Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince

Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 4 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1518 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 ✗

So the giant wanted the kid turned into a pie, yeah?

1. a hare was put instead — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a wild boar was put in — no support
3. a wild pig was secretly swapped in for the kid — no support
4. a wild pig was swapped in — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Thief actually get his hip chopped by the giant, like, for real?

1. yeah, his leg was cut off — score 1
2. yeah, the giant chopped off half his hip by mistake — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. yeah, the giant really did chop half his hip off — score 5
4. yeah, half his hip was cut off — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1518, line 13: «The Thief lay down "as if dead" among the bodies, and the giant cut half his hip off, thinking him dead meat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hip» (+3); the same action «cut off» (+1); the same doer «giant» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Right, so what was the giant's one eye like, the total mad state of it?

1. one big eye — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. one eye in the middle — score -3
3. two eyes on his face — score -3
4. one eye on his forehead — ✓ the right answer · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1071, line 13: «The king's eye "seemed to be as big as a plate," which shows how fevered and eager he is for Duv Laca.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «eye» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Was the spit used to batter the giant, sound?

1. it ran through his eye — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. it went through his arm — no support
3. yes, it ran through his eye and into his brain — score 6
4. it stuck in his head — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1518, line 14: «The Thief's red-hot spit "ran through the eye", blinding the giant, but it did not kill him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run» (+3); the same place «eye» (+2); the same doer «red hot spit» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

The toe with the ring on, did it get chucked in the pond or the bin?

1. the bin, with the ring — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the pond, with the ring — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the fish-pond, and the ring went in with it — no support
4. the pond, together with the enchanted ring still on it — 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 ✗

Your man the Knight, was he dead chuffed to get his finger back?

1. he believed the whole story and was over the moon — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. he believed the tale — score 5
3. he believed the whole story — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. yes, he believed the whole story about the finger and the giant — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1282, line 2: «explain: The jogi then scares the king by saying an evil spirit wears the shape of a beautiful girl, and the king believes him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «man» (+3); the same action «believe» (+1); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Were the princes going home sound with the Steed of Bells, or what?

1. yeah, they rode off merry — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. yeah, they set off happy — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. yeah, they set off home happy with the Steed of Bells — score -1
4. yeah, they rode off very happy towards their father's palace — 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 1417, line 10: «Why: He rides away sadly because the enchanter has taken the Princess, and he will not go home until he finds her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ride away» (+1). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

How did the giant end up, like, is he gone for good?

1. he drowned in the pond and never came back — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. he fell in the pond — score 3
3. yeah, he fell in the pond and drowned for good — score 3
4. he drowned in the pond — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 741, line 3: «He squeezes a cheese as if it were a stone, then throws his bird so it never comes back, and he tricks the giant into carrying a whole tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come back» (+2); the same doer «giant» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who was the old woman, the one who was in the castle, the real deal?

1. the giant's wife — no support
2. the one the giant had kept prisoner in the castle — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. a servant — no support
4. the one the giant had — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1500, line 4: «Later, the giant Blunderbore catches sleeping Jack and locks him in his castle, where bones lie all over the floor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «jack» (+3); the same place «castle» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

The Queen going off the tower, was she mad or what?

1. she threw herself down in spite — ✓ the right answer · score -4
2. she jumped in a rage — no support
3. she fell down in anger — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. she threw herself down from the tower in spite and rage — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 755, line 13: «The queen's second trick: she gives Snowdrop a poisoned comb, and "the poison was so powerful that she fell down senseless."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall down» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So did the Thief get a feast and everything, or was he just ditched?

1. he got to feast like a prince — ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. he got fed like a king — score 2
3. yeah, he got a proper feast like a prince every night — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. he was fed and sent off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1156, line 5: «Back in another tale, a poor man's son gets his father's animals, catches a feast with them, and gets a magic stone that brings him a camel and fine robes.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «son» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the Thief still with the princes at the end, or what?

1. no, he stayed behind at the glen with the Knight after all — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. yeah, he stayed on with them at the palace all along — score 2
3. yeah, he stayed with them — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. yeah, he went with them — 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 150, line 2: «A Thief stays at an inn, waits for a chance, then yawns and howls like a wolf until the frightened Innkeeper runs off and leaves his new coat behind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+1); the same doer «thief» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

To what extent does the Knight of the Glen, having been persuaded by the old woman's testimony and the missing finger, extend his pardon to the Black Thief?

1. He pardons the Thief entirely and undertakes to maintain him in his own household. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He pardons him. — no support
3. He grants the Thief full pardon and promises to support him within his own household. — no support
4. He frees the Thief. — 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 ✓

In what manner does the wicked Queen meet her end, according to the narrative account of the princes' homecoming?

1. She leaps from the battlements and is dashed upon the stones below. — score -3
2. She precipitates herself from the tower and is shattered to pieces. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. She throws herself from the highest window of the tower, and is smashed to pieces on the courtyard stones below. — score 2
4. She precipitates herself from the tower in a fit of spite, and is shattered to pieces upon the stones beneath the castle wall. — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1518, line 22: «The wicked Queen hears the bells, throws herself from the tower in spite, and "was shattered to pieces".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «shatter» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which object did the giant employ to summon the Black Thief by means of its enchantment, and upon what part of his person did it fasten?

1. A golden ring that stuck to the Thief's heel. — score 0
2. A cursed ring, which clung onto the Thief's second toe. — score -1
3. An enchanted ring, which fastened upon the Thief's big toe. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A silver band, which clung to the Thief's little toe. — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1160, line 19: «Old word "girded" meant fastened a belt or strap round the waist; today we say "strapped on".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fasten» (+3); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What is the consequence, as recorded in the narrative, of the giant's leap towards the Thief following the loss of the toe?

1. The giant falls into the fish-pond and is drowned. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. He is drowned. — no support
3. The giant plunges into the lake and is lost. — no support
4. The giant tumbles into the pond and drowns. — 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 709, line 9: «Why not go on at night: they feared they "might lose their way or fall into the hands of robbers."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall» (+1); the same doer «giants» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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