Gutenberg 3027, Gopani-Kufa and the Magic Mirror, part 4: the Mirror is stolen and the white men take all the power
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1138 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 ✗
Bruv, how did Gopani-Kufa get back up to the top earth, innit?
- 1. Mirror did it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He climbed up the rope real fast — no support
- 3. Up he flew — no support
- 4. Mirror whisked him up quick-quick — ✓ 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 ✗
Wait, so who was the proper sneaky one who nicked the Mirror?
- 1. Zengi-mizi, the sneaky wasp — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Butou, the cheeky traitor — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Rei, innit — no support
- 4. Shasasa, the mean sister — 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 ✗
Like, what was on the roofs of the new town, fam?
- 1. Shiny copper and tin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gold and shiny iron — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Gold — no support
- 4. Tin roofs — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Be real, who did the old chief hand the Mirror to for safekeeping?
- 1. His daughter Shasasa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. His youngest daughter Shasasa, the one he trusted most to keep it safe — no support
- 3. His cousin Mafuta — score 2
- 4. The wasp Zengi-mizi, who had given him the advice in the first place — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1138, line 10: «The chief hands the Mirror to his daughter because men come to him for counsel and "the Mirror might be stolen."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hand» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the white men beat Gopani-Kufa first time round, or what?
- 1. Yeah, they won — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Yeah, they legged it fast — score -1
- 3. Nah, they nicked his stuff — no support
- 4. Nah, he beat them and they bolted — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 697, line 6: «Who: the young man, who serves the ogress and wins three rewards because he "guessed right".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «win» (+3). Against it: the same doer «young man» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
How long was he chilling as chief before the white men turned up?
- 1. Like, a few good years — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Not long — score 2
- 3. Loads and loads of years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Donkey's years, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1008, line 10: «the king: he is "a very good man" who "never injured any one", but he has said he will not interfere with her suitors.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did Shasasa start bawling about the Mirror going missing?
- 1. Cos Butou nicked it from under her pillow — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 2. Cos Butou nicked it from under her pillow while she was asleep, and she felt proper rubbish — score -3
- 3. Cos her dad was bawling at her — no support
- 4. Cos the wasp told her the Mirror had been stolen by a bloke pretending to be a poor white man in the night — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1138, line 10: «The chief hands the Mirror to his daughter because men come to him for counsel and "the Mirror might be stolen."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «steal» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «mirror» (-1). The right option, 1, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Oi, what did the antelope's words end up meaning for the chief?
- 1. His prize was gonna ruin him — no support
- 2. He got rewarded — score 2
- 3. His reward was gonna be his undoing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. His gift ended up being his doom — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1138, line 14: «The antelope's words are the warning that his reward would be his undoing, which the chief remembers too late.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «undoing» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
What was the fakeer doing when the king first spotted him, yeah?
- 1. Chilling by the river, yeah — no support
- 2. Hunting antelope up in the hills — no support
- 3. Reading the Koran up in the hills — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Praying, yeah — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 729, line 20: «Old word: "espying" means spotting or noticing something, which is an old way of saying "seeing".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «say» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
What was the king always begging the fakeer to show him?
- 1. A proper glimpse of Paradise — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A proper look at the mountains — no support
- 3. A proper glimpse of Paradise, like, the whole thing, with the angels and everything bright — no support
- 4. A proper glimpse of Paradise, the gardens and gates and rivers, before he died and got buried — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Right, when did the fakeer say he'd show the king Paradise?
- 1. After the rains had come and gone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. When the feast was over and done — no support
- 3. After his funeral, when everyone had gone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Tomorrow — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
So did the king listen to the fakeer's warning, or nah?
- 1. Yeah, he went off to the hills — score 1
- 2. Nah, he went and touched the grave — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. Nah, he went right ahead and touched the grave anyway, then everything went wrong for him — score 2
- 4. Nah, he went and touched the grave straight away, ignoring the warning totally, and died — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1098, line 3: «The man ignores the Wind's warning and stops at a tavern to test the sack.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ignore» (+3); the same doer «man» (+3); the same thing acted on «warning» (+1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which people gained sovereignty over the land at the conclusion of the narrative?
- 1. The chief Gopani-Kufa again — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. The white men, through possession of the Magic Mirror — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The white men, through possession of the Magic Mirror, which they had stolen from the grieving chief's own daughter — no support
- 4. The white men, through possession of the Magic Mirror and the gold they took from the town — 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 1066, line 7: «Where: he crosses "a wild dark ocean" and reaches Morgan's dun in the Many-Coloured Land.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «coloured land» (+2); the same action «reach» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). 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 ✗
Which action did the chief undertake when his daughter reported the theft?
- 1. He summoned the wasp Zengi-mizi for counsel and then sent warriors out to search the whole country — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. He called for the old fakeer to advise him — score -4
- 3. He consulted the old priest in private — no support
- 4. He summoned the wasp Zengi-mizi for counsel — ✓ the right answer · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 193, line 8: «What: the narrator says that he sent the servant to "beg her master to come down as fast as possible".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). Against it: the same doer «chief» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the king attempt to obtain a view of Paradise?
- 1. By climbing the mountain at dawn — no support
- 2. By sitting quietly beside the fakeer's tomb — no support
- 3. By laying his hand upon the fakeer's grave — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. By reading the holy book aloud — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 197, line 5: «The angry king locks the prince in an old tower, where he reads his books, prays and falls asleep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «books» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the fakeer's principal instruction to the king regarding his undertaking?
- 1. To refrain from it entirely and await God's call, for the Paradise he sought was not a thing for living men — score -2
- 2. To refrain from it and await God's call — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To wait for a sign from heaven — no support
- 4. To stay away and wait for his own time — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 669, line 13: «Why the King of Busan stays away: he "could not be brought to attend the wedding," though he sends his blessing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay away» (+3). Against it: the same property (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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