Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle

Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1687 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 ✗

Oi mate, did the Dragon's gran actually lift that stone or what?

1. Yeah, she shifted it with a rope so he could sneak in — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she lifted it so the soldier could hide in the cellar — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she lifted it so the soldier could hide in the cellar, then she lied about it to the Dragon the next morning — no support
4. Nah, the stone was too heavy for anyone, so she dragged the soldier down through the old chimney instead and hid him in the dark loft — 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 ✗

Bruv, why was the grandma being so nice to the soldier anyway?

1. She felt sorry for him and wanted to help him escape the Dragon for good — no support
2. Because the Dragon had told her to keep the soldier safe until morning, no matter what — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. She owed the soldier money from years back — no support
4. She felt sorry for him, so she helped him out — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1687, line 8: «fact: She hides him in the cellar under a large stone, and she tells him to "sit still and don't stir" so the Dragon does not hear him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «soldier» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, did the Dragon actually spill the answers to his gran?

1. Yeah, he boasted about it at supper, innit — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Nah, he kept it secret — score 2
3. Nah, the soldier overheard him and told her — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. No, never — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1687, line 1: «explain: The Dragon's grandmother hides the third soldier under a stone in her cellar so he can overhear the Dragon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «overhear» (+2); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Proper mad, the soldier got out through the window, yeah?

1. Yeah, he sneaked out that way and ran back to his mates — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. Nah, he crawled out under the cellar stone and went home — score 2
3. Yeah, he climbed out and hid in the woods nearby — no support
4. Yeah, through the window — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1569, line 7: «The soldiers tie her arms and legs and fling her into the river, but she "rose to the surface" and struggled to land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «arms» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

So what was the roast meat then, the sea-cat thing?

1. A large sea-cat from the North Sea, cooked over a fire of driftwood for the Dragon's table — score 0
2. A dead sea-cat that the soldiers had found washed up on the North Sea shore at dawn — no support
3. A dead sea-cat from the North Sea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A seal caught near the old harbour — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1687, line 11: «fact: The roast meat is a dead sea-cat from the North Sea, and the Dragon's riddle answers are all things that sound silly or impossible.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Fiend take the three soldiers down with him?

1. Nah, the answers saved them so they stayed up top — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Yeah, the Fiend took two of them down below — no support
3. Yeah, all three went down — score 4
4. Nah, the Fiend left them behind in the sea — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 353, line 16: «The ungrateful soldier takes the farm of the farmer who saved him, and is branded with "THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «save» (+2); the same thing acted on «soldier» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What was the spoon meant to be, though?

1. A whale's tooth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The rib of a whale — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A fin — no support
4. The jaw of a seal — 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 ✗

And the wineglass, what was that?

1. Glass — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. An old horse's hoof — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A cup — no support
4. A metal bowl — 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 9 · ★ · right ✓

Why did the Dragon go mad at the end?

1. He was angry about the whip — score 3
2. Because the answers beat him and he flew off shrieking — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Because the three soldiers told him the answers out loud — score 0
4. Because the soldiers had tricked him with a riddle — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1687, line 15: «fact: The Dragon "hummed and hawed", an old phrase meaning he hesitated and made noises of doubt because he did not know what to say.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Right, the whip, what did they do with it in the end?

1. They whipped out loads of money whenever they wanted — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. They traded it for food at the village market — no support
3. They whipped out loads of money whenever they wanted, and shared it all with the Dragon's servants — no support
4. They used it to buy the whole village and then whipped out a palace for their king to live in — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, was the old hunter lady a proper witch then?

1. Yeah, she knew the wishing-cloak and gold tricks, dead sure — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, she was a witch but only sort of, really — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Nah, just an old lady — score 2
4. Nah, she only had a cloak, nothing magic about it — 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 647, line 13: «The witch says each kiss "will be a spell to bring me to you" when sorrow comes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «witch» (+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 ✗

How many birds were there in that tree, mate?

1. One — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Nine birds, all black — score 3
3. Seven — score 1
4. Nine — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1626, line 17: «Old word: "betrothed" means the one you are promised to marry; today we say "fiancé" or "fiancée."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Hunter got the gold because he ate the bird's heart?

1. Nah, he gave it away — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, he swallowed it, and the witch sold him gold — score 4
3. Yeah, he swallowed it whole, then the gold came every morning — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Nah, he ate the cloak and got the gold that way — 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 77, line 15: «The hunter asks "the present habitat of the aboriginal Fauna", which means "where the wild animals of this land live now" ("aboriginal" here = there from the b…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «long words» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following best describes the action by which the Dragon's grandmother concealed the third soldier beneath the flagstone of her cellar?

1. She raised the heavy stone, bade him keep still, and concealed him beneath it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. She lifted the stone with both hands, whispered that he must keep silent, then set it back over him in the cellar — score 3
3. She heaved the great flagstone aside, ordered him to lie still in the dark, and then sealed him in beneath it — score 3
4. She pushed the cellar door open and sent him down to hide — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 459, line 12: «The mother hides her son well, "hiding him behind a number of cushions, so that Vikhor might not easily discover him."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the material from which the Dragon's wineglass was to be fashioned, as stated in the riddle answer given by the third soldier.

1. The shell of a sea turtle — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The hollow hoof of a dead horse, carved and polished by the soldiers' own hands — no support
3. The hollow hoof of a dead horse — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The hoof of a living horse that the Dragon had ridden across the sea to fetch — 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 · wrong ✗

State the sum of the conditions under which the Fiend declared that the soldiers should be released from their bargain.

1. If they could name what the Dragon would pay them for every answer and every dish set upon his table — score 5
2. If they could name the payment for the Dragon's whole feast — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. If they could name what they would receive for their roast meat — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. If they could answer the riddle — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1477, line 10: «The gift: "at every word you speak, there shall come out of your mouth either a flower or a jewel" for the kind girl, and snakes or toads for the rude one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Describe the outcome for the soldiers after the Dragon had been defeated by their answers in the final part of the tale.

1. They were rich and went home — no support
2. They escaped the Dragon but lost the whip to the Fiend, and became poor again — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. They were freed from the Dragon's power, kept the whip, and used it to gain wealth for the rest of their lives in the town — no support
4. They were freed from the Dragon's power and retained the whip, through which they obtained wealth — ✓ 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 656, line 8: «Where: the Prince runs along the street to the "dragonproof tower" to escape the dragon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «escape» (+2); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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