Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies
Tests: 1 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1585 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 Sigurd really ride the fire or was it Gunnar?
- 1. Gunnar — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gunnar, bruv, yeah — no support
- 3. Nah — no support
- 4. Sigurd, 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 · ★ · right ✓
So why was Brynhild well gutted in the end?
- 1. Sigurd was never hers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Bad luck — no support
- 3. Cos she lost — no support
- 4. Gunnar kept the ring — 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, what made Gudrun kick off at the river?
- 1. Brynhild's big mouth on the ring — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Brynhild said Gudrun was lying about the ring and mouthing off — score 3
- 3. Sigurd's gold went missing bruv — no support
- 4. Brynhild telling everyone that Sigurd had given Gudrun the ring — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1585, line 3: «At the river Gudrun shows the ring, and Brynhild realises that Sigurd was the true rider.», 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 doer «sigurd» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Brynhild proper mad at Gunnar, like, really?
- 1. Nah, not really — no support
- 2. Yeah, she called him a liar — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. Yeah, she called him a coward — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Yeah, she called him a rat — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1585, line 12: «Brynhild calls Gunnar "a coward and a liar" for sending Sigurd to do his deed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brynhild» (+3); the same action «call» (+2); the same receiver «gunnar» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Sigurd get a fair fight, or what?
- 1. Nah, he got stabbed up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he got pinned in bed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, it was fair, bruv — no support
- 4. Nah, stabbed — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was in the bloke's dish, like, the nasty stuff?
- 1. Dragon blood and wolf meat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Serpent venom and wolf meat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Poison stuff — no support
- 4. Poison — 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 ✗
Wait, which sword did Sigurd chuck at the bloke?
- 1. Bow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gram — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Axe — no support
- 4. Dain — 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 ✗
Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what?
- 1. It fled — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Went mad with grief — score 1
- 3. Died of grief, sadly — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Ran off — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1515, line 9: «Why: Ivan agrees to serve her for three days because he wants "an heroic steed," a strong horse that can fly like a bird.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «strong horse» (+2); the same action «fly» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did they send off Sigurd and Brynhild, like, the funeral?
- 1. Burned in a hall — no support
- 2. Ship on fire, out to sea — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Buried in a hill, mate — no support
- 4. Put on a ship and set on fire, sailed away over the water — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 698, line 2: «Sigurd dreams of his father, so he and Lineik flee their stepmother and set a wood on fire behind them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «fire» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Brynhild laugh when Gudrun cried, though?
- 1. Nah, she cried too — no support
- 2. Yeah, she laughed out loud and said Gudrun deserved it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah — no support
- 4. Yeah, she laughed — ✓ 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 1585, line 10: «Why: Gudrun is angry because she says it was Sigurd, not Gunnar, who rode the flame.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «gudrun» (+3); the same action «say» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
So was the dwarf's curse, like, done by the end?
- 1. Yeah, totally fulfilled — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, it came true — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, the Andvari curse was totally fulfilled by the end — score 1
- 4. Yeah, it all came true — score 5
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 1585, line 5: «Sigurd is killed in bed, and he and Brynhild are burned on a ship, so the curse comes true.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «curse» (+3); the same action «come» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, why did Sigurd's heart burst his mail?
- 1. He was too hurt — no support
- 2. Sorrow broke him — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. He was sad — no support
- 4. He was so grieved — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1309, line 14: «His trick: "he had pretended to be ill in order to soften his parent's hearts."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «soften» (+2); the same thing acted on «hearts» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Gunnar ride the fire himself, or what?
- 1. Nah, Gunnar sent Hagen to ride the fire in his place — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Yeah, Gunnar rode the fire himself, mate, bold as anything — score 0
- 3. Nah, he sent Sigurd — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 4. Nah, he sent Gram — no support
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 1585, line 1: «Brynhild tells her father that Gunnar rode the fire, and she agrees to marry him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «fire» (-1); the same doer «gunnar» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the person who traversed the flame in Gunnar's likeness.
- 1. Odin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Atli — no support
- 3. Sigurd — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Högni — 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 · wrong ✗
State the means by which Sigurd's life was terminated within his chamber.
- 1. By fire — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By a stabbing blow — no support
- 3. By poison — no support
- 4. By a sword thrust — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
Specify the object by which Brynhild recognised the deception practised upon her.
- 1. The necklace worn by Gudrun — no support
- 2. Her gold — no support
- 3. The ring given to Gudrun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. The ring that Sigurd gave to Gudrun on the riverbank — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1585, line 14: «Brynhild mixes "serpent's venom and wolf's flesh" and gives it to Gunnar's younger brother.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «ring» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Indicate the manner in which the curse of Andvari was concluded at the tale's end.
- 1. By fire upon a ship — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. By flood — no support
- 3. By sword on land — no support
- 4. By fire on a ship that was pushed out to sea by the men — 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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