Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1655 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 ✓
Bruh, so the troll made him a hare for a whole year, right?
- 1. Yep, a full year, no cap — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nope, one week — no support
- 3. Yeah, like three months — no support
- 4. Yeah, a bit — 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 ✗
Wait, what even is a bushel, like a bag of crisps?
- 1. A tub for holding sweets — no support
- 2. A box for storing gold coins — no support
- 3. Like a sack — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. A big old measure for grain — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 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 1098, line 15: «At home his wife "smiled" because she thinks her husband is mad, and she waits to see what he does.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wait» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, the raven got two bushels, how dope is that, fam?
- 1. Two bushels, that's lowkey massive for a bird, fam, no cap — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Two bushels, lowkey massive — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Three bushels, pretty wild — no support
- 4. Two bushels, honestly wild — 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 ✗
So he turned into a fish and the palace was under the sea, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, a castle on the seabed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, a palace near the shore — no support
- 3. Yeah, glass palace at the bottom — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, glass palace at the bottom of a deep ocean trench, bruh — 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 ✗
Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real?
- 1. Yup, from rocks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, they came from mussel shells — no support
- 3. Yup, they spouted from snail shells — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yup, they sprayed from pearl bowls — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Why was the girl all sad, did she have no friends, mate?
- 1. Yeah, she had no one around — score 1
- 2. Nah, she had friends — score 1
- 3. Nah, she was just bored a bit — score 1
- 4. Yeah, she was lonely by herself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1628, line 9: «Why: Gerda can save Kay because she is "a dear little innocent child" who loves him, and her love thaws his frozen heart.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «gerda» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did she check herself out in the mirror walls, lol?
- 1. Nope, she never checked her face — no support
- 2. Yeah, all the time — no support
- 3. Yeah, she looked at herself a lot — ← Mova's choice · score -3
- 4. Nah, she never even looked at herself — ✓ the right answer · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1481, line 2: «She runs downstairs and opens the forbidden closet, where the floor is covered in blood and dead women lie against the walls.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 4, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Did the fish-lad say the troll's words to turn back into a man?
- 1. Nope, he just sat there sulking — score 1
- 2. Yeah, he shouted something random — no support
- 3. Yeah, he remembered them and said them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nah, he tried but he forgot the words, so he stayed a fish for ages, bruh — 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 1518, line 6: «Who: the Black Thief, also called the Thief of Sloan, tells his tale to save the youngest prince.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «thief» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
So the girl's dad was the troll, which is super messed up, right?
- 1. Yeah, she was his daughter, locked away — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 2. Yeah, she was his niece, kept hidden — no support
- 3. Nah, she was his stepdaughter, but he treated her like a servant and kept her locked away — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. Yeah, she was his daughter, and he locked her away in the glass palace under the sea — score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1511, line 15: «The ring lets him travel by wishing, but he must not throw it away or name the sisters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «troll» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); the same property (-2). The right option, 1, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
What happens to the king if he can't pay the troll, like, for real?
- 1. He loses his head, sadly, and the troll takes his whole kingdom too — score 5
- 2. He loses his head, sadly — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. He gets thrown in jail — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. He loses his crown, sadly — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1652, line 12: «The princess is called "ugly" in the text, and she has not "been able to find any man to wed her."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+5); the same thing acted on «princess» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
The lad's gonna lend him six bushels, that's the plan, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, six bushels, and he plays the fool at the troll's place, which is wild, mate — score 2
- 2. Yeah, six bushels, and he plays the fool — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nah, he lends ten bushels, and he has to play the fool in the troll's hall for days — score 2
- 4. Yeah, five bushels, and he's the clown — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1655, line 5: «She reveals a plan: the lad will lend six bushels to a king who owes her father, and he will play the fool to win her back.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «play» (+1); the same thing acted on «fool» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
So he has to act like a total fool and smash stuff at the troll's place?
- 1. Yeah, a total fool, smashing windows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Nah, he's chill — no support
- 3. Yeah, a total clown, breaking doors — no support
- 4. Yeah, smash stuff — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 468, line 13: «The palace: the fool wishes for it to "stand immediately opposite the King's palace," and it is done at once.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «palace» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Ok last one, the king gets three questions like a quiz, right?
- 1. Yeah, five questions or he gets fined — no support
- 2. Yep, three questions — no support
- 3. Yep, three questions or he loses his life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Yep, one riddle or he loses his crown — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1328, line 7: «What: the fairy gives Tephany three gifts, a copper pin, a feather and a necklace, and each one changes her life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «life» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
What form did the troll give the lad at the first transformation?
- 1. A hare, which he kept for one year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 2. A fish, which he kept for one month — score -3
- 3. A hare, which he kept for one season — score -3
- 4. A raven — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1655, line 11: «How: the lad gets his shape back by thinking, "until he remembered the sound of what the troll said".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «hare» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
By what means did the lad regain his human shape beneath the sea?
- 1. By calling for help from the king — score -6
- 2. By recalling and speaking the troll's words aloud while floating up to the surface of the sea — score 2
- 3. By kissing the glass palace floor and reciting every spell the troll had ever taught him — no support
- 4. By recalling and speaking the troll's words — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 1142, line 20: «Old words: "leeward" and "windward" are the sides away from and facing the wind, and "tarry" means to linger or wait.», 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan?
- 1. Six bushels of money, borrowed against his own future and freedom — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Six full bushels of gold and silver coins stacked in the king's great hall — no support
- 3. Five bushels of silver — no support
- 4. Six bushels of money — ✓ 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 ✗
Of what material were the furnishings of the glass palace constructed?
- 1. White ivory inlaid with gold and pearl — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Black ebony inlaid with silver and jade — no support
- 3. White ivory inlaid with gold and pearl, polished every morning by the troll's servants — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Carved ebony and white ivory, inlaid with gold, pearl, and bright precious stones of the sea — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1424, line 12: «Her castle is built of "polished steel", so hot that "no one could approach it without being burnt to a cinder".», 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, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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