Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1253 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, what gift did the queen give the king?
- 1. a red cloak, lovely — score -1
- 2. a baby girl, dawn-pretty, with lungs like a foghorn — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. a baby girl, dawn-pretty — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. a silver ring, shiny — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1189, line 2: «A kind woman gives them a bed, and the boy leaves his sisters with her so he can go on his quest alone.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, how long did the king skip hunting after the baby came?
- 1. two long months — score 3
- 2. a whole week — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. a day — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. an hour — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1250, line 15: «How does the king react? He tears his robes, dashes off his golden crown, and then hurries to the spot to look for himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Oi, what was the stag like, then?
- 1. brown and proper fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. snow-white, well fast, and the best in the whole kingdom — no support
- 3. snow-white with a mane like silk and right quick — no support
- 4. snow-white and well fast — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Innit, how many mates were still with the king at the end of the hour?
- 1. only his hound — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. none — score 7
- 3. a dog — score 7
- 4. one loyal pup — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1015, line 7: «What happens first: "A great boy, out of wickedness, had eaten her up," so the gingerbread maiden is gone from the story.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «story» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper, what did the king's horse do in the valley?
- 1. slowed down a lot — no support
- 2. shook like jelly in the dark valley the whole way — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. shook at every step — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. ran off — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1178, line 16: «She runs off because the horses are frightened, and she is "flung out on the ground" after they hit a tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «horses» (+3); the same thing acted on «tree» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what was the old hermit doing by the stream?
- 1. washing his old robes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. fishing — no support
- 3. chucking dry leaves in — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. praying — 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 ✗
Ay, how many leaves went in at once?
- 1. a — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. two — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a whole handful at a time — no support
- 4. 1 — 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 ✗
Wot did the hermit reckon he was reading?
- 1. stars — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. men's destinies — no support
- 3. kings — no support
- 4. people's fates — ✓ 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 ✗
Mate, who did the hermit say the princess would marry?
- 1. a son born to the slave girl Puruna in the north — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a brave soldier — no support
- 3. a slave girl's son — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the son of a slave woman who would one day rule the great kingdom — 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 ✗
Bruv, where did the king kip down for the night?
- 1. by a stream — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. outside — no support
- 3. under a tree — no support
- 4. in a cave — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit, what did the king do to the poor woman in the desert?
- 1. chopped her head off and buried her in the sand — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. took her as a slave — no support
- 3. chopped her head off — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. chopped her head off after she begged him for water in the desert — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 94, line 3: «The Cat hides in the woods for a long time, till the Woman forgets him. Only the little upside-down Bat knows where he is and brings him news: there is a new B…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cat» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, why'd the king not do the baby in?
- 1. feared the gods would punish him — score 1
- 2. couldn't hurt it, reckoned the wolves would find it and eat it up — score 1
- 3. couldn't hurt it, reckoned it'd die alone — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. didn't fancy it, thought it'd be fine — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1207, line 3: «The king makes a dog eat fine food while his wife Gul, in chains, is beaten and then made to eat the dog's leftovers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the nature of the gift which the queen bestowed upon the king.
- 1. a boy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a son — no support
- 3. a baby daughter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a golden goblet — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the means by which the hermit professed to determine the fates of men.
- 1. by throwing dry leaves into a stream and watching them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. by casting dry leaves into a fast river and reading how they float — no support
- 3. by throwing leaves into a stream — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. by reading the palm of hands — 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 ✗
Specify the occupation of Puruna, mother of the prophesied bridegroom.
- 1. a royal servant — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a slave-girl who lived in the northern king's household — no support
- 3. a kitchen maid — no support
- 4. a slave-girl — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Describe the means by which the king sought to avoid the prophesied fate.
- 1. by buying the slave girl and her son — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. by buying the slave girl and her son and sending them far away to the desert — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. by sending the girl away north — score 0
- 4. by buying the slave girl and her son and raising the boy in his own palace — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 671, line 2: «The princesses spoil the boy with toys, but he keeps his secret, so the king sends him away from the palace.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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