Russian Folk-Tales, The Serpent's Wife, part 16: Tremsin wins the herd and the Nastasia's riddle, then a labourer's wife turns out to be a serpent

Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1110 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 ✗

Mate, what did Tremsin's horse do to those hides, proper?

1. Ate them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Tore them apart — no support
3. Shredded them to bits — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Kicked them away — 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 ✗

Dude, why was Tremsin blubbing by his horse?

1. He had been told the nobleman would kill him if he failed — score 3
2. The task was well impossible — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He had lost all his money gambling and had nowhere left to go — score 4
4. He lost his favourite horse — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1102, line 16: «Old word: a knacker was a man who bought old worn-out horses to slaughter them, so the huntsman's mare is "fit for naught but the knacker."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3); the same thing acted on «horses» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Innit, which vat was boiling hot?

1. The first vat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. The last — score 4
3. The second one — score 4
4. Vat two — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 820, line 3: «In the hall the Princess sends away each suitor who cannot answer, and the stove makes the room boiling hot.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same action «boil» (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, how many times did Tremsin leap, roughly?

1. Three times — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Four times — score 3
3. Once — score 3
4. Twice — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1110, line 11: «fact: Tremsin's leaps make him younger each time: he comes out "an old man," then "a youth," and then so handsome that "no pen can describe it."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tremsin» (+2); the same action «leap» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, what happened to the nobleman in the third vat?

1. He was boiled alive and then crushed in the vat — no support
2. He ran away — score 3
3. He floated off — no support
4. He burst to bits — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1110, line 12: «fact: The nobleman meets a bad end: "he leaped into the third vat, and burst to pieces."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5); the same action «burst» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what did the labourer's wife come out of?

1. A golden egg — no support
2. A burnt sheaf — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A big old wooden chest by the hearth — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. A pile of ashes from the old fire in the hut — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1093, line 8: «Where: he lies in the palace of his father, the King, after coming home from the place of the keyhole.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what's the serpent gonna do, like?

1. Drag him off down to its den under the big old tree — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Eat him on the spot — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Squeeze him flat — no support
4. Gobble him whole — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, why'd the wife's hut go up so quick?

1. Good luck mostly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her help, obviously — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He hired loads of mates from the village to speed it up — no support
4. Her hard graft — 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 ✗

Bro, what's the wife's big no-no?

1. Looking at the sheaf — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Ever mentioning her old family back in the village at all — no support
3. Calling her a serpent — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Going into the field without telling her where he had gone — 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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what nearly got lost for good?

1. The sheaves he gathered in before the frost came — no support
2. His cow — no support
3. His whole farm and every single bit of his land — no support
4. His wife — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1072, line 6: «fact: Who: Mongan, a king, and his servant mac an Da'v, who both have lost their wives to the King of Leinster.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «wives» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, why was the corn still in the field?

1. Nobody had bothered to look — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The field was flooded so he couldn't get the cart in there at all — no support
3. He had been ill in bed for most of the whole summer — no support
4. Nobody had gathered it in — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · right ✓

Proper, what's the labourer's pay, like?

1. Just the one sheaf — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Every sheaf he ever grew across the whole season — no support
3. Half the crop only — no support
4. A share of the flour once the miller had taken his cut — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fam, how many fields had he got?

1. Five fields — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. Three fields — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. Far more fields than anyone in the entire village could count — no support
4. Three big fields plus a small garden behind the hut — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 364, line 17: «A "pasture" is a field of grass where animals graze, which is an everyday word that is still used today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «field» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «everyday word» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following was the destination of the herd driven by Tremsin?

1. The dark silver forest — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The palace of the nobleman where the evil servants lived in fear — no support
3. The thrice-lovely Nastasia — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The sea-shore where the nobleman had summoned all his servants — 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 · right ✓

What was the ultimate fate of the nobleman upon entering the third vat?

1. Dissolution into fragments — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Being boiled alive and dissolved slowly into the milk — no support
3. Turning into a stone pillar standing in the middle of the field — no support
4. Imprisonment in the vat — 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 ✗

By what means was the labourer's wife brought into being?

1. Being carried out of a burning sheaf by a gust of wind — no support
2. Heating of a bowl — no support
3. Burning of a field — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Combustion of a sheaf — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1071, line 11: «Duv Laca says "honour is longer than life," so she pushes Mongan to let the king take her, and he is angry at her words.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What prohibition had the wife imposed upon the labourer regarding her name?

1. Never to call her a serpent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Never to call her names — no support
3. Never to speak of the three fields or his wife's past life — no support
4. Never to leave the hut alone after dark for the rest of his life — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1110, line 18: «fact: His wife had warned him: "Beware, for Heaven's sake, of ever calling me a serpent."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «fact wife» (+3); the same action «call» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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