pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1708 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 ✗

Yo, so the bro dropped down a hole on a rope, right?

1. Yeah, into a deep abyss under a big rock — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, down into a deep abyss under a huge rock by the mountain — no support
3. Yeah, into a dark hole by a river — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Nah, he went down a ladder into a cellar under the castle wall with his brothers — 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 1659, line 2: «The witch catches him, and her daughter fattens him in a dark hole on milk and nuts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the castle was copper, lowkey wild, no cap?

1. Nah, it was mostly stone but the doors were copper, bro, and the gate was too — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. Yep, the walls were bronze, bro — no support
3. Yep, the whole place was copper, dude, even the floors and the roof — no support
4. Yep, the whole place was copper, dude — ✓ the right answer · 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 165, line 12: «Why he was shut in: the king sealed him in "this vase of copper" and had it thrown into the sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «copper» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Bruh, the sword was too heavy, so how'd he lift it?

1. He drank three drops from the third sister — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. He ate bread from the first sister — no support
3. He ate an apple — no support
4. He drank two drops from the second sister — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1708, line 2: «Three sisters give him a sword and three drops to drink, and he waits in the castle for the old witch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same thing acted on «sword» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right?

1. Yeah, every hair went clink like pure metal — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Yeah, every single hair went clink like pure metal when it hit the floor — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, it chimed like a bell — no support
4. Nah, it sounded like soft silk brushing the stone, nothing weird at all — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1647, line 5: «At last he reaches the moat, which has no bridge, so he falls asleep and wishes the red ox could drink the water dry.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «reach» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

So the witch came down in an apple-tree and then turned human?

1. Yup, she went from hawk to woman on landing, right by the apple tree — score 1
2. Nah, she flew up to the roof — score 1
3. Yup, she went from owl to man — score 1
4. Yup, she went from hawk to woman on landing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1708, line 3: «The witch lands in an apple-tree, turns from a hawk into a woman, and he chops off her head.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Okay, the magician's kids were in the apple tree, fr?

1. Fr, the magician hid them up there — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Fr, the magician hid them up there in the golden tree so no one could see — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Nah, they were in the cellar — no support
4. Fr, the witch hid them there — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1200, line 15: «Where he finds water: on a hill he sees "a giant tree" with grass, flowers and a spring, and he drinks his fill.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

The big snake crawled up the tree at midnight, lol?

1. Yeah, a big black snake — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, it was a huge wolf that climbed the tree slowly in the dark, lol — no support
3. Yeah, a long thick serpent, real creepy — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, a long thick serpent that slid up the trunk, real creepy — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So he chopped it into bits and sent them to the four winds?

1. Yeah, he burned them — no support
2. Nah, he kept the pieces — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. Yeah, he threw them in the river — score 0
4. Yeah, he scattered the pieces everywhere — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1670, line 9: «Why: the hare is angry that Big Lion "kept all the choice bits for himself", so he wants his revenge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «choice bits» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, the brothers got scared and bounced into the woods, right?

1. Yeah, they flew into the woods in terror and never came back to the castle — score 5
2. Yeah, they flew into the woods in terror — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Yeah, they fled into the forest — score 2
4. Nah, they walked calmly home along the road and told their father everything — score 2

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 1708, line 18: «The brothers flee: when the youth returns, they "flew into the woods in terror," and he forgives them anyway.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «woods» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, he still forgave them? Like, after all that?

1. Yeah, he forgave them all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he never spoke to them again but gave them a share of gold anyway — no support
3. Yeah, he forgave them and shared the treasure — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he forgave them and shared the treasure with them all — 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 ✓

Did his bride recognise him at first sight, no cap?

1. No, not at all — no support
2. Yes, she knew him right away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Yes, she knew him fast — score 2
4. No, she didn't see him — score 2

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 1303, line 9: «fact: Why: the princess recognises him because she had written her name under his arm, so she knows he is the true winner.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

So they live in a golden castle at the end, fr?

1. Yep, in a golden house — no support
2. Yep, with golden windows, happy forever — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, in a wooden hut — no support
4. Yep, in a golden castle with golden windows, happy forever after — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1684, line 12: «The Crab's golden garment is "like the sun", and he rides to the castle on a golden cushion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, his bride was working as a cook for her sisters?

1. Yup, she cooked for them — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Yup, she was the cook for her sisters — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. Nah, she was a maid — score -2
4. Nah, she wasn't — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 463, line 1: «The Princess sets Prince Ivan a riddle, but she cannot solve it, so she must marry him.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following describes the action by which the youngest brother secured the release of the rescued children from the serpent?

1. He severed the serpent's head with a single blow of his sword — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. He struck the snake with his bare hands — score 7
3. He cut its tail — score 7
4. He cut the serpent in two with a blow — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1708, line 3: «The witch lands in an apple-tree, turns from a hawk into a woman, and he chops off her head.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «head» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the substance from which the castle of the witch's daughter was constructed, as stated in the passage.

1. Brass — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Copper — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Tin — no support
4. Iron — 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 number of drops of the restorative liquid which the youth required before he was able to raise the sword.

1. One — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Three — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Two — no support
4. Four — 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 · right ✓

Identify the object by which the youth was lowered to the depths and the manner in which his brothers attempted to deceive him.

1. A rope; they let a heavy stone fall into the hole — no support
2. A rope; they let a heavy stone fall — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. A chain; they dropped a sack — no support
4. A rope; they pushed him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1708, line 4: «His brothers try to drop him by letting a stone fall, but he rescues the children and kills a serpent.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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