Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him
Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1551 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, did Drakestail actually get his money back or nah?
- 1. Nah, he never found it, because the King had already spent it all on feasts — score 3
- 2. Nah, he never found it, all spent — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Yeah, he got it back at the end, after the King paid him properly in gold — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Yeah, he got it back, sorted — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1551, line 7: «He is owed money by the King, and he wants it back.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+3); the same thing acted on «drakestail» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ayo, why's the fox going in his gizzard, like proper weird?
- 1. He wanted to see the gizzard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He wanted a free ride inside the gizzard, so he made himself small first — no support
- 3. He was scared of the dark and wanted a warm place to hide, innit — no support
- 4. He wanted a free ride, sorted — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, did the turkeys just swarm him or what?
- 1. Yeah, the whole yard went wild and the turkeys ran at him from all corners — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, they were up for it — no support
- 3. Yeah, they all went proper mad and started pecking him from every side — no support
- 4. Yeah, they went proper mad at him — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit wild that the ladder helped him out the well?
- 1. Yeah, she bent down so he could climb up her back and escape the well, bare legend — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, she was a proper hero — no support
- 3. Yeah, she was a proper legend — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, she let him climb on her back so he could get out, proper legend — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
So the river went in the furnace, right? What she do then?
- 1. She flooded the whole furnace so the fire went out, bare calm — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. She put the flames out, sorted — score 0
- 3. She put the fire out, bare calm — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. She flooded it, proper calm — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1551, line 16: «What does River do in the furnace? She "floods" it and puts out the fire, and the people who lit it are drowned.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «river» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «flood» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who got the throne at the end, yo?
- 1. Drakestail, the little duck from the pond, ya, proper — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Drakestail, the duck, ya — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Drakestail, the duck who got his money back, ya — no support
- 4. The wasps, the bees, ya — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, the wasps just stung the King right in the face?
- 1. Nah, just one — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, all of them, proper savage — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, they got him, proper savage — no support
- 4. Yeah, all of them, bare savage — 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 ✗
Why did the King jump out the window though, mate?
- 1. He got stung, so he ran, sorted — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He was stung by the wasps and panicking so badly he jumped straight out, sorted — score 3
- 3. He was stung and panicking, sorted — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. He was stung all over his face and got so panicked he jumped, sorted — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1550, line 13: «The stepmother's daughter gets the shoe on, but the Prince is "very unwilling" to keep his word because she is so ugly and loathsome.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «daughter» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what?
- 1. Yeah, he kept on quacking quack quack the whole way to the palace, non stop — no support
- 2. Yeah, he sang on and on, non stop — no support
- 3. Yeah, quack quack quack, non stop — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yeah, quack quack quack all the way down the road and into the King's hall, non stop — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 43, line 17: «The Mole, «with a touch of pride»: the field-mice «go round carol-singing regularly at this time of the year … they come to Mole End last of all; and I used to…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «sing» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ayy, why did the poultry woman come in, anyway?
- 1. To tell the King about the big fight outside — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To tell the King what happened in the yard — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To bring news of the yard fight and ask the King for more ministers to help — no support
- 4. To run in and tell the King everything that happened in the yard, proper quick — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, was the porter a proper big guy or what?
- 1. Nah, he was just a normal guy who opened the little gate for Drakestail — score -5
- 2. Nah, he was a little dude, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was a massive guy, bro — no support
- 4. Nah, he just opened the little gate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -4, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1339, line 11: «Why the gate stays shut: "there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the giant," so the porter will not open it at night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «open» (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, did the King think he'd won the game?
- 1. Yeah, he reckoned he was winning — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he thought he'd won the whole game and was already celebrating, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was so sure he'd won that he started counting his gold coins, mate — no support
- 4. Yeah, he thought he was dead sure — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, what's a drake anyway, like is it a dog?
- 1. A baby goose, mate, innit — no support
- 2. A kind of bird, bruv — no support
- 3. A male duck, mate, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. A male duck, the one who quacks, so yeah, mate, innit — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1112, line 20: «Hard word: "damsel" is an old word for a young girl, and a "drake" is a male duck.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «male duck» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following best describes the outcome of Drakestail's claim against the King?
- 1. He does not recover the money owed to him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. He gets paid — score 0
- 3. He gets his money from the court — score -2
- 4. He is paid in full by the King — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1527, line 5: «The King finds the Princess, unties her with his own hands, and declares that he loves her with all his heart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). Against it: the same action «find» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner do the wasps defeat the King and his ministers?
- 1. By swarming and stinging them at the palace — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 2. By stinging them so that they flee from the window — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. By stinging them until they fall from the palace — score -2
- 4. By swarming the whole palace and stinging every minister until they flee out of the window — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1529, line 9: «She threw away one worn-out pair of shoes and put on a second pair before setting out again.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of Drakestail's friends extinguishes the furnace intended for his destruction?
- 1. Comrade Wasp's-nest from the hollow tree — score -4
- 2. Ladder — ← Mova's choice · score -3
- 3. River — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 4. Lady-friend Ladder from the old wall — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 859, line 11: «Three long ladders reach only so far, so they bind "two more ladders" to them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-1). The right option, 3, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What is the final circumstance in which Drakestail is found at the close of the narrative?
- 1. Resting on the throne in the palace hall — no support
- 2. Standing beside the empty throne as the crowds cheer and bow down before him — no support
- 3. Seated upon the throne, acclaimed by the people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 4. Crowned and seated on the royal throne — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1551, line 5: «Wasp's-nest and his wasps chase the King and his ministers out of the window, and Drakestail ends up sitting on the throne.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «sit» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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