The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 2: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (how Toad Hall was taken, a gun at the gate and a sunken boat)

Tests: 8 of 18 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 12 of 22 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 66 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Zara, gutted (very disappointed): «Mole and Badger just ran off and left Toad Hall to the weasels.» Put it right.

1. They fought, but two unarmed animals were beaten by hundreds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They fled to the nearby woods — no support
3. They were beaten before they could fight — no support
4. They hid under the house quietly — 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 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Why did Toad snigger at the story of his friends being beaten and turned out?

1. He was simply too tired to care about what had happened to his friends that night — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. He was happy at their trouble — score 1
3. He was thoughtless and unfeeling — not a kind reaction — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He was thoughtless and unfeeling, showing no kindness towards friends who had been beaten — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 38, line 6: «Badger asks «How's old Toad going on?» The Rat: «Oh, from bad to worse … Another smash-up only last week, and a bad one.»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

What is the sentries' plan meant to do?

1. Keep anyone from getting back into Toad Hall while the Wild Wooders are there — no support
2. Keep Toad from leaving the house — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Keep anyone from getting back into Toad Hall — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Keep the Wild Wooders out of the river and bring back Toad safely by boat — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 63, line 16: «The gentlemen say: «Here is a poor old thing—a washerwoman apparently—who has fainted in the road!» They lift him into the car and prop him up with soft cushio…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «poor old thing» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓

Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Toad was badly hurt at his gate.»

1. True: the ferret shot his arm off — no support
2. False: he ran off unhurt — score 5
3. False: he dropped flat and the shot whistled over his head — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. True: he was badly hurt at his gate by the ferret's gun — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 13: «At his front gate «a long yellow ferret with a gun» says «Who comes there?»; Toad answers crossly «Stuff and nonsense!», then drops flat in the road and «a bul…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+5); the same doer «toad» (+3); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Tyler: «the stoats nearly had two fits laughing, so like, 4 fits total?» Explain the joke.

1. The joke is that fits are laughing and stoats are animals so they cannot have fits at all, only a laugh — score 3
2. «Fits» here means seizures of laughing, so two stoats each having one fit makes two fits, not four — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. «Fits» means having fun, so two each — no support
4. «Two fits—that is, one fit each»: two stoats, one fit each, makes two — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 66, line 16: «The stoats call «It will be your head next time, Toady!» and laugh «till they nearly had two fits—that is, one fit each, of course» (a fit here = a sudden atta…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stoats» (+3); the same thing acted on «two fits» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓

What would have happened if Toad had listened to the Rat the first time?

1. He would have kept his house safe — score 4
2. He would have kept the Rat's boat and suit safe and never been beaten at the bridge — score 9
3. He would have kept the Rat's boat and suit safe and never gone out alone to Toad Hall at all — score 9
4. He would have kept the Rat's boat and suit safe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 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 66, line 17: «The Rat, calling Toad «of all the trying animals» (trying = making others tired and cross by what he does), says: «Lost me my boat that I was so fond of... And…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+5); the same thing acted on «boat» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Why does the Rat call Toad «of all the trying animals»?

1. Toad is a silly and greedy animal — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Toad never listens to anyone's advice — score 2
3. Toad keeps rushing off, ignoring advice, and wrecking things — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Toad always cooks dinner badly and makes the house dirty for his friends to clean — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 64, line 2: «Then faster, and faster. When they call «Be careful, washerwoman!» Toad loses his head. He pins the driver down with his elbow, goes full speed and shouts who…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same thing acted on «toad» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Ella, «it's dreich (gloomy) out»: «why attack on a wet stormy night?» What does the story suggest?

1. Everyone was asleep in bed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The weasels hated wet weather — no support
3. Nobody expected an attack on such a night — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nobody expected an attack on such a night, so the animals were caught unprepared and unguarded — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter I, what did the Rat say about weasels and stoats?

1. They are harmless — no support
2. They never bother anyone at all — no support
3. «They break out sometimes... you can't really trust them» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. They are kind to everybody — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 3: «The Mole points to a dark wood on one side. «That's just the Wild Wood,» says the Rat shortly. Badger lives in the middle of it, and nobody bothers him — but t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trust» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter III, who were the faces in the holes and the whistling in the Wild Wood?

