Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1316 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 ✗
Be honest, was the soldier's story well good or totally boring?
- 1. Quite dull, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Not bad — no support
- 3. Boring — no support
- 4. Well good, mate — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Kenneth and Effie keep butting in on the soldier, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, they kept on interrupting him all the time, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Nah, they behaved — no support
- 3. Yeah, constantly — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, now and then — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1316, line 7: «What: he keeps starting again, because the children keep interrupting with eager questions.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «interrupt» (+3); the same doer «children» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
So Rozennik fancies Bernez, right, even though he's skint?
- 1. Yeah, she's soft on him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, she likes him — no support
- 3. Yeah, she's soft on him, but her brother Kenneth says no — no support
- 4. Nah, not really — 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 ✗
Is Marzinne proper gutted that Bernez is brassic?
- 1. Nah, she's dead happy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he's well cross — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, she's chill — no support
- 4. Nah, not really — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Were Marzinne and Rozennik minted, or just think they are?
- 1. They are both rich but pretend to be poor for fun — score 4
- 2. They just think they are — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Nah, they're both skint — no support
- 4. Yeah, they really are — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1316, line 13: «They have black bread, wooden shoes and a pig, so the neighbours think them rich, and "they thought themselves rich also."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «marzinne» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Them stones, were they made by proper big fairies or nah?
- 1. Wizards, pretty old — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, just some farmers who piled up the rocks ages ago — no support
- 3. Korigans, dead old — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Proper ancient fairies, the korigans, from way back in time — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Did everyone on Christmas Eve get stuck into the honey soup?
- 1. Yeah, all of them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, only the farmer — no support
- 3. Yeah, all of them, even the kids who were supposed to be in bed — no support
- 4. Yeah, most of 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the old beggar a wicked wizard, or just a bit of gossip?
- 1. Probably just gossip, but some folks reckon he's a proper wizard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A real wizard who cursed the corn, or just gossip, probably — no support
- 3. Just gossip, probably — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Just a rumour, maybe — 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 ✗
Did the guests look well nervous when the beggar walked in?
- 1. Yeah, some looked scared and others got up to leave the room — no support
- 2. Nah, they were laughing and joking about him when he came in — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, some looked scared — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, some were well cross — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1316, line 18: «An old beggar comes in and wishes the guests a good appetite, but some faces look "a little frightened".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come in» (+3); the same doer «old beggar» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the farmer wanting to be rude to the beggar, yeah?
- 1. Nah, he was being polite — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, he shouted at him to leave, but then felt sorry for him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, he was being rude — no support
- 4. Nah, he was being polite because he feared giving offence on Christmas — score 5
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 869, line 14: «What the farmer sees: after one small peep into the chest, he jumps back and cries, "I saw him, and he is exactly like our sexton."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cry» (+3); the same doer «farmer» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Is Plouhinec a big city, or a little town by the sea?
- 1. A little town by the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A village — no support
- 3. A big city — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 4. A busy market town inland — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1314, line 3: «Matte and Maie grow rich, and Maie keeps asking for more: a bigger house, servants, fine clothes, and more cows.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «bigger house» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the moor a good place for growing corn, like at all?
- 1. Nah, only weeds grow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, nothing grows there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, very good — no support
- 4. Yeah, grows well there — 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 describes the character of Rozennik, as recounted in this passage?
- 1. She is a bold girl who openly defies her family and runs away to marry Bernez in the spring at the church of the saints in Plouhinec — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She is a kind girl who helps the poor farmers in the village each week — no support
- 3. She is a pretty girl who smiles at Bernez despite her brother's disapproval — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She is a gentle girl who waits patiently for a rich husband and never speaks to anyone outside her family circle at all — 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 · right ✓
In what manner does the narrator describe the stones erected by the korigans upon the moor?
- 1. As so tall and heavy that no fairy could have placed them upright — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. As so dark and strange that people feared to walk near them at night — score -1
- 3. As so tall and heavy that no fairy could have placed them upright, and so ancient that no villager remembered their making at all — score 3
- 4. As so old that they had been carved by the sea long ago — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 952, line 19: «Old word: a "mosaic" floor is made of tiny coloured stones set together; today we still use the word for such art.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «tiny coloured stones» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What conduct did the farmer adopt towards the beggar upon Christmas Eve, and for what reason?
- 1. He invited him to sit, from fear of giving offence on that holy night — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. He chased him away at once — score 1
- 3. He welcomed him warmly, since he hoped to gain a blessing for his farm — score 0
- 4. He ordered him out, for he feared the wizard's curse on his land — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1107, line 1: «A poor man borrows a silver rouble from his rich neighbour and swears St Michael in the icon will be his surety.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «swear» (+3). Against it: the same doer «poor man» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following is the correct sequence of events in this passage?
- 1. The soldier describes the moor, then the stones, then the children interrupt him, then the beggar speaks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The children ask questions, then the tale ends — no support
- 3. The soldier begins his tale, then describes the moor, then introduces Marzinne and Rozennik, then the beggar enters — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The soldier introduces the stones, then describes the farm, then the beggar enters, then the guests eat soup — 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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