Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad ends his last voyage, and a hunchback dies at supper
Tests: 7 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 191 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 ✓
yo, did sindbad actually get paid or nah?
- 1. yeah, a whole fortune — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, a bit of cash — no support
- 3. yeah, a whole fortune and passage home on a big ship — no support
- 4. yeah, like a whole fortune plus a ship home, no cap — 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 · ★ · right ✓
bruh, how many voyages did sindbad go on, fr?
- 1. seven — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. like seven or eight, idk tbh — no support
- 3. bruh, like seven trips around the world — no support
- 4. nine — 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 · ★ · right ✓
so the elephants kept killing people, right?
- 1. yeah, loads of slaves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. nah, just the horses — no support
- 3. yeah, loads of slaves and merchants too, fr — no support
- 4. yeah, lots — 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 ✗
what's the hunchback doing before he gets to the tailor's?
- 1. walkin home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. singin and bangin his tambourine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. sleepin by the wall — no support
- 4. dancin and bangin a drum — 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 ✗
did the tailor's wife cook the fish or nah?
- 1. nah — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, with her own hands — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. nah, her husband did — no support
- 4. nope, a servant — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor?
- 1. cuz they hated the doctor — no support
- 2. cuz they were scared of jail and didn't want the blame — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. cuz they were scared of jail — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. cuz they were scared of ghosts — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 150, line 1: «The Father visits his two daughters, and the gardener's wife wants rain while the potter's wife wants dry sun, so he gives up praying for either.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+6); the same doer «wife» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
sheesh, what did the doctor yell when he saw the body?
- 1. Holy Moses! — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Oh no, Moses! — score 8
- 3. Holy Moses, the hunchback is dead! — no support
- 4. Holy Moses, what a mess! — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 191, line 15: «What: the doctor kicks the body down the stairs and cries "Holy Moses!" when he sees what he has done.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «doctor» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «holy moses» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
wait, the hunchback rolled all the way down, right?
- 1. yeah, to the bottom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, down the stairs — no support
- 3. yeah, all the way down the stairs to the cellar — no support
- 4. nah, he stopped halfway — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
is the doctor a kid or a grown-up?
- 1. a grown-up doctor — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a grown-up doctor who lives on the street — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. a young doctor — no support
- 4. a grown-up doctor with a wife and servants — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 147, line 9: «The Doctor says "that's a good sign" three times, so the Sick Man is "dying of good signs", a joke about a doctor who never worries.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «doctor» (+3); the same doer «doctor» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
who's the smartest in the doctor's house?
- 1. the tailor, for sure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. wife — no support
- 3. the doctor, obviously — no support
- 4. his wife, easy — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
where's the body gonna end up next?
- 1. the Mussulman's storeroom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the tailor's shop — no support
- 3. the Mussulman's storeroom, back in the house — no support
- 4. the neighbour's chimney — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
what's chillin in the storeroom?
- 1. old sacks, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. just rats, lol — no support
- 3. rats — no support
- 4. rats and mice, lol — ✓ the right answer · 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
yo, a porter is like a dude who lugs stuff for money, right?
- 1. yeah, hauls stuff for cash — no support
- 2. yeah, carries stuff — no support
- 3. yeah, carries loads for pay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. nah, sells food at market — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 191, line 17: «Old word: a "porter" is a man who carries heavy loads for pay, like a labourer with a barrow.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «carry» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following constitutes the explicit reward bestowed upon Sindbad by his former master upon his manumission?
- 1. a sizable sum with a return voyage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a fortune together with passage home and a ship — no support
- 3. a fortune along with a fine horse — no support
- 4. a fortune together with passage home — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Upon what grounds did the master attribute to Sindbad the special protection of Heaven?
- 1. his escape from the wild elephants — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. his escape from the wild elephants that guarded the valley — score 3
- 3. his escape from the wild elephants and the cruel valley king — score 3
- 4. his rescue from the cruel captain — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 191, line 9: «Why: the wild elephants have killed many slaves, so Sindbad, who escaped them, must be "under the special protection of Heaven".», 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 (+2); the same doer «sindbad» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the tailor and his wife seek to avert the consequences of the hunchback's death?
- 1. by bribing the nearby guard quietly — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. by transferring suspicion to the doctor and fleeing the city — no support
- 3. by transferring suspicion to the doctor and his household — no support
- 4. by transferring suspicion to the doctor — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following was the doctor's wife's proposal for disposing of the corpse?
- 1. burning it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. carrying it to the cellar stairs — no support
- 3. dropping it in the river at night — no support
- 4. lowering it down the neighbour's chimney — ✓ 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
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