Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 155 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 ✗
Mate, who actually nicked the butcher's meat?
- 1. The fox was the one, I reckon, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The fox did, bruv — no support
- 3. Dunno, mate — no support
- 4. Both of them were lying, innit — ✓ 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 ✗
Proper gutted for Hercules, yeah? What did the apple do after he stamped on it?
- 1. Got fatter, like, yeah — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Got bigger, like proper big — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Shrank, mate — no support
- 4. Went flat, bruv — 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 ✗
Wait, what's the apple called again?
- 1. The apple of Eris, mate — no support
- 2. Some apple thing that made the gods fight, mate, I forget the name — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. The apple of eternal strife among the gods, innit — no support
- 4. The apple of discord, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 103, line 15: «The King says, "You may make three requests, but they must be inanimate things."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «three requests» (+4); the same action «make» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did the fox go off on his own, like?
- 1. Too small, mate — no support
- 2. His share was rubbish, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Lion robbed him, bruv, proper — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Dunno, bruv — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 144, line 11: «What: In the Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox, the Lion is "testily" cross, because a Mouse tickled him awake.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «mouse» (+1); the same thing acted on «fox» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep?
- 1. A little ram, mate — no support
- 2. A hen, mate — no support
- 3. A goose, innit — no support
- 4. A lamb, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 155, line 11: «The fox tries to steal a lamb, but the shepherd "set his dogs on him" and he is caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fox» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «lamb» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Did the doctor say the sick bloke was done for?
- 1. Yeah, under a day left, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he's fine, innit mate — no support
- 3. Nah, he'd got loads of time, bruv, but the lads were worried — no support
- 4. Yeah, under a day left, so get the vicar round, mate — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Who came strolling back from the other world, like?
- 1. The sick bloke, pale as a ghost and looking dead as a doorknob — no support
- 2. The sick bloke, pale as a ghost — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. The old geezer, pale and grey — no support
- 4. The whole village, creeping back from the grave like zombies, innit — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 154, line 15: «A sick man vowed a hundred oxen, but "hadn't an ox in the world," so he made them out of tallow.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «man» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wot did the fox say the lion needed for his cure?
- 1. Blood of a fox, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Skin off a wolf and his tail too, proper gross, bruv — no support
- 3. Hide off a wolf that's been dead for a week, mate, innit — no support
- 4. Skin off a wolf, bruv — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · right ✓
What did the lion do to the wolf, proper?
- 1. Struck him dead, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Chased him off, bruv — score 7
- 3. Sent him away, innit — score 7
- 4. Ate him, mate — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 155, line 5: «A sick lion is told to wrap himself in a wolf's skin, so he kills the wolf by mistake, and the fox just laughs.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sick lion» (+4); the same thing acted on «lion» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did the wolf have a go at the fox, innit?
- 1. Pinched his dinner, innit — no support
- 2. Old beef between them, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Wolf was just jealous of the fox and his fancy new job, innit, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. They had old beef going back years over a stolen lamb, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 138, line 2: «The animals make the dancing Monkey their King, but the jealous Fox tricks him into a trap with a piece of meat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did Hercules blank Plutus, like?
- 1. Plutus kept company with scoundrels and thieves and was no friend to honest men — no support
- 2. Plutus had cheated Hercules out of his wealth and then ran off laughing, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Plutus hung with scoundrels — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Plutus was a proper thief — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 155, line 15: «Hercules ignores Plutus because "he was to be found in the company of scoundrels."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «hercules» (+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
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
What did the Hedgehog propose to the Fox regarding the horseflies?
- 1. To drive the flies away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. To catch the flies quickly — no support
- 3. To trap them in a jar — no support
- 4. To kill the flies — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 7: «Alice soon decides it is «a very difficult game indeed»: her hedgehog unrolls itself and crawls away, the ground is full of ridges and furrows, and the soldier…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hedgehog» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
In the fable concerning the Witch, what did the judge reproach her for?
- 1. Stealing from her neighbours — no support
- 2. Failing to disarm men's enmity — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Failing to heal the sick — no support
- 4. Failing her spells — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 155, line 17: «A judge asks the Witch "How comes it, then, that you have failed to disarm the enmity of men?"», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «disarm» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Who appeared before the Old Man when he called upon Death?
- 1. Death, who offered to serve him as a faithful servant for the rest of his days — score 4
- 2. Death, who offered to serve him — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. A tall stranger in black — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 4. The god Mercury, who guided souls — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 65, line 1: «The Rat grips Toad by the scruff of the neck and hauls him up into his hall, dripping with mud and weed. At once Toad starts boasting: prison, escape, disguise…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «rat» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which fable records Hercules's conduct toward the god of wealth?
- 1. Hercules and Plutus — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. Hercules and the apple of discord among the gods — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. Hercules and the Hydra — score 0
- 4. Plutus and the Witch — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 155, line 2: «Hercules stamps on a strange apple, and it swells until it blocks the whole road, and Minerva tells him to leave it alone.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «apple» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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