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Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot

Tests: 5 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1308 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 ✗

Yo, the dad's dying, so what'd the son grab, bruh?

  • 1. Things — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Cool stuff, yeah — no support
  • 3. Stuff, obvs — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Stuff — 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 ✗

Wait, what'd the sis pick instead, fam?

  • 1. Blessing — ← Mova's choice · score -4
  • 2. Blessing, no cap — ✓ the right answer · score -4
  • 3. Cloth, bro — no support
  • 4. The blessing, tho — score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1308, line 2: «The son picks property and the daughter picks blessing, and after the mother dies they choose the same way again.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pick» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same thing acted on «blessing» (-4). The right option, 2, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

So the bro takes everything, right? What's left, like?

  • 1. Just a pot, bruh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. Like a bowl, bro — no support
  • 3. Just a pot and a bowl, bruh, that's it — no support
  • 4. Nothing much, just one pot and a tiny bowl, bruh, lol — 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 ✗

Who borrowed the pot first, like?

  • 1. The village girl — ← Mova's choice · score -1
  • 2. Neighbour lady — ✓ the right answer · score -3
  • 3. The old widow — score -2
  • 4. The neighbour lady from across the path — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1023, line 7: «What: she must make eleven coats, and "The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Pumpkins from a seed, no way, how?

  • 1. Planted near the well — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. By the well — no support
  • 3. Grown beside the hut — no support
  • 4. Put in the field — 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 ✗

Bro snuck off b4 sunrise, the sneaky move, yeah?

  • 1. At night — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. At midday — no support
  • 3. Early — no support
  • 4. Before dawn — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Then he was all proud 'cause he's clever, right?

  • 1. Very proud of how cleverly he had cheated his neighbour — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Pleased with cleverness — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Angry at the neighbour — no support
  • 4. Pleased with his cleverness and the stolen pot — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

The wife's slave came for a pumpkin, was it free?

  • 1. No, she paid — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. Paid — no support
  • 3. No — no support
  • 4. Yeah, a gift — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 206, line 7: «What: Khacan buys a slave for the king, pays "10,000 gold pieces," and gives her the name "The Fair Persian."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «khacan» (+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 ✗

Then the sis said they all got eaten, lol, right?

  • 1. Yes — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Yep, all stolen — no support
  • 3. All gone — no support
  • 4. Yep, all eaten — ✓ 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 ✗

The hubby came back from hunting, what he gonna do?

  • 1. Water the tree now — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Chop the tree down — no support
  • 3. Pull the whole pumpkin tree up by the roots — no support
  • 4. Pull the tree up — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

And how many pumpkins were left, like really?

  • 1. Only six — no support
  • 2. Just four, and the slave had counted them twice — no support
  • 3. Just four — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -5
  • 4. Just four, the rest were eaten by everyone — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1302, line 5: «She writes her name on his arm, leaves a magic box, and goes away for good, so Ian searches the world until three tiny birds carry him under the sea.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same thing acted on «magic box» (-4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

How long did they mourn the dad, bro?

  • 1. Seven days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
  • 2. Seven full days, then they went back to work — no support
  • 3. Nine days — score -1
  • 4. Three weeks — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1308, line 20: «Old word: "mourned" means grieved for the dead, and "befell" means "happened to", which we still say today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mourn» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, where'd the dad lie when he was dying?

  • 1. On the floor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 15
  • 2. Lying on a bed of reeds beside his wife — no support
  • 3. By the door — no support
  • 4. On the floor of the hut, near the fire — score 15

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 15, tied with another option at 15 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1308, line 8: «Where: the family lives in a hot country where "no one had any beds", so the father lies on the floor.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lie» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same place «floor» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where was the hut anyway, like where?

  • 1. Under palm trees — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 2. Under a grove of palm trees by the river — no support
  • 3. In a small clearing far from the village and fields — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 4. Near the well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1269, line 10: «Where: the badgers' "small round hut" stands by the bears' camp, and the cub sneaks his gift through its "entrance way".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «small round hut» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which bequest did the son elect upon the decease of his father?

  • 1. Their goods — no support
  • 2. The material property of the household — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
  • 3. The money and goods of the hut — score -4
  • 4. The livestock of the old household — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1308, line 9: «Why: the son wants the property, and later he is filled with envy when he hears his sister is doing well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «son» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which two items did the brother permit his sister to retain from the household goods?

  • 1. A bowl and a basket of beans — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. A small pot and a vessel for corn — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. A small pot, a vessel for corn, and the well — no support
  • 4. A mat and a basket for grain — 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 ✗

On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree the following morning?

  • 1. Spite at his wife's cooking — ← Mova's choice · score -1
  • 2. Resentment at his wife's mistreatment — ✓ the right answer · score -1
  • 3. Anger at his sister's pride — no support
  • 4. Hunger — no support

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 739, line 8: «Why: the wife says, "if I can't eat some of the rampion... I shall die," so her husband decides to steal some for her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the slave arrived?

  • 1. Five — no support
  • 2. Four pumpkins, as the sister had counted them — no support
  • 3. Four pumpkins remained, after the slave had taken some — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 4. Four — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 226, line 11: «What: the prince whispers "Look at me, princess" and tells her he is the Prince of Persia who has come to set her free.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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