Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1636 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, did the fox actually beg the prince to chop his head off?
- 1. Yeah, mate, he kept on begging — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he only asked once, bruv — no support
- 3. Yeah, he begged for a bit — no support
- 4. Nah, he didn't — 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 ✗
Innit wild that the prince almost grabbed the golden saddle?
- 1. Nah, he never even looked at it, he walked straight past the saddle — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Proper wild, he nearly did — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Nah, he got close, innit — score 1
- 4. Proper wild, he grabbed it right off the wall and ran — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1427, line 5: «Thorns grow round the castle, and a hundred years later a Prince walks through the wood, finds the sleeping Princess, and she wakes up.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wagwan with the brothers, did they get hanged or what?
- 1. Nah, the fox paid all their debts and rode off with the gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, the king hanged them all — no support
- 3. Yeah, they got hanged, bruv — no support
- 4. Nah, the prince paid their debts — ✓ the right answer · 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who got chucked in the lions' den, fam?
- 1. The youngest prince, bare lions — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. The princess, no lions — score 1
- 3. The youngest prince, but the lions were friendly to him — score 0
- 4. The stable boy, bare lions — ← 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1213, line 3: «Its mother rises from her den, so the youth throws his spear at her and carries the cub off to the camp.», 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 (+2); the same doer «mother» (+1); the same place «den» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Did the bird Grip sing when the prince walked in?
- 1. Yeah, it sang right away and the whole palace heard it sing — score 4
- 2. Nah, it stayed quiet — no support
- 3. Nah, it stayed mute, bruv — no support
- 4. Yeah, it sang right away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1297, line 14: «What does the wife sing to the sleeping prince? She sings "Four long years I was married to thee".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2); the same doer «sing» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, what did the princess do when she was stuck with the brothers?
- 1. She cried her eyes out and begged them to take her home — score 6
- 2. She shouted at the lot — score 6
- 3. She stayed silent and smiled at the brothers the whole way home — score 6
- 4. She cried her eyes out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 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 1609, line 13: «The Princess cries "Don't chase me!" because if she runs "I may fall down and break myself."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «cry» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, why did the prince disguise himself at the palace?
- 1. To be a horse-shoer — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To find his father — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. To spy on the king — score -2
- 4. To be a monk — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1204, line 8: «What happens on the leaps: "Eight times he leaped over the wall and eight times found himself where he had started from".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ayo, did the fox really say he would leave them in the forest?
- 1. Nah, he didn't — no support
- 2. Nah, he took him home, bro — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Nah, he came back, mate — no support
- 4. Yeah, he peaced out there — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 143, line 16: «The Fox is chosen before the race is run, so the judge has to be trusted by both animals.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «choose» (+2); the same thing acted on «fox» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, was the golden horse proper calm or what?
- 1. Nah, it went proper mental and kicked the stable door down — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it snorted at everyone — no support
- 3. Yeah, it stood still like a lamb — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, it reared and kicked the wall — 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 ✗
Bro, who's the dead man the prince helped?
- 1. The youth from the robbers' inn — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The stable lad from town — no support
- 3. The princess's old nurse who died at the palace gate — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 4. The brother from the palace — 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 1636, line 20: «Old word: "neigh" means the loud call of a horse; today it is still the same word for a horse's cry.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «same word» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, what did the fox need the prince to do so he could be free?
- 1. Kill the lions — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Take him back to the palace and bury him quietly — score 2
- 3. Cut off his head — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. Cut off his head with the golden sword at dawn — score 2
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 1613, line 4: «The clever youth tricks a humpbacked shepherd into taking his place, then gathers helpers and makes the king curious.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fam, what was the prince's big hang-up about the fox?
- 1. He was scared, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He feared the lions — no support
- 3. He was scared of the robbers and the king's men at the palace gate — no support
- 4. He couldn't chop his mate — ✓ the right answer · 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Is the prince's dad still blind by the end?
- 1. Yeah, till the bird sings — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, he stays blind till the fox comes back to the palace — no support
- 3. Nah, he sees again now — no support
- 4. Yeah, till the horse neighs — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which object did the fox formally forbid the prince to touch?
- 1. A whip — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. The bridle — score 1
- 3. The golden saddle — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. The iron bridle — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1079, line 4: «A rich man with a blue beard takes a bride, leaves her his keys, and forbids her one little closet.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «forbid» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the prince conduct himself when the fox asked for his head?
- 1. He begged the fox to stop — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. He wept and begged the fox — score 0
- 3. He declined at once, out of deep loyalty to his friend the fox — score -2
- 4. He declined, out of loyalty — ✓ the right answer · score -1
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 138, line 3: «Thieves find only a Cock and want to cook him, but he begs for his life by saying he wakes honest men.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fox» (+1); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+1). Against it: the same action «beg» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the outcome of the prince's disguise at the royal stable?
- 1. He was arrested at once by the guards and taken to the dungeon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was admitted as a farrier and given a room in the palace — no support
- 3. He was jailed at the palace — no support
- 4. He was admitted as a farrier — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
What effect did the bird Grip's song have upon the princess?
- 1. She smiled — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. She sang — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. She fainted — no support
- 4. She cried — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1008, line 13: «the swan: it sings "as never bird sang before", then "the bird's head drooped" and it died at their feet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bird» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «sing» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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