Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1131 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, so what was the serpent's first task, fr?

1. Thresh all the corn in the barn by morning or perish — score 1
2. Gather the hay by morning — no support
3. Thresh and sift three hundred ricks of corn by morning — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Thresh the corn by morning — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1131, line 3: «The serpent sets two tasks: thresh three hundred ricks of corn by morning, and find his daughter's lost ring.», 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 action «rick» (+1); the same thing acted on «corn» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, which critters did Ivan call to do the corn job, no cap?

1. All the mice and rats of the barn — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The little grey mice from the field — no support
3. The mice — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The birds — 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 ✗

Lowkey, what did the gnats suck out of Ivan, like seriously?

1. His blood right out of his veins — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. Sweat — no support
3. Blood and some of his marrow — score -1
4. His blood — ✓ the right answer · 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 1089, line 12: «The Ogre's daughters have "very long sharp teeth," and they already bite little children to suck their blood.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «suck» (-1); the same thing acted on «blood» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, how many daughters did the serpent have, like the total?

1. Twenty-one sisters, all of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Twenty-one — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Twelve daughters and nine sons — no support
4. Seven — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Lol, what did the serpent say the prince would lose if he failed?

1. His head — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. His head and all his horses — score 0
3. Gold — score 0
4. Life — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1088, line 9: «Why: the famine is so great that the parents want to be rid of their children, so the father says he will "lose them in the wood".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «father» (+3). Against it: the same action «lose» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, how many heads were missing from the gate pillars?

1. Ten — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Four — no support
3. Twelve — no support
4. Twenty — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what was the name of the serpent's empire, the real one?

1. The Great Empire of Thrice-ten Serpents — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Empire of Thrice-ten — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Empire of Thrice-ten Golden Serpent Kings — no support
4. Kingdom of Nine-fold — 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 ✗

Mate, who got to marry the youngest daughter, the prince or Ivan?

1. Ivan — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. The prince — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. The soldier — score 0
4. The king — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 973, line 13: «The guards "readily obeyed him", because they knew he would soon marry the king's daughter.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «man» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, where did the youngest girl lose her ring?

1. By the river — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Under the waves of the far sea — score 1
3. On the shore — score 7
4. In the sea — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 846, line 1: «At the end of the first tale, the tan-yard children bury Puggie and charge a trouser button to see his grave, and a poor girl with no button misses it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «miss» (+4); the same doer «poor girl» (+2); 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 ✗

Ok so who had the ring before Ivan got it, fr?

1. The pike's mum — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The otter's wife — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. The pike's mum who lived under the bridge — no support
4. The pike's mum and all her children below — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1131, line 4: «Ivan whistles for the mice, who finish the threshing, and the pike's mother gives him the ring.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «mother» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what did the pike thank Ivan for, like the actual reason?

1. For sparing their lives — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. For saving them — no support
3. For kindness — no support
4. Not letting them perish — ✓ 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 ✓

So what did the prince do with the ring at the end, dude?

1. Gave it back to the youngest daughter at last — score 10
2. Gave it to the youngest after the wedding feast ended — score 10
3. Returned it to the sea — score 10
4. Gave it to the youngest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 884, line 4: «They fly over mountains to a blue lake, where a tiny flower-prince crowns her and gives her wings.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tiny flower prince» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «give» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following was the serpent's first task to the prince?

1. Threshing three hundred ricks of corn before the morning light — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Threshing three hundred ricks of corn — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Threshing and sifting all of the three hundred ricks of corn in the barn — no support
4. Threshing the barley in the field — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1131, line 11: «Ivan whistles for the mice, who thresh the barn "by the morning light".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «thresh» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did Ivan Golik obtain the lost ring for the prince?

1. By means of the fox and his wife — no support
2. Through the help of a clever crab — no support
3. With a golden key — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. By means of the pike and their mother — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1127, line 21: «fact: Old word: "starveling" means very thin and hungry, and "naught" means nothing at all.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

To whom did the prince finally return the ring in the closing scene?

1. To the eldest daughter — score 8
2. To the youngest daughter, who had lost it long ago — score 6
3. To the youngest daughter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. To the youngest daughter in the palace garden — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 3 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 1131, line 5: «The prince hands the ring to the youngest daughter, and she thanks him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2); the same thing acted on «ring» (+2); the same receiver «youngest daughter» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the number of serpents seated at the prince's dinner?

1. Ten — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Seven — no support
3. Two — no support
4. Eleven — ✓ 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

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