Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 151 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, what did the farmer's lad have to do when the farmer said humph, like proper quick?
- 1. hand him the sling — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. throw a stone back — no support
- 3. grab the stick — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. run off — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 146, line 7: «What: the Stork is caught with the cranes that "ruin my crops," so the Farmer says it "shall suffer" too.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «catch» (+2); a different thing acted on (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 2 · ★ · right ✓
bruv, did the starlings even notice humph, or nah?
- 1. nah, they ignored it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah they heard it — no support
- 3. nah, they just sat there and laughed — no support
- 4. they flapped about — 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 ✗
how many birds got clobbered, like one on the head, one in the legs and what?
- 1. one in the wing and one somewhere else — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. one in leg — no support
- 3. one on wing — no support
- 4. one in the wing — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
who did the starlings bump into when they was bolting, like?
- 1. some cranes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. a flock of geese — score 4
- 3. a whole group of birds near the river — score 4
- 4. some cranes who were standing by the pond — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 151, line 4: «The battered starlings flee and bump into some cranes, who ask what the matter is.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bump» (+3); the same doer «battered starlings» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
what did the cranes wanna know, mate?
- 1. what the matter was — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. if the starlings had been hurt at all — no support
- 3. how they were feeling — no support
- 4. where they went — 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 ✗
which one of the rooks was proper preachin', yeah?
- 1. the Crow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. one of the Cranes — no support
- 3. one of the Rooks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a Rook — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
what was the rook's big warning, innit?
- 1. farmers are cruel — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. men lie — no support
- 3. men are rascals — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. dogs are dangerous — 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 · ★ · right ✓
why's men so dodgy, the rook reckoned?
- 1. they're always shooting at birds with slings — score 4
- 2. they hunt birds for fun — score 2
- 3. they say one thing, mean another — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 4. they say nice things but mean nasty ones — score 10
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 151, line 5: «A Rook warns them that men are rascals who say one thing and mean another, and then the book turns to new tales, like the Ass and the Dog.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same thing acted on «one thing» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
in the next one, what did the ass and dog find on the floor, wicked?
- 1. a sealed packet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a bag — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. a wooden box — score 8
- 4. a note — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 138, line 15: «Who: some Thieves, who find only a Cock in the house and decide to "wring his neck" for their supper.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same action «find» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
what was the packet all about, like, grass or what?
- 1. grass and corn meal — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. bread and butter — no support
- 3. grass and barley and hay for the cows — no support
- 4. grass and barley and hay — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate?
- 1. corn and oats — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. meat and bones — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. bread — score 4
- 4. meat — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 151, line 19: «fact: The Dog is bored and begs him to "skip a few pages" for "meat and bones".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «beg» (+3); the same doer «dog» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
what did the dog reckon they should chuck in the bin?
- 1. the packet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the old bag — no support
- 3. the sealed paper — no support
- 4. the whole thing and everything inside — 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 ✗
so did the ass find any meat stuff in it, nah?
- 1. some bones — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. nothing of the sort — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a little meat inside — no support
- 4. meat in every line — 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 signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling?
- 1. a cough — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a sharp "whistle" — no support
- 3. the word "humph" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a whistle — 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men?
- 1. to the passing cranes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. to the passing cranes flying overhead — no support
- 3. to the farmer's wife — no support
- 4. to the ducks and the geese at the pond — 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 ✗
What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern?
- 1. meat and bones — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. seeds for planting — score 4
- 3. fodder — score 4
- 4. fodder such as grass and hay — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 59, line 20: «The Water Rat follows «league by league» (a league is about three miles), and leaves him «planted at his dull inland farm, about which he desired to hear nothi…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «plant» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What quality of men did the Rook identify as fatal to their companions?
- 1. saying kind things while planning harm — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. speaking very loudly — no support
- 3. speaking one thing while meaning another — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. pretending to be friends while plotting evil — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 151, line 5: «A Rook warns them that men are rascals who say one thing and mean another, and then the book turns to new tales, like the Ass and the Dog.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same thing acted on «one thing» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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