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The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of home)

Tests: 6 of 17 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 9 of 21 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 41 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Lily: «the Mole goes off home on his own cos Rat's being a pain.» Put it right.

  • 1. Rat is the one who leaves, so Mole goes after him to the burrow in the wood — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Mole runs home alone because Rat is being so horrid and selfish to him on the road — no support
  • 3. He stays put and waits for Rat to return — no support
  • 4. He would never leave his friend, so he follows the Rat — ✓ 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 ✗

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Rat heard the Mole clearly and said no just to be mean.»

  • 1. True: the Rat heard him and simply refused to stop walking — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 2. False: he was too far ahead to hear the pain in his voice — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 3. True: he said no — score 5
  • 4. True: he was just mean — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 39, line 2: «He tells of his walk through the snowy wood at sunrise: snow-castles, snow sliding off branches with a «flop!», robins looking proud as if they had done it all…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «walk» (+5); the same doer «rat» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Josh from Leeds, proper nesh: «it's freezing, I'd have gone in one o' them cottages.» (nesh = feels the cold) Why don't Rat and Mole go into a cottage?

  • 1. Animals keep away from villages and only peek in — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. They are too shy — no support
  • 3. Animals don't mix with villages; they only look in — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Because animals don't go into villages at all — 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 ✓

«Spectators … moving at will from one theatre to another.» What are the «theatres»?

  • 1. The lit-up cottage windows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. The lamps along the road — no support
  • 3. The cottages — no support
  • 4. The cottage front doors — 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 ✗

Why does the bird in the cage make them feel the «sense of home» most of all?

  • 1. It is a cosy little world hidden away from the wind and frost outside — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It shows a warm homely scene that they have lost to the winter storm — no support
  • 3. It is a tiny, safe, warm world shut away from the cold outside — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. It is small and safe — 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 ✓

Looking back: in chapter I, how did the Mole leave his home?

  • 1. He ran out quickly — no support
  • 2. He dropped his duster and walked calmly out of the door into spring — score 6
  • 3. He sat down with his broom, sighed at the mess, then slammed the door and rushed out into the wood — score 6
  • 4. He threw down his brush, said «Hang spring-cleaning!» and bolted out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 8: «He threw down his brush and said «Bother!» and «O blow!» and «Hang spring-cleaning!» — all old, mild ways of saying «I've had enough!»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw down» (+4); the same thing acted on «brush» (+3); the same doer «mole» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter II, a bird in a bird-cage was in trouble. What happened to it?

  • 1. It was trapped in the wrecked caravan, sobbing and calling to be let out, with a broken wing and no food at all in the dark — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. It had escaped and was flying round the wrecked wagon sadly — no support
  • 3. It was hurt and sat quietly in the broken hedge all night — no support
  • 4. It was in the smashed caravan, sobbing and calling to be let out — ✓ 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter II, what did the Rat say at night in the caravan about his river?

  • 1. «I try not to say much, but my river is always on my mind, I'm afraid.» — score 10
  • 2. «I don't talk about my river … But I think about it—all the time!» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
  • 3. «I miss my river.» — score 10
  • 4. «I think about it.» — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 14, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 41, line 8: ««The animals did not hold with villages» (did not like or approve of them). The Rat says: «At this season of the year they're all safe indoors by this time, si…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «rat» (+4); the same property (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter II, the Mole whispered an offer to the homesick Rat. What was it?

  • 1. To run away very early and go back to the river — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. To sneak off at dawn and take the Rat's boat — no support
  • 3. To slip out before breakfast, row the boat to the river, and never come back to the caravan — no support
  • 4. To wake early and walk to the river alone — 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 ✗

So in chapter II the Mole was kind to the homesick Rat. What happens now in chapter V?

  • 1. Both animals are homesick now, and they decide together to walk all the way back to the river tonight — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. The Rat is homesick now and the Mole does not notice at first — score 1
  • 3. The Mole is homesick, and the Rat at first doesn't notice — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The Mole is cheerful, and the Rat keeps talking about the river — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 33, line 3: «One afternoon, while the Rat dozes in his armchair hunting for rhymes, the Mole quietly decides to go out by himself, explore the Wild Wood, and perhaps meet M…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «decide» (+2); the same doer «mole» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter II, what did the Mole say about sticking with the Rat?

