English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1945 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 ✓

Bruh, how many times did the dog nick the candles?

1. three times — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. three times in the shop — score 2
3. four times — score 2
4. three times over the market — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 157, line 16: «What does the Wolf reply? "It's your master I'm afraid of."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dog» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lowkey, what colour was her hair, fam?

1. fair — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. golden — ✓ the right answer · score -2
3. bright golden like the sun — score -2
4. long and golden like wheat — 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 306, line 12: «The snow covered "her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same property (-2). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what did the stepmum use to chop her?

1. a spade — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a saw — no support
3. a hammer — no support
4. an axe — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Who wouldn't eat the dinner, like seriously?

1. the youngest little boy — score 4
2. the little boy and his father — score 4
3. the little boy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. the father — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1670, line 3: «The hare tricks Big Lion into a hut, ties his tail and tongue to the stakes, eats his dinner, and calls down hailstones that kill him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same thing acted on «dinner» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where'd the bro bury her, no cap?

1. in a box under the rose-tree by the gate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. under a rose-tree — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. beside the old well — score 4
4. under a big rose-tree by the door — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 471, line 5: «At cockcrow the witch lies flat on the road, and the soldier buries her, then gets two hundred roubles and feeds his family a feast.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «bury» (+1); the same thing acted on «witch» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, what bird was singing that tune?

1. a white bird — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. a robin — no support
3. a bird — score 0
4. a red robin — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1945, line 3: «The brother buries his sister's box under a rose-tree, and a white bird sings the wicked deed to the shoemaker and others.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «white bird» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, what did the cobbler give the bird?

1. shoes — score 4
2. boots — score 3
3. new boots — score 3
4. red shoes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1945, line 13: «The cobbler gives the red shoes, and the jeweller gives the gold watch and chain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «cobbler» (+1); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who gave the gold watch, fam?

1. the innkeeper — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. the jeweller — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. the old jeweller in town — score 7
4. the cobbler — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 799, line 17: «The beetle's new idea: he decides the golden shoes were given to the horse "on my account".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same thing acted on «golden shoes» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

What stuff did the millers pick up?

1. a millstone — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. a big boulder — score 3
3. a grindstone — score 3
4. a heavy millstone from the mill — 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 5: «At the mill he tricks the miller with a raven that "foretells" hidden food, and the miller pays three hundred talers to learn the fifth secret, which turns out…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «learn» (+2); the same doer «miller» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sus, what sound did the stepmum think it was?

1. rain — no support
2. wind — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. a storm — no support
4. thunder — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1934, line 6: «Who: the youngest Prince, whom his family thought "the stupid one of the family", is the hero of this part.», 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 thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who got hit by the big stone, lol?

1. the stepmother and her daughter — score 0
2. the girl — score 0
3. the old cobbler — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. the stepmother — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1777, line 19: «old word: "pommelling" meant hitting with the fists again and again, a word people rarely use now.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hit» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Last one, bruv: what did the old woman find?

1. a shiny coin — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a crooked sixpence — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a sixpence — no support
4. a copper shilling — 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 · right ✓

Which implement did the stepmother employ to dispatch the young girl?

1. a saw — no support
2. an axe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. a hammer — no support
4. a spade — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1154, line 3: «The father forgets his axe again, so the stepmother sends her own daughter to fetch it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «stepmother» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the old woman intend to purchase at the market?

1. a pig — no support
2. a little pig — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a black hen — no support
4. a fat goose — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1791, line 17: «Where: at the goose market Jem buys three geese and carries them home on his broad shoulders.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Upon what object did the bird perch before singing to the cobbler?

1. a tree hard by the garden gate — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. a tree hard by — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a roof close by — score -1
4. a wall nearby — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1312, line 16: «The king: he "declared he would never rest until he had found the tree which bore it."», 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 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

To what natural phenomenon did the stepmother attribute the rattling noise?

1. a loud thunderclap at night — no support
2. thunder — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a storm — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. a wagon rolling over stones — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1116, line 11: «After washing, she "came back so lovely and splendid", and "shone like the sun", so her stepmother "had not another word to say".», 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 (+1). 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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