Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants

Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 628 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yaar, what did Toomai do when the stomping got super loud?

1. He shouted at them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He covered his ears — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He pressed his hands hard against his ears and shut his eyes tight — no support
4. He sat very still — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, how long did the elephants keep stamping?

1. from the first drum-beat until well after the moon had set — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. all morning — no support
3. about two hours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nearly three hours — 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 ✓

Arre, which elephant was Toomai riding?

1. Kala Nag — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the big tusker — no support
3. Sundar — no support
4. the leader of the herd — 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 ✗

Dude, what did the sahibs get for the camp feast?

1. three sheep and a goat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. one sheep and some fruit — no support
3. two sheep, some fowls, and a great pot of rice and sugar — no support
4. two sheep and some fowls — ✓ the right answer · 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bhai, what new name did Toomai get?

1. Elephant Child — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Toomai the Elephant Chief — no support
3. Toomai of the Forest Herd — no support
4. Toomai of the Elephants — ✓ the right answer · 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what got smeared on Toomai's forehead?

1. red mud — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. turmeric and oil — no support
3. fresh blood of a jungle-cock smeared on his brow by Machua — no support
4. jungle-cock blood — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, how far did Petersen Sahib track the elephants?

1. twelve miles — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. fifteen miles — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. five miles — score 6
4. twenty miles — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 92, line 9: «The Man: «If I am to be lazy all my days, let the Sea work for me twice a day for ever. That will save paddling.» The Rat of the Moon stops biting the line, an…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+2); the same thing acted on «sea work» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Chill, was Toomai feeling fine when he got to camp?

1. no, pale and shaking — no support
2. no, gray and pinched — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. no, he looked gray and pinched and nearly fainted from the cold — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. no, red and swollen — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 628, line 14: «Big Toomai, Toomai's father, comes up from the plains and looks at his son "as though he were afraid of them both."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same doer «big toomai» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, what did the elephants do to the grass?

1. trampled every blade of it flat and tore up the roots below — score 5
2. burned it — no support
3. tore it apart — no support
4. trampled it flat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 628, line 2: «At dawn the booming stops, the elephants vanish, and the clearing turns out to be bigger, its grass trampled flat.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «grass» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «trample» (+1); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Kiddo, what time did the booming stop?

1. at midnight hour — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. at moonrise — score 5
3. at first sunlight — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. at noon — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 3, line 17: «Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen" (in Alice's day the times tables at school stopped at twelve times), and her geo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stop» (+3); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Cuz, how many tracks did Machua Appa count?

1. seventy tracks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. ten tracks — no support
3. seventeen tracks — no support
4. ninety tracks — 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 ✗

Bhai, where is this elephant dance spot?

1. the river — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the Khasi hills — no support
3. the Garo hills — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Assam — 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 ✗

Arre, what does the salute sound like?

1. a crashing trumpet-peal — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a great crashing trumpet-peal from all the herd at once — no support
3. a deep rolling growl — no support
4. a faint bugle call — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 451, line 19: «Today the word is used as an old-fashioned name for a Russian farmer, and it can sound rude when people use it to look down on someone.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, who got scared of their own son?

1. Machua Appa — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the old driver Machua Appa, who feared the boy's dancing — no support
3. Petersen Sahib — no support
4. Big Toomai — ✓ the right answer · 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

What was the name conferred upon Little Toomai by Machua Appa upon his public elevation?

1. Toomai of the Elephants — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Toomai of the Herds — no support
3. Toomai of the Forest — no support
4. Toomai of the Elephants, Child of the Garo Hills — 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 ✓

To what distance did Petersen Sahib and Machua Appa pursue the two elephants' tracks?

1. fifteen miles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. twenty miles — no support
3. across the whole Garo country and far down the river valley — no support
4. twelve miles — 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 · right ✓

Which substance was used to mark the forehead of the young initiate?

1. blood from a jungle-cock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. ash from a burnt leaf — no support
3. oil from a wild boar — no support
4. fresh blood taken from a jungle-cock killed at the dance-place — 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 ✗

At what hour did the booming of the elephants cease?

1. at sunset — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. upon the first light of dawn — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. at midnight — no support
4. when the moon went down — 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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