Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devours his people, and his youngest son sets out to slay it

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1795 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 ✗

Bro, did the sultan really say "my cat" even when it ate a kid?

1. Yeah, bro, he said it every single time — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Yeah, bana, he did, every single time — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, bana, he said it only once, fam — score 1
4. Yeah, bana, he did — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 129, line 13: «Who: the wise Woman tells her to say "Little kid, milk Table, appear!" to get food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «little kid» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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 ✗

Wait, so the cat went from calf to camel to a whole man?

1. Yeah, fam, it went up the menu fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, fam, it went from calf to camel to donkey to cow to a whole man in no time at all — score -1
3. Yeah, bro, it went from kid to cow — score -1
4. Nah, fam, it went from the calf to the cow and then to a mountain where it ate the slaves too — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1686, line 21: «Old word: a "kernel" is the soft inner part of a nut, the part you eat; today we still use the word in the same way.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «part» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Sawa, so the youngest son was the only one not at the wheat field?

1. Nah, he was at the field — no support
2. Yeah, he stayed home with his mama — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Yeah, he was home with mama — no support
4. Nah, he went to the wheat, fam — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1795, line 4: «His youngest son, who stayed home with his mother, sets out alone to hunt the monster called the Nunda.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «stay» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Poa, so how many brothers got eaten in the thicket?

1. Four, bro, four of them — no support
2. Two, bro — no support
3. Three, bro, three of them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. Three, bro — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1795, line 3: «The sultan takes his six sons to see the wheat, and the cat springs from a thicket and kills three of them.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the boy scared of anything in the bush?

1. Yeah, the bush scared him — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Nah, nothing fazed him, not even the Nunda — ✓ the right answer · score -2
3. Nah, he was scared of the dark, fam — score -1
4. Yeah, he was scared of the Nunda, bro — 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 1434, line 9: «The sexton's plan: to frighten the boy, but the youth knocks the white figure down the stairs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «frighten» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «boy» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fresh, what did his mama say the Nunda looked like?

1. Big ears and stripes like a zebra — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Small ears, spots like a civet-cat, and a tail as long as a camel's neck — no support
3. Huge ears and black stripes all over, like a zebra mixed with a big hyena and a lion — no support
4. Small ears and spots like a civet-cat — ✓ 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 ✗

Did the slaves really find the Nunda on the first day?

1. Nah, the tracks were fake, every single day — no support
2. Yeah, they really found it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Nah, the footprints were fake, every single time — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, they found the tracks, bro — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 212, line 4: «A slave finds the magic lamp left on a shelf, and the princess swaps it for a copper one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Noma, did the boy get a new crown after the Nunda died?

1. Yeah, the sultan gave him a new crown and a palace near the mountain and the river — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Nah, the people gave him presents and love — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Nah, they gave him gold and some cows — score 2
4. Yeah, they gave him a new crown, bro — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1457, line 2: «They give him the Shoes of Swiftness, and he flies north to the Three Gray Sisters, who share one eye between them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hii ni noma, what made the slaves run away from the Nunda?

1. The spears scared them off, fam, they ran — score 2
2. The spears had done the work and the slaves got scared when the Nunda roared at them all — score 1
3. The spears did it, so they ran away — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. The spears had done the work, and they got scared — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 351, line 14: «Androclus is a slave whose cruel master made him run away into a "wild wood."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run away» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Did the boy hide the food so they could eat later?

1. Yeah, he told them to hide it in the thicket by the river so the Nunda would not find it — score 3
2. Yeah, he told them to bury it, bro — score 3
3. Yeah, he told them to hide it in the thicket — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nah, he told them to throw it away, because the food would make the Nunda come to them faster. — 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 1794, line 10: «Why: the boy wants to prove himself, so he tells his father "this year you shall eat dates".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the people were happy with the boy in the end?

1. Nah, they were still scared and angry with him, so they sent him off to the far hills alone. — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Yeah, they sang and loved him for killing it, and the sultan gave him a huge feast in the town — score 3
3. Yeah, they sang and loved him for killing it — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nah, they cried and blamed him for it — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 344, line 2: «The next day the young man comes by again, but he is no longer happy. He has left his red coat at home and keeps sighing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sawa, was the cat ever scared of the sultan?

1. Nah, the sultan tried, but failed, fam — no support
2. Nah, the sultan never even tried to kill it, but he sent his soldiers to the hills to hunt it every day for years. — score 1
3. Nah, the sultan never even tried to kill it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, the cat ran from the sultan every time he came near with his soldiers and his spears — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1795, line 7: «What: the sultan says "The cat is mine" each time it eats something, and even says "Let it even eat a man."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

What is the principal reason the sultan gives for refusing to destroy the cat, as recorded in the passage?

1. He says the cat is his — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. He asserts that the cat, and all it has taken, belong to him — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. He argues the cat must be spared since it is his own beast — score 3
4. Because it is his cat — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1795, line 10: «Why: the youngest son goes after the cat because "What I have said, I cannot take back."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which relative of the youngest son is recorded as having first warned him about the appearance of the beast?

1. The old slave who guarded the house gate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. His brother — no support
3. The eldest of his six brothers — no support
4. His mother — ✓ 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 ✗

In what manner does the youngest son respond when his father and mother beg him to abandon the pursuit?

1. He declines, affirming that he will continue the search each day — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He declines, affirming that he will continue the search each day until the beast is slain and the sultan is made to see the truth — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. He agrees, promising to return home with the cat's head soon — score 0
4. He refuses, vowing to keep hunting the beast every single day — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1362, line 15: «The father's realization: "Your face is as like your mother's as the two sides of a melon."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «father» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What is the final outcome of the youngest son's expedition, as described in the passage?

1. He slays the Nunda and is received with joy and honour by the people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He returns home alone — no support
3. He kills the Nunda and the sultan takes back the crown from him — no support
4. He traps the Nunda and is praised by the sultan and his court — 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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