English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1969 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 ✗
Oi, was Whittington's cat actually sold for mad money, innit?
- 1. Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo, innit, for a cat he wanted — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. Nah, the captain sold the cat for a few coins and went home to London to have a drink — score 6
- 4. Yeah, the king paid ten times the whole cargo, innit, for a cat — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1969, line 2: «The king buys the whole cargo and pays ten times as much for the cat as for everything else.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+3); the same property (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, why did the king want the cat so bad?
- 1. He wanted a pet for his daughter who loved cats more than anything in the palace — score 2
- 2. Her kittens would fetch a lot of gold — score 1
- 3. Her kittens would keep the whole country rat-free for ever and ever, innit — score 1
- 4. Her kittens would keep the country rat-free — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1969, line 9: «Why: the king wanted the cat because her kittens would "keep it free from rats," which was a useful thing for a whole country.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «keep» (+3); the same doer «kittens» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, was Dick actually a skivvy before the big reveal?
- 1. Yeah, he was scouring pots for the cook — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Nah, he was sweeping the stables — no support
- 3. Nah, he was a rich lad from the countryside — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was a skivvy — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1969, line 11: «Dick was scouring pots for the cook, and he called himself dirty, saying "my shoes are dirty and full of hob-nails."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «scour» (+3); the same doer «dick» (+2); the same thing acted on «pots» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, did the Fitzwarren lot try to nick the cash?
- 1. Yeah, they tried, but Dick caught them — no support
- 2. Yeah, they kept it all quietly — score -2
- 3. Nah, Mr. Fitzwarren said he'd give it all back — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yeah, they took the lot — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 256, line 15: «fact: Old word: "persuasion" means coaxing someone to do something; "hard persuasion" means it took a lot of begging.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same thing acted on «lot» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ain't it mint that Dick gave the cook a present, though?
- 1. Yeah, even the ill-natured old cook got one — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Nah, he gave presents to nobody at all — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Nah, he gave presents to nobody, not even the captain or the servants of the house — score 6
- 4. Yeah, even the ill-natured old cook got one, and the captain got a fine present as well — score 3
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 359, line 14: «Dick is "too kind-heart-ed to keep everything for himself", so he gives presents to the captain, sailors and servants.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «dick» (+2); the same thing acted on «presents» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Alice well chuffed about Dick looking proper smart?
- 1. Nah, she thought he looked silly in his new clothes and wanted a different man entirely — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Yeah, she fancied him a lot, because he had become handsome and genteel at last — score 5
- 3. Yeah, she fancied him, cos he was genteel — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Nah, he was still in his old rags — 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 23, line 13: «Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit».», 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 «alice» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the wedding have a massive posh do after?
- 1. Yeah, a rich feast with music and dancing for all the top people of London — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, a grand dinner for the guests — no support
- 3. Yeah, a rich feast for all the top people — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, they had a quiet supper at home — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Dick actually a knight at the end, or just a fibber?
- 1. Nah, he was only a fibber who pretended to be a knight for years — no support
- 2. He got knighted by Henry V, for real — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he was a fibber who never got a title — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was made a sheriff by the king — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1704, line 1: «Three days before the seven years end, a golden knight rides at the Glass Mountain, nearly reaches the top, and is knocked down when a huge eagle hits his hors…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «reach» (+3); the same doer «golden knight» (+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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Dick's cat's statue seen by anyone later on?
- 1. Yeah, over the archway of Newgate till 1780 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, it was taken away by a sailor — no support
- 3. Yeah, it stood over the archway of Newgate prison until 1780, when it was taken down — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Nah, it was lost in the great fire and nobody has seen it since that day — 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 523, line 15: «Where: Nemesis was worshipped at Rhamnus in Attica, where a celebrated statue of her stood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+3); the same doer «celebrated statue» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Gutted for Dick, though, wasn't he, at the start?
- 1. Yeah, he was very upset at the start — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Nah, he was skint but got his riches later — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Nah, he was happy — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was sad and poor — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 899, line 20: «Quote: the boy sees his "heaven" in the Bronzino picture, where "the children smiling before Him" wait to enter heaven.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «bronzino picture» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Was the Laidly Worm tale the next one in the book?
- 1. Yeah, it starts right after Whittington ends — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Nah, it is a separate book entirely, printed years before the Whittington story was written — score 4
- 3. Yeah, it starts straight after the cat tale — score 5
- 4. Yeah, it starts right after Whittington ends, with a worm and a princess — 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 1963, line 5: «After that, a husband steals his dead wife's golden arm and her ghost comes back, and then the tale of Tom Thumb begins with a ploughman's tiny son.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «begin» (+3); the same doer «tale» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the queen actually understand what the captain said?
- 1. Nah, she had not learned English — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, she understood every word the captain said, every single one of them — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. Yeah, she spoke it well — no support
- 4. Nah, she had not yet learned English, so she only understood the cat — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1666, line 2: «She forges letters, so the king orders the queen and her two sons to be burned.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched her?
- 1. Puss — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. "Putty, putty, come here my pretty cat" — no support
- 3. "Putty, putty" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Kitty — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1462, line 19: «How the Queen greeted her: she cried "Putty, putty!" because "she had not learned English".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cry» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following was the honour conferred upon Richard Whittington by Henry V?
- 1. knighthood — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the title of Sheriff of London and a grant of land — no support
- 3. knighthood and a seat in parliament — no support
- 4. a baronetcy — 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 of the following was the purpose for which Mr. Fitzwarren's counting-house was used?
- 1. to weigh the gold and check the day's prices — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. to count over the cash and settle the day's business — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. to store the cargo — no support
- 4. to sell the cat — 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 ✗
Which of the following describes the state in which Whittington was found when summoned to the counting-house?
- 1. wearing his best coat and quite clean — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. sweeping the yard, and quite cold — no support
- 3. scouring pots for the cook, and quite dirty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. scouring pots for the cook, and quite dirty from the cellar and the coal-heap — 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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