Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1199 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, was Peder a proper rider or was he just bare bluffing?
- 1. He was bluffing, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was totally bluffing the whole time, mate — no support
- 3. Proper rider — no support
- 4. He was the real deal — 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 ✗
Be honest, was the old man's five hundred dollar deal well sus or fair?
- 1. Totally fair, innit — no support
- 2. Proper fair, mate — no support
- 3. Totally sus, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Totally sus, the old man cheated him, innit — ← 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 231, line 20: «Old word: a dervish was a holy man who lived simply and often wandered; the word is still used today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «holy man» (+2). Against it: the same action «wander» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the servant girl mint for giving the horse a drink?
- 1. Nah, mate — no support
- 2. Nah, she was well mean — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Yeah, she was well kind — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Yeah, kind — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1041, line 20: «Old word: "clann-Morna" means the children, or family, of Morna; "clann" is the old Irish word that gives us our word "clan" today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «old word» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the princess go full mental when the ring turned into a bloke?
- 1. Yeah, she was well shocked — score 2
- 2. Yeah, she was properly freaked — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nah, she was totally chill and just giggled about it — score 3
- 4. Yeah, she screamed and ran off to her room — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1009, line 7: «What: he says the single word "shoe," and the princess "turned as pale as a ghost."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «single word» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't the king proper gutted when he found Hans with his daughter?
- 1. Nah, chilled — no support
- 2. Yeah, he was furious — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, raging — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was raging — ✓ the right answer · 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 723, line 4: «The king is furious, and the two elder sisters marry the king's friends while Maria dresses as a boy and plays a trick with a flower basket.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, did the king just let the girl go after the hole thing?
- 1. Nah, he sent her away — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Nah, he walled her in — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nah, he didn't — no support
- 4. Yeah, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 746, line 17: «Mother Holle sends the lazy girl away after she is idle, and says, "That is in return for your services", as the pitch pours over her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mother» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the careless soldier fancy going down the hole, or nah?
- 1. He went down, but he was really scared about it — score 3
- 2. Nah, he refused and ran off to the tavern instead — score 1
- 3. He went, no choice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He refused, said no — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1172, line 5: «Cerisette takes Desiree's place, but the king and prince see she is ugly, so the king orders both women locked in the state prison.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «order» (+4); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so the hill-man got squashed by a rock, right?
- 1. Yeah, rock — no support
- 2. Yeah, a big loose stone fell on him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Nah, he fell off a cliff and drowned in the river — score 1
- 4. Yeah, a loose stone — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 630, line 18: «old word: "to get a word in edgewise" means to squeeze your word into a talk where others keep going; the camel tries this.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «old word» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the wedding a proper banger or a total snoozefest?
- 1. Snoozefest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A proper snoozefest, a week — no support
- 3. Kinda boring, a month — no support
- 4. A proper banger, a month — ✓ 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 king get off scot-free for being mean to his kid?
- 1. Nah, scolded — no support
- 2. Nah, he got told off — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he got sent away — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 4. Yeah, free — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 662, line 13: «Old word: a Regent is a person who rules a land in place of a king who is away; the prince was made Regent.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Hans was a ring and a man, so who was the dog and cow really?
- 1. The king and his cruel soldiers, obviously — no support
- 2. The hill-man, obviously — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The old man, probably — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. The servant girl, obviously — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1114, line 2: «The old man ties the bear up and throws him in the cellar, and the next day the ox goes out to graze again.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old man» (+3); 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
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Hans sneak into the palace as some random dude?
- 1. Nah, as a knight — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah — no support
- 3. Nah, as a king — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, as a beggar — 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 price did the old man first offer for the bridle of the horse?
- 1. One hundred dollars — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Fifty silver dollars — score 6
- 3. Ten dollars — score 6
- 4. Two coins — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 372, line 2: «The god Mercury dives in and first offers him a golden axe, then a silver one.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «offer» (+4); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove over the woods and fields?
- 1. Crow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A falcon — no support
- 3. Owl — no support
- 4. A hawk — ✓ 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the hill-man meet his end, as recorded in the concluding passage?
- 1. Killed by a soldier's arrow near the river — no support
- 2. Struck by a loose stone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Stabbed by a sharp knife — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 4. Crushed under a heavy rock in the forest — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 1: «explain: Sinbad lifts a stone, climbs up to the cornice, slips and falls, and the knife stabs the young man through the heart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
What sentence did the king pronounce upon the father who had buried his daughter alive?
- 1. Burn him alive and strew his ashes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 16
- 2. Drown him in the sea at dawn — score 1
- 3. Bury him alive and forget him — score 11
- 4. Hang him high — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 16, against 11 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1199, line 15: «Hans wins because he tells the king, "You are the man," after the king says to "Burn him alive."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+6); the same action «burn» (+5); the same property (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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