Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One
Tests: 8 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 108 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 ✗
yo, where'd Fred and Cath kip for the night, innit?
- 1. Barn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. On the hill — no support
- 3. Up a tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Floor — 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
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
bruv, what got chucked down first, the apples or the stones?
- 1. The apples — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The apples fell first, and then the stones came down — no support
- 3. The stones came first, before any apples — no support
- 4. The leaves — 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
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
mad, what did Cath bring back from home for snacks?
- 1. Dried apples — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A bag of fresh apples and cheese — no support
- 3. Dried pears — no support
- 4. Dried apples and a flask of vinegar from the cellar — 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 · ★ · right ✓
lol, what did the thieves reckon the vinegar was?
- 1. Dew coming down — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Rain — no support
- 3. Sweat — no support
- 4. Rain coming down — 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 · ★ · right ✓
wagwan, why'd the thieves bolt and leave all their gold?
- 1. They thought the Evil One — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Guards came — no support
- 3. They were scared — no support
- 4. They saw a ghost — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 108, line 3: «The door crashes through the branches, the thieves think the Evil One is coming down the tree, and they run off, leaving all their gold behind.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «thieves» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
sus, what did Cath cut off by mistake in the corn field?
- 1. Half her clothes and some of her hair too — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Her best dress — no support
- 3. Half her clothes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Her long hair — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
bare silly, who did Cath reckon was asleep indoors?
- 1. The dog — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Catherine herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Her husband Fred — no support
- 4. Her old mother — 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
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
innit, who got carried like a piggyback?
- 1. The thief — no support
- 2. Cath — no support
- 3. The parson — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. Fred — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 108, line 5: «The parson, carried by a countryman, sees Catherine stand up to her full height, and both men flee, the lame parson running faster than the healthy man.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: the same action «carry» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips?
- 1. The Evil One — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. The parson's own lame servant, hidden in the field — no support
- 3. Catherine, who was pulling up the roots — score 6
- 4. The priest — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 63, line 4: «But the gentlemen don't recognise him. They think he is a poor old washerwoman who has fainted from the heat, and kindly lift him into the car. Toad opens one…», 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 «toad» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
no cap, what's the parson's problem with walking?
- 1. Pain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gout — no support
- 3. A lame foot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Weak knees — 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
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
long story, who said "hangman's name," Fred or Cath?
- 1. Fred and Cath both said it — score 6
- 2. The thieves said it, not Fred or Cath — score 1
- 3. Ted — score 1
- 4. Fred — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 108, line 9: «Why: Catherine says "I must throw down these apples" because "they are so heavy," and Fred answers "do it in the hangman's name!"», 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 «fred» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
sick, what was the countryman doing with the parson?
- 1. Lifting — no support
- 2. Carrying him on his back across the field — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Carrying him — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Pushing a cart — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 108, line 15: «The parson has "a lame foot," so the countryman says "Then I will carry you a-pickaback," and carries him to the field.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «carry» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
fam, who ran faster in the end, the parson or the countryman?
- 1. The man — score 6
- 2. The thief — score 5
- 3. The parson — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Fred — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 108, line 5: «The parson, carried by a countryman, sees Catherine stand up to her full height, and both men flee, the lame parson running faster than the healthy man.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run» (+3); the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing?
- 1. By accident — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By sleeping over her meal — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Asleep — no support
- 4. Through working all day long — 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 ✗
Which object did the thieves mistake for the falling dew?
- 1. The sour liquid that the woman had carried up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The spilled water — no support
- 3. The poured vinegar — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The vinegar the girl poured from her mug — 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 · wrong ✗
Which object did the thieves believe to be the Evil One descending the tree?
- 1. The wooden door that Catherine had carried away — no support
- 2. The heavy oak door as it fell from the window — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. The falling beam — score 2
- 4. The falling door — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 108, line 13: «The door falls "crashing through the branches," and the rogues think "the Evil One was descending the tree," so they run off.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+5); the same doer «door» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which means did the countryman employ to convey the parson to the field?
- 1. He lifted him up and carried him on his back all the way — score 3
- 2. He carried him on his back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. He pushed him on a cart — no support
- 4. He carried him on his back across the wet fields — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 108, line 5: «The parson, carried by a countryman, sees Catherine stand up to her full height, and both men flee, the lame parson running faster than the healthy man.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «parson» (+4); the same action «carry» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/108-pg11027-part11/