Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Perpetual Life, tires of it, and wakes from a dream
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1355 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 ✗
Bruv, so the islanders wanted to snuff it, innit?
- 1. Yeah, they fancied it, innit, like. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, they reckoned Paradise was rubbish, mate. — no support
- 3. Yeah, they reckoned Paradise was proper mint — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, mate, dead keen. — 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 ✗
Mate, did Sentaro get knackered living there for ages?
- 1. Yeah, after a few years he was gutted, mate, and he left for the sea. — no support
- 2. Nah, he got proper bored and went home, mate. — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Yeah, after three hundred years he was gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, after three hundred years he was properly gutted and wanted to go home, innit. — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1355, line 5: «Sentaro wakes before the shrine and finds it was all a dream, then a messenger gives him a book and sends him home to live well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sentaro» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-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 ✓
Wait, so the poisons did nothing to them? Like, at all?
- 1. Nothing, they felt better, which is well weird — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Nothing, they felt better, which is well weird, and they lived for ever after that. — score 2
- 3. Nothing, they got worse and sicker, which is well sad. — no support
- 4. Nothing, they felt better, and the poisons made them see visions of the gods. — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1355, line 10: «Why the poisons failed: in that land people who swallowed them "only found that in a short time they felt better in health".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+3). Against it: the same property (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
So the crane just flew Sentaro home, no bother?
- 1. Nah, a storm soaked it and it dropped him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, the wind blew it off course and it landed on a distant island, mate. — no support
- 3. Nah, a storm soaked it and it dropped him, but a shark rescued him, innit. — no support
- 4. Nah, a huge storm soaked the paper crane through and it dropped him right into the cold sea. — 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 ✓
Did the shark actually get him in the end?
- 1. Nah, it was all a dream, he woke up screaming — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Yeah, it chased him up the beach. — no support
- 3. Nah, it was all a dream, so he woke up calm and went back to sleep, mate. — score 4
- 4. Yeah, it got him, but he survived and swam to shore. — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1355, line 5: «Sentaro wakes before the shrine and finds it was all a dream, then a messenger gives him a book and sends him home to live well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shark» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was Jofuku, like, a superhero or summat?
- 1. He was a merchant, a proper rich one, who sold poisons to the islanders. — no support
- 2. He was a saint, a proper good one — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Just some old bloke, innit. — no support
- 4. A wise old priest, yeah. — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 916, line 20: «Old word: "tutelar" means guarding or protecting, so Saint Elizabeth was the guardian saint of the land.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Did Sentaro get a happy ending, or what?
- 1. Yeah, he went home and lived a good life, but he never saw the island again. — score 3
- 2. Yeah, he got rich and retired. — no support
- 3. Yeah, he went home and lived a good life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Nah, he got stuck in the sea. — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1355, line 5: «Sentaro wakes before the shrine and finds it was all a dream, then a messenger gives him a book and sends him home to live well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «sentaro» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the messenger give him, like a present?
- 1. a bit of gold — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. a small scroll of prayers — score 0
- 3. a stack of old coins — score 0
- 4. a book full of good advice — ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1355, line 5: «Sentaro wakes before the shrine and finds it was all a dream, then a messenger gives him a book and sends him home to live well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «messenger» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was he, like, super keen to live forever at the start?
- 1. Yeah, he reckoned living for ever meant he could travel the whole world and never get bored. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he reckoned he'd never get bored — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he was happy to die when his time came, mate. — no support
- 4. Yeah, he wanted to stay for ever. — 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 ✓
Did the islanders get bored of their long lives?
- 1. Nah, they loved them. — no support
- 2. Yeah, they were fed up of waiting. — no support
- 3. Yeah, they were dead tired of them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nah, they were proper happy with them. — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1355, line 9: «What the islanders did: they bought poisons from merchants and swallowed them, hoping to die.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «islanders» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the messenger a proper angel or just some bloke?
- 1. A spirit, he drifted off quietly. — no support
- 2. An angel, he vanished after talking — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A demon, he tricked Sentaro with a book and then vanished. — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. An angel, he came with a book of rules and then went home to Paradise with the saint. — 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 284, line 21: «Old word: "emissary" means a messenger or agent sent by someone else to carry out their business.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Sentaro ever go back to the island, mate?
- 1. Nah, he went home and stayed put, but he sent letters back to the island every year. — score 4
- 2. Nah, he went home and stayed put — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Yeah, he went back once to see the islanders and then left for good. — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Nah, he went home at last and stayed put, and never saw the island or the crane again. — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1355, line 17: «Why Sentaro was in danger: he saw "a monstrous shark swimming towards him" and screamed for Jofuku to save him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same doer «sentaro» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
According to the passage, what caused the paper crane to fall into the sea?
- 1. rain that soaked the paper — no support
- 2. the wind that tore the wings — score 3
- 3. the storm that dampened and crumpled it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. a strong wind — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 1355, line 16: «Why the crane fell: a storm came, and "the wonderful paper crane got damp, crumpled up, and fell into the sea".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «storm» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following best describes the islanders' attitude towards death, as recorded in the text?
- 1. a dread of Paradise, seen as torment — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a longing for Paradise, regarded as bliss — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. indifference towards the afterlife, seen as dull — no support
- 4. fear of the afterlife — 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 · right ✓
What, according to the messenger, shows that Sentaro's desire for death was not genuine?
- 1. his cry for help while sinking in the sea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. his request to be left alone — no support
- 3. his silence while drifting on the waves — no support
- 4. his frantic call for rescue while sinking in the sea, showing he still wished to live. — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1355, line 17: «Why Sentaro was in danger: he saw "a monstrous shark swimming towards him" and screamed for Jofuku to save him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «scream» (+3); the same doer «sentaro» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
In the context of the passage, what is the significance of Sentaro's dream for his eventual conduct?
- 1. it showed him the land of Perpetual Life, so he chose to live there for ever. — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. it led him to build a great fortune and a temple by the sea. — score 3
- 3. it showed him a vision of paradise, which led him to a life of hard, honest work at home. — score 3
- 4. it led him to a life of industry — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1355, line 3: «After three hundred years Sentaro grows weary of the same life and prays to Jofuku to take him home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same doer «sentaro» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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