Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1917 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 ✗
Yo, how long was Vivien stuck doing that bath thing, innit?
- 1. Six months, proper ages — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Six weeks, real fast — no support
- 3. Sixty hours, dead quick — no support
- 4. Sixty days, dead long — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, what was on the heads of those slaves?
- 1. Owls flying in circles, proper weird — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gross bugs, eating their hair — no support
- 3. Pigeons singing, mad loud — no support
- 4. Bats, just sitting there, dead calm — ✓ 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 ✗
Ngl, what game did the Prince have to watch all day?
- 1. Hopscotch, proper annoying — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cards, every single night — no support
- 3. Football, with his mates — no support
- 4. Chess, the most boring game — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what did the Black Bird tell him, like the exact vibe?
- 1. Stay in bed till noon — no support
- 2. Go home, you lame kid — no support
- 3. Gold is everything, innit — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 4. Your chance is opposite your nature — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 914, line 13: «Her one request: "let no one know that you have a little bird who tells you everything."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «little bird» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «everything» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what did the raven sit on?
- 1. His wrist — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. His shoulder — score 3
- 3. His knee — score 3
- 4. His nose — 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 751, line 15: «Where did the peasant meet the raven? At a mill, where a raven "with broken wings" sat, and he wrapped the bird in the skin out of pity.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+2); the same doer «raven» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, did he bolt when the gate opened?
- 1. Nah, he hugged the slaves — no support
- 2. Yeah, he ran off fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he did a big dance — no support
- 4. Nah, he stayed for tea — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1339, line 11: «Why the gate stays shut: "there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the giant," so the porter will not open it at night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «gate» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, what was the ship made of?
- 1. Paper, like loads of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Glass, super shiny — no support
- 3. Iron, proper heavy — no support
- 4. Wood, dead solid — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, what was that boat light as?
- 1. A sock, real soggy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A brick, dead heavy — no support
- 3. A rose leaf, proper light — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A feather, super fluffy — 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 ✗
Ayy, what made him so mad out on the sea?
- 1. Becalmed, no wind at all — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 2. Lost, no map found — no support
- 3. Hungry, no food left — no support
- 4. A storm with huge waves — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1378, line 15: «What she said: "I will take the place of His Augustness, Yamato Take." She leaps into the sea to save him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «sea» (+2). Against it: the same doer «storm» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, how did he try to reach land quick?
- 1. Jumped off the ship, mad fast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Rode a whale, proper cool — no support
- 3. Tied a rope and pulled — no support
- 4. Shouted for a passing bird — 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 ✓
Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped?
- 1. Sank like a stone — no support
- 2. Floated off away — score 3
- 3. Stayed under his feet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Flew up in the sky — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1228, line 8: «Where: the ship sticks "in a cleft" of a rock, and the wind is rising at sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ship» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «stick» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, who fell out of the bushes by the spring?
- 1. A hunter with a bow — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. A gazelle, all out of breath — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. A wolf, dead hungry — score 2
- 4. A bear snoozing, lol — score 2
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 735, line 14: «Why she is sad: her golden ball, her "favourite plaything", falls into a spring "so deep that she could not see the bottom of it".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, was that bath deep at the start?
- 1. Yeah, super deep, like a lake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, only an inch deep — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, deep as a swimming pool — no support
- 4. Nah, it was totally empty — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what gradual procedure was the Prince's ablution conducted in the marble bath?
- 1. By one immediate complete immersion — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By daily increments of water depth — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By alternating hot and cold draughts — no support
- 4. By sprinkling from above by attendants — 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 ✗
What oracular pronouncement did the Black Bird deliver to the Prince?
- 1. An order to depart at the dawn — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. A riddle concerning a white ship — no support
- 3. A prophecy concerning a golden throne — no support
- 4. A statement concerning opposition to his own nature — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 51, line 1: «The sun's golden disc rises over the horizon and dazzles the two friends; when they can see again, the Vision has gone, and the air is full of birds singing in…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «birds» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same place «dawn» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Of what material was the vessel encountered upon the river composed?
- 1. White paper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Wrought iron — score 3
- 3. Woven reed — no support
- 4. Polished oak — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 369, line 18: «Old word "composed": "composed himself to rest" means settled himself calmly; today we would say he got comfortable.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
To what condition was the ship's progress reduced upon the open ocean?
- 1. A collision with jagged rocks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A storm of violent gales — no support
- 3. A calm without any wind — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A tide of raging current — 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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