Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them

Tests: 1 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1100 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 ✗

Oi, what did the Wind chuck at the poor bloke?

1. a big drum full of twelve henchmen and a ram — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a magic drum with twelve henchmen and a sack — no support
3. a purse with twelve quid — no support
4. a drum with twelve henchmen — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, who got a proper hiding in this bit?

1. the Jews and the wife — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the Jews and the ram — no support
3. the wife — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. the Jews — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1042, line 5: «Fionn eats the whole Salmon of Knowledge, and then he leaves Finegas and walks to the feast at Tara.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «fionn» (+1); the same place «tara» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit wicked that the wife said "open the door thyself"?

1. yeah, she was well cheeky, fair play to the henchmen for sorting her. — no support
2. yeah, she was well cheeky — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, she was well cheeky and she was giving him the silent treatment — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. yeah, she was dead rude — 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 1079, line 18: «Blue Beard gives his wife the keys and says, "Open them all... except that little closet which I forbid you."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «blue beard» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what did the sack actually do, bruv?

1. gave them meat and drink every time he shook it, innit. — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. gave them bread and ale — no support
3. gave them meat and drink — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. gave them meat and drink right out of the sack, loads of it — 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 ✗

Did the ram come out with, like, bare money?

1. nah — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. just a bit — no support
3. loads of little coins — no support
4. piles and piles of it — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the rich brother come round anyway?

1. cos he wanted the magic stuff, the ram and the sack and all — no support
2. cos he wanted the magic stuff — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos he fancied a proper dinner — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. cos he was after the ram lot — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 238, line 10: «Why the fruit matters: the apple, pear and plum hold gold and jewellery, "the richest she had ever seen".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: the same doer «richest» (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What was the rich brother doing when he saw his brother?

1. threshing wheat on his floor with the flail his sons had made — score 1
2. threshing wheat on his floor — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. ploughing his big field — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. counting his gold in the barn — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1023, line 9: «Why: she works through the pain because she wants to free her brothers, who are turned into swans.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1); the same doer «free brothers» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the poor man call the gold money, like, in a mad way?

1. gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the best wheat — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. wheat — no support
4. the posh oats — 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 ✓

Wait, how did the rich brother smile when he said he'd come?

1. secretly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. secretly, behind his hand, like he was up to something — no support
3. secretly, while he was still busy threshing wheat in the barn. — no support
4. 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the rich brother offer for the magic bits, honestly?

1. six cows and a cart — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. two oxen — no support
3. six oxen, a plough, and corn — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a plough — 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 ✗

Did the poor man sell the ram straight away?

1. nah — no support
2. nah, he said no at first — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. nah, he said yes later — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. yeah, he sold it quick — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 987, line 2: «Years later a man reads the book and calls the flower a "summer gauk", a poor fool who came too early.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «read» (+2); the same property (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who shook their head, like, loads of times?

1. the poor bloke — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. the rich brother — ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. the sulky wife — score 6
4. the wife — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 264, line 16: «The strange old man: he "shook his head" and then was "seen no more", so we never learn who he is.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «shake» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «head» (+2); the same doer «strange old man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the wife actually sulky at the start?

1. yeah, she was dead grumpy — no support
2. yeah, she was proper sulky and gave him the cold shoulder all day — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. yeah, she was proper sulky — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, she was proper sulky, then the henchmen sorted her out. — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1090, line 12: «The wife gives him all she has, because "this Ogre was a very good husband, tho' he used to eat up little children".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «wife» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

With reference to the passage, state the object which the Wind bestowed upon the petitioner.

1. A drum containing twelve henchmen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. A magic drum containing twelve henchmen and a ram — score 2
3. A drum containing twelve henchmen, which the Wind had carried from the sea. — score 2
4. A horn holding twelve soldiers — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 958, line 15: «What she hears: the wind carries "the notes of the organ over to her from the church."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); the same doer «wind» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the words by which the wife declined to admit her husband to the house.

1. "Open the door thyself." — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. "Open the door thyself, husband, and bring the henchmen in too." — score 6
3. "Open the door thyself, for I am sulky and will not rise." — score 6
4. "Thou open it thyself." — no support

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 1100, line 3: «At home his wife refuses to open the door, so the henchmen beat her until she promises to obey.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «open» (+4); the same thing acted on «door» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the manner in which the rich brother was occupied when his poor brother arrived.

1. Sleeping in the barn — no support
2. He was threshing wheat upon his floor — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He was counting coins upon his table — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Eating his supper — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 819, line 15: «Who Jack is: the third son of the old proprietor, though his brothers never count him, because he is "not so learned as they."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «count» (+2); the same doer «brothers» (+1). 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the price which the rich brother proposed in exchange for the ram and the sack.

1. Six yoke of oxen, a plough, and corn, with his cart thrown in — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Six yoke of oxen, a plough, and corn — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Four yoke of oxen, a cart, and rye — no support
4. Five yoke of oxen and some barley — 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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