Russian Folk-Tales, The Three Brothers: a hog eats the golden apples, and a flute tells the truth about a murder

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1117 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 did the fool actually shoot the hog or nah?

1. nah he missed it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope — no support
3. no lol — no support
4. yep he bagged 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol why did the brothers bury the hog like it was a dead body?

1. cause they didn't want dad to know what happened in the woods — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. cause they didn't want dad to know — ✓ the right answer · score -2
3. cause they were scared dad would find out about the gun — score -2
4. cause they wanted to hide it — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 821, line 3: «The wicked brother stabs the young man in the dark wood, buries him under a linden-tree, and the elf rides home hidden in a leaf on his hat.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same place «dark wood» (+2). Against it: the same doer «wicked brother» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait so the flute is literally snitching on them?

1. nope it just plays music — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah it sings the whole story out loud to everyone — no support
3. yeah it sings all the facts — no support
4. yeah it sings the whole truth — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro the nobleman just found a flute in a ditch bush, how random is that?

1. super random but it works — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. very odd but it's true — no support
3. super weird but it works — no support
4. kinda weird — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1117, line 3: «A beautiful elder-bush grows out of that ditch, a nobleman cuts a branch and makes a flute from it, and the flute begins to sing out the murder.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+4); the same doer «nobleman» (+2); the same thing acted on «flute» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the fool's dad buy the flute or steal it?

1. he stole it — no support
2. he bought it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he found it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. he traded it — 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 1117, line 8: «Where: the apple-trees grow in "their little garden", and the flute is first found near a ditch, then at an inn.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same thing acted on «flute» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

why did the dad give the flute to the mum, lol?

1. so she could play it too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. so she could sing along — no support
3. so she could play it too whenever she wanted — score 0
4. because the boys were too lazy to play it themselves — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1105, line 4: «He climbs the whitethorn and plays his flute while his dogs race in, and they tear the serpent to bits.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «flute» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the brothers all just play it straight away?

1. nope they had to be forced — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nope the brothers only played it after a long argument with their dad — score 3
3. nope they had to be forced by their father each time — no support
4. yep they did right away — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1105, line 21: «At the end the brother says "such a false friend as thou art I'll not have with me," and rides away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brother» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

so what happened to the eldest brother in the end, no cap?

1. he was thrown in a river — no support
2. he got tied to a wild horse and dragged across the plain — score 3
3. he got tied to a wild horse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. he got chased by a bear — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1117, line 18: «The guilty brother is tied to a wild horse, a punishment in which he is dragged until his bones are scattered.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tie» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

how many brothers were in the story, like for real?

1. three brothers and one sister — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. seven — score 7
3. three brothers plus their father — score 7
4. three — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 281, line 6: «Who: the hero is a young man, and at the end he is the copying-clerk who wears the Shoes of Fortune by mistake.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «end» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait the fool was the youngest one, right?

1. nope — no support
2. nope he was actually the eldest one of all — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. no, second — no support
4. yeah the third one — ✓ the right answer · 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 16, line 12: ««How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» — then, seeing the Queen behind her — «—likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishin…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «queen» (+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

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the fool's gun thing a big deal or what?

1. not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope he missed — no support
3. yeah he killed a deer — no support
4. yeah he shot the hog — ✓ 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 ✓

did the mum know what the flute was singing about?

1. she heard the whole thing and told the father right away — score 5
2. she heard the whole thing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. she heard the whole thing from the kitchen — score 5
4. she only heard a song — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 503, line 17: «The flute: she threw it away after finding out that her face really did look ridiculous when she played it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find out» (+3); the same doer «flute» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

what's a steppe anyway, is it like a playground?

1. a huge flat grassland — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. a wide open meadow — no support
3. a huge flat grassland where horses run wild — score 0
4. a huge flat grassland covered in wild grass — 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 1117, line 16: «The steppe is a huge flat grassland, so "the endless steppe" means a plain so wide it seems to have no end.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «steppe» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the three brothers is described in the narrative as a fool?

1. the younger brother — score 2
2. the youngest brother — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. the third brother who kept the gun — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. the middle brother — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 3: «The cruel mayor says she drank herself to death, then learns that his brother left her a legacy, which he now plans to keep for himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «brother» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

What was the eventual fate of the brother who had slain the hog's victim?

1. he was tied to a wild horse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. he was tied to a wild horse and dragged away — score 5
3. he was thrown in prison — score 4
4. he was tied to a wild horse that ran across the steppe — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1117, line 18: «The guilty brother is tied to a wild horse, a punishment in which he is dragged until his bones are scattered.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tie» (+2); the same thing acted on «guilty brother» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner was the murdered brother's body finally disposed of?

1. it was placed under a stone — no support
2. it was interred in the cemetery — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. it was burned — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. it was buried in the garden — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 546, line 18: «Old word: a "phial" is a small glass bottle for liquid, and a "pyre" is a heap of wood for burning a body.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «body» (+1). Against it: the same action «burn» (-2). 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 ✗

Which object in the narrative repeatedly reveals the truth of the crime?

1. the gun — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. the hog — no support
3. the horse — score 3
4. the flute — ✓ the right answer · score -5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1099, line 21: «Note: the tale calls the innkeepers' cleverness "Jewish cunning", which was an unfair prejudice; a story's words do not show the truth about a whole group of p…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «truth» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored -5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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