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The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)

Tests: 5 of 16 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 20 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 59 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 ✗

«The Sea Rat works his paws off as a sailor, sweet as.» (sweet as = fine) Put it right.

  • 1. He sleeps all day — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. He winks: he rides in the captain's cabin; the crew work — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. He is a sailor who works hard on deck for his pay — score 5
  • 4. He is a sailor who never rests while the crew sleep — 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 33, line 12: ««In the winter time the Rat slept a great deal, retiring early and rising late», and «scribbled poetry or did other small domestic jobs».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «sleep» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Which is TRUE about this part?

  • 1. The Rat goes to bed early after lunch — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Sea Rat asks for lunch to be brought outside — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The Rat eats alone — no support
  • 4. The Sea Rat sails to Sardinia for the summer — 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 3 · ★ · right ✓

«Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.» (howay = come on) Put it right.

  • 1. He chose food to suit the stranger's southern tastes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He grabbed the nearest things and hoped they'd do — no support
  • 3. He made a sandwich from whatever was left over — no support
  • 4. He sent for food from the village shop and chose foods familiar to the Mole back at Mole End — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why are «the garlic sang» and «the cheese lay down and cried» funny?

  • 1. Smells are told as though food could act — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Smells are described as if food could sing and cry — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. It is a joke about cooking — no support
  • 4. Food is shown as making sounds and tears — 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 Sea Rat stop mid-sentence: «Well, well, we won't linger over that now» and later «my pangs have been extreme»?

  • 1. The Rat has interrupted him so often that he has lost his place in the story and must start again — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. He is trying to make the Rat feel guilty for eating the last of the bread and cheese in the hole — score 2
  • 3. Talking about food has made him very hungry — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. He has a sore stomach from the sea — score 2

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 36, line 3: «The Rat loses his temper: stop talking and dig, especially on the sides of the mounds — it's their last chance of a warm dry bed! The Mole digs, mostly to humo…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+3); the same doer «rat» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Kev from Liverpool: «boss story, the Sea Rat stayed at sea and never touched land.» (boss = great) Put it right.

  • 1. He hates the shore and sails straight home each time — no support
  • 2. He is glad to be back at sea and never wants to stay with friends in any port for more than a day — score -1
  • 3. He never goes ashore and only sleeps aboard his ship — no support
  • 4. He loves the jolly times on shore and stays weeks with friends — ← 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, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 59, line 3: «At Alassio he watched wine-casks tied in a long line pulled ashore «like a mile of porpoises»; he rested in the olive-woods above the blue sea, and at Marseill…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rest» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

What would the Sea Rat probably do if the Rat invited him indoors to his cosy parlour?

  • 1. Sing a sea shanty loudly — no support
  • 2. Refuse at once and sail straight back to the sea before the tide turns and the wind changes — no support
  • 3. Fall asleep within minutes, he says — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
  • 4. He would say no and sail away — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 59, line 15: «The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to bring it outside: «I am none too fond of going under hatches» (indoors, below deck), and i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «fall» (+3); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

«Rat, do the needful and get lunch, yaar.» (do the needful = do what's needed; yaar = mate) What did the Rat do?

  • 1. Fetched a basket and packed a meal — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. He called the field-mice and sent them to the village market for a basket of fresh fish and cheese — score 5
  • 3. Opened the cupboard and sat down — no support
  • 4. He told the stranger to find his own lunch, then went off to fetch the wine and some bread from the cellar — ← Mova's choice · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 59, line 15: «The «polite Water Rat» invites him to lunch; the Sea Rat asks him to bring it outside: «I am none too fond of going under hatches» (indoors, below deck), and i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sea rat» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «lunch» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

«The farm part is the best bit, can or not?» (can or not = is that so?) What did the Water Rat think?

  • 1. He was keen to visit the farm himself — ← Mova's choice · score 11
  • 2. He hated the farm — score 2
  • 3. He didn't want to hear about the dull inland farm — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. He thought the farm story was the best part — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 5 for the next best. 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 what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+7); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «rat» (+1); the same thing acted on «twinkle» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said other animals called him «a mean beast» who cut it «very fine». Was that fair?

  • 1. No: his lunches are always generous, then and now — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, because the other animals were the mean ones, and they should have shared their picnics with the poor Rat — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 3. Yes, he always gives too little food — score 5
  • 4. Partly, he is generous only at lunch — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 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 doer «mole» (+3); the same thing acted on «rat» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter IV, Badger said he hates Society. How is the Sea Rat different?

  • 1. He loves company, friends in every port, and feasts — ✓ the right answer · score 1
  • 2. He loves being alone — no support
  • 3. He prefers to be left alone at sea — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 4. He too says he hates Society but secretly loves it — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 47, line 6: «Toad, says the Badger, keeps saying «O leave him alone, he wants nothing, perhaps he'll be better presently, it may pass off in time, don't be unduly anxious».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: which other traveller in this book loved speed and machines, not ships?

