Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the wood after the pebbles and the crumbs

Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1472 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, so Hansel's pebbles were like a trail, yeah?

1. Yeah, but the birds ate every single one of them before they got home — score 2
2. No, he threw them at the birds because the stepmother told him to do it — score 1
3. Yeah, he left them so they could follow home — score 1
4. Yeah, he dropped them so they could find the way back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1472, line 16: «Second trip: Hansel crumbles his bread and drops a crumb "every few minutes," because the pebbles are now gone.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+2); the same doer «hansel» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Be honest, was the mum well mean or what?

1. Kind of, she was just hungry — no support
2. Yeah, she was properly nasty — no support
3. Dead mean, she wanted them gone — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Quite cruel — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1023, line 11: «The king says, "I wish only for your happiness," so he means well, though she cannot tell him her grief.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «mean» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit true the stepmum made them go to the wood?

1. Yeah, she insisted they go and then left them there — no support
2. Yeah, she made the dad take them out and then the kids got lost and were left there overnight in the cold — no support
3. Yeah, she made the kids go into the forest and left them there all night while she locked the door — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. Yeah, she said they had to go and they were left there — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1228, line 5: «A rude bear does the same, and the prince is left in the woods at night when a bumble-bee asks what he is doing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what were the kids doing when the mum said to sleep?

1. Sleeping — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Fighting over the last bit of bread by the warm fireplace — no support
3. Playing by the hearth — no support
4. Nodding off by the fire — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was Hansel being cheeky with the kitten thing?

1. Yeah, a right little fibber, it were the sun — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he was telling a big fat lie about a kitten that never existed at all, honest — no support
3. Yeah, he pretended the kitten was on the roof when it was really the bright sun that he saw — no support
4. Yeah, he made up a story about it — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1470, line 7: «The Captain's words "Open, Sesame!" made the rock door open, and "Shut, Sesame!" made it close.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, so who ended up with the bread at the end?

1. Nobody, cos the birds ate every single crumb that Hansel had dropped on the path — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Grettel, cos Hansel had chucked his crumbs — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Hansel, because he saved his bread — no support
4. The mum, since she got the crumbs — 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 ✗

Bruv, what did the stepmum call them when they slept in?

1. Sleepy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Lazy — no support
3. Dozy lot — no support
4. Lie-abeds — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Ali Baba's son get hitched to the girl?

1. Yeah, Morgiana, the clever servant who hid in the jars and killed the thieves with a dagger in the house — score 2
2. Yeah, Morgiana, the slave girl who saved the family from the robbers and then married him after the wedding feast — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. No, he married the oil merchant's girl — score 4
4. Yeah, Morgiana, and they had a massive wedding — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 705, line 4: «Peter marries anyway, Eisenkopf catches him at the feast, and Peter escapes on the saddled grey horse.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+2); the same doer «peter» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Was the dagger girl dead brave or what?

1. Yeah, she fought the captain — score 1
2. Mostly, yeah — no support
3. Yeah, she saved her master's life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Yeah, she stabbed a thief — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1199, line 10: «The horse speaks to her: "Take off my bridle and you will save my life."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Proper sus, the oil bloke was the captain, right?

1. Yeah, the oil merchant was the captain of the thieves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, he was — no support
3. Yeah, the oil bloke ran the whole gang — no support
4. No, the oil merchant was a poor shepherd — 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 1472, line 2: «Ali Baba and his son are shocked, but she shows them the dagger, and the oil merchant is really the Captain of the Forty Thieves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «oil merchant» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the deal with "Open Sesame" then?

1. The secret word for the treasure room — ← Mova's choice · score -3
2. A phrase to open the mountain gate — no support
3. The magic password the robbers used to open the cave door and get their gold out — no support
4. The password that opened the cave door — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 832, line 7: «Where: the footpath across the moor, where "small pools of water, and a great deal of mud" lay.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «mud» (-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 ✗

Honest, did the mum have a point about no food?

1. Yeah, the mum had a point because the whole house had run out of food and money — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, the bread was nearly all gone — no support
3. Yeah, they had only half a loaf of bread left for the whole family to share between them — no support
4. Yeah, they had only half a loaf left — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sorted, so the kids got back home the first time?

1. Yeah, they came back at dawn — no support
2. Yeah, at daybreak they knocked on the door of the house and their father let them in with joy — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Yeah, at daybreak they knocked on the door — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, the father heard them at night and went out to find them in the wood at dawn — score 1

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 1278, line 11: «The second trick works because the shepherd believes the bleating is "the sheep and the kid that I lost", so he ties the bull "hastily to a tree".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shepherd» (+2). 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

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted for the kids, right?

1. Yeah, they were dumped there two times — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, the wood was their home twice — no support
3. Yeah, they got left in the wood twice — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, twice — 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 action of Morgiana is described in the passage as the direct cause of the oil merchant's death?

1. She hid in the jars of oil and then stabbed the sleeping captain in his chest with a dagger — score -5
2. Morgiana plunged her dagger into the chest of the captain as he slept by the door of the cave — score -3
3. She plunged the dagger into the heart of Cogia Hassan — ✓ the right answer · score -4
4. She set fire to the house of the merchant — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 991, line 19: «The danger: "the soup may cost him his neck," meaning the man could be put to death for his words.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which condition did Ali Baba set before he first entered the cave in the account given?

1. He spoke the words "Open Sesame" at the door — ✓ the right answer · score -4
2. Before he entered, he had to speak the magic words Open Sesame loudly at the entrance of the cave — score -4
3. He opened the gate with a golden key — no support
4. He had to recite the words Open Sesame at the door and wait for the stone to move aside — ← Mova's choice · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1168, line 4: «Far away, a young man travels over mountains to find his own wife, and pays gold for a village girl.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «travel» (+1). Against it: the same doer «young man» (-2). The right option, 1, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which measure did the stepmother propose to the husband when the bread was almost exhausted?

1. To take the children to the market — score -3
2. To lead the children deeper into the wood — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. To lead the children far into the forest and tie them to a tree so they cannot return home — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. To send the children away at once — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 810, line 3: «She wakes on the grave, prays for forgiveness, and goes home to her husband with a new, gentle strength.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same doer «child» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which object did Hansel use to mark the route on the first journey into the forest?

1. White pebbles taken from his pocket — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
2. The white pebbles he had collected carefully from the garden path outside the house that morning — score -5
3. Pieces of ribbon from his sleeve — score -4
4. A long string of bread crumbs he had carried in a bag all the way from home — 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 743, line 13: «The first way home: "the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); the same doer «hansel» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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