Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes back to life and the witch is punished

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 100 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did you see the bit where the King chases the Fawn all day, innit?

1. Yeah, the huntsmen had to follow him but nobody was allowed to harm him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, they chased him but nobody could touch him at all, right — no support
3. Nah, they lost him — no support
4. Nah, the huntsmen were told to stop and let him go free — 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 ✗

Mate, the stepmother's daughter has one eye, proper bare ugly, right?

1. Nah, she's got both eyes but the mum still moans — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she's blind in one eye and her mum shouts at her a lot — no support
3. Yeah, she's got one eye and the mum always goes off at her — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she's only got one eye, and her mum is always having a go at her about it, proper nasty — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the witch tricked the Queen into that bath, yeah?

1. Yeah, the witch lied and the fire was lit to cook her — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, the witch tricked her into climbing in, and then she set the fire going under the pot to roast her — no support
3. Yeah, it was a proper set-up, the fire was lit to roast her — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, it was a proper set-up, the witch told her the bath would heal her but the fire was lit to roast her alive — 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 ✗

Wait, who was the nurse watching at midnight?

1. The empty cot by the fire — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The cradle with the baby in it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The wooden cradle where the new baby was lying wrapped in a blanket beside the bed — no support
4. The large carved cradle in the nursery where the infant prince had been sleeping since the autumn — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why did the Queen keep coming back at night?

1. She came to see her baby and fawn — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. She wanted food — score -1
3. She was visiting her fawn and her child — score -1
4. She was checking on her child and her fawn — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 100, line 13: «fact: The Queen comes three times, saying "Twice more will I come," then "Once more will I come," then "This time have I come."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); the same doer «queen» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the King just believe her straight away?

1. Nah, he didn't believe her until he stayed up and watched for her himself on three separate nights — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Yeah, he believed the nurse at once, no proof — no support
3. Nah, he kept watch and saw her for himself — score 5
4. Nah, he got the proof by watching for her himself — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 96, line 16: «Real life: in the Bible, Solomon was a king of Israel about 3,000 years ago, famous for his wisdom; historians are not sure how much of the old stories about h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «solomon» (+4); the same thing acted on «king» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Honestly, was the Fawn still a fawn at the end?

1. Nah, he got his human form back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Nah, he turned back into a prince and got his human form back after the spell ended — score 6
3. Nah, he was a man again now — no support
4. Yeah, he stayed a fawn always — score 2

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 100, line 16: «fact: Old word "disenchanted": freed from a spell, so the Fawn gets back his human form.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fawn» (+4); the same thing acted on «human form» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lush, the witch and her daughter got what was coming to them, right?

1. Nah, they escaped the court and sentence entirely, sadly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, they ran away — no support
3. Yeah, they were caught, put on trial and sentenced, fair enough — no support
4. Yeah, they got tried and sentenced, proper justice — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, Hansel's dad wanted to leave the kids in the woods, didn't he?

1. Yeah, that was the dad — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, it was the dad who begged to leave them out — no support
3. Nah, it was the mum who wanted it, not him — no support
4. Nah, that was the stepmother, the dad didn't want to — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So why did Hansel keep stopping on the way out?

1. He kept stopping to look at the birds and the trees, and he was dropping pebbles to find the way back later — no support
2. He was secretly dropping white pebbles along the path so that he and Grethel could find their way home again — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. He was leaving pebbles to mark the way — no support
4. He was dropping pebbles to find the way back — ✓ the right answer · 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 61, line 2: «It is an early summer morning and he has the whole world to himself, but nothing can tell him the way home. He finds a road, then a canal running beside it, an…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «way» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what did the stepmother reckon the white thing on the roof was?

1. She told him it was the bright sun reflecting off the white chimney of the next cottage along the lane — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She claimed it was the sun on a chimney — no support
3. She said it was the sun on the white chimney — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She said it was just the sun shining on the white chimney of the house down the road — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Was Grethel scared when she heard the parents talking?

1. Yeah, she cried bitterly and asked Hansel what would happen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nah, she was brave — no support
3. Yeah, she wept and asked Hansel what was going to happen — no support
4. Nah, she laughed and told Hansel not to worry about anything at all, honest — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 62, line 2: «Toad swims to the bank, the wet cotton gown dragging at him, and runs after the barge wanting revenge. She calls out a last joke about ironing his face. So Toa…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «shout» (+3); the same doer «woman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Hansel reckon they'd be alright in the end?

1. Nah, he said they were doomed to die — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he told her they were going to die in the woods, and that nobody would ever come looking for them again — no support
3. Yeah, he told Grethel God wouldn't forsake them — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he said God would not abandon 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following best describes the course of events in the passage concerning the restoration of the Queen to her former position?

1. The Queen, having been revived through divine intervention, was acknowledged by her husband upon the third visitation — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Following a lengthy series of nightly trials, the Queen, having been miraculously restored to life by God's mercy, was finally recognised and welcomed back by her husband at the close of the story — no support
3. The Queen, having been healed by the bath, was recognised by the King after her third night visit — score 0
4. The Queen, having been revived by the bath and the witch's downfall, was at last acknowledged by the King, who had watched her closely over three nights of searching in the palace — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 87, line 5: «This story follows straight on from the last one: «The week after Taffimai Metallumai ... made that little mistake about her Daddy's spear and the Stranger-man…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «story» (+5); the same action «follow» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal motive attributed to the stepmother in her plotting against the children and their household.

1. She was filled with bitter envy and jealousy at the happiness and prosperity of the children and their household, and wanted to destroy it all — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. She was consumed by envy and jealousy at their happiness and prosperity — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She was consumed by jealousy at the children's happiness, and resented that the father loved them more than he had ever loved her, so she schemed endlessly — no support
4. She hated the children for being favoured by their father in the house — 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 100, line 9: «fact: Why the witch acts: she is filled with "envy and jealousy" because the children have become happy.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «fill» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the significance of the witch's decision to turn her daughter away from the King's gaze.

1. It was a scheme intended to hide the girl's blind eye and continue the deceit — no support
2. She did it to keep the King from noticing that her daughter was unfit for court — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. It was an act of deception designed to conceal the daughter's missing eye and sustain the fraud — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She hid her shame — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 21, line 18: ««Take off your hat.» — «It isn't mine.» — «Stolen!» — «I keep them to sell... I'm a hatter.» A hatter is a person who makes or sells hats.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+2); the same action «keep» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine the reason the woodcutter's wife gave for abandoning the children in the forest.

1. They had no money and the children were growing too big for the house — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The land had no food and they were starving — no support
3. Hunger in the house — no support
4. Their family was faced with famine and could not feed all four of them — ✓ 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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