The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)

Tests: 9 of 17 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 12 of 21 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 48 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 ✗

Josh: «Toad didn't steal the car, he just borrowed it for a bit.» Put it right.

1. The car was not his, so he took it without asking, then drove off, crashed, and was rightly found guilty by the court today — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. He drove it off without a word, and the magistrates decided it was theft after all — score 1
3. He took it without asking and drove off — that's stealing, and the court said so — ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. He took it without asking, which is theft, and the court found him guilty of that — score 8

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 38, line 1: «Full and warm by the fire, the friends chat, and Badger asks how old Toad is getting on. «From bad to worse,» says the Rat. Toad has smashed his seventh motor-…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+5); the same doer «badger» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «Toad planned to steal the car from the moment he heard it.»

1. False: he told himself he'd «only just look», then the craze took over — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. False: he meant to borrow the car politely, then got carried away — score 1
3. False: he told himself he would only just look at the car, but then the craze took over him completely and he could not stop himself — score 8
4. False: he planned only to look at the car in the yard, not to take it — score 4

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 37, line 4: «Then comes a huge supper. Nobody talks for a long time, and when they do, they talk with their mouths full and their elbows on the table — and Badger doesn't m…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same doer «badger» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Nikhil: «12 months plus 3 years plus 15 years, that's 30, the Clerk's wrong!» Put it right.

1. 12 months is 2 years, so 2 + 3 + 15 = 20 — the Clerk is wrong — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Twelve months is one year, so the total is 21 — the Clerk is wrong — no support
3. The Clerk is wrong, it is 30 — no support
4. 12 months is 1 year, so 1 + 3 + 15 = 19 — the Clerk is right — ✓ 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 4 · ★★★ · right ✓

«Cheeking the police undoubtedly carries the severest penalty; and so it ought.» What's the writer mocking?

1. Officials who punish cheek to themselves more than real harm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Officials who punish cheek to themselves more than real harm, and who also overlook the dreadful cruelties of the wicked gaolers — no support
3. Officials who take cheek to police more seriously than theft — no support
4. Magistrates who make very long speeches about cheek to the police, rather than about the car that was truly stolen by 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 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

«Even if you only believe one-tenth part of what you heard, and I never believe more myself.» What does this say about the Clerk?

1. He is a kind old man — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He is very honest and fair — no support
3. He says he believes little of the evidence, so he is fair to all — no support
4. He admits he doesn't believe most evidence — yet gives twenty years — ✓ 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 6 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in the last part, the Badger said Toad might come back «between two policemen». How does this part fit?

1. Toad escapes to the Wild Wood — no support
2. The Rat and Mole arrive and bail Toad out of the cells — no support
3. Toad is sent back home to Toad Hall again by the court — no support
4. Toad is caught and taken away by police — just as feared — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 8: «It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody»; usually you had to catch him along a hedgerow or hunt him u…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in the second part of this chapter, Toad promised: «the very first motor-car I see…» what?

1. «…I shall ride it home!» — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. «…poop-poop! off I go in it!» — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. «…poop-poop! off I go in it at once, and never mind the consequences!» — score 6
4. «…I shall certainly steal it!» — 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 46, line 2: «But the Rat thinks he sees a twinkle in Toad's sorrowful eye. The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. A long, long pause… then: «No…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «toad» (+2); the same thing acted on «first car» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓

So Toad did keep one promise. Which?

1. His promise to jump into the first car he saw — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. His promise to never buy another motor-car — score 8
3. His promise to give up motoring and the Rat's company for good and always — score 8
4. His promise to jump into the first car he saw and drive it all the way back home — score 8

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 45, line 1: «It is early summer. Rat and Mole have been up since dawn getting the boats ready — painting, varnishing, mending — when there is a heavy knock. It's the Badger…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «promise» (+5); the same doer «badger» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter II, after the first car, Toad sat in the road «in a sort of trance». Which words in this part are like that?

1. «Sat quite still» — no support
2. «Off I go» — no support
3. «Poop-poop!» — no support
4. «As if in a dream» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 10: ««Toad sat straight down in the middle of the dusty road ... his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured "Poop-poop!"» (pl…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «face» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter IV, the Rat said Toad's end must be «killed or ruined». What has happened to Toad now?

1. Ruined but still alive, and free to visit the Rat — score 2
2. Neither yet, but he's lost his freedom for twenty years — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He is neither killed nor ruined, although he will not see his friends or Toad Hall again for many years to come — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Neither killed nor ruined yet, but he has lost his freedom and must now sit in prison for twenty whole years — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 32, line 15: «The Mole: «We can't leave him here ... Supposing another Thing were to come along?» The Rat: «O, bother Toad ... I've done with him!» — but Toad came pattering…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «toad» (+2). 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: what did the Rat say about Toad in chapter II, before they met him?

