Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1128 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 ✓
Yo, so Ivan lets the snake go, right?
- 1. Yeah, mate, it was the hare itself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, mate — no support
- 4. Yeah, the snake — 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 ✗
Wait, the old woman was the hare too?
- 1. Yeah, the monk said it — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Nah, she didn't — no support
- 3. Innit, the girl said so — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 9: «The March Hare offers wine, but there is only tea; Alice says it «wasn't very civil» (civil = polite) to offer it, and he says it wasn't civil of her to sit do…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); the same thing acted on «hare» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Why did the she-dragon's daughter turn into a fish?
- 1. To save herself from the she-dragon, who was hunting her across the whole land — score 4
- 2. To swim to the other bank — score 4
- 3. To help Ivan find his way home to the village after the long war — score 2
- 4. To save herself from the she-dragon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 261, line 15: «At the end the king says "You shall have my daughter and my estate", so the boy becomes a king.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the dragon's hubby fall for the wheat trick?
- 1. Nah, the dragon's hubby saw the wheat was fresh and cut it down right away — no support
- 2. Yeah, he thought it was fine — no support
- 3. Yeah, he thought it was ages ago — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he saw through it all — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 573, line 5: «Brer Wolf plots with Brer Fox to trap Brer Rabbit, but Brer Rabbit sees through the trick and sets off to visit the "dead" Brer Fox.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who got fried by the drinking thing?
- 1. The she-dragon, she burst — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The she-dragon's husband, who fell in the river and drowned that day — no support
- 3. The girl, the wheat, mate — no support
- 4. The she-dragon's daughter, the perch, who swam in the stream — ← Mova's choice · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 15: «Her first dish is bubble-and-squeak (fried leftover cabbage and potato); the smell of hot cabbage gives Toad «new and inspiring thoughts».», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Why did Ivan forget his girl?
- 1. He kissed his cousin, sus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. He hit his head, mate — score 1
- 3. He fell asleep by the fire — score -1
- 4. He got a bump — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1128, line 5: «Ivan kisses his uncle's daughter, forgets the girl who saved him, and she returns at his wedding eve as a dough dove.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «kiss» (+2). Against it: the same doer «ivan» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's the monk trick with the old house?
- 1. Old monastery, a hundred years — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Old monastery, a hundred years, and the monks sold the house to a dragon — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. The monks live in an old monastery that's been standing for a hundred years, innit — score 4
- 4. The old mill, a hundred years — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1128, line 16: «Old word: "betrothed" means promised in marriage, so when Ivan is betrothed, he has agreed to marry the pretty girl.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Ivan got betrothed, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, to a fit girl — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, to a boy — no support
- 3. Yeah, to a rich bloke — no support
- 4. Yeah, mate — 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 ✗
What's the cake lady making at the end?
- 1. Cakes out of honey, ace — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cakes, innit — no support
- 3. Pies out of flour, nice — no support
- 4. Doves out of dough, wicked — ✓ 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 ✗
Did the cock-dove remember her favour?
- 1. Yeah, he said he remembered the whole thing, she cleared the field and sowed wheat — no support
- 2. Nah, he said forgotten, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he said she was fit — no support
- 4. Nah, he said forgotten, mate, he couldn't remember her favour at all, innit — ← Mova's choice · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1081, line 3: «The spindle pricks her hand, she faints, and the King lays her on a golden bed, remembering the Fairies' words.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «remember» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why was the wheat so old?
- 1. It was ready for the sickle — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. The wheat was old because the farmer had forgotten to cut it in the summer rains of last year — score -2
- 3. It had grown in the rain — no support
- 4. It had been sown a hundred years ago and nobody had cut it since — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1128, line 10: «The dragon's husband is fooled because "this wheat is ready for the sickle," which shows the wheat was sown long ago, not yesterday.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «sow» (+2); the same thing acted on «wheat» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the she-dragon's daughter a proper good friend?
- 1. Nah, she tried to drown him in the stream, fam, and then she ran off to the forest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, she saved his life, fam — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, she betrayed him, fam — no support
- 4. Yeah, she saved his life, fam, and then she turned into a fish to stay with him — 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 · right ✓
Which action of the she-dragon's daughter results in her transformation into a perch, and what is the consequence for the she-dragon?
- 1. She becomes a perch to escape the she-dragon, and the she-dragon drinks the stream until she bursts and the whole river runs dry for ever — score 2
- 2. She hides as a fish, and the dragon sinks in the river and drowns in mud — score 2
- 3. She becomes a perch and the she-dragon drinks the stream until she bursts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. She becomes a perch, but the she-dragon's husband pulls the stream dry and carries her home to the forest, where she sleeps for a hundred years in the cave — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 649, line 18: «The dragon turns to stone because he falls asleep near the whirlpools, and the text says that is "so unsafe".», 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 «dragon» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
What is the effect of Ivan's kiss upon his uncle's daughter with respect to the girl who saved him?
- 1. He forgets her — score 1
- 2. He forgets the girl who saved him entirely — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. He forgets her name — score 1
- 4. He loves the girl who saved him — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 775, line 4: «The huntsman spares the prince, they swap coats, and the old king's sorrow turns to joy when the grateful kings send rich gifts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huntsman» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: the same action «spare» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which object is produced from dough by the damsel on the eve of the wedding, and what does it say to the cock-dove?
- 1. A cock-dove and a hen-dove, asking if he has forgotten the wheat she sowed and the field she cleared — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. A cock-dove and a hen-dove, asking if he has forgotten — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A cock-dove and a hen-dove with golden wings, asking the cock-dove every question about the mountain and the wheat, and if he has forgotten anything at all — no support
- 4. A loaf of bread, asking if he has eaten — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 806, line 13: «Happy surprise: the bottle "understood every word that was said," because it is "the only good old language it could understand."», 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 thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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 ✗
What does the she-dragon's husband report to his wife concerning the wheat and the old man?
- 1. He reports the old man was fine and the wheat had been planted last spring — score -2
- 2. The wheat was ready — score -4
- 3. He reports that the wheat was ready for the sickle and turned back — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. He says the wheat was old — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1080, line 1: «Blue Beard orders his trembling wife to die and gives her half a quarter of an hour to pray.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «blue beard» (+3). Against it: the same action «order» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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