Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2020 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 ✗

So the twins weren't actually hers, yeah?

1. Yeah, the mum reckoned they were hers — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, the dad reckoned they were his — no support
3. Nah, the goblins swapped them and the dad had no say in the matter at all — no support
4. Yeah, the dad reckoned they weren't his — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes?

1. Because her neighbour sent for her and she needed the Wise Man's advice on the babies — no support
2. To see the Wise Man — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. For a cure for twins — no support
4. To borrow a pot to boil some soup for the reapers in the field — ← Mova's choice · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2020, line 2: «She goes to the Wise Man of Llanidloes, who tells her to boil some soup in an eggshell at harvest time and then listen at the door.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «soup» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the rhyme the twins said mad clever?

1. Yeah, dead daft for grown men — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, proper clever for babies — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Nah, it was just some random nonsense about acorns and oaks that anybody could make up — no support
4. Yeah, proper clever for babies, the Wise Man said it was the cleverest rhyme he had heard — score 4

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 2020, line 7: «What: twins who "didn't grow at all", and a rhyme that shows they are not ordinary children.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+3); the same doer «twins» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Did the mum get her proper kids back in the end?

1. Yeah, she got them back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, she got them back after throwing the goblins in the lake and fetching the Wise Man — no support
3. Nah, the dwarfs kept them and she never saw them again in the cottage — no support
4. Yeah, she got a dog — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what's the Wise Man's trick, innit?

1. Boil a rhyme in a pot — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Boil soup in an eggshell — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Brew ale in a bucket — no support
4. Boil an egg — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1446, line 11: «The poor man's wife waited with "not even two sticks to lay across each other under the Christmas porridge-pot."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «wife» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, was the lake dead deep?

1. Yeah, it was Lake Elvyn and it was deep enough to swallow the twins — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, it was Lake Elvyn — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, it was a shallow pond near the cottage, not a proper lake at all — no support
4. Yeah, it was a small pond — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Those goblins in blue trousers, were they mates or what?

1. They sold their dwarfs — no support
2. They fled — no support
3. They ate their dwarfs — ← Mova's choice · score -2
4. They saved their dwarfs — ✓ the right answer · score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1364, line 9: «Why he ran: he feared she would "eat me up at one mouthful" when she came back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «eat up» (-1); the same doer «goblin» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why was she so gutted on the road?

1. She saw elves at midday in blue petticoats and got properly scared — no support
2. She met a bear at noon — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. She saw elves at midday — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She saw dwarfs at dusk — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 584, line 2: «Brer Rabbit meets Brer Bear on the road and asks politely after Miss Brune and Miss Brindle, his wife and daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «brer bear» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Was the husband being a bit of a mug?

1. Yeah, a bit — no support
2. Yeah, he said they weren't his — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Nah, he said they were his — score 4
4. Yeah, he said they were hers — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 2020, line 1: «In a shepherd's cottage called Twt y Cymrws, a woman's twin babies stop growing, and her husband says they are not his.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «husband» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Did the reapers have a proper feast then?

1. Yeah, they got the potage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, no food — no support
3. Nah, they got the ale — no support
4. Yeah, they got the rye — 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 ✗

So what was the rhyme's point, bruv?

1. Rye can't grow from eggs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. An eggshell can't make a dinner — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A dinner can't grow from oak — no support
4. An eggshell can't make a dinner, so the twins were giving the goblins away — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the cottage named after the fight, or what?

1. Yeah, after the strife that happened there when the goblins came — no support
2. Yeah, after the lake — no support
3. Yeah, after the strife — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, it was named after the Wise Man who once lived in the lane — ← 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 2020, line 20: «The name of the cottage keeps the memory of the strife alive, so neighbours still remember it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+3); the same thing acted on «cottage» (+1). The right option, 3, 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 best describes the method by which the mother establishes the true identity of her children?

1. She prepares potage in an eggshell and attends to the speech of the twins — ✓ the right answer · score -2
2. She tests the twins with a riddle — score -1
3. She throws the twins into the lake and waits for the goblins to respond — score -2
4. She asks the Wise Man to inspect the twins and reads their faces — ← 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 2020, line 12: «Her husband's words "They're not ours" show that he has begun to doubt the children.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «children» (-1). The right option, 1, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately identifies the cause of the domestic dispute at Twt y Cymrws?

1. The neighbours doubt the twins belong to the cottage family — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The husband is jealous of the twins — no support
3. The husband doubts that the twins are his own children — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The husband suspects the reapers stole the cottage's rye — 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 statements is consistent with the narrative of the harvest rhyme?

1. The rhyme mocks the reapers for believing that an eggshell could brew a dinner, and so the goblins fled the cottage in shame — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The rhyme contrasts natural growth with an impossible brewing of dinner, and the twins recite it to prove they are goblins to their mother — no support
3. The rhyme contrasts natural growth with an impossible brewing of dinner — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The rhyme describes the goblins' feast and the reapers' oats in detail — 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 correctly states the outcome of the mother's actions at the lake?

1. The husband takes the twins to Llanidloes — score 2
2. She loses both children forever — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. The goblins steal the reapers' rye and flee — no support
4. The goblins restore her own children to her care — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1823, line 7: «What: the Malee's wife dressed him up in a saree and pretended he was her daughter.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «wife» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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