1. Stoats chasing the old Rat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Wild Wood animals, hunting the frightened Mole through the dark trees — no support
3. Weasels hunting Toad at night — no support
4. The Wild Wood animals, hunting the frightened Mole — ✓ 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 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter IV, Badger said «Any friend of mine walks where he likes in this country». Why is Toad Hall now different?

1. Toad Hall is now full of stoats, and Badger has grown too old to walk there any more — score 1
2. Toad has been sent to prison — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. The Wild Wooders have dared to take it, Badger or no Badger — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Badger has moved away now — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 63, line 9: «In other verses Toad says he was the one who told the animals in Noah's Ark «There's land ahead», that the army saluted him instead of the King or Kitchener (a…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+2); the same thing acted on «one» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓

Looking back: in chapter VI, after Toad escaped, why did Badger say they should go on sleeping at Toad Hall?

1. Toad might be brought back «between two policemen» and they must be there to meet him — score 4
2. Badger wanted them to sleep there because the weasels might attack the house again during the night — score 0
3. Toad might be brought back «between two policemen» — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Badger wanted to watch the house — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 63, line 9: «In other verses Toad says he was the one who told the animals in Noah's Ark «There's land ahead», that the army saluted him instead of the King or Kitchener (a…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+2); the same thing acted on «one» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter I, how was the Rat's boat painted?

1. All green — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Red inside — no support
3. Blue outside and white inside — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. White outside and blue inside — 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 14 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Looking back: in chapter II, after the motor-car wrecked the caravan, the Rat shouted «I'll have the law of you!» How is the Rat different now?

1. He stays calm and says they must wait, having learnt from how badly rushing went before — score 6
2. He still wants the law, but now he is quiet and tries to make friends with the motor-car driver — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. He stays calm and says they must wait — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. He now shouts at the stoats — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 65, line 6: «The Rat «gripped Toad firmly by the scruff of the neck» (the loose skin at the back of the neck) and hauled him in over the edge of the hole.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★★★ · right ✓

What has Toad learnt by the end of this part, at least for now?

1. That rushing off alone makes things worse, and that Toad Hall is now lost to the Wild Wooders for ever — score 6
2. That rushing off alone makes things worse, and he should always wait for the Rat's advice first — score 6
3. That boats are dangerous to row — no support
4. That rushing off alone makes things worse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 52, line 7: «Toad wails: «This is the end of everything ... at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing»: to him, his own troubles are the end of…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «same thing» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 16 · ★★★ · right ✓

★★★ The attack came from three sides. Match: front drive, kitchen-garden, conservatory.

1. Weasels, ferrets, stoats — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Weasels, ferrets, stoats, and rats — no support
3. Weasels at the front drive, ferrets at the kitchen-garden, stoats at the conservatory — no support
4. Ferrets, stoats, weasels — 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 ✓

★★★ «What can two animals do against hundreds?» If there were 200 attackers, how many attackers were there for each defender?

1. 100 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. 5 — no support
3. 10 — no support
4. 200 — 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 18 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ Toad promised: «I will be humble and submissive». Which word in his promise means «obedient»?

1. Submissive, humble and obedient to the Rat's advice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Submissive — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Dutiful — no support
4. Promise, submission and meekness in the Rat's presence — 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 conclusion which Mole and Badger drew, «arguing from history», respecting Toad's return.

1. That the law was fair to all and always won — no support
2. That the law was fair to all, and no one with cheek could ever escape prison, whatever their wealth or plausibility — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. That no criminal law had prevailed against cheek and plausibility combined with a long purse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. That cheek and money had never been beaten by the law — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 65, line 1: «The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed. At once Toad starts boasting: prison, escape, disguise…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+3); the same thing acted on «prison» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the meteorological conditions obtaining upon the night of the attack upon Toad Hall.

1. Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily across the whole of the valley and the wood — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Very dark, snowing and quite calm — no support
3. Very dark, blowing hard, and raining heavily — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Very dark and blowing hard, with raining heavily and a thunderstorm rolling over Toad Hall — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that a stone was dropped upon Toad's vessel. Select the response which most accurately identifies the perpetrators.

1. Three weasels on the bank — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A stoat under the gate — no support
3. Two stoats upon the bridge — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Two stoats upon the bridge, who were laughing as they shouted to 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements is consistent with the established facts concerning the Rat's counsel at the close of this part?

1. That the police must be called now — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That Toad should go back at once — no support
3. That the boat must be rowed — no support
4. That nothing could be done until the Mole and the Badger had been consulted — ✓ 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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