Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end
Tests: 6 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1809 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, who fixed that wounded mare in a flash?
- 1. Iliane — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. Sunlight — score -2
- 3. the hermit — no support
- 4. the nun who guarded the holy vase by the river — 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 1809, line 7: «What: she heals the wounded mare "in a moment", and "there was not even a mark on its glossy skin".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «iliane» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the princess well chuffed about milking them in the ice?
- 1. no, she was quite upset — score 4
- 2. nope, she hated it — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. yeah, she was dead chuffed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. yeah, she was a bit cross — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1352, line 16: «why: Princess Terute hated her step-daughter, because she wanted her "own son" to have all the love of his father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hate» (+5); the same doer «princess» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Who was the mate that sorted out the holy water route?
- 1. Sunlight the horse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the old nun — no support
- 3. Iliane the princess — no support
- 4. Fet the horse — 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Was the nun just having a kip when the princess sneaked past?
- 1. yeah, she was kipping on the step — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. yeah, she was snoring in the choir — no support
- 3. no, she was wide awake — no support
- 4. no, she was up at the altar — 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 1618, line 16: «How: he creeps "through the window into the princess's room" and kisses her while she sleeps.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+5); the same doer «princess» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
When the hermit got his mad curse on, what did he want?
- 1. the thief swapped sexes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the thief to be turned into a toad for ever — score 2
- 3. the thief to be cursed to wander the roads for seven years with no food — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. the thief went blind — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1809, line 13: «The hermit's curse is that "if the thief was a man, he might become a woman", and the reverse for a woman.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «curse» (+5); the same doer «hermit» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the princess get well made up about turning into a bloke?
- 1. no, she was gutted, honest — no support
- 2. yeah, she was made up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yeah, she was well pleased — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. no, she was gutted — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1492, line 12: «The silver knight rides two-thirds of the way, and the Princess is pleased with him, "liked this knight still better."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did the emperor end up as a pile of cinders?
- 1. the nun cast a spell on him — score 2
- 2. the horse blew a fiery wind on him — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. the emperor's own guards set fire to his palace while he slept in the tower — score 5
- 4. the horse kicked him in the head — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1775, line 20: «Old word: a "dust-heap" was a pile of rubbish; today we say a rubbish tip.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+4); the same circumstance (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Iliane reckoned her fella should've fetched the water himself, right?
- 1. yeah, the road was quite safe — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, there was no risk at all, the guard was asleep and the path was clear — no support
- 3. yeah, there was no risk at all — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. no, the river was too deep — 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 9 · ★ · right ✓
Who was it that said the cock sings, not the hen?
- 1. Fet-Fruners — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the old hermit — no support
- 3. the wise old judge from the far village — no support
- 4. the princess who was milking the mares in the ice — 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 · ★ · right ✓
So the judge's missus ate eleven apples, and her sister got a bit?
- 1. half of the last apple — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a bit of apple cake — no support
- 3. half of the last apple, and the judge's wife ate the rest — no support
- 4. the sister had eleven — 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 ✗
Oi, how many sons did the judge's missus end up with?
- 1. eleven whole and one half — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. ten whole and two halves — no support
- 3. eleven whole sons and one half son born at the very end — score -8
- 4. twelve whole sons, every one of them born healthy and strong in the same year — ← Mova's choice · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1694, line 18: «fact: Who helps: the wolf with "the broken leg he had healed," who ends up carrying Ferko on its back.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «wolf» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-5). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Was the emperor well chuffed about Fet-Fruners sorting the water?
- 1. no, he was rather annoyed — no support
- 2. nope, he was livid — no support
- 3. no, he was not — no support
- 4. yeah, he was dead chuffed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 914, line 8: «What: the servants had not come back, because "they all believed he was dead."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «emperor» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which character was instructed by the Emperor to procure the holy water from beyond the river Jordan?
- 1. the nun — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. the old hermit — score 3
- 3. the judge — score 3
- 4. Fet-Fruners — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1743, line 1: «The Emperor reads a book from Japan and learns about a Nightingale he has never heard of.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the effect upon the Emperor of the exhalation of the horse?
- 1. He was thrown to the ground hard — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. He was reduced to a small heap of ashes on the palace floor, which the servants swept away at once — no support
- 3. He was reduced to a small heap of ashes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He was given a splendid funeral, the most grand ever seen in the land, and buried in gold — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1734, line 3: «The Emperor spots the commotion from his balcony, sneaks down in his slippers, and throws one at them during the eighty-sixth kiss.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw» (+5). 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 · wrong ✗
What circumstance made the theft of the holy water possible?
- 1. A great storm had blown out every candle in the church and the lone nun had run off to the village to fetch help — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The lone guard nun had fallen asleep across the threshold of the church, and the door stood open all night long — no support
- 3. The lone guard nun had fallen asleep across the threshold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The church gates were left unlocked that night — 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 · wrong ✗
What form did the hermit's curse upon the thief take?
- 1. that the thief die young — no support
- 2. that the thief go blind — no support
- 3. that if the thief was a woman, she might become a man — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. that if the thief was a man, he might become a woman — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 217, line 16: «The curse: Amina sprinkles water and cries, "Wretch, receive the reward of your prying, and become a dog."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «dog» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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