Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more and more, then throws stones at the sea-king
Tests: 7 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1314 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 ✓
Dude, did Matte actually hear that weathercock or was he just being extra?
- 1. Extra, like always — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Extra — no support
- 3. Totally, dude, yeah — no support
- 4. Kinda, honestly — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, Maie got a servant and she still whined about milk, no way, right?
- 1. Yep, never satisfied — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Totally, she whined — no support
- 3. Nah, she was happy with the milk and servant — no support
- 4. Yep, she never once got satisfied with anything — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it?
- 1. Pretty much, yeah — no support
- 2. Yup, free snacks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yup, the cow ate free seaweed all week long — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 4. Nope — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1314, line 2: «The next morning a fine red cow stands on the shore, eating seaweed and giving the best milk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «seaweed» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, who thought Prince was going to be jealous of a cow?
- 1. Prince, obviously — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Prince, obviously, since he is always jealous — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Everybody here, the cow included, obviously — no support
- 4. The cow, honestly — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1200, line 19: «Why he is in the desert: God gave him seven sons, and his eldest son heard of a princess in Turkistan, so the story moves on to her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «stranger» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, how did Maie even think she could fill the sea with rocks?
- 1. Honestly she had no plan, just vibes and rocks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pure luck, honestly — no support
- 3. Pure delulu energy, she thought she was a queen — no support
- 4. Pure delulu energy — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what did Maie sing to the sea-king to get cows?
- 1. A long slow ballad about cows and the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. A little banger for Ahti — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. A cute lullaby for kids — score 5
- 4. A wild tune for the sea — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1314, line 10: «Maie's song asks Ahti for cows: "I pray thee give three unto me," and three cows appear the next morning.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «maie» (+4); the same action «sing» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, why did Ahti's beard get cut up like a bad haircut?
- 1. A rock hit it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He fell down — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. A big rock hit it while he was angry — no support
- 4. He got into a fight with the sea-king — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1080, line 2: «She sends her sister Anne up the tower to watch for her brothers while Blue Beard bellows for her to come down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
So Maie sank like a stone and still lived, bro?
- 1. Yeah, she floated — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, sank — no support
- 3. Nope, she sank and never came back up — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Yeah, she sank — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1314, line 13: «Maie sinks like a stone, but she stretches out her arms and legs and rises, then uses the fiddle as a float.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sink» (+3); the same doer «maie» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Fr, what's the vibe when the sea gets all bubbly and boiling?
- 1. Total chaos, bro — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Super calm, bro — no support
- 3. Calm — no support
- 4. Pretty smooth, man — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Lowkey, what did Matte do when his wife wanted a bigger house?
- 1. He bought her a cow — no support
- 2. He built it for her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. He sold it — score 4
- 4. He said no — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1232, line 5: «They build a house and a cow-house overnight, then visit her family, where he escapes a flung hammer by jumping the threshold.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «house» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, what did the sea-king say he'd really like from Maie?
- 1. The gold and silver — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. The gold and silver she had hidden away — score -1
- 3. A big pot of gold — score 5
- 4. The golden crown — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1023, line 11: «The king says, "I wish only for your happiness," so he means well, though she cannot tell him her grief.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); the same action «wish» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, did the fiddler stop fiddling when the stones flew?
- 1. Nah, he kept going — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he kept fiddling right through all the chaos — no support
- 3. Yeah, he stopped right when the first stone hit — no support
- 4. Yeah, he stopped — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, is Maie the one who got the cows, or was it Matte?
- 1. Matte — no support
- 2. Matte, by his prayer — no support
- 3. Both of them, mostly Matte — no support
- 4. Maie, through her song — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1313, line 5: «She sings to Ahti for a cow, and that night neither of them can sleep, he for breaking Sunday, she for the cow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+3); the same doer «maie» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ok so what is the big deal with the weathercock anyway?
- 1. It spins fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It squeaks in the wind — no support
- 3. It squeaks before a storm — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. It turns before the rain — 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 · wrong ✗
Which of the following is the correct reason that the fisherman's wife sailed out to sea with stones?
- 1. To fill the sea with stones and enlarge the island for cows — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. To fill the sea and enlarge the island so her husband can fish in peace — score 1
- 3. To fill the sea and enlarge the island — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. To fish for the sea-king's gold — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 762, line 9: «fact: Why: the mother cuts the wolf open because the kids are "still alive" inside his belly, and she fills it with stones to trap him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fill» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the character who was struck on the cheek by a stone during the disturbance caused by Maie's boat.
- 1. The steamer captain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The sea queen Wellamos and her two daughters — no support
- 3. The sea queen Wellamos — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The sea-king Ahti, who had lost his beard — 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 ✗
State the condition under which the old fisherman's wife had earlier received the thirty cows she requested.
- 1. She sang her song to the sea-king and fiddled loudly all night long — score 3
- 2. She promised him a new boat — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. She sang her song to the sea-king — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. She sang her song to the sea-king at dawn — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1100, line 3: «At home his wife refuses to open the door, so the henchmen beat her until she promises to obey.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «promise» (+3); the same doer «wife» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Determine the outcome of the sea-king's question regarding the gold and silver promised to him by the wife.
- 1. He got the gold — score 0
- 2. She paid him in silver and he left happily — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. The gold was given to him — score 5
- 4. The question remains unanswered in this part — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1308, line 10: «The father says "I have no herds of cattle to leave you", so the children inherit only a few things from the house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+3); the same doer «father» (+2). 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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