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Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales

Tests: 3 of 14 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 157 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 started the bare scrap with the Eagle?

  • 1. The Serpent — ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 2. The Hunter — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 3. The Owl — no support
  • 4. The Farmer — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 157, line 1: «A Woodman offers to show a scared Hunter the lion, but the Hunter only wants its tracks. An Eagle grabs a Serpent, a countryman frees him, and the angry Serpen…», 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 «hunter» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, what gunk did the snake gob into the bloke's horn?

  • 1. Venom — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Ink — no support
  • 3. Poison — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. A whole bottle of sticky bitter stuff from the snake — 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 ✗

Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand?

  • 1. The Crow — no support
  • 2. The Serpent that had been spitting into the horn — no support
  • 3. The bloke who was holding the horn at the time — ← Mova's choice · score 8
  • 4. The Eagle — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 76, line 2: «Just as he is about to eat it, a rude Rhinoceros, whose skin in those days fitted tight with no wrinkles, stomps up; the man scrambles up a palm tree, and the…», 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 right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Wicked, what was the Rogue hiding under his cloak?

  • 1. A little bird — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. A tiny sparrow the Rogue thought nobody would find — no support
  • 3. A small owl — no support
  • 4. A tiny crow — 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 ✗

Proper, what did the Oracle say the bird depended on?

  • 1. Luck — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The gods' wish — no support
  • 3. His own will — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Fate — 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 ✗

Dead gassed, what fancy kit was the Horse so proud of?

  • 1. The grand saddle that he wore on feast days — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The fancy harness that his old master had bought him — no support
  • 3. His posh harness — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. His shiny reins — 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 ✗

Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old?

  • 1. A cart — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 2. A dung-cart — ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 3. A heavy wagon filled with the farm's rotting manure — no support
  • 4. A stone cart — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 157, line 2: «A Rogue bets he can trick the Oracle at Delphi with a hidden bird, but the Oracle says the bird's fate depends on his own will. A proud Horse insults a ploddin…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «proud horse» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «dung cart» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Dog reckon the Wolf was a bit rubbish, or what?

  • 1. He was a very bold and noble creature in every way — no support
  • 2. He was a poor creature — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. He was a brave creature — no support
  • 4. He was the most dangerous animal that the dog had ever seen — ← Mova's choice · 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 93, line 15: «Real life: dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago, while people were still hunters, long before farming.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dogs» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «first animals» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, what was the Wolf really scared of?

  • 1. The master of the dog who guarded the whole flock — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. The Dog's master — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Jupiter — no support
  • 4. The farmer — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, what was left when Grief turned up late?

  • 1. Nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Only some bread — no support
  • 3. Only the crumbs — no support
  • 4. Nothing at all — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, which bird did the Pigeons let in to guard them?

  • 1. The fox that had been stalking the dovecote for weeks — no support
  • 2. The Eagle — no support
  • 3. The Hawk — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 4. The Crow who had been lurking in the nearby oak — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 157, line 4: «The Pigeons hire a Hawk against a Kite, and the Hawk kills far more of them. A grieving Woman and a Farmer marry, but when his oxen are stolen he weeps again,…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «pigeons» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «hawk» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough?

  • 1. To help his wife — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. To eat — no support
  • 3. To sit by the Woman — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. To rest — 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 ✓

Blud, what got nicked while the Farmer was having a cry?

  • 1. Coins — no support
  • 2. His oxen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
  • 3. Milk — no support
  • 4. His boots — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 157, line 4: «The Pigeons hire a Hawk against a Kite, and the Hawk kills far more of them. A grieving Woman and a Farmer marry, but when his oxen are stolen he weeps again,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honestly, what did the Hunter say the hare was meant as?

  • 1. A payment for the horse he had already ridden — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 2. A prize — no support
  • 3. A present — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. A reward — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 13, line 7: «At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «march hare» (+2). 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 · wrong ✗

What was the principal consequence of the Goatherd's excessive provision for the Wild Goats?

  • 1. The goats stayed loyal to the herd but the goatherd lost his way home at dusk — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. They ate the goatherd's whole winter crop — no support
  • 3. They grew so fat that they could no longer climb the hills and died — no support
  • 4. They deserted the flock upon reaching the hills — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓

In the fable of the Woman and the Farmer, what was the agreed resolution to their shared grief?

  • 1. They resolved to marry and live together — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. They agreed to part — no support
  • 3. They promised to share the work in the fields — no support
  • 4. They agreed to split the land — 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 · right ✓

To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed?

  • 1. To Hermes — no support
  • 2. To Death — no support
  • 3. To the gods above — no support
  • 4. To Grief himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 157, line 3: «A Dog brags to himself about chasing a Wolf, but the Wolf says he is running from the Dog's master. Jupiter gives Grief the tears shed for the dead, so it is b…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same receiver «grief» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What conclusion does the Swallow's reply to the Crow most clearly imply?

  • 1. The Crow wanted to be a princess himself and was envious of her story — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Her boasting was not to be trusted — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. The Crow was jealous of the Swallow — no support
  • 4. She was a liar — 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

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