Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1129 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 ✓

Bro, which day had forty-one daughters, and who even were the brides?

1. Thursday, and the brides were friends — score 0
2. Wednesday, and the brides were all the girls from the village plus the sisters and a cousin — score 3
3. Wednesday, and the brides were the forty-one daughters of the old man's sister who lived by the lake — score 0
4. Wednesday, and the brides were the sisters — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 99, line 6: «Who is the goose-girl? She is the true princess, travelling as a servant, and the false bride is only "a waiting-maid."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same thing acted on «true princess» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «bride» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what?

1. To hide it from dad — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. To keep it close to him — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. To eat it — no support
4. Cause it was cold out — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

No way, the foal said pick the feather up, and he did anyway?

1. Yep, he picked it up anyway — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Yep, he said he'd be dumb not to, so he grabbed it right away — score 0
3. Nah, he just left it there — no support
4. Yep, he said he'd be dumb not to — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1129, line 10: «Why: the foal warns "Pick not up that feather," but the youngest says "I should be a fool not to pick up a feather like that!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pick up» (+1); the same thing acted on «feather» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did the kerchief do when they shook it, like totally?

1. Made a big sea pop up and everybody in the palace freaked out — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. Made a big sea pop up — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Made a small pond form — score -1
4. Made a big sea pop up and flooded the whole village square — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1129, line 11: «The foal's magic: "Shake thy kerchief then!" makes "a vast sea" appear between the brothers and Wednesday.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what's a sabre, is that a fancy knife or what?

1. A curved sword — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A long spear — score 2
3. A curved sword used by horsemen in the old days — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. A curved sword that the Tsar's soldiers carry on their belts — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1125, line 21: «Old word: pottage is a thick soup or stew cooked in a pot, a word few people use now.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

So the granny had no bed, right, and the feather lit the whole hut?

1. Yep, it lit the whole hut up and the granny got really mad — score 3
2. Nope, the hut stayed dark — score 2
3. Yep, it lit the barn — score 3
4. Yep, it lit the whole hut up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 472, line 4: «Next the text describes the Fire-Bird, a glowing bird that lights a whole garden and sleeps at daybreak.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «light» (+3); the same doer «glowing bird» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Bruh, why'd the Tsar boil his own milk, that's just dumb?

1. To test the youngest for his ring, since he had lost it in the milk — score 1
2. To test the youngest for his ring — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. To check the milk was clean — no support
4. To test the youngest for his ring after the youngest had boasted about it — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1129, line 13: «The Tsar's test: "get me also this golden ring of mine out of the vat of boiling milk!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «test» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, did the youngest come out of the milk all old and gross?

1. Yes, old and very sick — no support
2. No, he came out older — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. No, younger and handsomer — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No, he was old — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1129, line 5: «The Tsar drowns in boiling milk after the youngest comes out younger, and a poor brother hides the Unlucky Days in his water-skin.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come out» (+3); the same doer «youngest» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Dang, the Tsar went in after the ring too, what happened to him?

1. He got boiled red and then the youngest became the new king — score 2
2. He came out fine — score 2
3. He got boiled red — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. He got burned black — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 111, line 4: «A huntsman hears a loud snore, goes in, and shoots the Wolf, while another ending has him drown in a stone trough.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huntsman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, so the rich brother kicked the poor one out for sitting down?

1. Yeah, at his table, the cheek — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he sat on a stool — score 5
3. No, he just asked to leave — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, at his table, for sitting down, which was the cheek of him — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1125, line 1: «Three brothers leave home, and the two clever ones climb high into an oak while foolish Ivan hauls up his millstone and sits lower down.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «three brothers» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, what did the raven say, that the village was like cursed?

1. Yeah, no luck or happiness there, and the wells were all dry — no support
2. Yeah, all the roads were muddy — no support
3. Yeah, no luck or happiness there — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Yeah, no luck or happiness there, so he should leave at once — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 909, line 22: «The sparrows live in last year's swallows' nest and say the rose-bush "causes damp".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sparrows» (+3). Against it: the same action «say» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, did the Unlucky Days climb into the water-skin by themselves?

1. No, he tricked them in with honey and sealed the skin with wax at once — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, he tricked them in to hide them — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yes, they jumped in gladly — no support
4. No, he tricked them in with a song and then tied the top shut — 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 · wrong ✗

In what order did the forty-one brothers choose their brides, and by what criterion was the youngest's choice determined?

1. By lot, drawn from a hat by the old man — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. By the youngest's preference for the bride holding the kerchief — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. In birth order, and the youngest's choice was decided by the foal's advice on the road — no support
4. In birth order, with the youngest choosing last of all the brothers present — score -6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -6 for the next best. 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» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What instruction did the foal give concerning the nightshirts, and what was its consequence for the sleeping party?

1. Swap the shirts, so the Tsar's men were fooled into a feast — score 1
2. Keep the nightshirts, and the brides were all wrongly spared at dawn — score 2
3. Exchange the nightshirts, causing the wrongful beheading of the brides — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Swap them, which saved the brides — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1129, line 3: «The foal makes the sleepers swap nightshirts, so Wednesday cuts off forty heads by mistake, and the brothers flee.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «swap» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which object did the youngest recover from the vat, and what was the outcome for the Tsar who attempted the same act?

1. The Tsar's golden ring; the Tsar was boiled red and died — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. His silver key; the Tsar was rescued and lived well — no support
3. The golden ring; the Tsar was saved by the youngest — no support
4. The Tsar's golden ring and a silver spoon; the Tsar was boiled red, lost his crown, and died 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What reason did the raven give the poor brother for leaving the village, and what was his intended destination?

1. The village was cursed; he went to a rich town with good wells — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. No luck or happiness there, and the wells had all gone dry that spring; another village by the sea where he would prosper with his family and cattle — no support
3. No luck or happiness there, since the whole village was cursed by a witch; another village beyond the mountains where he would prosper greatly and live to be old — score 2
4. No luck or happiness there; another village where he would prosper — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1115, line 10: «The old man agrees at once, because he says "Then I'll kill it!" when his wife asks him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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