Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1531 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 eldest lad do first, mate?
- 1. Went to the tavern and got bladdered on ale all night long — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Went to the tavern and got bladdered — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Went straight to the tavern, ordered a round and got completely bladdered — no support
- 4. Went to the pub and had a pint — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Why was the Norka such a proper nightmare, like?
- 1. It ate the animals every night — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It ate all the animals in the deer park every single night — no support
- 3. It burned the fields at dusk — no support
- 4. It ate the animals every night and bit the guards who tried to stop 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Where did the Norka vanish to, innit?
- 1. In the sea — no support
- 2. Under a big white stone — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Into a deep dark hole — no support
- 4. Under a big white stone at the bottom of a hole — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 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 1531, line 2: «He chases the beast, wounds it three times, and it escapes under a huge white stone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «beast» (+1); the same place «huge white stone» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the youngest son proper brave or just lucky?
- 1. Lucky, he found the hole by chance — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Brave, he went out alone at midnight — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Brave, he went out alone at midnight into the dark deer park — score 1
- 4. Brave, he went out alone at midnight with no help from anyone — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1367, line 17: «Old word: "fain" means gladly or willingly; the King "would fain have kept him as a son," so he wanted it very much.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
What did the brothers do when he went down the hole?
- 1. They waited by it, as he'd told them, for three whole days — score 7
- 2. They waited by it all night long, arguing over who should go down — score 7
- 3. They left and went to the tavern — score 7
- 4. They waited by it, as he'd told them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1516, line 5: «On the road the brothers meet the Thief of Sloan, who warns them about the bells, and they wait for night near the Knight's castle.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «wait» (+2); the same doer «brothers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the lady in the copper palace, like?
- 1. His sister, the Norka's own sister, cursed in a copper palace — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. His sister, a cursed princess — no support
- 3. Her brother, the old Norka's wife — no support
- 4. His sister, the Norka's own sister — ✓ the right answer · 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 948, line 15: «WHERE: The lady goes "down into the garden, to the lake where the water-lily bloomed."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lady» (+1); the same place «garden» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the horse say to him, mate?
- 1. Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited in this dreadful place for you — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Greetings, Ivan, I have waited long — no support
- 3. Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hail, Prince Ivan, long have I waited here for you to come — 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 ✓
Which sister had the proper golden gaff?
- 1. The youngest, in the golden palace — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The middle one, in the silver house — no support
- 3. The eldest, in the copper hall — no support
- 4. The middle one — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did the Norka's head go when it got chopped off?
- 1. It fell off, crying out loudly — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. It rolled off, saying "I'm done for," and sank into the sea — score 5
- 3. It bounced away, yelling in pain — score 5
- 4. It rolled off, saying "I'm done for" — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 996, line 17: «She prays, "Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will", and her head sinks on her bosom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «head» (+3); the same action «sink» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Prince leave his sisters behind, yeah?
- 1. No, he took all three out — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. No, he took all three out of the palace with him — score 3
- 3. No, he took all three out and left the palaces standing — score 3
- 4. No, he left one behind — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 721, line 12: «The second youth also "took the big bit at once and soon ate it up," so the prince left him in the same way.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «youth» (+3); the same action «leave» (+1); the same doer «prince» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did the sisters pack their gaffs up, like?
- 1. They sold them — no support
- 2. They made them into eggs — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. They turned them into eggs — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. They made them into stones — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1531, line 20: «Old word: "enchantresses" means women who work magic; the three sisters can turn palaces into eggs and back again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «three sisters» (+3); the same place «eggs» (+3); the same action «turn» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Who pulled the lot of them up at the end, mate?
- 1. His brothers, on the rope — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. His two elder brothers, pulling hard on the rope at the top — score 0
- 3. His brothers, on the rope, with the help of the servants — no support
- 4. His elder brothers, by hand — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 498, line 1: «Zeus and his brothers draw lots to share the world: Zeus takes the heavens, Aides the Underworld, and Poseidon the sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «lots» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «zeus» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Pursuant to the King's proclamation, what reward was offered to the person who destroyed the Norka?
- 1. One half of the kingdom and a palace full of gold coins — score -3
- 2. One third of the treasury — score -3
- 3. One half of the kingdom — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 4. Half the royal city — ← Mova's choice · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 990, line 9: «Why: the king has offered a royal prize, and the narrator wants it, so he asks the elves how to make the soup.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the brothers, on the third night, took his arms and entered the deer park?
- 1. The eldest — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. The middle son — score 6
- 3. The youngest son — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. The second brother — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1017, line 3: «After the show, Joanna steps out of her carriage, but she does not recognize Knud, and a man with a star takes her arm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same thing acted on «arm» (+2); the same action «take» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What object was the youngest son's rope, as ordered by his father, composed of?
- 1. Linen, twisted together — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Leather, plaited to a great length and strengthened with iron — no support
- 3. Strong leather, carefully plaited and braided to the length required — no support
- 4. Leather, plaited to length — ✓ 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which material did the beast's sister's palace consist of, in the order in which the Prince visited them?
- 1. Copper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Gold — score 6
- 3. Polished red copper with green roof tiles — no support
- 4. Beaten copper inlaid with silver and precious gems — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1371, line 8: «Where: the Palace lies under the sea, and Monkey Island is "some distance to the south".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «palace» (+4); the same action «lie» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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