Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Shiva, then a wrecked tent and a noisy night among the army animals

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 629 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 ✗

Dude, did the camel actually flatten that tent?

1. yeah, it flopped right on the tent, poles and all, bang — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. yeah, it came down right on top of the tent and flattened everything — no support
3. yeah, it flopped right on it — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. yeah, it fell on the tent — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 629, line 12: «What: the narrator says the camel "flopped into my tent" and thinks the broken tent pole hit it on the neck.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «flop» (+2); the same place «tent» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why was the narrator laughing when he was soaked?

1. the camel had wrecked his tent — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the troop-horse had kicked the camel out of the lines — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. the rain was actually funny — no support
4. the camel had wrecked his tent and his dinner too — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 629, line 10: «Why: the narrator is cross but laughs, because a camel "had blundered into" his tent and the pole snapped.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «camel» (+2). Against it: a different action (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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit wild that the mule kicked the camel, yeah?

1. yeah, it kicked him twice — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. yeah, two hard kicks in the ribs and a bite — no support
3. yeah, one kick to the knee — no support
4. yeah, two kicks in the ribs — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 629, line 4: «He wades off into the dark, sleeps beside the cannon, and hears a mule kick a camel for shouting "Thieves and fire!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kick» (+2); the same doer «mule» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Proper mint that the screw-guns come in two bits, right?

1. right, they screw together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. nah, they just bolt together — no support
3. no, they're one piece — no support
4. right, they come apart easy — 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 629, line 15: «Old word: a "screw-gun" is a small cannon made in two pieces that are "screwed together when the time comes to use them".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «screw» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what did the troop-horse reckon about the camels?

1. they had charged through again — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. they had racketed through the lines again all night — no support
3. they had racketed through again — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they had come racketing through the camp once more — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So who was the breech-piece mule, then?

1. a mule on the first gun — no support
2. a mule on number three gun — no support
3. the old mule — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. a mule on number two gun — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 629, line 18: «Old word: a "troop-horse" was a cavalry horse, and "fourteen-hand" measures height, with a hand being about four inches.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, the gun-bullocks just lay down and chewed, yeah?

1. yeah, they slept in the rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, they chewed the cud — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, they lay down — no support
4. they just rested — 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 ✗

Bro, what made the young mule freeze up?

1. he thought the dark things were monsters — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. he took the dark shapes for wild cats — ← Mova's choice · score -5
3. the dark things had come to eat the whole regiment of mules — no support
4. he believed the dark things were large demons — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 629, line 14: «What: the mule is "breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery", so he carries part of a gun.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «mule» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Did the old horse run from a man when he was a baby?

1. yeah, for half a day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, for a whole day — no support
3. no, never — no support
4. for a while — 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 ✗

Wicked, what did the narrator's dog do when the tent fell?

1. crawled out the back flap — no support
2. stayed in the tent — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. went out the other side — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. got out the other end — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 428, line 10: «WHO: Marya Morevna said "is it of your free will or against your will?" and she made Ivan stay in her white tent for two nights.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same place «white tent» (+1). Against it: the same action «stay» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, which bit is about the god and the grasshopper?

1. the verse at the end — no support
2. the poem at the start — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the bit about the mule — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. the verse at the beginning — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 629, line 15: «Old word: a "screw-gun" is a small cannon made in two pieces that are "screwed together when the time comes to use them".», 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 doer «two pieces» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fam, what's the camel's name in the story?

1. the narrator calls it Ginger — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. they call it Ginger — score 6
3. the camel is named in the second part of the story — no support
4. the story never names it — ✓ the right answer · 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 629, line 8: «Where: the poem is set among all creatures, while the story is set at "a place called Rawal Pindi" in India, in the rain.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same thing acted on «place» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, who's the Amir, anyway?

1. a ruler from the north of Asia — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a sultan from Turkey — no support
3. some kind of ruler — no support
4. a king from Afghanistan — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Which deity is described in the opening verse as the Preserver who provides for all living creatures?

1. Brahma, the Creator of all that lives — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Shiva, the Destroyer and Preserver of all that lives and dies — no support
3. Shiva, the Preserver of all that lives — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Shiva, the Preserver of the world — 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 ✗

Upon what occasion does the narrator's tent collapse during the night?

1. upon the sudden collision of a laden camel with the tent's central pole and ropes — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. upon the collision of a camel with its structure — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. after the rain soaked the canvas and poles — no support
4. when a heavy baggage camel crashed into the whole canvas structure of the tent — 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 unit does the breech-piece mule serve, according to his own declaration?

1. number two gun of the First Screw Battery — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the number two gun in the First Screw Battery, serving at the front of the column — no support
3. number one gun of the Third Mountain Battery — no support
4. number two gun of the First Screw Battery of the Royal Artillery — 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 ✗

What is the principal grievance of the troop-horse regarding the camels?

1. that they keep racketing through the lines at night — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. that they have racketed through the camp lines and disturbed every horse's rest — no support
3. that they have ruined the camp's food supplies entirely — no support
4. that they have disturbed the camp's sleep repeatedly — ✓ 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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