If you look in the source angular.mock.module, you will see that it returns a function or the result of a function, depending on whether the specification works:
window.module = angular.mock.module = function() {
var moduleFns = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0);
return isSpecRunning() ? workFn() : workFn;
function workFn() {
...
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