Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight short animal tales about greed, pride, and bad company
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 146 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, that Farmer caught a Stork in with the cranes, proper unlucky, innit?
- 1. Nah, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, the Stork was well happy, bruv — no support
- 3. Yeah, but the Stork was well moaning, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, the old war-horse got put on the mill, dead gutted, yeah?
- 1. Nah, he was well happy about it, he got to rest in the field all day long — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was well chill about it — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was well salty about it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, he was well salty about it, and then he kicked the miller's bucket — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Owl just invite the Grasshopper round for a sip of nectar?
- 1. Nah, she just dozed off, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, and then she munched him right up, sus, no cap, innit — no support
- 3. Yeah, and then she dozed off, sus — no support
- 4. Yeah, and then she munched him, sus — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Man, the Grasshopper was singing all summer and then begged the Ants, no cap?
- 1. Nah, they gave him some corn and told him to sing a bit more, no cap — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Yeah, and they told him to beg, no cap — score 8
- 3. Yeah, and they told him to dance, no cap — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. Yeah, and they told him to dance all winter long, no cap, innit — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 146, line 4: «Hungry in winter, a Grasshopper begs the Ants for corn, but they tell her that if she sang all summer she can dance all winter.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «ants» (+2); the same receiver «miller» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, the Farmer warmed up a Viper and it bit him, that's mad, innit?
- 1. Yeah, he got absolutely done over, lol, and then he got bitten again — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Yeah, he got absolutely done over, lol — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he got absolutely fine, lol — no support
- 4. Nah, he got absolutely fine, lol, the Viper just went back to sleep in the snow — 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 146, line 5: «A kind Farmer warms a frozen Viper, which bites him; a Lion flees a Cock's crow, then turns on the Ass who chased him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bite» (+2); the same thing acted on «viper» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
The Lion ran off from the Cock's crow, right, and the Ass chased him?
- 1. Yeah, then the Lion turned round and munched him right up, mate, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Yeah, then the Lion turned round and munched him — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Yeah, then the Lion turned round and chased him — score 7
- 4. Nah, the Lion just laughed and then turned round and munched the Cock for his crowing, mate — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 144, line 4: «A Hound plays with a Hare, a Mouse wakes a Lion, a Trumpeter is captured, and a Wolf is rewarded with a boast.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mouse» (+4); the same thing acted on «lion» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
The Frog who stayed in the lane got squashed by a waggon, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, he should've moved to the marsh, fam — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, the waggon should've moved to the marsh and left the Frog alone in the lane, fam — no support
- 3. Yeah, he should've moved to the marsh before the waggon came down the lane, fam — no support
- 4. Yeah, he should've moved to the hill, fam — 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 ✗
The Ass played lame and the Wolf tried to help him out, what a plonker?
- 1. Yeah, the Wolf got kicked right in the mouth and lost all his teeth — score 3
- 2. Nah, the Wolf got a thorn out of his own foot and the Ass ran off — no support
- 3. Yeah, the Wolf got kicked right in the mouth — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yeah, the Wolf got kicked in the teeth — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 144, line 4: «A Hound plays with a Hare, a Mouse wakes a Lion, a Trumpeter is captured, and a Wolf is rewarded with a boast.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «wolf» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
That Bald Man smacked himself trying to get the Fly, dead funny?
- 1. Yeah, he hit himself harder than the Fly and then fell right over — score 7
- 2. Nah, he missed the Fly completely here — no support
- 3. Yeah, he got the Fly and missed himself — score 7
- 4. Yeah, he hit himself harder than the Fly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 120, line 14: «The old man: he warns the new prince that "many, many princes had come" and died in the thicket.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+4); the same thing acted on «old man» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Miller tell the Horse to stop moaning about the past?
- 1. Nah, he said stop the ups and downs — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Yeah, he said take the ups and downs — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Yeah, he said take the ups and downs and stop moaning about the past — score 6
- 4. Nah, he said take the ups and downs — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 146, line 2: «An old war-horse, now stuck grinding corn at a mill, moans about his lost glory, and the Miller tells him to take life's ups and downs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «miller» (+4); the same thing acted on «ups» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
The Cobbler said he had a cure for every poison, yeah, the big fibber?
- 1. Yeah, and the King made him drink it, lol — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he drank it — no support
- 3. Yeah, and the King drank it, lol — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Nah, and the King shot him, lol — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 146, line 18: «"Bethought" means thought of or remembered, so the King "bethought him" to test the Cobbler's cure for poison.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); the same thing acted on «cure» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
The Stork says it's the most honest bird ever, but nobody believed it, right?
- 1. Yeah, bad company means you look bad, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, good company means you look good, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, bad company means you look bad, mate, and the Stork should know it — no support
- 4. Nah, the Stork was honest and nobody doubted it, so good company means you look good, 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following best describes the outcome of the Grasshopper's request to the Ants in the fable concerning the winter season?
- 1. The Ants refused and told her to sleep in the field — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. The Ants refused her request and advised her to dance — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The Ants first agreed to help her, but then they refused and told her to dance instead of singing — score 3
- 4. The Ants refused her request and advised her to dance through the whole winter season — no support
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 146, line 4: «Hungry in winter, a Grasshopper begs the Ants for corn, but they tell her that if she sang all summer she can dance all winter.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «ants» (+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 · right ✓
Identify the figure in the tale who, having been given shelter, repaid the kindness of the Farmer with a fatal bite.
- 1. The Viper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Farmer — no support
- 3. The Wolf — no support
- 4. A Snake — 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 ✓
State the principal moral conveyed by the tale in which the Owl deceives the Grasshopper for the purpose of obtaining a meal.
- 1. False confidence often leads to disaster — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Trust in flattery brings a meal — no support
- 3. Flattery can bring a good meal to you — no support
- 4. Flattery is harmless — 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 ✓
Describe the consequence suffered by the Wolf after his attempt to remove the thorn from the Ass's foot.
- 1. His teeth were broken by a kick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. His jaw was broken by a bite — no support
- 3. His ears were torn by a stone — no support
- 4. His teeth were broken by a kick from the Ass's hind legs — 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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