Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1428 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, how long did the Princess kip for?
- 1. A hundred years, mate, proper — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. A hundred years, mate, proper, till the prince came and woke her up — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. A few years, mate, proper, and then she woke up — score 3
- 4. Three weeks, mate, proper — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1427, line 2: «The young Fairy steps out and changes the curse: the Princess will only sleep for a hundred years, until a king's son wakes her.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «princess» (+3); the same action «wake» (+2); the same doer «son» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Prince tell his mum about the wedding, like?
- 1. Nah, he never said a word, he was a proper quiet bloke — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Nah, he never said a word — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Nah, he kept it quiet — score 3
- 4. Yeah, he told her all — score 4
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 1423, line 11: «The Dwarf calls the King's bride "that faithless Princess", and says she wears a ring made of his hair.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «ring» (+4); the same doer «dwarf» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
What kind of family was the Queen from, yeah?
- 1. Ogre family, sorted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Ogre family, sorted, the proper bad kind from the hills — score 3
- 3. Troll family, sorted — no support
- 4. Giant family, sorted — score 3
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 1427, line 17: «Thick trees and brambles, "twining one within another", grow up and hide the palace from everyone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Did the clerk cook up little Morning, or what?
- 1. Nah, he cooked a lamb — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Nah, he cooked a lamb, mate, and kept her hidden in the cellar — score 3
- 3. Nah, he cooked a lamb and hid her, bruv, and told the Queen it was fine — score 3
- 4. Nah, he cooked a kid — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1082, line 9: «Why: the clerk knows "that he must not play tricks with Ogresses", yet he still hides the children and cooks a lamb and a kid.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cook» (+1); the same doer «clerk» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ooh, what did the Queen fancy for her tea, like?
- 1. Little Morning, bruv, with loads of sauce and some proper gravy on the side — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Little Morning, bruv — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Her big sister, bruv — score 6
- 4. Little Morning, bruv, roasted with some proper gravy — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 373, line 1: «A sly Wolf creeps near the Shepherd's hut and sees the family feasting on roast lamb.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
So the clerk nicked the kids, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, he hid them, sorted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Yeah, he hid them, sorted, and kept them safe in the cellar — score 4
- 3. Yeah, he hid them, sorted, in his wife's cellar, and the Queen never found out — score 4
- 4. Yeah, sorted — 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 1082, line 9: «Why: the clerk knows "that he must not play tricks with Ogresses", yet he still hides the children and cooks a lamb and a kid.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); the same doer «clerk» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Was the sauce proper tasty, or what?
- 1. Dead tasty, she said — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Dead tasty, she said, and asked for seconds — no support
- 3. Nah, bland — no support
- 4. Proper minging, she said — 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 ✗
Did the Queen-mother go all doolally?
- 1. Nah, calm — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, mad as a box of frogs — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, calm as a pond — no support
- 4. Yeah, mad as a bag of cats — 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 clerk get fizzing angry?
- 1. Nah, he cried all over — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Nah, he cried — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Yeah, he hit the cook — no support
- 4. Yeah, he did — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1082, line 10: «He spared Aurora because she came "jumping and laughing" to ask him for sugar-candy, and then "he began to weep".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «weep» (+1); the same doer «clerk» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Man, what was the tub full of, like?
- 1. Toads and snakes, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Frogs and worms, mate — no support
- 3. Beetles and slugs, mate — no support
- 4. Bread, 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the wolves really eat the Queen, bruv?
- 1. Yeah, true — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, lie — no support
- 3. Nah, that was a lie, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, that was true, bruv — 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 12 · ★ · right ✓
Wicked, so did the kids get found out, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, the Queen heard them singing in the cellar and came down with guards — score 2
- 2. Yeah, the Queen heard them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Yeah, the Queen heard them singing in the cellar — score 2
- 4. Yeah, the King saw them — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 129, line 13: «Who: the wise Woman tells her to say "Little kid, milk Table, appear!" to get food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «little kid» (+2); the same doer «wise woman» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Honest, was the Prince a bit of a coward, like?
- 1. Yeah, he loved her — no support
- 2. Yeah, he feared her, so he kept quiet about the kids — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Yeah, he feared her, though he loved his wife and kids, and kept it all secret — score -2
- 4. Yeah, he feared her — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 663, line 12: «Lucky Luck's mother asks the prince to dig and eat with her son, and to speak only when Luck speaks, so the prince keeps quiet like a true seeker.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
On what grounds did the Prince conceal his marriage from the Queen-mother?
- 1. Fear of his father's rule — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Fear of her Ogreish nature — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fear of her Ogreish nature, and of what the court would say about the match — score 1
- 4. Fear of her Ogreish nature, and of the court's gossip — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1290, line 5: «The giant goes out, the queen washes the threshold stones, and the king keeps hidden among the horses.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the clerk of the kitchen preserve the young Queen's life?
- 1. By substituting a young hind, so the Queen never knew — no support
- 2. By substituting a young hind and then hiding her with his own wife in the house — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. By substituting a young hind — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. By feeding her to wolves — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 722, line 11: «fact: When the friend wakes up at the shrine, the prince says, "Restore him to life, I pray."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the intended fate of the household ordered by the Queen-mother?
- 1. Immersion in a tub of serpents, as the household had feared — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Immersion in a tub of serpents, though the cook and the servants pleaded for mercy — no support
- 3. Immersion in a tub of serpents — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Drowning in a river of ice — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
To whom did the King entrust the government during his absence?
- 1. To the Queen his mother, who ruled the kingdom while he was away — score 4
- 2. To the Queen his mother, who ruled from the palace with the household guard — score 6
- 3. To the Queen his mother — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. To the chancellor and nobles — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1351, line 13: «Kintaro's mother is called Yama-uba, and she hid her grief "with a strong face" when her son left.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same doer «son» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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