The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 624 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.

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 ✓

Oi, how old was Kala Nag when he got caught, like proper old?

1. ten years — no support
2. twenty years old — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. seventeen years old — score 5
4. twelve — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 624, line 8: «WHAT: Kala Nag was caught at twenty years old, so by now he is "nearly seventy", a ripe age for an elephant.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «kala» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, how many years did Kala Nag work for the Government, innit?

1. forty-seven years for the Government — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. forty-seven years of hard service for the Government — score 7
3. forty-seven years — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. thirty-seven years — 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 624, line 6: «WHO: Kala Nag, whose name means "Black Snake", served the Indian Government for forty-seven years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, what did Little Toomai call Kala Nag to his face?

1. old pig — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. a lazy old fool — score 1
3. a fat old pig — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. fat fool — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 54, line 18: «The engine-driver is «a burly man with an oil-can in one hand and a lump of cotton-waste in the other»; he calls Toad «mother», a friendly old word for an olde…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, who gave Kala Nag the dodgy advice about being scared?

1. his mum, Radha Pyari — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Big Toomai's wife — score 6
3. his aunt, Sundari Bai — score 6
4. his mum, Radha Pyari, the old cow — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 475, line 12: «The moujik gives him advice: sit "on the stove behind the chimney-pipe" and eat nothing for three years, and he will be safe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same thing acted on «advice» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead serious, what made him back into the rifles?

1. a bullet hitting — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a cannon firing — no support
3. a shell going off — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a shell going off near the line — no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Gutted, where did they catch the wild ones?

1. Garo hills — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. the hills — score 3
3. Khasi hills — score 3
4. Naga — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 175, line 2: «The fairies and genii inside the well catch him, so he is not hurt, and he overhears their secret plan.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+4). Against it: the same thing acted on «man» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, what was his job at Moulmein, like, what did he do?

1. pull teak logs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. haul big teak balks out of the river — no support
3. haul timber rafts — no support
4. haul teak balks — ✓ 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 ✗

Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet?

1. a yard — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. three feet — no support
3. four feet — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. two feet — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wot does Little Toomai wanna do when he's bigger, innit?

1. sit on his dad's neck — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. take his dad's place on the neck — no support
3. ride on the neck — no support
4. take his dad's place — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, what's that stick Little Toomai talks about, the one worn smooth?

1. an ankus — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a bamboo pole — no support
3. a sharp iron hook — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. a cane rod — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 54, line 18: «The engine-driver is «a burly man with an oil-can in one hand and a lump of cotton-waste in the other»; he calls Toad «mother», a friendly old word for an olde…», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «mother» (-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 ✗

Bro, who does Big Toomai reckon Kala Nag's scared of?

1. only Big Toomai, who held his ankus — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. only Big Toomai — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. only Big Toomai and no other man — no support
4. the old driver — 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 ✗

Oi, where did the elephants die of cold and sunstroke?

1. Kabul — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Kandahar Pass — no support
3. Ali Musjid — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Khyber Pass — 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 name, signifying Black Snake, borne by the elephant described.

1. Mohan Ram — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Kala Nag — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Kala Nag Raja — no support
4. Bahadur — 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 ✓

State the duration, in years, of the elephant's service to the Government of India.

1. forty-seven years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. forty-two years — no support
3. thirty-seven years — no support
4. forty-seven years and counting — 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 ✗

Specify the implement by which the elephant is directed by its driver.

1. the sharp iron ankus the driver holds — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the iron ankus of the driver — no support
3. the ankus — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the goad — 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 · right ✓

Indicate the location at which the Emperor Theodore was observed lying dead.

1. Magdala — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. in the palace at Magdala on the hill — no support
3. the mountain fortress of Magdala — no support
4. Gondar — 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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