Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1468 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 mate, why'd the birds scoff all the bread, innit?

1. Cos Thumb had dropped bits all along the path — ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. Cos Thumb wasn't careful with it — no support
3. Cos the bread was left out — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Cos Thumb had dropped bits of bread all along the path he took — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1371, line 19: «Word to know: "land-lubber" is an old sailors' word for someone who lives on land and does not know the sea.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «word» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, were the parents well mental, dumping their kids twice?

1. Yeah, they wanted them lost much farther away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, they wanted them gone for good — score 2
3. Nah, they only left them for a day to teach them a lesson — score 2
4. Yeah, they wanted them lost much farther away in the woods — 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 1468, line 13: «Why: the parents want to lose the children again because "the money was all gone."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «parents» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, so was Peter's mum proper gutted when he came back?

1. Yeah, she was really sad — no support
2. Nah, she was made up and hugged him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Yeah, she cried for days and wouldn't speak to him at all — score 1
4. Nah, she was angry and sent him straight to bed without supper — 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 323, line 4: «Peter refuses to compete, since he cannot write or spell, and he invents a game of pretending to have no adventures.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «peter» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Ogre's missus try to save them, like, for real?

1. Yeah, she begged him to wait — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she said to wait till morning — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she hid them under the bed and begged him to wait till morning — no support
4. Nah, she left them alone to be eaten by him in the morning — 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 ✗

Lol, what's the Ogre's big deal, he's only a bit peak, right?

1. Nah, he's just a bit grumpy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he's pretty soft lately — no support
3. Nah, he's proper cruel and wants to eat them — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he's just sleepy — 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 ✗

Mate, wasn't Thumb's brilliant plan with the pebbles dodgy?

1. Yeah, the door was locked and the pebbles were all swept away by the wind — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, the door was locked, so pebbles were no good — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, the pebbles were fine but the birds ate them all — no support
4. Nah, the pebbles were great — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, what's the deal with that light in the forest?

1. It was a candle in a house, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. A torch in a tent — no support
3. It was a lamp in a shack — no support
4. It was a candle burning in a house by the trees — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1289, line 7: «What: the king loses the final game and must fetch "the Sword of Light that hangs in the house of the king of the oak windows".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «light» (+2); the same place «house» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the lord actually pay them back, or was that just dodgy?

1. He paid them ten crowns he owed — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he gave them the money — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. Yeah, he paid them the ten crowns he owed them for the wood — score 0
4. Nah, he refused and sent them away with nothing at all in their pockets — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 263, line 13: «The little lord gives money to a beggar woman's child, who "leant forward and kissed the little lord," and the cook mocks it.», 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 9 · ★ · right ✓

Wicked, so did the kids sit at the door or go in?

1. They sat at the door, too scared to go in and hid behind the wall — score 1
2. They sat at the door, too scared to go in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. They sat inside, too scared to leave — no support
4. They went right in, but sat at the far end of the room, scared — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 193, line 19: «What: Alnaschar sits at his open door, "his eyes fixed on the basket", and talks aloud without knowing it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «open door» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honestly, was the wind all wicked and wild that night?

1. Yeah, a terribly high wind blew up from the valley and shook the trees — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, a strong wind blew down — no support
3. Yeah, a terribly high wind blew up — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, it was a cold night with only a soft breeze over the hills — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1030, line 21: «Old word: "zephyr" was a soft west wind; the mill's mother is "as soft as a zephyr" and "as strong as a storm".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, was the ogre's wife's excuse about the calf true?

1. Nah, it was really a whole sheep for their supper later that week — no support
2. Yeah, it was a calf and she was telling the truth about it — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, it was a real calf — score 2
4. Nah, it was really a whole sheep for supper — ✓ the right answer · 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 1089, line 10: «The Ogre sniffs and says, "I smell fresh meat," but his wife says it is the calf she has killed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «meat» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Peak stuff, yeah? Did the ogre drink loads before bed?

1. Nah, only a few glasses — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a dozen cups more — no support
3. Yeah, a dozen glasses more than usual — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, loads of ale — 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 statement correctly describes the manner in which the Ogre detected the presence of the children?

1. He sniffed the air and declared that he smelt fresh meat — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. He sniffed the air and declared that he smelt fresh meat nearby — score 3
3. He sniffed the air hard and said he could smell someone living in the house — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. He listened and heard small voices — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 4: «The ogre cannot tell the children apart, the baby dodges him as a mouse and a bird, and the ogre finally eats the wrong person.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+2); the same action «tell» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the reason given by the fagot-maker's wife for the abandonment of the children in the forest.

1. The children were lazy and the family wanted them gone from the house — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The family was too poor to feed them — score 2
3. They had no money left for food — score 2
4. The family had exhausted the ten crowns and could not afford to feed them — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1308, line 10: «The father says "I have no herds of cattle to leave you", so the children inherit only a few things from the house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «children» (+2); the same place «house» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

State the precise object which Little Thumb employed to mark the path, and its subsequent fate.

1. Bread, which was devoured by birds leaving no trace of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Pebbles, lost in the grass — no support
3. Crumbs, which were swept away — no support
4. Bread, which the birds ate up — 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 · wrong ✗

Describe the manner in which the Ogre's wife attempted to preserve the children from her husband's violence.

1. She begged him to delay the killing — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. She locked them in a chest and begged him to keep them alive for another week — score 4
3. She hid them beneath the bed and urged him to postpone the slaughter until morning — score 3
4. She concealed them beneath the bed and urged him to postpone their slaughter — ✓ the right answer · score 3

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 1286, line 13: «What the husband thinks: "It is no affair of ours", he says, until his wife begs him to raise "one corner".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2); the same receiver «husband» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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