Grimm's Fairy Tales, Thumbling: the cook overhears, the cow swallows him, and a wolf is cut open
Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 119 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 ✗
Mate, was the cow actually talking or nah?
- 1. Nah, just a cow — no support
- 2. Yeah, she talked — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Nah, it was Thumbling inside her — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yeah, the cow was talking proper — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 119, line 12: «Maid: she hears the voice, "slipped off her stool, and spilt the milk," and runs to tell the pastor the cow has been speaking.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cow» (+4); the same action «speak» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, why did the thieves bolt?
- 1. Because the thieves had robbed the king and feared the Wild Huntsman was after them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They heard the Wild Huntsman coming — no support
- 3. They thought the Wild Huntsman was after them — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Cause they reckoned the Wild Huntsman and his hounds were right behind them on the road — 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 ✗
Innit the wolf was dumb for eating the whole tummy?
- 1. Yeah, he gobbled it up quick — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, one gulp, no chewing — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, mad — no support
- 4. Yeah, swallowed it whole, no chew — 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 ✓
Where'd Thumbling hide from the maid, bruh?
- 1. Up in the loft, in the straw — no support
- 2. Under the bed, in the back — no support
- 3. Behind the barn — no support
- 4. In the granary, up in the hay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 119, line 2: «He hides in the granary, sleeps in the hay, and plans to go home to his parents in the morning.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «hay» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Sus, what did the maid spill?
- 1. The whole pail of fresh milk all over the barn floor — no support
- 2. The cheese off the shelf — no support
- 3. The bread off the table — no support
- 4. The milk off her stool — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 119, line 12: «Maid: she hears the voice, "slipped off her stool, and spilt the milk," and runs to tell the pastor the cow has been speaking.», 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 «milk» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Gutted for Thumbling, right? Where'd he end up?
- 1. In the cow, then the wolf — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Inside a sheep, then the cow, then the wolf's belly, then the forest — no support
- 3. Inside the cow, then the wolf — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Inside the cow first, then the wolf's stomach, then home — 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's a midden, fam?
- 1. A pile where they throw the dung — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A big dung heap out back where the cow's stomach and other rubbish get chucked — no support
- 3. A dung heap where the stomach got chucked — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A deep stone pit beside the mill where all the wolf's leftovers get dumped every week — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Peak trolling, the wolf got his own axe?
- 1. No, the dad had the axe, the mum had the scythe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, the wolf grabbed the axe and the scythe too — no support
- 3. No, the dad had the axe and the mum had the scythe, but the wolf stole the spade — no support
- 4. Yeah, the wolf had it — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Okay so who's the baddie fairy in the new bit?
- 1. The twelfth fairy who came to the feast — no support
- 2. The thirteenth fairy, the one who was not invited to the christening and cursed the princess — score 3
- 3. The thirteenth, the one who was not invited — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The old fairy, the one who was left out — score 3
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 70, line 2: «They slip into a hole in the river-bank. Of course Toad falls into the water with a splash and a squeal. In the cold, dark, narrow passage he lags behind, gets…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rat» (+2); the same thing acted on «toad» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bet the king wanted his daughter safe, no cap?
- 1. Nah, he let her play with spindles — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he had every spindle destroyed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he had every needle melted down — no support
- 4. Yeah, he had every spindle in the whole kingdom destroyed and burnt in the square — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, what's a fulling mill, like a fancy arcade?
- 1. A mill where cloth gets beaten — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A place where wool gets spun — no support
- 3. A workshop for making bread — no support
- 4. A type of fancy arcade where people play games with coins and dice all night — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, how did the kid get out of the wolf?
- 1. They shot it — no support
- 2. The dad sliced its belly — no support
- 3. Mum opened up its gut — no support
- 4. Mum and dad cut it open — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · 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 119, line 17: «Rescue: after the father strikes the wolf, the parents cut its body open and Thumbling says, "Thank heaven, I breathe fresh air again!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «cut» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following most accurately describes the manner in which the protagonist was liberated from the wolf?
- 1. He was extracted by his parents after they slew the beast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. He was delivered when a passing huntsman killed the wolf and his parents then pulled the boy out through the wound — score 9
- 3. He got out by himself once the beast was stunned — no support
- 4. After his parents struck down the beast with their tools, he was carefully extracted from its stomach unharmed — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 119, line 5: «A hungry wolf swallows the stomach, Thumbling tricks it into eating at home, and his parents cut it open to free him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «parents» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the cook first become aware of the intruders' conversation?
- 1. By overhearing the protagonist's voice coming from inside the cow's stomach while he was asleep in his bed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By overhearing the protagonist's voice from his bed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By being woken by the pastor's loud shouting at the byre door and the protagonist's cries for help — no support
- 4. By hearing the boy's cries from the stomach — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the immediate consequence of the pastor's entry into the byre?
- 1. The cow was immediately slaughtered by the cook, and afterwards the protagonist pleaded to be let out of the animal's stomach at last — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The protagonist again uttered his plea for no further fodder — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The pastor drew his knife and the protagonist again cried out from within the animal, begging that nobody feed the cow any more fodder at all, ever — no support
- 4. The protagonist again begged for mercy from the byre — 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 · right ✓
Which narrative element signals the commencement of the subsequent tale?
- 1. The introduction of a king and queen without issue — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A new king appears — no support
- 3. A queen is crowned — no support
- 4. A royal couple who lacked any heirs — 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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