Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1998 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, who's the mad jealous queen in this one, innit?
- 1. the second wife — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Silver-tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Gold-tree — no support
- 4. the trout queen — 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, what's the trout gonna say about who's proper gorgeous?
- 1. Gold-tree, the daughter — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the king's clever goose, the one who dives — no support
- 3. the second wife, yeah — no support
- 4. the old king, 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, how did the queen try to get well, like?
- 1. eat her own heart and liver — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. make the trout eat Gold-tree's heart and liver yeah — score -4
- 3. eat Gold-tree's heart and liver — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. eat Gold-tree's heart and liver with salt and wine — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1765, line 14: «The master wants the prince to give him his hand, and the maiden says "He means to eat you", so the shovel must be red hot.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «master» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper gutted, what did the king give her instead, yeah?
- 1. a ram's heart and liver — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. a stag's heart, I reckon — no support
- 3. a he-goat's heart and liver — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. a goat's ear — score 0
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 1971, line 9: «Why: he says "I'll take away the last little one" because the father cannot feed six children.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feed» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «father» (-2). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, where did the prince stash Gold-tree after she got stabbed?
- 1. locked her in a room — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. buried her — score 1
- 3. put her in the cellar — no support
- 4. hid her — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1998, line 4: «Silver-tree pokes a poisoned stab through the key-hole, Gold-tree dies, and the prince locks her in a room.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lock» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, who was the plot twist that brought Gold-tree back?
- 1. the nurse — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the second wife — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the maid — no support
- 4. the glen woman — 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 ✗
Sus stuff, what did Gold-tree reckon her mum was coming to do?
- 1. poison her, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. kill her, proper — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. kill her, yeah — no support
- 4. kill her with a stab in the finger, proper — 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 ✗
Bro, what rule did the second wife make up to catch Silver-tree?
- 1. the drink-pourer sips first — no support
- 2. whoever offers the drink tastes it first, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. the one who gives out the drink must taste it first, bruv — score 1
- 4. the drink-giver tastes first — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1759, line 14: «Old word: an "elder" is a small tree with white flowers, and "sheath" means the case that holds a blade.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «small tree» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, how did Silver-tree actually die, like?
- 1. she drank from the cup meant for the prince at dinner — score 0
- 2. drank the poisoned cup — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. drank the cup of wine — no support
- 4. was stabbed in the glen — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1998, line 1: «Silver-tree asks a trout at a glen who is the most beautiful, and the trout names her stepdaughter Gold-tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «silver tree» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same place «glen» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh?
- 1. his wife alive again — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Gold-tree alive again — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. to see Gold-tree come back alive and walk again — score 0
- 4. Gold-tree coming back alive out of the locked room — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1998, line 18: «The prince says that "nothing could make me laugh, except Gold-tree were to come alive again."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+7); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «prince» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Mint or what, King O'Toole's goose used to do what?
- 1. dive for trout for the king — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. fetch trout — no support
- 3. swim — no support
- 4. catch fish for the cook — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1092, line 16: «Why she works there: the farmer's wife needed a girl "to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who's the old dude King O'Toole meets by the lake?
- 1. a tall grey stranger — score -1
- 2. Saint Kavin in disguise — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a priest — no support
- 4. a wise old beggar man — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1932, line 6: «Who: a very wise King and his confidential servant, who was "so overcome with curiosity" that he opened the dish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Sus, what's King O'Toole thinking about at the lake?
- 1. to swim — score -4
- 2. drowning himself in the lake — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. giving up his crown — score -4
- 4. walking into the forest — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1528, line 1: «The two Princes are brought out of prison, and they think they will be executed at once.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «princes» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by means of a poisoned stab.
- 1. Silver-tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nell — no support
- 3. the trout — no support
- 4. the maid — 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 ✓
State the object by which the second wife revives the stepdaughter.
- 1. a silver needle, used — no support
- 2. the cup of wine, drunk — no support
- 3. the comb — no support
- 4. the poisoned stab, removed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1998, line 17: «The second wife takes the stab out of Gold-tree's finger, and Gold-tree "rose alive, as beautiful as she was ever."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «stab» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Specify the rule invoked by the second wife to bring about the death of the jealous queen.
- 1. the one who offers a drink tastes first — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. the one who offers a drink to another must taste it first himself — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. the drink-giver always sips first — no support
- 4. the one who pours must taste first — score -1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 862, line 13: «She offers wine that "such as you have never tasted", left behind by travellers with their guide.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «taste» (+4); the same thing acted on «wine» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Indicate the purpose for which the aged king obtained the goose.
- 1. to cheer him up — no support
- 2. to dive for trout and divert the old king from his grief — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. to divert him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. to divert the old king from his sad, long years in the glen — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1964, line 10: «Tom is a favourite who "not only amused the king and queen", but he is in danger again when the queen wants to ruin him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «amuse» (+4); the same thing acted on «king» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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