English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler

Tests: 6 of 15 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 19 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1976 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 ✓

yo what did she say was in her bag, honest?

1. good stuff, no sharing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. just some bread and cheese — no support
3. bread — no support
4. nothing, bruv — 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 ✓

bruv did the hedge just let her through?

1. nah, it shut on her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah — no support
3. yeah, it let her through — no support
4. nah, let her by — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

so she was all cut up and covered in blood, innit?

1. nah, she was covered in mud and leaves from the hedge, real messy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, blood all down her arms and her face and that — no support
3. yeah, proper bare blood — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, mud all over her — 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 ✗

what did the first head want, like be nice to it?

1. clean it, brush it, lay it down — no support
2. wash, comb and lay it down — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. wash its hair, comb it proper and lay it down gentle — ← Mova's choice · score -5
4. wash it and lay it down — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 772, line 3: «A giant first wants to eat him, but they share the magic food, and even the giant's maps cannot find the castle.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «man» (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

did she hit it with her bottle?

1. yeah, smacked it right on the head — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. yeah, bang, straight in — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, bang, right across the face with the bottle she had — score 4
4. yeah, whacked it with it — score 3

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 1664, line 11: «She puts a "pint-bottle of brandy" in his hands instead of a flower or a psalm-book, and he sleeps sweetly, dreaming he is in heaven.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+3); the same thing acted on «pint bottle» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

what did the heads do after that, mate?

1. yeah, they all cursed her face, voice and husband too — score 3
2. they gave her a curse each — score 3
3. they laid curses on her proper — score 3
4. they put curses on her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1703, line 3: «The first two times the husband's head rises, but the waves pull him back down. The third time he reaches the bank and embraces his wife, but a flood rises and…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «head» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv what was the curse on her face?

1. rotten face, all scabby — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. leprosy on her face, all rotting and proper nasty like — no support
3. scabs all over her skin — no support
4. leprosy, all mangy — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

yo what was the curse for her voice, dead squeaky?

1. like a crow, all croaky — no support
2. like a corn-crake, harsh — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a hoarse bird voice, dead rough — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. like a corn-crake, dead harsh and screechy like — 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 1908, line 1: «King Kojata promises a hoarse voice from the water something he knows nothing about.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «hoarse voice» (+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 ✗

who was she stuck with, like the worst husband?

1. a poor cobbler from out in the sticks, mind you — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a skint country shoemaker — no support
3. a poor country cobbler — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a poor village tailor — 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 · ★ · right ✓

so everyone ran off at the market, wasn't they?

1. yeah, all except the cobbler — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, they all legged it — no support
3. yeah, all but the soldier — no support
4. yeah, everyone — 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 ✗

why did the cobbler help her, the mad soft lad?

1. he was just being kind — score 0
2. he wanted to do a good deed — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he wanted the reward the king had promised him for a cure — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. he was a kind bloke who wanted to help anyone in need — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1470, line 15: «A "cobbler" was a man who mended and made shoes; today we would call him a shoe repairer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cobbler» (+1); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

what did she say she was, like an actual princess?

1. the king's daughter-in-law — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. the king's daughter-in-law from Colchester, honest — score 0
3. the king's cousin from town — score 0
4. some sort of royal lady from the king's own court — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1966, line 19: «Old word: a "spaewife" was a woman who told fortunes, a wise woman who looked into the future.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2). Against it: the same doer «woman» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

how long did the cure take, peak easy?

1. one day — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. about a month — score 1
3. two days — score 3
4. a few weeks — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1207, line 18: «The cure: a cow "comes up from the great sea to graze", and a little of her dung would cure the peris.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cure» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

what did the queen do when she found out, gutted?

1. she went off her head and hanged herself in the tower — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. she topped herself in anger — score 6
3. she topped herself with a rope in a proper huge rage — score 6
4. she hanged herself in a rage — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 1976, line 13: «The queen hangs herself "in wrath" when she hears her daughter married only a poor cobbler.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+4); the same thing acted on «queen» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 15 · ★ · right ✓

how did the king feel when the queen was gone, mint?

1. he was chuffed — score 2
2. dead happy she was gone — no support
3. glad to be rid of her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. relieved, mate — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1970, line 1: «Childe Wynd leaves home, his mother dies, and the king marries a new queen who is a witch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «new queen» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

To which of the following did the second sibling's refusal to share her provisions most directly give rise?

1. the hermit's gift — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. the hedge closing on her path — no support
3. the curse of the old man's wrath — no support
4. the old man's curse of evil fortune — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 487, line 5: «The old man revives the Princess, shares the King's reward, and gives the Pope the third share meant for the thief.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same doer «old man» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Upon what grounds did the third head pronounce its sentence upon the young woman?

1. the rudeness she showed at the well — no support
2. the insolence of her treatment at the well — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the insolence of her cruel treatment of the first head and the well — ← Mova's choice · score -4
4. the rude manner in which she refused the old man's request for water — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1964, line 15: «Old word: a "saucy" person was cheeky or rude, so the queen says that Tom "had been saucy to her" to make the king angry.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the cobbler come to possess the medicaments employed in the cure?

1. a gift from an aged hermit who lived beside the king's road — no support
2. he bought them from a travelling peddler at the fair in town — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. a present from an old monk — no support
4. a gift from an aged hermit — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 698, line 11: «Why: Sigurd dreams that his father comes "in dripping clothes", which tells the children that he is dead.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «father» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the final fate of the queen, and in what manner did it come about?

1. she drowned herself in sorrow — no support
2. she threw herself from the tower window in a fit of rage — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. she poisoned herself in shame — no support
4. she hanged herself in wrath — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1692, line 10: «What happens to the apple peel? The Queen throws the rind out of the window, and a mare in the court eats it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «throw» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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