Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 184 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, how did the boat even get lost?

1. a storm — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a crazy storm wind — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a sudden rough wave — no support
4. wind — 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 ✗

wait, how tall were those furry little dudes?

1. about three feet tall — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. two feet — no support
3. like one foot tall — no support
4. like two feet max — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the giant had one eye, right, where was it?

1. middle of his forehead — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. right above his nose — no support
3. his forehead — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. on top of his head — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 184, line 11: «The giant is "as tall as a palm tree" and has "one eye, which flamed like a burning coal" on his forehead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same place «forehead» (+3); the same thing acted on «one eye» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

lol who did the giant cook first?

1. the captain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the narrator — no support
3. the captain, because he was the fattest — no support
4. the young boy — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

how did they even blind that giant?

1. they poked him with spears — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. they stabbed his eye with hot spits while he slept — no support
3. stabbed his eye with hot spits — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they threw hot coals and stabbed his eye with spits — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle?

1. to find the boats — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. because the giant had chased them out of the hall — no support
3. to wait by their rafts — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. to fetch some food — 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 ✗

bruh, how many people fit on one raft?

1. about six people at a time — score 2
2. as many as ten sailors if they hurry — no support
3. seven — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. three — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 24, line 2: «The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Knave, who is made of cardboard; «they all returned from him to you» — why, there are the tar…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «words» (+5); the same action «fit» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-4). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

so what sank the other rafts for real?

1. giant rocks thrown at them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. a huge storm and giant rocks thrown from the cliffs — no support
3. the giants' heavy stones — no support
4. giant rocks thrown at them by the other giants — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 184, line 4: «The blinded giant stumbles out howling, but his friends return with more giants, who hurl rocks and sink most of the rafts.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «rocks» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

okay so who got eaten on the last island?

1. one of the comrades — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. one of the sailors — no support
3. the captain — no support
4. one of the comrades, a sailor who was slow — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 181, line 14: «On a calm day, when "the wind dropped suddenly", the sailors landed on what they thought was an island.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sailors» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

lowkey scary, what was that snake doing?

1. gliding over the sand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. gliding over the sand toward the sleeping men — no support
3. gliding slowly over the sand and hissing loudly — no support
4. crawling in the grass — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

what were all those bones lying around for?

1. a huge pile of bones — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the giant's old meals — no support
3. food — ← Mova's choice · score -3
4. dinner — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 141, line 2: «The master pretends to be cross, throws him a bone, and says that a lazy dog who does not work does not deserve food.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the wind, did it bring them home?

1. no, to a strange island — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yes, back home safely — no support
3. no, it carried them to a strange island far away — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. no, to a far island — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 99, line 11: «What does the wind do? It carries Curdken's hat away, because the girl sings "Let Curdken's hat go!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wind» (+3); the same action «carry» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, so the savages just took the whole ship?

1. yes, they took the whole ship and sailed it away together — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. yep, they sailed it away — ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. yes, they took it home — score 7
4. yep, they sailed it away to their own island — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 184, line 1: «A storm blows the ship off course onto an island of tiny hairy savages, who sail the ship away and leave the crew stranded.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ship» (+4); the same doer «tiny hairy savages» (+3); the same action «sail away» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which natural force caused the vessel to deviate from its intended course?

1. the captain's error in a violent fog at sea — no support
2. a violent storm that blew the vessel off its path — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. a violent storm — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a strong current — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 184, line 1: «A storm blows the ship off course onto an island of tiny hairy savages, who sail the ship away and leave the crew stranded.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «storm» (+5); the same action «blow» (+1); a different thing acted on (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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island?

1. the construction of rafts to sail back home — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the construction of rafts — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the building of boats — no support
4. the construction of several large rafts from the palace wood — 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 ✗

By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated?

1. stabbing with heavy rocks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. blinding with heated spits — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. blinding with heated spits thrust into his eye — no support
4. by stabbing him with spits that were heated in the fire — 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 was the fate of the serpent's intended victim?

1. it was swallowed whole by the serpent and its guts — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. consumed by the serpent — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. carried off by a bird — no support
4. swallowed by the sand — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 63, line 18: «In the front seat the old cravings rise up again: «It is fate!» he said to himself. «Why strive? why struggle?» (strive = try hard)», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «fate» (+2). 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

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