Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleeping giant is carried to the capital and chained in a temple
Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 4 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1487 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 ✗
Wait, so who knocked him out with the wine, innit?
- 1. the palace stewards — no support
- 2. the Emperor's guards — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 3. the Emperor's chief court physicians — no support
- 4. the Emperor's doctors — ✓ the right answer · score -6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1228, line 19: «Old word: a "flask" was a small bottle for wine or water, and a "knapsack" is what we now call a backpack.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); the same doer «old word» (-3). The right option, 4, scored -6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, how long did the giant actually kip for?
- 1. until the sun rose the next day — no support
- 2. about six hours — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. nearly ten hours — score 2
- 4. about eight hours — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 248, line 14: «How: Jack drives the blade into the giant's eye while the giant sleeps with "his head on a sack."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+1); the same doer «giant» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper mad, how many wheels was that wooden trolley on?
- 1. thirty-two — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. twenty-two — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. six — no support
- 4. nine — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
How many blokes did it take to heave him up, like?
- 1. nine hundred — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. eight hundred — score 1
- 3. nine hundred and twelve — score 1
- 4. nine thousand — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1307, line 5: «At dawn the poor brother climbs the city wall meaning to die, but he lands on a sick old man, and two young men seize him and take him to the court-house.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). Against it: the same doer «two young men» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Nah, how many little horses were pulling him, though?
- 1. thirteen hundred — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. twelve — score 1
- 3. fourteen hundred — score 1
- 4. fifteen hundred — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 61, line 10: «A barge is a long flat boat on a canal; here a horse walking on the tow-path (the path beside the canal) pulls it with a long rope, and the barge-woman steers…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pull» (+2). Against it: the same doer «horse» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, how many chains did they lock on his leg?
- 1. ninety-six — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. ninety-one iron chains — score 1
- 3. one hundred and nineteen — score 1
- 4. ninety-one — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1161, line 18: «Old word: To "bolt the door" means to slide a bar across it to lock it, and the witch's door "opened outwards" so Pinkel could jam it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lock» (+2). Against it: the same doer «word» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, how many padlocks were on those chains?
- 1. thirty-six — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. thirty-two — no support
- 3. thirty-six brass padlocks — no support
- 4. thirty-six padlocks and keys — 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 ✗
Where did they chuck him for the night, innit?
- 1. in an old hayloft — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. in a barn — no support
- 3. in a stable — no support
- 4. in an old temple — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Was the Emperor, like, taller than his lot?
- 1. by a nail's breadth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. an inch — no support
- 3. by a finger's width — no support
- 4. by a hand — 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 ✗
What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro?
- 1. iron — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. shining bronze blade — no support
- 3. gold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. polished silver — 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 ✗
Some of the crowd were well cheeky, weren't they? Who shot the arrows at him?
- 1. the guards — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. the palace cooks — no support
- 3. some of the crowd — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. the guards of the royal court — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1223, line 3: «The little brother sets out with his dog Redmouth, shoots a burning arrow at a tree, and follows a small bear servant.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shoot» (+3); the same thing acted on «burning arrow» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did he actually eat that bloke he threatened?
- 1. yes, he did it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. he ate a little — no support
- 3. yes, he ate him in one bite — no support
- 4. no, he pretended — ✓ 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 ✗
Wicked, how many beds did they make him?
- 1. six — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. six hundred — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. six thousand — score 1
- 4. forty — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1020, line 2: «He builds a flying ship covered in gun-barrel eyes and tries to conquer God, but an angel's one bloody drop drags it down.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «build» (+2). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Real talk, what was he hiding from the officers?
- 1. a compass and a knife — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. spectacles and a spy-glass — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a pistol and a flask — no support
- 4. a spy-glass — 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 · right ✓
Which substance was administered to the narrator by the Emperor's physicians in order to induce unconsciousness?
- 1. a healing tonic — score -7
- 2. a potion — score -7
- 3. a sleeping draught — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -5
- 4. a bitter poison — score -7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -5, against -7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1487, line 7: «Who drugged him? The Emperor's physicians "mingled a sleeping draught in the hogsheads of wine."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «physicians» (-1); the same thing acted on «sleeping draught» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city?
- 1. a wheeled wooden engine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a long wheeled wooden engine drawn by horses — no support
- 3. a large wheeled wooden engine on rails — no support
- 4. a horse-drawn carriage — 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 ✓
What was the approximate duration of the narrator's chains of restraint?
- 1. two yards — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. two hundred yards of chain — no support
- 3. three yards — no support
- 4. about twenty yards of iron chain — 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 ✓
Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's right waistcoat pocket?
- 1. white sheets of paper marked with many figures — no support
- 2. thin white sheets covered with strange black figures — score -5
- 3. thin white sheets with stains — no support
- 4. white sheets marked with figures — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 729, line 20: «Old word: "espying" means spotting or noticing something, which is an old way of saying "seeing".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «notice» (+2). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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