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English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1964 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 did the cow literally just eat Tom with the thistle n all?

  • 1. yeah, one bite — no support
  • 2. nah, yeah — no support
  • 3. yeah, one mouthful, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. nah, he spat him out, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 639, line 19: «The paper says the bride and groom rode on an elephant, which is probably Fido, the one Tom promised to return.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tom» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «one» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait so how was he not dead in the fish??

  • 1. he just got took out when they opened it up and he walked out of the fish, proper lucky and well weird, innit mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 2. he was still alive, they opened it up, lucky — no support
  • 3. he was totally dead till they cut the fish open and sorted him out, proper lucky ya know — score 2
  • 4. he just got took out when they opened it, proper lucky — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1931, line 10: «The third time, the fish orders: "cut me into six pieces".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fish» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro the queen wanted him beheaded for real??

  • 1. nah she just shouted, sick — no support
  • 2. yeah she was dead angry, mad — no support
  • 3. yeah she was well mad and wanted him gone right then, sick innit — ← Mova's choice · score -5
  • 4. yeah she was well mad, sick — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 6: «Who: the Sultan is the one who wants the prince freed, because "hasten to set him at liberty, so that I may no longer hear his cries."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

he flew on a butterfly lol, mint

  • 1. yeah, he grabbed it and flew up, proper good — no support
  • 2. yeah, sat on it and got carried up, dead funny — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. yeah, he sat right on its back and got carried all the way up into the air, dead funny — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 4. yeah, he hung on and got lifted, dead funny — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 6: «Balkis to the Butterfly's Wife: «next time he begins to boast, take him at his word. Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same doer «butterfly» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

why did the spider get him though?

  • 1. cos he swung his sword but the poison got him — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. cos he drew his sword and fought it hard for ages, but then the poison breath got him anyway — no support
  • 3. cos it spat on him and he couldn't fight back — no support
  • 4. cos he drew his sword and fought, but the poison got him — ✓ 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 ✗

so the purse was like a bubble?

  • 1. nah, it was a leather bag, dead weird — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 2. yeah, a water-bubble that he kept in his pocket, dead weird — score 2
  • 3. yeah, like a soap bubble, weird — no support
  • 4. yeah, a water-bubble, dead weird — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1494, line 18: «Old word: a "purse" was a small bag of money, so thirty purses meant thirty bags of coins.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «purse» (+2); the same thing acted on «small bag» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the cat actually save him?

  • 1. yeah, it batted the trap — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. nah, it sniffed the trap and walked off, sound — no support
  • 3. yeah, it batted the trap till the wires broke, sound — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. yeah, it pawed the trap till the wires snapped, sound — 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 · ★ · right ✓

how long did he walk with the silver coin?

  • 1. like forty-eight hours, mad long, carrying the coin the whole way — score -1
  • 2. like forty-eight hours, mad long — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. like forty-two hours, mad long — score 5
  • 4. like two days — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1603, line 21: «Old word: "tramping" meant walking long and heavily, and "whimper" means a small, weak, complaining cry.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «walk» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same property (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

my nan says the tinker nicked the pudding, is that right?

  • 1. yeah he grabbed it and legged it with it in his budget — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 2. yeah he grabbed it off the table and legged it straight out the door with it in his budget, proper — score 5
  • 3. nah he didn't nick it, he tricked the cook and then legged it with it in his big budget, innit — score 5
  • 4. yeah he grabbed it and ran off with it, innit — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1964, line 12: «Old word: a "budget" was a leather bag or pouch, so the tinker put the pudding into his bag and walked off with it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tinker» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «pudding» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

what was his mum's face like when the cow let him drop?

  • 1. she was laughing, she thought it was funny — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. proper upset, she was crying loads and wringing her hands and calling for help — score 5
  • 3. proper upset, she was crying and wringing her hands — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. proper upset, crying — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 727, line 2: «Hans gives the horse to a shepherd for a cow, which he thinks is a fine bargain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «cow» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

did Tom get a monument like a proper king's knight?

  • 1. yeah, a stone one — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. yeah, white stone, with a poem on it, lush — no support
  • 3. yeah, white marble, with a whole poem on it, lush — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. yeah, grey marble, with a verse on it, nice — 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 ✗

oi, what was the king's little knight's horse?

  • 1. a big white horse, a proper fancy one from the stables, mad — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. a pony, a brown one, mad — no support
  • 3. a mouse, a dapper little one with a saddle, mad — no support
  • 4. a mouse, a dapper one, mad — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the whole thing a lie about Tom's dad?

  • 1. nah, his mum made him a bow of rushes, true — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. yeah, his dad made him a whip of barley straw and a hat of grass and a little coat, true, mad — no support
  • 3. nah, his dad made him a whip of barley straw, true — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. yeah his dad gave him a whip of reeds, true — 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 ✗

Examine the events by which the protagonist, Tom Thumb, is swallowed by a cow and subsequently delivered by his mother.

  • 1. The mother catches the child in her apron as he falls out of the cow's mouth after the thistle bites his tongue and the cow sneezes him out. — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. The mother catches the child in her apron as he falls from the cow's mouth. — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 3. She catches him in her apron. — score 5
  • 4. The farmer's wife rescues the boy with a sheet as he drops from the beast's jaws. — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1951, line 6: «Who: Jack, a boy who lives with his mother, and the great big tall woman, the ogre's wife.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «boy» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the circumstances under which the protagonist was conveyed across the sea by a raven.

  • 1. The eagle grabbed Tom when his mother tripped and fell into the ditch. — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. A hawk snatched Tom after his brother stumbled and tumbled into the hedge. — no support
  • 3. The raven seized Tom after his father slipped and rolled into the furrow. — ✓ the right answer · score 5
  • 4. The raven seized Tom in the field. — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1937, line 10: «The fisherman knows "It is not right," yet he always goes down to the sea again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go down» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the reason for which the queen resolved to ruin the protagonist, Sir Thomas.

  • 1. The king was too kind. — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 2. She was enraged by the honours the king conferred upon the little knight. — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 3. She was jealous of the gifts the king gave the young lord. — score 5
  • 4. She envied the knight. — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1919, line 8: «The King and Queen live on a farm, and the Queen is kind, bringing the Princess cream and waking her gently with "My pretty child."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «queen» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Describe the manner in which the protagonist's life was concluded at the court of King Arthur.

  • 1. After a long quarrel at court, a huge spider crept up behind him, and its poisonous breath overcame him after he drew his sword and fought it. — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 2. A giant wasp stung him, and its venom overcame him after he struck it with his blade. — score 2
  • 3. A large spider attacked him, and its poisonous breath overcame him after he fought with his sword. — ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. A large spider attacked him in the hall, and its poisonous breath overcame him after he fought bravely with his sword and tried to escape through the window. — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 97, line 19: «Real life: scientists today use the words «a just-so story» for a neat-sounding explanation that nobody has tested, like how the leopard got his spots by finge…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «real life» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «words» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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