  • 1. «I'll go home with you, Rat» — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. «I'll always stick to you, Rat» — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. «I'll follow you to the river» — no support
  • 4. «Stick, Rat» — 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 ✗

What would have happened if the Rat had heard the Mole's cry clearly?

  • 1. The snow would have stopped him anyway, we think — no support
  • 2. He would have turned round and waited for the Mole — score 4
  • 3. We think he'd have stopped at once and run back down the road to help, as he is always kind — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 4. We think he'd have stopped — he is kind, as we see often — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 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 25, line 18: «The Rat: «there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.» While saying it he hit the bank and fell on his back wi…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+5). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★★ · right ✓

Ivy, lowkey teary: «I'm dead, why's she crying over a smell?» (I'm dead = that's so funny) What does the smell really mean to the Mole?

  • 1. Nothing much, only a sad reminder of food that he cannot have now in the cold dark night — no support
  • 2. His own home calling him, full of memories — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. A pleasant scent from a far-off garden — no support
  • 4. Just a funny smell from the cottage — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 16: «His home had called him «sorrowfully, reproachfully, but with no bitterness or anger; only with plaintive reminder that it was there, and wanted him». (Plainti…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+3); the same doer «home» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Nate from Toronto, in his toque (woolly hat): «why does the writer go on about «smell», it's just a sniff, eh?» What is the writer saying?

  • 1. The writer is saying that the sniff is just a fancy way to describe what people think is a dull bit of nosing about in the cold — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 2. Animals feel far more through the nose than we have words for, and a smell can carry a whole life of memories — no support
  • 3. Animals feel far more through the nose than we have words for — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The writer means animals are not very clever at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 14: «People, says the writer, have only the word «smell» for all the «delicate thrills which murmur in the nose of the animal night and day, summoning, warning, inc…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★★★ · right ✓

★★★ «He had lost what he could hardly be said to have found.» How can you lose something you have hardly found?

  • 1. He found it only by smell, for a moment, then left it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He noticed the smell, then could not describe it — no support
  • 3. He caught the scent once, then lost the trail again — no support
  • 4. He never found 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 16 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ The Mole's home calls him «with no bitterness or anger». Which word in this list would the home NOT feel?

  • 1. Missing — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Bitter — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Resentment and spite — no support
  • 4. Cold — 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Track — path — lane — road. Put these in order from smallest to biggest, as in the chapter.

  • 1. Path, road — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Road, track, path, lane — no support
  • 3. Lane, road — no support
  • 4. Track, path, lane, road — ✓ 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the meaning of the Latin title «Dulce Domum».

  • 1. Sweet home — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Sweet — no support
  • 3. Sweet home of the Mole — no support
  • 4. Home — 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 · wrong ✗

Identify the season of the year in which the events of the chapter take place.

  • 1. Winter — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Spring — no support
  • 3. Late autumn — no support
  • 4. Mid-December — ✓ 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Rat's failure to halt in response to the Mole's appeal?

  • 1. Distance, and preoccupation with the weather and the way — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He was too far away and thought the Mole was lying — score 2
  • 3. Distance, and preoccupation with the weather, the snow, the way, and his own tired feet on the cold road — score 1
  • 4. He was ignoring the Mole's calls on purpose — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 6: «The Mole tripped and cried «O my leg! ... O my poor shin!»; the Rat tied it up with his handkerchief.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «mole» (+2); the same action «cry» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Mole's conduct upon the Rat's refusal.

  • 1. He went home alone, feeling sorry for himself — no support
  • 2. He followed the Rat, his loyalty standing firm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 3. He turned back and wandered home — no support
  • 4. He sulked behind a hedge, waiting for Rat — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 41, line 18: ««Even under such a test as this his loyalty to his friend stood firm.» With «a wrench that tore his very heartstrings» he follows the Rat, and the little smell…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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