support
4. Yes, he scolds the Mole harshly, though he later forgives him kindly — 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 ✓

Harry, knackered (worn out) after footy: «the Mole was dead beat too, so they set off home at once.» Put it right.

1. They ran straight home through the wood, though the Mole was exhausted and sleepy — score 0
2. They rested first and the Mole slept — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. They rested for a while, but the Mole kept walking anyway until dawn broke — no support
4. They walked on at once, without stopping — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 14: «The Mole: «I'm simply dead beat and that's a solid fact» (dead beat = completely worn out). The Rat let him sleep, and «lay patiently waiting, with a pistol in…», 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 «mole» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Why would Toad not come here alone «for a whole hatful of golden guineas»?

1. He is a coward and would never go, even if the Mole begged him kindly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He's a coward, for all his boasting — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He hates the cold and the snow — no support
4. He's too lazy to walk — 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 ✓

The Mole asked «Surely the brave Mr. Toad wouldn't mind coming here?» Why does the Rat laugh?

1. Toad isn't brave — he only talks big — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Toad is brave, but he thinks the Mole is far too silly to help — score 5
3. Toad is brave but simply does not like the Mole at all — score 2
4. Toad would rather stay home and sleep — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 30, line 5: «Toad cleverly invites them to lunch «to talk it over», and talks so wonderfully about the trip that by the end it's somehow settled. The Rat gives in, because…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «talk» (+3); the same doer «toad» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if the snow had not fallen?

1. They'd eat well — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They would find the Mole's house — no support
3. They could see their way home — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They'd reach the river quickly — 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 snow looks «too delicate to be trodden upon». Is the snow good news or bad news for them?

1. Good news, because it lights up the whole wood and keeps them warm — no support
2. Good, since it makes the wood bright — ← Mova's choice · score 10
3. Both: beautiful, but it hides the way — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Bad news only, because the snow hides every path and freezes the stream — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 16: «The snow made the wood «a gleaming carpet of faery» (faery = fairyland) that «looked too delicate to be trodden upon by rough feet», and «a fine powder filled…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «snow» (+3); the same thing acted on «wood» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: what was the Mole's state at the end of part 2?

1. Hiding in a beech tree, trembling, having met the Terror of the wood face to face — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Hiding in a beech tree, trembling, knowing the Terror — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Walking home alone through the snowy wood — no support
4. Hiding in a beech tree, trembling, with the Rat searching for him all night long — 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 ✓

Looking back: in part 1 the Rat said of the Wild Wood «we won't go there just now». What does he now add?

1. River-bankers come in couples, at least — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Otters and badgers are safe there, but the river-bankers must always carry pistols — score 3
3. The wood is dangerous, and only Badger and Otter may safely walk its paths — no support
4. The wood is full of dangerous rats — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 35, line 9: «The Rat: «You shouldn't really have gone and done it, Mole. I did my best to keep you from it. We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves. If we h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «couples» (+3); the same action «come» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter I the Rat said: «there's Badger, of course ... Nobody interferes with him». How does that fit «if you were Badger, it would be quite another matter»?

1. Badger is strong, so the Wood is safe for him — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Badger is so strong that the wood would never trouble him, even at night — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Badger is wise, so the wood is calm for him — score 2
4. Badger is the Rat's friend, so he has never once needed to fear the wood — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. 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 action «bother» (+3); the same thing acted on «badger» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter II, what did the Mole whisper to the homesick Rat on the common?

1. He'd take him for a walk — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He'd go home with him early — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He'd bring him more bread — no support
4. He'd send a letter to Toad asking him to visit the river very soon — 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: in chapter II, the Rat stayed with Toad because «it wouldn't be safe for him to be left to himself». Who is the Rat looking after now?

1. The Otter — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Toad — no support
3. The Mole and Badger both — no support
4. The Mole — ✓ 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 14 · ★★ · right ✓

Looking back: the Mole went into the wood partly to meet whom?

1. Mr. Badger — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The Otter — no support
3. Otter — no support
4. Mr. Toad — 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 ✗

★★★ «There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it». What is the trap — what is the wood really like?

1. It is endless, but the Rat is calm about it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It has an end; it only feels endless because they are lost — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It is a trap of endless paths, which the snow has made even stranger and more confusing for the lost animals — no support
4. It is a small, safe park — 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 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Put in order: (a) snow begins; (b) the Rat finds the Mole; (c) the Mole sleeps; (d) they sit on a fallen tree-trunk.

1. a, b — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. d, a — no support
3. b, a, c, d — no support
4. b, c, a, d — ✓ 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 17 · ★★ · right ✓

★★★ The Rat lists «plants you carry in your pocket» and other things you must know. Did the Mole have any of them?

1. Yes, he had some of them — no support
2. Yes, he carried a full set of plants and a good knife in his coat — score 0
3. No — he knew none of them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yes — he had a small map and a compass in his pocket for every walk — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 27, line 6: «The Mole sees «a streak of bubbles that I see travelling along the surface of the water»; the Rat says «Bubbles? Oho!» because he knows who makes them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same doer «mole» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the effect produced upon the creatures of the Wild Wood by the appearance of the Rat.

1. They vanished immediately, leaving the Mole alone with only the Rat — score 0
2. They all turned to stone — no support
3. They gathered around the Rat and bowed to him before quietly disappearing — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. They vanished immediately — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 19: «The Classics master was an old crab who taught «Laughing and Grief» (Latin and Greek, the languages studied as «classics»); remembering him, «both creatures hi…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «creatures» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the practice of river-bankers, as stated by the Rat, in respect of visits to the Wild Wood.

1. They come only in large armed groups, carrying lanterns and pistols through the whole night — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. They should never come at all, but if they must, they travel at least in pairs — no support
3. They come in couples at least, if they must come — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They visit daily in large noisy groups at dusk — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 18: ««he re-entered the house, strapped a belt round his waist, shoved a brace of pistols into it, took up a stout cudgel» (a brace = a pair; a cudgel = a thick hea…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response which most accurately characterises the Rat's estimate of Toad's courage.

1. Toad is brave and would walk here easily — no support
2. Toad would come for a hatful of cheese — no support
3. Toad is a coward who would not come to the Wild Wood alone, even for a fortune in guineas — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. Toad would not come alone for a hatful of guineas — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 34, line 8: ««Then the whistling began.» — first «far behind him», then «far ahead of him», then «on either side», passed along the whole wood. «And he—he was alone, and un…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

It is given that snow had fallen. Identify the principal difficulty which it occasioned.

1. It concealed every landmark, so that the Rat knew not where they were — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. It hid every path, every tree and every stone, so the Mole and Rat wandered helplessly in circles all night — score 1
3. It concealed every landmark and froze the stream, so that the Rat could not tell which way led home at all — no support
4. It made the wood look pretty but also very hard to cross — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 4: «When the Rat peeps out — «Snow is up ... or rather, down.» The scary wood has turned white and magical. But the snow hides every path, and the Rat doesn't know…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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