English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1967 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 ✓

Bruv, what's Mr Miacca gonna do with Tommy in the bag?

1. Eat him — no support
2. Cook him for supper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Roast him for the pot — no support
4. Kill him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1967, line 14: «The second time, Mr. Miacca makes Tommy creep under the sofa and sits on it to "watch the pot boil".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «tommy» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, why's Tommy going on about pudding, innit?

1. To make Mrs Miacca forget about him entirely — no support
2. To get off the hook — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. To buy some time — score -1
4. To save himself — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1967, line 6: «Tommy Grimes is a boy who is "sometimes a good boy, and sometimes a bad boy", and when he is bad, he is "a very bad boy".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tommy» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Like, what's the leg Tommy pokes out really?

1. Chair leg — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. A wooden leg of the sofa — score 1
3. Table — no support
4. Sofa leg — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1955, line 4: «The little mouse steals the golden box, the friends quarrel, and the box falls into the sea.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Proper, what did Mrs Miacca say she loves?

1. Cheese — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. Pudding — ✓ the right answer · score -2
3. Tea — score -2
4. Soup — 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 1775, line 7: «The sultan's wife says the gazelle "brought me from my father," so she loved it as family.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «wife» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead funny, what's Mr Miacca sitting on?

1. A bench — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The sofa — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Stool — no support
4. The chair — 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 ✗

Lush, where'd Tommy hide?

1. Behind the chair — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. In the cupboard — no support
3. Under the sofa — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Under the big sofa by the fireplace — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wagwan, how fast did Tommy leg it?

1. Like pelters — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Like the wind — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Like a rocket up the street home — no support
4. Quick — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1967, line 17: «Old word: "pelters" meant rushing off fast, a bit like "legging it" today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leg» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what was the herb thing about?

1. It'd taste bitter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It'd taste sweet — no support
3. Bitter — no support
4. It'd taste sour — 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 ✗

Bare cheeky, how did Tommy talk his way out?

1. Promised a pudding from his mother's kitchen — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Offered some jam — no support
3. Promised a pudding and begged them to let him go — no support
4. Promised a pudding — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit creepy, what does Mr Miacca call Tommy after?

1. That impertinent little youngster there — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The youngster — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The stranger — no support
4. The cheeky little runaway youngster — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, did Tommy ever go round the corner again?

1. Not till he was grown — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Not until he was a grown man himself — score 4
3. Not till he had grown up and left home — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. Only once after that — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1967, line 5: «Mr. Miacca chops off a leg, but it is only a leg of the sofa, so Tommy slips out and runs home for good.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «tommy» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Safe, where did Tommy run to?

1. Out — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Park — score 2
3. Home — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Up — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 1967, line 5: «Mr. Miacca chops off a leg, but it is only a leg of the sofa, so Tommy slips out and runs home for good.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tommy» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which dish did Mr. Miacca intend to prepare for his evening meal?

1. The boy Tommy Grimes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The naughty boy Tommy Grimes from town — no support
3. Herbs and pot roast — no support
4. The boy Tommy Grimes with herbs — 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 · right ✓

What object did Tommy Grimes ultimately place his leg against?

1. A leg of the sofa — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A leg of the table — no support
3. The sofa's back — no support
4. A leg of the old sofa by the fire — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for?

1. Hot treacle pudding with custard — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Pudding — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Roly-poly jam pudding and cream — no support
4. Tartlets — 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 ✗

Upon what did Mr. Miacca sit whilst he awaited the boiling of the pot?

1. Stool — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The chair — no support
3. The sofa — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Floor — 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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