pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins
Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1215 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, did the wife nick the cock while Grumbler was snoozing?
- 1. Yeah, she nicked a fresh one — no support
- 2. Nah, she kept the same cock — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Yeah, she did — no support
- 4. Yeah, she swapped it for her own — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1215, line 3: «The Holy Man gives him a magic switch, but Grumbler takes the cock back to the tavern to trick the innkeeper.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «grumbler» (+2). Against it: a different action (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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words?
- 1. Just feathers — no support
- 2. Nothing, not a single gold bit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nothing — no support
- 4. A cheap silver coin fell out — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 941, line 9: «What she hears: "Life is a shadow that flits away" is sung sadly, but brighter words follow it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brighter words» (+2); the same action «follow» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Grumbler gutted when the cock was a dud?
- 1. Yeah, he went mental and threw the basket at the wife and kids — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he went proper mad — no support
- 3. Yeah, he swore like mad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he just laughed it off — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did the Holy Man tell him off, like?
- 1. Cos he lied about the cock — no support
- 2. Cos he was late — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Cos he was rude — score 3
- 4. Cos it was his third visit — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1215, line 16: «Alonzo is a young man from another country who came to the city "because he could find no work."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, what's the switch actually for, innit?
- 1. Dusting jackets, and thrashing folk — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Hitting folk — no support
- 3. Shooing flies, and beating folk — no support
- 4. Dusting coats — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the innkeeper and his wife get lashed by it?
- 1. Yeah, they screamed and ran — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, they hopped like mad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, a bit — no support
- 4. Nah, not them — 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 ✗
Who saved them in the end, bruv?
- 1. Grumbler — no support
- 2. The Holy Man — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 3. The innkeeper — score -5
- 4. His young son — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1215, line 5: «Then "The Story of the Yara" begins, as young Alonzo falls for Julia after saving her from a savage dog.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: the same action «save» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Is Grumbler proper clever in the Holy Man's eyes?
- 1. Yeah, he is quite smart — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, not at all — no support
- 3. Yeah, very — no support
- 4. Nah, that will never be him — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where's the Yara story set, mate?
- 1. Down south, where it's ridiculously hot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Somewhere up north in a freezing mountain village with loads of snow — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Up north, where it's proper freezing cold — no support
- 4. Up north where it's freezing — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 930, line 11: «When and where is this part set? It is "moving-day" in the town, when the streets are full of "sweepings, shreds, and remnants".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «part set» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the young man just chill at the feast?
- 1. Nah, he got up and stuffed his face with food and wine all night — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Nah, he got up and danced — score 3
- 3. Yeah, he watched in silence — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Nah, he joined in loudly — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 926, line 4: «He lifts Hjalmar into a painted landscape, where Hjalmar sails a red and white boat pulled by six swans.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+2); the same action «lift» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was it about that girl that got him, like?
- 1. Her bright smile and her long dress — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Silver bells on her white shoes — no support
- 3. Her golden necklace and earrings — no support
- 4. Red pomegranates in her white hair — ✓ 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 ✓
Who got to Julia first when the dog went for her, mate?
- 1. Alonzo, with one punch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 2. Her father, with a knife — score -4
- 3. The innkeeper — no support
- 4. Alonzo, with a stick — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1215, line 5: «Then "The Story of the Yara" begins, as young Alonzo falls for Julia after saving her from a savage dog.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «young alonzo» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which statement most accurately describes the manner in which the woman replaced the magic cock?
- 1. She sold it — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. She swapped it for a hen from home — score -1
- 3. She substituted it with a bird from her own poultry yard — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. She hid it — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1114, line 14: «Why the old man lets them go: he gets what he wants, and each time he says "see that you do it!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «man» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following best explains the response of the household to the failure of the magic cock?
- 1. They loudly voiced their suspicion, and the cock produced absolutely no gold at all — score 0
- 2. They rushed to blame the Holy Man, and the cock simply refused to make any gold — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. They expressed doubt, and the cock produced nothing — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. They shouted in anger, and the cock stayed silent — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1215, line 2: «At home the cock makes no gold, so he rushes through the dark to the Holy Man's cave.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «gold» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «cock» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which description most precisely characterises the function of the switch as provided by the Holy Man?
- 1. It gives blows whenever someone opens the bag — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It strikes whoever is nearby — no support
- 3. It administers blows when its command is spoken — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It hits on command — 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 of the following correctly identifies the setting in which the Story of the Yara commences?
- 1. A southern region where the sun renders the day intensely hot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A southern coast where fishermen work at dawn each day — no support
- 3. A southern village — no support
- 4. A cold northern town — 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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