  • 1. The Badger, who rode the fast train all the way to the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 9
  • 2. Toad, who drove the motor — score 9
  • 3. Toad, with his motor-cars — ✓ the right answer · score 9
  • 4. Toad, who loved his motor-cars and sped about the countryside with reckless joy in his cart and aeroplane — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 55, line 17: «The plan: go full speed through the long tunnel, where the others «will slow down a bit ... for fear of an accident»; then brake, and Toad must «jump and hide…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «toad» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter IX, part 2, the swallows said spring calls them back to England. What called the Sea Rat inland?

  • 1. A letter from home — score 2
  • 2. The smell of the first wild flowers — no support
  • 3. The «first magical hints ... of another Spring» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. The sound of the spring rain — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 59, line 5: «Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and France, the harbours of Cornwall and Devon, and the last stormy quay where the first hints of…», 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 (+2); the same doer «first hints» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter VIII, Toad saw fields and cows «flying past» from the engine. How does the Water Rat travel today?

  • 1. Only in his mind, «league by league» with the story — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 2. Still by motor-car, but now he drives it at great speed along every road in Europe with his friends — score 4
  • 3. By steamer across the sea to every port in turn — no support
  • 4. On a train, which he takes from port to port, watching the fields and cows fly past the window of his carriage — score 5

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 30, line 16: ««The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered. He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+3); the same action «mind» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ «like a mile of porpoises». Why is that a good picture?

  • 1. Porpoises are the fastest fish, so the casks must be moving at great speed through the bay towards the quay — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Round casks bob in a line just like porpoises, and the Rat secretly imagined them swimming all the way to England — no support
  • 3. Round barrels in a line move like porpoises in the water — no support
  • 4. Round casks bobbing in a long line look like porpoises leaping — ✓ 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 16 · ★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Careful: the Sea Rat says he left the sea when spring came, and tried the farm for «six months». What season should it be now — and is that what the chapter shows?

  • 1. Early spring, no, the birds are still arriving here — no support
  • 2. Late summer, turning to autumn — yes, the birds are leaving — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Late autumn, and the birds have not yet flown south — no support
  • 4. Spring, yes — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 5: «Over lunch the Sea Rat tells the rest: the ports of Portugal and France, the harbours of Cornwall and Devon, and the last stormy quay where the first hints of…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «spring» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the method by which the casks of wine were conveyed ashore at Alassio.

  • 1. They were cast overboard, linked by a line, and drawn ashore by boats — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. They were lowered on ropes into the harbour, then pulled ashore by a team of horses who waded through the shallows — score 6
  • 3. They were floated ashore in tied groups by small rowing boats — no support
  • 4. They were dropped overboard in a long bobbing line, each one tied to the next, then rowed into shore by crew in small boats at dawn — score 6

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 59, line 3: «At Alassio he watched wine-casks tied in a long line pulled ashore «like a mile of porpoises»; he rested in the olive-woods above the blue sea, and at Marseill…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tie» (+5); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the reason adduced by the seafarer for his reluctance to partake of luncheon indoors.

  • 1. He prefers open air and does not like to eat in small rooms — ← Mova's choice · score 3
  • 2. He dislikes going below and would rather eat outdoors, because the food indoors is always too strong and he finds it hard to sleep after a large meal, which he always does — no support
  • 3. His aversion to going under hatches and the likelihood of his falling asleep — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. His distaste for going below decks, together with the fact that he would be likely to fall asleep after the meal, and the inconvenience of the stairs — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 48, line 8: ««The sign of “The Red Lion”» reminds him «that he had not breakfasted that day». He orders «the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice» and…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3); the same place «coffee room» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). 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 ✗

Ascertain which of the following was NOT included in the luncheon provided by the Water Rat.

  • 1. Cold chicken, tongue, ham, beef, and a large sponge cake packed in the basket with jam — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Wine from southern slopes — no support
  • 3. Shellfish from Marseilles — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Cold chicken, cold tongue, cold ham, cold beef, pickles and a flask of wine — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the conclusion of the seafarer's last voyage?

  • 1. Having landed upon a quayside in the Channel, he proceeded inland upon the first hints of spring, after first visiting every harbour in Cornwall and Devon to sell the last of his wine casks at a fine profit — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Having landed upon a quayside in the Channel, he decided to stay by the sea forever, sailing out again each morning to fish the rich waters of the Bay of Biscay — no support
  • 3. He landed on a quay in Devon and stayed there in the wine trade all winter — no support
  • 4. Having landed upon a quayside in the Channel, he proceeded inland upon the first hints of spring — ✓ 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

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