Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)

Tests: 7 of 16 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 14 of 20 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 78 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 ✓

Ruby says: "The Leopard got spots cos he stood in the shade like the Giraffe did." Put her right in the story.

1. In the story the Giraffe got them from the trees — no support
2. In the story the Leopard got his spots from the Baboon's riddle and never from any shade at all — score 8
3. In the story the Zebra got stripes from sunlight — no support
4. In the story the hunter pressed his fingertips on him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 78, line 4: «The hunter presses his five fingertips all over the Leopard, leaving little marks in groups, and now the Leopard can look like pebbles, rocks or sunlight throu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hunter» (+4); the same thing acted on «five fingertips» (+3); the same action «press» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓

Zayn, London: "Zebra just went 'one, two, three' and dipped, bare jokes." ("dipped" = left quickly, "bare" = very, a lot of.) Where did he hide?

1. Beside the waterhole in the long grass — no support
2. Among little thorn-bushes in stripy sunlight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Hiding in the deep forest among the tall trees where the shadows fall all blotchy and dark at dusk — no support
4. Under the tall trees in blotchy shadow — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 78, line 11: «The Zebra went to "little thorn-bushes where the sunlight fell all stripy", the Giraffe to "tallish trees where the shadows fell all blotchy", and they said "O…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «zebra» (+3); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗

What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes?

1. He would have been eaten by the hunter for breakfast — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. He would have looked like the Zebra, which he did not want — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. He would have looked exactly like the Zebra standing among the thorn-bushes in the sunlight, which he did not want at all, as the hunter had said — score 2
4. He would have been hunted by every zebra in the veldt — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 78, line 15: «The Leopard did not want stripes ("I wouldn't look like Zebra--not for ever so") nor spots too "vulgar-big" ("I wouldn't look like Giraffe"); "not for ever so"…», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hunter» (+5). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Grandma: "The Leopard was so cross, wasn't he, when he got his spots?" Put her right.

1. Yes, he was very cross indeed, and he roared at the hunter and the Zebra for the whole long afternoon — no support
2. Yes, he was very sad and the hunter told him off — no support
3. No, he was calm and the hunter told him to sleep — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. No, he was excited, and the hunter told him to purr — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 78, line 20: «Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panth…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same receiver «leopards» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓

Aussie uncle: "Leopard and Zebra, sittin' on 'em all arvo? Nah mate, all night." ("arvo" = afternoon.) Till when did they sit on them?

1. Till bright morning-time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Till the sun went down — no support
3. Till the evening came — no support
4. All afternoon — 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 · ★★ · right ✓

Josie, Gen Z: "Baviaan's riddle was lowkey genius ngl." ("lowkey" = quietly, "ngl" = not gonna lie.) Why was it so clever?

1. "Spots" meant both places and marks on the skin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. It made the Leopard go to the wrong place — no support
3. Baviaan used a word that the Leopard heard as meaning faraway places, though it really meant something on his own skin — score 2
4. "Spots" meant both stripes and tails — no support

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 78, line 14: «The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots as fast as I could ... and a lot of good it has done me", but the hunter explains, "He meant…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same thing acted on «places» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓

True or false: real leopards have groups of exactly five spots, made by fingertips.

1. True: they get them later — no support
2. False: they have rosettes, and they are born with them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. True: a leopard's spots are made by a hunter's fingers when he is grown, and each group has exactly five marks — no support
4. False: they have blotches, and they grow them with age — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 78, line 20: «Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panth…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «black leopards» (+4); the same thing acted on «faint rosettes» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Mum, cross: "Where's your breakfast? I'll tell you where, it's in the bin cos you were late." Which animals in the story teased the hunters with "where's your breakfast?"

1. The Baboon and the Camel — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. The Rhino and the Whale — score 5
3. The Zebra and the Giraffe — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. The Leopard — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 78, line 2: «The Zebra and the Giraffe show off their trick: they step into the striped and blotchy shadows, count "One--two--three!", and vanish, laughing "where's your br…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «breakfast» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗

The Camel liked looking at his own reflection in a pool. What was the Leopard proud of at the end?

1. His new spots that let him hide anywhere — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. His stripes that made him look like Zebra — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. His strong legs for running fast — no support
4. His beautiful new blotches that made every hunter in the veldt jealous of him all day long — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 78, line 4: «The hunter presses his five fingertips all over the Leopard, leaving little marks in groups, and now the Leopard can look like pebbles, rocks or sunlight throu…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same doer «leopard» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓

In the Rhinoceros story and in this one, an animal gets marks on his skin for ever. Which is the right pair?

