Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked
Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1444 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 ✗
Oi, did the Prince even remember the Master-maid after that apple?
- 1. nope, he remembered her well — score 3
- 2. yeah, he kept thinking of her — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. nope, he totally forgot her — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. nope, he forgot her and the whole shore too — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1443, line 1: «The giant sends the Prince underground to fetch the taxes, so the Prince asks the Master-maid how to do it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, why'd the sheriff have to pour coals on himself all night?
- 1. cos she made the shovel hold him there and he couldn't get off it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. cos the bailiff tied him to the chair with a rope from the coach — no support
- 3. cos she made the shovel keep him there — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. cos the coals were too hot to leave — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, what's a bushel even, like a bag of sweets?
- 1. a large sack of wheat — no support
- 2. a measure — no support
- 3. a dry measure for grain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. a bag of sweets — 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 870, line 14: «Old word: a bushel was an old measure for dry goods, about 35 litres, so "a bushel of money" meant a huge heap of coins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «old measure» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the old crone proper grumpy in the hut?
- 1. yeah, grumpy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. nah, she was sleeping soundly — no support
- 3. yeah, ill-tempered and malicious — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. yeah, sweet and very generous — 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 ✗
Did the attorney get well-nigh beaten up by that door?
- 1. yeah, he was stuck in it — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. yeah, nearly beaten to death — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. nah, he just got a bump — no support
- 4. nah, not at all — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 149, line 1: «A huge bull is stuck in a narrow cow-house door, and a young calf offers to show him the way.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «narrow house door» (+1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco?
- 1. yeah, shining and glittering — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. nah, it was a plain hut with only a few old candles inside — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. nah, it was grey and quiet — no support
- 4. nah, just dull and gloomy — 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 772, line 5: «He builds a hut, waits a whole year, then calls to three fighting robbers and asks why they quarrel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hut» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, did the bride's sister roll the apple at him or hand it over?
- 1. threw it — score 2
- 2. handed it over — no support
- 3. handed it to the Prince — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. rolled it across the yard — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 721, line 7: «What: the queen gave her son three apples and told him to cut one into a big half and a little half to test any companion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «three apples» (+2); the same receiver «son» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the bailiff, like, the last one to show up?
- 1. nah, on the second day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, on the third day — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yeah, after the sheriff and the attorney had already gone — no support
- 4. nah, he came back in the morning with a cart full of rope — 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 Master-maid wait ages at the sea for the Prince?
- 1. yeah, a bit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. nah, not long — no support
- 3. nah, only a short while — no support
- 4. yeah, a long, long time — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, so the Prince ended up marrying who?
- 1. the crone — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. the attorney's niece — score 3
- 3. no one — score 3
- 4. the bride's sister — ✓ the right answer · 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 1361, line 4: «A year later the father marries again, and the new wife starts to treat the girl unkindly.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+4). Against it: the same doer «father» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Like, was the coach still waiting when he went in?
- 1. nah, gone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, waiting — no support
- 3. yeah, he took the horses out — no support
- 4. nah, he put the horses back — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what's a troll in this one, a monster or the nasty online kind?
- 1. a giant monster in old tales — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a monster — no support
- 3. a troll online — no support
- 4. a little elf in fairy stories — 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 ✗
Upon what condition did the Master-maid consent to the Prince's departure?
- 1. That he should never return to the sea-shore until the spring came round again — no support
- 2. That he should not taste anything offered to him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. That he should taste nothing at the feast — no support
- 4. That he should not taste anything offered to him by any stranger on the road home — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1443, line 4: «Next day the giant takes him to the Master-maid, who fools the giant with rags, shoe-soles and three drops of blood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «master maid» (+2). 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the Master-maid transform the interior of the old woman's dwelling?
- 1. By expending all her silver, which flowed out and covered the whole wood in shining light — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By expending gold, which overflowed and gilded the hut — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By pouring sea water over the crone so the hut shone like a mirror all round — no support
- 4. By burning the wood to heat the iron chest — 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 ✗
Which fate befell the sheriff after the night of the red-hot coals?
- 1. He fled through the town in disgrace — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. He fled — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. He was hanged in the market square — score -2
- 4. He went home — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 230, line 10: «What: The dervish says the first pearl sticking means "my brother's fate has befallen me."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «fate» (-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 three suitors presented himself last at the gilded hut?
- 1. The attorney — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. The third man, who came on the last and final day — score 0
- 3. The bailiff — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. The bride's own brother, who arrived with the coach — score 0
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 1212, line 1: «The girl hears the robin answer her, and from then on the family gets food from the hut without a word of speech.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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