Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1: a lost priest finds a lonely hut and a forbidden room
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1363 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, so the step-mother says sorry, right?
- 1. Yep, she says sorry, promises to change her ways, and then starts being nice to everyone at the market — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Nah, she says sorry but means nothing — score 5
- 3. Yep, she says sorry and wants to be good — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Yep, she says sorry and wants to be good, but she still moans about the girl all day — 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 1363, line 6: «Who: the step-mother, who says "I shall love and cherish you with all my heart," and the girl, who forgives her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «step mother» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the girl hold a grudge after that?
- 1. Yeah, she kept it going for ages — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Nah, she still moaned, innit — no support
- 3. Nah, she forgave her, proper mint — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Nah, proper grudge — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 984, line 9: «The robber-girl keeps her muff but gives Gerda "my mother's large warm mittens", which "will reach up to your elbows".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «robber girl» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, the priest gets lost on the plain, yeah?
- 1. Nah, he's not lost, but he's shaken up after the odd old woman turns up — score 2
- 2. Yeah, he wanders off the path somehow — no support
- 3. Yeah, he's totally lost after dark — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yeah, he's totally lost after dark, and then he sees a light and goes towards it — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1363, line 12: «He sees "the glimmer of a single ray of light" through a clump of trees and cries out with joy.», 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 «priest» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the cottage bang up to date?
- 1. Yeah, it was all fresh and sorted out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, it was falling apart, proper grim — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, it was falling apart, proper grim, with the roof caved in and a stink coming out — no support
- 4. Nah, it was falling apart, proper grim, and nobody had lived there for ages, mate — 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 ✗
The old lady, was she dodgy at first?
- 1. Nah, she was dead keen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, she was dead welcoming from the start, though later she got a bit odd and creepy — no support
- 3. Nah, she was welcoming straight away — no support
- 4. Yeah, she was well reluctant before — ✓ 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 ✗
What did the old woman say not to do?
- 1. Don't eat the rice, mate, yeah — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Don't light a fire — no support
- 3. Don't leave, mate — no support
- 4. Don't peep in the back room, 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd the old woman leave him, then?
- 1. To get wood, cos the fire went out — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. For a bit of fresh air, mate — no support
- 3. To get wood, cos the fire went out and she wanted to cook him a proper dinner — no support
- 4. To fetch wood from the back, cos the fire went out and she's dead cold, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1344, line 4: «The Lady Sparrow politely lets her take the big box, and the greedy woman hurries away with it on her back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the priest keep his promise?
- 1. Yeah, he stayed right where he was — no support
- 2. Yeah, he kept to his word — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Nah, he crept over to have a look — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nah, he crept over to have a look, then ran off screaming to the village — score 4
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 1220, line 17: «Old word: A compact was a solemn agreement, so Rosald "would keep his compact loyally" means he kept his promise to Geirald.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «word» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was in that back room, innit?
- 1. Piles of rags and some rusty tools — no support
- 2. Old rice bags — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Just dust, mate — no support
- 4. Heaps of bones and blood, gross — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1343, line 21: «Old word: "veranda" is a covered porch along the outside of a house, and the old man steps onto it after his long walk home.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «word» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the priest get gobsmacked?
- 1. Yeah, it froze the blood in his veins, so he sat down and had a long think about it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he nearly fainted on the spot — no support
- 3. Yeah, it froze the blood in his veins — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, it froze the blood in his veins, and he bolted straight out the door without his bag — 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 ✓
So who's the goblin, then?
- 1. A demon bird — no support
- 2. An old woman who eats people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. A fox spirit — no support
- 4. A ghost from the old battle — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 729, line 18: «Old word: a "hobgoblin" was a mischievous spirit or goblin, and today we would say a monster or ghost.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «mischievous spirit» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
The goblin lives on what, exactly?
- 1. Wild berries, yuck — score 7
- 2. Whatever poor travellers wander into her cottage after nightfall, yuck — no support
- 3. Human flesh and bones, yuck, plus whatever scraps the foxes leave behind on the plain — no support
- 4. Human flesh, yuck — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1363, line 9: «Why people fear it: a cannibal goblin "took the form of an old woman" and "lived only on human flesh."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cannibal goblin» (+4); the same action «live» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «human flesh» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the girl's dad feel relieved?
- 1. Yeah, he thought she was faking — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was cross — no support
- 3. Yeah, sort of — no support
- 4. Yeah, he saw she was truly sorry — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which statement correctly describes the location of the haunted plain Adachigahara?
- 1. A vast windswept plain located in the far northern province of Mutsu in Japan — no support
- 2. A wide moor in the province of Ise, Japan — no support
- 3. A large plain in the province of Mutsu, Japan — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. A large plain in the province of Shinano, Japan, where travellers often lose their way after dark — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1328, line 20: «Old word: "stupefied" means so amazed that you cannot think or speak, and it describes Tephany when the beggar knows her secrets.», 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 «old word» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What is the principal reason the priest enters the forbidden room?
- 1. He wanted to rob the old woman's house — score 1
- 2. He wanted gold — score 1
- 3. He thought the house was empty and safe — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Curiosity overcame his promise to the old woman — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 908, line 10: «Why is this wrong? Because his thoughts wander to a flower garden and a rich feast instead of holy things.», 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 «priest» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which phrase best describes the condition of the cottage upon the priest's arrival?
- 1. Tumble-down, its fence broken and its posts bent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Neat, its fence whole and posts straight — score 1
- 3. Tumble-down, its fence broken and its posts bent, with weeds growing through every floorboard in the hall — score 1
- 4. Tumble-down, its fence broken and its posts bent, though the inner rooms looked comfortable enough — score 1
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 587, line 20: «Old words: "perlaver'd" comes from palaver, which once meant a long talk; today palaver means long, pointless talk.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «old words» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What is the step-mother's principal undertaking following her apology?
- 1. To love and cherish the girl wholeheartedly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To care for the girl most dearly — no support
- 3. To love and cherish the girl wholeheartedly, and to hand over all her household money to the girl — no support
- 4. To serve the girl and her father each day — 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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