1. The Rhino got stripes from shade; the Leopard got folds from the sun — no support
2. The Rhino got spots from rubbing; the Leopard got folds from fingers — no support
3. The Rhino got folds from rubbing; the Leopard got spots from fingertips — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. The Rhino got three folds from the Whale's magic; the Leopard got spots from a riddle and a hunter's fingers together — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 77, line 4: «Back on the empty veldt the hungry Leopard and the hunter eat rats and beetles, get a terrible tummy-ache, and ask the wise Baboon, Baviaan, where all the anim…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «leopard» (+4); the same thing acted on «riddles» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗

In the Whale story the clever helper was a little fish. Who helps the Leopard by explaining the riddle in the end?

1. The Baboon — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. The Tortoise who lived by the river — no support
3. The little fish from the sea — score 3
4. The hunter — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 78, line 3: «The two hunters see they no longer match their background, and at last the Leopard understands Baviaan's riddle: not other spots in South Africa, but spots on…», 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 «baviaan» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Unlike the Whale, the Camel and the Rhino, the Leopard is not punished. How does his change come?

1. He gets punished by Baviaan — no support
2. He asks for it, to hunt better — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The hunter punishes him by pressing his fingers all over his coat until he cries out in pain and sorrow — ← Mova's choice · score 9
4. He is given a new home — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 78, line 16: «The hunter "put his five fingers close together" and pressed them all over the Leopard, and "wherever the five fingers touched they left five little black mark…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hunter» (+4); the same thing acted on «fingers» (+3); the same action «press» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★★ · wrong ✗

Sam, Scouse: "Leopard's spots are boss, la, he can lie on a path an' look like nothin'." ("boss" = great, "la" = mate.) What does the hunter say he can look like on a path?

1. A dry tree stump — no support
2. A pile of leaves — no support
3. A bright yellow flower growing beside the path in the sunlight of the late afternoon — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Nothing in particular — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 41, line 1: «It is mid-December, nearly dark, and Rat and Mole are tramping home across frosty fields after a long day out with Otter. A track turns into a path, the path i…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «path» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time. If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?

1. Fifty-five marks, if one more was added by the hunter's thumb — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Two — no support
3. Ten — no support
4. Fifty — ✓ 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 15 · ★★ · right ✓

★★★ Read carefully: Zebra says "this isn't the High Veldt. Can't you see?" and the Leopard says "I can now ... But I couldn't all yesterday." Why can he see the Zebra now?

1. Because the Zebra moved to the High Veldt — no support
2. It is morning and he is sitting right on him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Because the sun rose over the hills and the hunter had given him a special pair of eyes to use in the bright veldt — score 0
4. It is night and he is far away — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 78, line 7: «He called it "O you person without any form" (without a shape you can see) and sat on its head till morning; the hunter did the same with something that kicked…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 16 · ★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots. Which pattern did that leave him?

1. Large spots far apart — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Small spots close together — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Spots like the Zebra's stripes but made into small round blotches all over his body and tail — no support
4. Spots like the Giraffe — 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 means by which the Leopard and the hunter ascertained the identity of the animals captured during the night.

1. By their footprints and the tracks they left behind — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By smell, by touch, by the manner of their kicking, and by the sound they made when the hunter knocked them over at last — no support
3. By smell, by touch and by the manner of their kicking — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. By their colour and their size — 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 ✗

Ascertain the principal deficiency which, in the hunter's own estimation, impeded the success of both hunters in the forest.

1. Their skins had the wrong stripes and blotches for the hot and bright and very open High Veldt — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They were not clever enough at all — no support
3. They did not match their backgrounds — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The forest was far too dark for them — 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 ✓

Select the response that most accurately characterises the intended meaning of Baviaan's counsel to "go into other spots".

1. To travel far away from the High Veldt and find a new home in another country with other animals altogether — no support
2. To find a new river to drink from — no support
3. To acquire spots upon the skin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. To go hunting in other places — 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 78, line 14: «The Leopard thought Baviaan meant places: "I went into other spots as fast as I could ... and a lot of good it has done me", but the hunter explains, "He meant…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «spots» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

State, in accordance with established zoology, the correct designation of the markings upon the coat of a leopard.

1. Stripes, long dark lines running down the fur — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Rosettes, ring-shaped clusters of dark spots — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Pebbles, round grey marks set in fur — no support
4. Rosettes, which are the large stripes of fur that cover the whole leopard coat and tail from head to toe — 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

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