Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths

Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1796 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 ✗

Bruh, why'd his mates just ditch him in that pit?

1. Cos he was annoying — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cos they fancied his dinner — no support
3. Cos they wanted his share of the cash — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Cos he nicked their tools — 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 ✗

Lowkey, what got him out of the pit?

1. A big mate who pulled him up by a rope from the top — no support
2. A scorpion showing him a tiny hole — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A bird flying over the pit — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. A snake pointing to the rock — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1577, line 4: «The King is horrified by his bride, but the feast is ready, so he must keep her, and he throws the brother into a snake-pit.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who's the big boss snake?

1. The Vizir of the desert — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The King of the Snakes — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The wood-cutters' captain — no support
4. The Sultan — 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 ✗

Was the snake king well chuffed to let him go?

1. Nah, he was actually dead scared, bruv, he wanted him gone asap — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Nah, he was dead scared — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. Nah, he was dead happy about it — score 2
4. Yeah, he was dead chuffed and threw a massive party for him — 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 1739, line 7: «What: his old father wanted him married, so Sigurd wed a King's daughter in a faraway country.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the snake king make him swear?

1. To make him a proper servant — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. So he wouldn't come back and do him in — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. So he'd keep the gold — score 5
4. Cos he was bored — score 1

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 1762, line 7: «What: she sings "I come from my own country far" and makes the king say, "That's something like playing and singing."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «queen» (+2); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the Sultan's actual problem?

1. He's been poisoned by his Vizir — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He's badly ill and needs snake meat — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He's losing his grip on the kingdom and needs a new heir to take over — no support
4. He's properly sick and the wise blokes reckon only snake flesh will sort him — 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 · ★ · right ✓

How'd the Vizir know where to look?

1. Hassebu sent a letter — no support
2. Dudes were watching the baths — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. A snake whispered the location to the palace men at night — no support
4. Spies told him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1796, line 16: «The Vizir had set people to watch the baths for "a man with a strange mark on his chest".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «watch» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What broke Hassebu's promise?

1. The crowds at the baths who pushed him in and made him forget — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. A scorching afternoon sun that made the baths steam like an oven — no support
3. A fight at the market — score 1
4. A heat so roasting he forgot — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1796, line 5: «On a boiling day he forgets his promise, goes to the baths, and is seized by the Vizir, who orders him to lead them to the snakes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «forget» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, what was the sweet stuff in the pit?

1. Date syrup mixed with figs and stolen from the king's garden — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Honey up to the brim — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Honey and wax that the bees had made all over the rock — no support
4. Sweet dates piled high — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did his mum get told?

1. That he had been sold to a merchant and sailed far away — no support
2. That a lion dragged him off into the deep woods and ate him — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. That a lion nabbed him — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A snake bit him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1796, line 7: «What: his neighbours tricked him into a pit of honey and left him there, telling his mother "Your son was caught by a lion".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «lion» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nah, which book did he read?

1. The book of verse — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. The medicine book — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. A map — no support
4. The law book — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1796, line 1: «Hassebu gets bored of every trade he tries, so he just sits at home reading the one medicine book his father left.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «medicine book» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit, who dug the hole out?

1. His brother — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Hassebu with his knife — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. A scorpion — score 2
4. A passing wood-cutter — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1759, line 8: «Where: the hole is dug "in a meadow outside the town," and the tree that grows there has "three stems, all as straight as poplars."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dig» (+1); the same thing acted on «hole» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the instrument with which the protagonist enlarged the aperture in the pit wall.

1. a dagger — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a rusty spade — no support
3. a folding knife — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a sharp stone — 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 ✗

State the condition the King of the Snakes imposed before releasing the protagonist.

1. That he never return to the palace or tell anyone about the snakes — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. That he not sleep in the palace — no support
3. That he not bathe among crowds — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. That he give half his gold to the king before leaving the hall — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1773, line 11: «The snake smells the scent and asks "what smell is that I smell inside", but the old woman tells him it is perfume.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Specify the reason the Sultan's physicians prescribed the flesh of the King of the Snakes.

1. Only the blood could heal the wound — no support
2. Only that flesh could cure the illness — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. They had tried herbs and prayers for years but nothing worked against the illness — score 0
4. The wise men had read that only the flesh of the snake king could cure a fever — 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 1796, line 15: «The Sultan is very ill, and the wise men say only the flesh of the King of the Snakes can cure him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cure» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine the account by which the companions concealed their deception from the protagonist's mother.

1. They said he drowned — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. They said he ran — score 3
3. They claimed a bandit had kidnapped him — no support
4. They reported a lion had abducted him — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 1009, line 9: «Why: John's companion heard the magician's plan in the mountain and told John about a "dream."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3). 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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