Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess
Tests: 5 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1723 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 ✓
Oi mate, who was the one with ears like a bat, the one who heard the King whisper?
- 1. The sharp-eared comrade — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The glutton — no support
- 3. The thirsty comrade — no support
- 4. The marksman with the gun — 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 did the runner just lie down on the grass in the sun?
- 1. He was hungry and the grass was wet — score -1
- 2. He was bored and the sun was low — no support
- 3. He was knackered and the sun was blinding — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He was tired — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 81, line 5: «It is told like a song, with lines that come round again and again ("He had to!"), and it ends with the two tired runners blaming each other: "That's your faul…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «two tired runners» (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the glutton really scoff twelve oxen in one go, innit?
- 1. Yeah, at one sitting, no messing, and then he asked for more bread — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he only ate four, innit — no support
- 3. Yeah, at one sitting, no messing, then he burped and went straight back to the table — no support
- 4. Yeah, at one sitting, no messing — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine? Proper mental!
- 1. Yeah, forty jugs, every bit — no support
- 2. Yeah, forty casks, every drop — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, forty casks, every drop, and he asked for more before the feast ended — no support
- 4. Yeah, forty casks, every drop, then he fell asleep in the cellar for a whole day — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1143, line 6: «Who: Ian is warned by the horse, "Beware lest you fall asleep, and let slip the chance of getting home again."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, how come the bath-room didn't cook the Simpleton like a sausage?
- 1. The thirsty comrade sprayed cold wine — no support
- 2. The straw comrade scattered straw and the walls froze solid because the King's magic failed — no support
- 3. The straw comrade scattered straw so the walls cooled down very quickly — no support
- 4. The straw comrade made the walls freeze — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1723, line 4: «In the iron bath-room, the comrade with the straw makes the red-hot walls freeze, so the Simpleton survives the night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «comrade» (+5); the same action «make» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
So the King wanted to suffocate him in the bath, yeah? What a snake!
- 1. Nah, he cooled it with snow — no support
- 2. Yeah, he left the door open — score -4
- 3. Yeah, he heated it up to boiling, and then he locked the door with a big iron bar — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. Yeah, he heated it up to boiling — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 777, line 3: «The snake is a princess, and she tells him to bear three nights of torment without a word, until she frees him with the Water of Life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «snake» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Ain't the bundle of wood a bit dodgy, like, how did it make a whole army?
- 1. He spread it out on the field and it turned into soldiers at dawn — score 6
- 2. He stacked it and it grew tall — score 6
- 3. He spread it out and it turned into soldiers, who then marched straight to the palace — score 6
- 4. He spread it out and it turned into soldiers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 632, line 5: «When the army advances straight at the Amir, he grows frightened, until the line stops and the whole army salutes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «army» (+5); the same action «grow» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the King just get proper scared of the Simpleton's army, mate?
- 1. Yeah, he said he was powerless, and he gave the Simpleton a palace and gold — score 2
- 2. Yeah, he said he was powerless — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nah, he just laughed loudly — score 2
- 4. Yeah, he ran off to hide — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1193, line 2: «Stalo's three sons are so scared that they run off to their mother, who is tending reindeer on the pastures.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «run off» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Simpleton end up with the Princess or nah?
- 1. Yeah, she fell for him straight away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, she fell for him straight away and they lived happily for years after the wedding feast — no support
- 3. Yeah, she fell for him straight away and married him at the royal palace — no support
- 4. Nah, she married the King instead — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1630, line 13: «Hope: the tree hopes, like Humpty Dumpty, to "marry a princess", and it dreams of a birch-tree it thinks is a princess.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «princess» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the wedding a bit rubbish, or was it sick?
- 1. Sick, loads of food and wine, plus a huge dance that went on for days — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rubbish, only bread and water — no support
- 3. Sick, loads of music and dancing — no support
- 4. Sick, loads of food and wine — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Hang on, what's a betrothal anyway, is it like getting engaged?
- 1. Yeah, a promise to get married — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, it's a kind of fight — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. Nah, a sort of royal banquet — no support
- 4. Yeah, a promise to get married, made in front of the whole court and the King — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 698, line 20: «Old word: "betrothal" means a formal promise to marry, a kind of engagement; "gale" still means a very strong wind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «betrothal» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «formal promise» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, the runner fetched the water in less than no time, that's mad!
- 1. Nah, he dozed off at the well, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he ran really far, innit — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was super fast, proper quick — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, he was super fast, proper quick, and he got back before the sun went down — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Did the King really say I'm powerless in comparison? That's a flex!
- 1. Yeah, he said it to himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Nah, he whispered to the Queen — score -1
- 3. Yeah, mate — no support
- 4. Nah, to the Simpleton — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1723, line 17: «The King says, "I am powerless in comparison with this man," and sends royal robes.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · right ✓
Oi, did the comrades get to eat and drink too or was it just the Simpleton?
- 1. They had loads, the glutton and the thirsty one too, plus the marksman and the others — no support
- 2. Nope, they only watched from the gate — no support
- 3. They had loads, the glutton and the thirsty one too — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. They had loads, the glutton and the thirsty one too, and the runner had a feast as well — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1232, line 12: «He shoots "one or two sea-birds", plucks them, and cooks them for supper, so he can stay alive.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «comrade» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which comrade, possessing the power of hearing, first reported the King's commands to the Simpleton?
- 1. The marksman with the gun — no support
- 2. The thirsty comrade — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. The comrade who carried the bundle of wood to the palace — score 0
- 4. The sharp-eared comrade — ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1723, line 11: «The sharp-eared comrade hears the orders because he has "the miraculous power of hearing."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «comrade» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Upon what condition did the King finally consent to the marriage of the Princess?
- 1. Upon the raising of an army — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Upon the building of a bridge — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Upon the return of the runner — no support
- 4. Upon the raising of an army of soldiers from the bundle of wood — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1528, line 19: «Old word: "woo" means to court someone and try to win their hand in marriage; today we say "ask out" or "propose".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the comrade with the straw prevent the Simpleton from being suffocated?
- 1. By scattering the straw, cooling the walls — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. By prayer — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. By opening the iron door wide — no support
- 4. By pouring cold water on the floor — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 140, line 18: «Old word: "thatch" means the straw or reeds used to cover a roof, which the Kid eats from.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «straw» (+4); the same action «mean» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the eventual response of the monarch upon witnessing the armed host beneath his window?
- 1. He fled the palace — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He acknowledged his own powerlessness — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He sent the Simpleton a letter — no support
- 4. He ordered the army to march — 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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