English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier tricks a foolish farmer's wife out of ten gold pounds, then the farmer out of his horse

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1948 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, why did the farmer's wife stash the ten quid up the chimney, bruv?

1. cause she thought no thief would search it — no support
2. cause she reckoned no thief would ever think to look up in there, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. cause she was dead sure no thief would ever bother looking up there at all — no support
4. cause she reckoned no thief would ever look up there — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1948, line 13: «Jack tricks the farmer by lying down, shading his eyes and pointing at the sky, saying "I've seen a rare sight."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jack» (+3). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so Jack just made up that the old man was in Paradise?

1. yeah, he was totally making it up — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. yeah, he was just lying to them — score 4
3. nah, he was honest, but then he totally made the whole thing up after — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. yeah, he was totally making it up to get the money and the horse — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1792, line 9: «Jem's promise to her: "no one shall harm you," he says, because he is an honest man and assistant head cook.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «fairy» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead serious, did the wife really give him ALL the gold?

1. nah, only a bit, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. for real, the whole ten pounds, no cap — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. for real, all of it — no support
4. for real, the full ten quid, no lie — 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 ✗

Lol, the farmer lay down and watched a man fly up to heaven?

1. nah, he got played — no support
2. nah, Jack totally tricked him — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. nah, he got totally played by Jack — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. yeah, he saw the angel fly — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1948, line 5: «Jack points at the empty sky, makes the farmer lie down, grabs the horse and gallops off, leaving the farmer to walk home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «jack» (+2); the same thing acted on «farmer» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, how did Jack get the horse?

1. he bolted, sus — no support
2. he jumped on it and bolted, sus move — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. he hopped on and ran, sus — score 2
4. he just nicked it — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1948, line 5: «Jack points at the empty sky, makes the farmer lie down, grabs the horse and gallops off, leaving the farmer to walk home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jack» (+2); the same thing acted on «horse» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Real talk, who's the bigger muppet, the farmer or his wife?

1. the wife, she's the bigger one — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. tough one, they're both total donkeys — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the farmer, mostly, but the wife's total donkey move was daft too — no support
4. the farmer, obviously — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what's the deal with "out-at-elbows" anyway?

1. it means skint, like broke with clothes worn through — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. it means dressed up fancy, with ragged sleeves and holes in your coat, totally posh — score 3
3. it means poor, like skint with ragged clothes — score 3
4. it means skint, like broke, with your clothes worn right through at the elbows — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 843, line 18: «Old word: "Bushels of salt" means a great deal of salt was eaten, since a bushel was an old measure for dry goods.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same doer «old word» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yeah but what's "goody" then, like a sweet?

1. nah, it's a sweet — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, it's an old word for Mrs — no support
3. nah, it's an old way of saying Mrs. — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, it's an old word for a sweet — 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 ✓

So the wife's a proper fool, innit?

1. she is, she sent money to heaven, well daft — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. she is, she sent her husband's gold off to heaven, well daft, innit — score 6
3. nah, she's not proper daft, she just believed a story about heaven — score 6
4. she is, she gave money away, daft — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1664, line 10: «The carpenter's wife says, "You are getting worse, my dear," and he trusts every word she says, so he lies down and lets her do as she pleases.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «wife» (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, the soldier's pretty clever, right?

1. yeah, he played both of them and got a horse out of it, proper smart — score 3
2. nah, he was lucky, but yeah he played them both properly well — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. yeah, he tricked them both, proper clever — no support
4. yeah, he played both of them, proper smart — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 903, line 5: «Last, the Moon shows Pompeii: silent streets, soldiers playing cards, strangers looking around, and Vesuvius thundering.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+2); the same doer «soldiers» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ok, last one, did the farmer get his money back?

1. yeah, he got some back, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. nope, he never saw it again, he lost out — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. yeah, he got some back in the end, but he still lost out loads — score 6
4. nope, he never got it back, he lost — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 371, line 1: «The Farmer's Cranes ignore his shouts, so he kills some with his sling and they never return, and a dying farmer tells his sons that treasure lies hidden on th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «farmer» (+2); the same thing acted on «some» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following best describes the outcome of the farmer's dealings with the soldier?

1. The farmer lost both his money and his horse to the soldier, who then walked off laughing across the fields. — score 3
2. The farmer lost his money and his cart to the soldier. — score 3
3. The farmer lost both his money and his horse to the soldier. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. The soldier kept both the money and the farm. — 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 1764, line 16: «Hard word: "scythe" is a long curved blade on a handle, used by hand to cut grass; farmers rarely use it now.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «farmers» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner does the farmer's wife respond to the loss of the money described in the passage?

1. She remarks that her husband is the greater fool for entrusting her with it. — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. She says her husband is the bigger fool for trusting her. — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. She remarks that her husband is the greater fool for entrusting her with the money, though she herself gave it away. — score 3
4. She mocks the soldier openly and says her husband is the greater fool for trusting a stranger with the household money at all. — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1947, line 8: «Where: on the road home, then at the wood where he left his wife, where a parrot is "calling out his name."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which narrative device does the author employ to signal the moral judgement of the tale?

1. The wife's closing comparison of the farmer's foolishness with her own. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The soldier's final boast about his cleverness. — no support
3. The wife's comparison of the farmer with herself. — no support
4. The wife's closing comparison of the farmer's foolishness with her own, which tells the reader who is the bigger fool. — 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 ✗

Identify the figure of speech in the soldier's claim that the old man is "cobbling shoes of the saints and angels".

1. Irony, through which the foolish wife is deceived. — score 3
2. Hyperbole and irony, through which the gullible wife is deceived by the soldier's grand claim. — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Metaphor and irony, which the reader only notices when the foolish wife is deceived. — score 3
4. Hyperbole and irony, through which the foolish wife is deceived. — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 15, line 20: «The White Rabbit whispers that the Duchess is «under sentence of execution»; Alice asks «What for?», and when the Rabbit asks «Did you say 'What a pity!'?», sh…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «queen» (+2); the same thing acted on «you» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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