Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1291 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 ✗
Oi mate, where'd the giant stash his soul, like, proper hidden?
- 1. Right in the middle of a big egg that's inside a duck in a pond — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hidden down deep in a hollow log by a river in some forest, I reckon, mate — no support
- 3. Under a stone, like, dunno — no support
- 4. Inside an egg in a duck — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Sorted, so what jumped out first when they lifted the stone?
- 1. A dog — no support
- 2. A sheep, all woolly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 3. A lamb, all white — no support
- 4. A massive ram with curly horns and a big woolly coat, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1290, line 20: «The Bonnach stone is a loose stone on a ledge, and it is the first place the giant says his soul hides.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same property (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the nosy sprite who turned into a fly, innit?
- 1. Some cheeky mischievous sprite from the mountains, the one that everyone talks about — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The fairy, the nosy one — no support
- 3. That nosy little fairy who loved to play tricks on the villagers — no support
- 4. Puck, the cheeky sprite — ✓ 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 ✓
Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually?
- 1. Nope, he couldn't copy the hole — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, too small — no support
- 3. Yeah, he tried the eye — no support
- 4. Yes, he slid through the eye — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, which bit of the wedding stuff went splat on the floor?
- 1. The lace veil and the long white dress, with a loud crick crack sound — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The dress, with a crick crack — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The shoes, with a bang bang — no support
- 4. The entire bouquet of flowers and ribbons and the bride's dress too — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Was the bride well narked about her frock?
- 1. Yeah, she nearly cried — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 2. Yeah, she was so upset she stamped her feet and shouted at everyone — score -1
- 3. Nope, she was actually quite happy about the frock once they fixed the hem — no support
- 4. Nah, she laughed loud — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 906, line 16: «What: the caravan roasts a fallen camel, and the bride cries to the Moon, "Are they dead?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «bride» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the king shout about the otter, like?
- 1. He'd nab it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. He'd have grabbed the egg quick — score 4
- 3. If the otter were here, he'd nab the egg — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. If the otter came, he'd bite — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1254, line 9: «Why: the king is angry because the pedlar "in fear of his life, had complained to the king", so he sends men to arrest the boy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «arrest» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
How did William feel when the sheep started talking?
- 1. Dead scared, legged it home — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Calm — no support
- 3. Scared — no support
- 4. Really frightened, ran 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg?
- 1. To hurt him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To break the giant's spell — no support
- 3. For fun — no support
- 4. To kill the giant's soul — ✓ 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 horses help the giant or what?
- 1. They carried the giant back to the castle on their backs and helped him rest — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. They kicked the dog — score 9
- 3. They bit and kicked him — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. They bit him and kicked him until he fell down into the mud — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1290, line 4: «The horses bite and kick the giant, and the queen moves the Bonnach stone, which the giant says holds his soul.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «horses» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «giant» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wicked, what do the shepherds get up to at midnight?
- 1. They drink ale, merry — score 6
- 2. They sleep in the fields with their sheep, dead tired after a long day — score 6
- 3. They sit around the fire telling stories about ghosts and the wicked giant of the hills — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. They sleep, dead tired — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1234, line 2: «His wife begs him to get up and go to the forest, but he will not move and says nothing will change his mind.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «wife» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Was that thread knotty or what, mate?
- 1. No, it never tied itself in knots — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. No, it stayed neat and straight — no support
- 3. No, not really — no support
- 4. Yeah, it tangled up badly — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 969, line 16: «Jurgen's last words are "Hallelujah!", and the text says "the thread that bound his immortal soul was severed".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «thread» (-1); the same thing acted on «thread» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what order were the animals summoned by the king to recover the giant's soul?
- 1. Hawk, dog, duck — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Dog, hawk, otter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Dog, hawk — no support
- 4. Otter, dog — 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 ✗
Upon what occasion did the giant's shadow cease to move?
- 1. When the egg was thrown away — score -1
- 2. At noon — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. On the hill — score 0
- 4. Upon the crushing of the egg — ✓ the right answer · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 417, line 14: «After this, the old man "entirely gave up drinking" and never took a drop of spirits.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which transformation was denied to the sprite Puck by his own nature?
- 1. The metamorphosis into a fly — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The transformation into a small animal of any kind that could creep through the window — no support
- 3. The transformation into a needle, which he could not manage because of the eye — no support
- 4. The transformation into a needle — ✓ 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 ✗
What was the nature of the disturbance which ruined the wedding garments?
- 1. The loud noise of a cart rolling over the wooden bridge into the town square — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A sudden loud crick crack noise that came from the church tower above — no support
- 3. A sudden loud thud — no support
- 4. A loud crick crack noise — ✓ 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
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