Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident in the cave, then a lonely walk to a copper castle

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 179 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, did the young dude really stab himself with the knife?

1. No way, the knife slipped from his hand and hit him in the heart, mate, totally by accident — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. No way, it slipped and hit him in the heart — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, he dropped it and it hit his arm — no support
4. Yeah, he jammed it in on purpose, total madness — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 7: «fact: What goes wrong in the cave? "I slipped, and fell right upon the young man, the knife going straight into his heart."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «knife» (+3); the same place «heart» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, why was Sinbad hiding up in that tree?

1. Hiding from ghosts — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Scared, dunno — no support
3. He wanted to watch the sea from up there — score 5
4. He was scared the old man would blame him — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 179, line 9: «fact: What does Sinbad do with the stone? He raises it to block the staircase and makes everything fast as before.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sinbad» (+5). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, how long was he stuck on that island?

1. Like a whole month, proper ages — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Like a whole month, proper ages, and I nearly went mad with it all — no support
3. Ages and ages, like a whole year of misery stuck out there alone — no support
4. About a whole year, honestly innit — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 12: «fact: Where is Sinbad when the island changes? He is "for a whole month" walking over the island, looking for a way out.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the castle actually made of copper, or what?

1. Yeah, it was all red copper — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, it was all red brick — no support
3. Nah, it was made of gold plates, not copper, honest — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, it was pure white marble — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 173, line 2: «Alone and hungry, he wanders for a month until he reaches a green city, where a kind tailor takes him in and warns him of danger.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «reach» (+3); the same thing acted on «green city» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, why were the ten young men all blind in one eye?

1. Nobody knew why, the old man never said a word about it to anyone at all — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. That was the weird bit nobody got — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nobody ever told him, it was just odd — no support
4. They were born like that, honestly — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 164, line 13: «The third old man: his tale is never told, because the narrator says "I cannot tell you what it was, as I do not know."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «narrator» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Sinbad get to eat at the castle or not?

1. Yeah, he scoffed the whole supper, proper hungry, and asked for more of the wine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, the old man gave him nothing at all — no support
3. Nah, he refused the supper and sat in the corner, proper sulking all night long — no support
4. Yeah, he scoffed the supper, proper hungry — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What was the black gunk they smeared on their faces?

1. Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, all mixed — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, mixed with blood and sea salt from the shore — ← Mova's choice · score -6
3. Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, all mixed together with some kind of old goat fat — no support
4. Soot and oil from the castle lamps, mixed up — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 5: «explain: The castle belongs to a tall old man and ten young men who are all blind in one eye and smear ashes on their faces.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «ashes» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honestly, did Sinbad keep his mouth shut the whole time?

1. Nah, he kept asking loads of questions and couldn't stop himself from talking at all — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Yeah, he stayed quiet and kept his head down — no support
3. Yeah, he never said a word, not even when the old man shouted at him for an hour — no support
4. Nah, he kept asking questions, couldn't help it — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 87, line 12: «For «Yah!» Taffy says it is «a mixy noise»; they draw the carp's tail, separately, for the yer-part: «If they're joined, I'll forget.»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «mixy noise» (+4); the same doer «mouth» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did they sew him up in a sheep-skin, bruv?

1. To hide him from the old man's wrath — no support
2. So a bird would think he was lunch — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. So a massive roc would take him for a sheep — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. To scare the slaves — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 166, line 11: «In the parrot tale, the husband kills the bird because he is "convinced that the parrot was not speaking the truth".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «bird» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the roc actually drop him or what?

1. Nah, it carried him high up and set him down gently on a mountain top far away — score 0
2. Nah, it carried him up and set him on a mountain — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. Yeah, it dropped him in the sea below — score 0
4. Yeah, it dropped him from the sky onto the rocks below, but he survived somehow — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 140, line 3: «A Tortoise begs an Eagle to teach him to fly, and the Eagle drops him from the sky onto a rock.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+2); the same place «sky» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, was that roc huge or what?

1. Massive, it could lift an elephant to its nest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Pretty big, yeah — no support
3. Massive, it could carry a whole ship away — no support
4. Huge, yeah, it was bigger than a house — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the castle with gold plates sound dodgy or sick?

1. Sick, the walls were covered in gold leaf — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Dodgy, the gate always slams shut behind you, and the gold plates are all fake, mate — no support
3. Sick, the gate always stays open for you, and the rooms are full of gold and jewels — no support
4. Sick, the gate always stays open for you — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the immediate cause of the young man's death according to the narrative?

1. the knife in his hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the knife entering his heart after Sinbad's fall — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a blade thrust by the old man's servant — no support
4. the wound to his arm from an earlier fight — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately identifies the physical feature shared by the ten young men as described in the passage?

1. a scar on face — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a shared weak left leg — no support
3. missing the left hand fingers — no support
4. blindness in the right eye — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following is the stated purpose of the young men's nightly ceremony as they themselves declare it?

1. to lament the bitter fruit of idleness and their own wicked lives, every single night — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. to celebrate their wealth and their feast — no support
3. to lament the fruit of idleness and wicked lives — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. to mourn the wicked ways of the old man — 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 ✓

Which of the following best describes the means by which Sinbad is transported from the castle to the mountain top?

1. he is sewn into a sheep-skin and carried aloft by a roc — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. he is sewn into a sheep-skin and carried aloft by a roc that drops him on a mountain top — score 2
3. he is sewn into a fresh sheep-skin, tied with cords, and borne away by a giant roc to the peaks — score 2
4. he is wrapped in a cloth and lowered down by ropes — 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 179, line 16: «fact: Who sews Sinbad into the sheep-skin? The ten young men do, and they warn him about the roc.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sew» (+2); the same place «sheep skin» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «sinbad» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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