English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1972 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 ✗
Whit's the queen's bother wi Anne, eh?
- 1. She's cross — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She's feart cos Anne's taller noo — no support
- 3. She's jealous cos Anne's bonnier — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Jealous, aye — 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Why did Anne no get tae eat, pal?
- 1. She wis sleepin — no support
- 2. The henwife took her food — no support
- 3. The queen sent her fasting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. She's no hungry — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1972, line 7: «Who: the henwife, who lives "in the glen", is the one who advises the queen to send Anne "fasting".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+1); the same doer «one» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit's wi Anne's heid, mate?
- 1. It gets swapped for a cow's tail — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It gets swapped twice for a pig's heid and a bell — no support
- 3. It gets swapped for a sheep's heid an a' the wool — no support
- 4. It gets swapped for a sheep's heid — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
How did Kate help her sister, wee man?
- 1. Wrapped her heid in linen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. She hid her in the barn — no support
- 3. She fed her — no support
- 4. She sang tae her — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1972, line 3: «Kate wraps her sister's head in linen, and the two girls set out to seek their fortune until they come to a king's castle.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kate» (+2). Against it: the same action «wrap» (-1); the same place «linen» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit's a peck o' silver, ye reckon?
- 1. A muckle big reward fer anybody that sits up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A richt guid fortune — no support
- 3. A bonnie wee bag — no support
- 4. A muckle big reward — ✓ 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 ✗
Whit did the sick prince want, Kate?
- 1. Mair birdie bites and the lassie's hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mair birdie bites — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mair birdie bites and a gless o' wine — no support
- 4. A cup o' fresh milk — 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 ✗
Where did they ride tae, like?
- 1. Tae the auld mill — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tae a green hill — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Tae a dark forest — no support
- 4. Tae the hame — 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 ✗
Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh?
- 1. A ball — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A wand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A shiny wand wi' stars — no support
- 4. A wee gold wand — 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 ✗
Where did Kate keep aw they nuts, pal?
- 1. In a pot — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. In her pocket — score 1
- 3. In her hat — score 1
- 4. In her apron — ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 849, line 15: «Why: she says the nuts hold "the most beautiful and lovely things in the world," so they are wishing nuts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hold» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did the birdie dae fer the prince?
- 1. Made him well again after three bites — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Made him well again — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Cured him and made him sit up in bed — no support
- 4. Made him feel better — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wis the prince's brother mad aboot Anne?
- 1. Aye, he was, and he wanted her hand — no support
- 2. Aye, he was, mad aboot her, the wee man — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. No, he wisnae — no support
- 4. Aye, he was — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1494, line 2: «In Schiraz, Prince Ali hears a crier selling a small ivory tube for thirty purses and thinks the man must be mad.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Whit a happy ending, eh?
- 1. They aw married and lived happy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They aw wed and lived content — no support
- 3. The queen wis banished an' they aw married, aye — no support
- 4. They aw married an' lived happy ever efter noo — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Whit did Kate dae wi the wand, mate?
- 1. She waved it ower Anne's heid — no support
- 2. She touched Anne three times — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. She tapped Anne twice wi it — no support
- 4. She woke Anne — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1972, line 13: «Why: the fairy's wand can make Anne "as bonnie as ever she was" with "three strokes", so Kate touches her sister three times.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «touch» (+4); the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «sister» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
In the narrative, what is the principal motive for the queen's stratagem against Anne?
- 1. Envy of Anne's superior beauty — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Envy of Anne's superior beauty and youth at court — no support
- 3. Resentment of Anne's cooking skill — no support
- 4. Desire to be rid of Anne's noble father's wealth — 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 · wrong ✗
Which object does Kate employ to restore her sister's former appearance?
- 1. A silver ring — no support
- 2. A wand — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. The nuts — score -7
- 4. The fairy wand — ✓ the right answer · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1972, line 12: «What: Kate gets the fairy wand by rolling nuts to the baby, who "toddled after the nuts" and let the wand fall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «fairy wand» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery?
- 1. By singing to the birdie — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Feeding him the birdie's wing and breast — no support
- 3. Three bites of the birdie — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Three bites of the birdie, given slowly — 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 condition does Kate impose before she consents to sit up on the third night?
- 1. Payment of a peck of gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Marriage to the sick prince — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Marriage to the older prince — no support
- 4. Gold for her hand — 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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