1. «He is so dreadfully foolish, a poor simple creature who ought to be locked up quite soon» — score 6
2. «So lazy, so greedy … Perhaps he's very wise» — ← Mova's choice · score 13
3. «So simple, so good-natured … Perhaps he's not very clever» — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. «So rich, so proud, so vain … Quite the scholar» — score 13

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 13, tied with another option at 13 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 46, line 3: ««Told you so,» says the Rat to the Mole. So the Badger decides on force: the three of them will move into Toad Hall and stay until Toad is cured. They haul him…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+7); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓

Toad called the Rat stupid: «very little intelligence». Who really behaves with little sense in this part?

1. The Clerk, who adds up the sentences wrongly and then hands out twenty years — no support
2. Toad, who steals a car within hours of escaping from his own bedroom at Toad Hall — score 6
3. The policemen, who chased an innocent Toad — no support
4. Toad, who steals a car within hours of escaping — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 46, line 2: «But the Rat thinks he sees a twinkle in Toad's sorrowful eye. The Badger asks Toad to repeat his promise in front of his friends. A long, long pause… then: «No…», 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 «toad» (+2); the same thing acted on «first car» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★★ · right ✓

Cara, a bit gutted (very disappointed): «so the book's over, Toad's in the dungeon for good?» What does the writer hint last lesson?

1. More story follows, since Toad's fortunes change later on — no support
2. Toad will be freed quite soon, so the book is ending now — score 3
3. Much water was to run under bridges before Toad sat at ease in his Hall — more story to come — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 13
4. Toad's prison story is over, but many more years will pass before the book is finally ended and all is set right — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 13, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 47, line 20: «The Badger: «Toad may be brought back at any moment—on a stretcher, or between two policemen.» The writer warns that «much water, and of how turbid a character…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+4); the same place «ease» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «toad» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if the stable-helps had NOT been at their dinner?

1. Someone would probably have stopped Toad touching the car — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Toad would have waited quietly in the coffee-room — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Someone would probably have stopped Toad touching the car, and he might never have been caught with it in the yard — no support
4. The stable-helps would have caught Toad running off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 7: «The Badger's first words are gruff: «Now, the very next time this happens, I shall be exceedingly angry.» (Exceedingly = very.)», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «mole» (+5). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. How old would he be when let out?

1. 5 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 20 — no support
3. 50 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 1 — 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 ✓

★★★ «The remotest dungeon of the best-guarded keep of the stoutest castle in all … Merry England.» Why stack up so many «-est» words?

1. A joke — it makes Toad's prison sound as huge and grim as possible — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It's a joke that makes the dungeon sound enormous, a sign that the writer dislikes long sentences and wants us to notice — no support
3. A joke — it makes Toad's prison sound as huge and grim as possible, so the reader laughs at the castle and its keepers — no support
4. To make the reader feel sorry for the Chairman's sums — 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 ✓

★★★ Toad says «brain came out on the top». Count: in this chapter, how many of these did Toad do — escape, steal a car, get caught?

1. All three — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Two only — no support
3. Escape, steal and get caught again — no support
4. Escape and steal, not caught — 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 offence which, in the Clerk's estimation, merited the severest penalty.

1. Impertinence to the rural police, which he thought deserved the severest penalty of all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The theft of a motor-car from an inn-yard by a respectable gentleman — no support
3. Cheeking the village constables — no support
4. Impertinence to the rural police — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its rounding.

1. Twenty years — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nineteen years, plus a fine — no support
3. Nine years — no support
4. Nineteen years — ✓ 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 circumstances in which Toad gained possession of the motor-car?

1. He found the car at the inn and quietly took it home — score 6
2. He started and drove off a car left unattended in an inn-yard — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. He was lent the car by the inn's owner for the day — score 2
4. He climbed into a car that belonged to a neighbouring farmer, started it and then drove off down the road to the north — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 38, line 2: «The Rat asks: shouldn't his friends do something? Badger says he can't do anything now — it's winter, and in winter no animal is expected to do anything brave…», 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 «car» (+2); the same thing acted on «winter» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning Toad's place of confinement.

1. A cell in the Hall — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The remotest dungeon of a castle keep — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A locked tower in the Wild Wood — no support
4. The lowest cell of the gatehouse — 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

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