Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it

Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1954 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 ✗

Bruv, why did Jack wanna bounce from the wood?

1. to nick a fancy horse — score 1
2. to see the world, meet some mates and get out of this dump — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. to find a proper girlfriend — score 2
4. to see other people and places — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1951, line 14: «Jack takes one bag of gold on his first visit, and on his second visit he takes the golden hen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «visit» (+1); the same doer «jack» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did his dad give him a cool gadget, or nah?

1. a brass pocket watch — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a fat wallet — no support
3. a shiny golden snuff-box and a cracking old horse — no support
4. a golden snuff-box — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, when was he meant to open the box?

1. only when near death — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. at dawn — no support
3. on his birthday — no support
4. when he gets married — 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 ✗

Was the gentleman's daughter well into Jack, or what?

1. nah, not at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope, she hated him — no support
3. yeah, she loved him well — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, she pitied him more — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, how many little red dudes popped out?

1. one — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nine — no support
3. two — no support
4. three — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack?

1. the silver snuff-box — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. his whole bag of gold and the golden snuff-box together — score 3
3. the golden snuff-box right out of his coat pocket — score 3
4. the golden snuff-box — ✓ the right answer · 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 1954, line 15: «The valet tells the little red men: "I want this castle to be moved from this place far and far across the sea."», 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 thing acted on «castle» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, where did the castle get chucked?

1. far beyond the hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. far across the sea to some faraway land nobody knows — no support
3. far across the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. over the big lake — 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 8 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, how long did Jack get to find it?

1. a twelvemonths and a day, and not a minute more, bruv — no support
2. seven whole years and a day before the king would cut his head off — no support
3. twelve months and a day — no support
4. a twelvemonths and a day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1167, line 12: «His brothers "had become great men," so when Jack asks for food they give him only "hard words."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, who got the mice on guard duty?

1. a red fox on watch — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a grey rat on guard — score -3
3. three little red men on guard at the gate of the palace — score 3
4. a little mouse on sentry — ✓ the right answer · score 2

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 1954, line 6: «WHO: Jack is a young man who "used to go mad to see some of" the pretty young women he has not met yet.», 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 «young man» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, what did Jack tell the King?

1. the truth — score -2
2. that the castle was gone — no support
3. that he won the castle — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. that he lost the castle — ✓ 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 1954, line 11: «HOW: Jack remembers his father's snuff-box, opens it, and three little red men ask him: "What is your will with us?"», 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 thing acted on «box» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, what did the gentleman threaten to take from Jack?

1. his gold — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. his horse — score 4
3. his beautiful young wife — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. his lovely young daughter — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1720, line 19: «Old word: a "cupola" is a rounded dome on top of a building; a "ransom" is a price paid to free a prisoner.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «top» (+3); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Proper, what was the castle standing on?

1. seven silver pillars — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a great golden floor on twelve pillars and a moat — no support
3. twelve golden pillars rising out of the sea below — no support
4. twelve golden pillars — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lush, how did Jack get the girl in the end?

1. by doing the three tasks — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. by doing all three tasks and then finding the castle again — no support
3. by sending the mice ahead — no support
4. by doing all three tasks the gentleman set him one by one — ← Mova's choice · score -7

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score -7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1152, line 2: «On the farm she lets the cows go hungry, chases the cats and throws her shoes at the sparrows, and she fails every task the old woman sets her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «set» (-1); the same thing acted on «girl» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell?

1. the hedge — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. all the tall pines — no support
3. the oaks — no support
4. all the great trees — ✓ the right answer · 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 1167, line 12: «His brothers "had become great men," so when Jack asks for food they give him only "hard words."», 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 thing acted on «hard words» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what condition was it to be opened?

1. a snuff-box, opened at once — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a golden snuff-box, to be opened only near death — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. a golden snuff-box, to be opened at sunrise — score -3
4. a silver snuff-box, to be kept unopened — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1954, line 3: «His father gives him a golden snuff-box and tells him to open it only when he is near death.», 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 thing acted on «golden snuff box» (+1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the three little red men enable Jack to fulfil the gentleman's first requirement?

1. by making a field of gold near the mansion — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. by calling a storm upon the valley below — score -1
3. by producing a lake and warships before the mansion — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. by producing a great lake and warships before the mansion and a golden bridge across it — 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 1951, line 2: «He climbs it, and climbs it, until he reaches a broad road and the great big tall house of the ogre.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «reach» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Who relieved Jack of the snuff-box, and what consequence followed for the castle?

1. the valet, who burned the castle to ashes — score 2
2. the gardener, who hid the castle in the hills — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. the valet, who caused the castle to be removed across the sea — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. the valet, who sank it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1854, line 20: «Old word: a "fakir" was a holy man who lived by begging; today we might say a holy man or monk.», 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 «holy man» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What period of grace was granted to Jack for recovering the castle?

1. a twelvemonths and a day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. a twelvemonths and a day, not a minute more or less — score 2
3. a year and a day — score 2
4. twelve months and a day — 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 1954, line 16: «The gentleman gives Jack "a twelvemonths and a day" to find the castle, with "a good horse and money in his pocket."», 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 thing acted on «twelvemonths» (+1). Against it: the same receiver «jack» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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