The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 2040 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 ✗
Mate, did the Rocket actually go off at the party?
- 1. Nah, he got too wet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was too soggy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he went off real loud and proper bright — no support
- 4. Yeah, he went off loud — 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 ✗
Was the Frog, like, obsessed with his own gab?
- 1. Yeah, he was dead chatty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, not really — no support
- 3. Yeah, he yapped on about himself — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he didn't — 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 ✗
Who got chucked in the ditch, bruv?
- 1. the workman — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the Rocket — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the Frog — no support
- 4. the Pike — 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 ✗
Did the Dragon-fly stick around to hear the Rocket bang on?
- 1. Yeah, he stuck around to listen — no support
- 2. Yeah, he stayed put and listened to every word — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Nah, he bolted up in the sky — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he flew off to the sky — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 2000, line 18: «fact: Old word: "scant in my breath" means short of breath, and a "gad-fly" is a biting fly like a horsefly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «biting fly» (+2); the same doer «gad fly» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's the Rocket's beef with the workman?
- 1. He's just annoyed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He got told off — no support
- 3. He reckons he got called grand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He reckons the workman swore — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was the duck famous for, mate?
- 1. her plumage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. her waddle — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. her eyes — no support
- 4. her song — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Did the Pike gonna munch the Frog's girls?
- 1. Yeah, he's a proper monster — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he's a proper monster but he's gone off now — no support
- 3. Yeah, he's a proper beast — no support
- 4. Yeah, he's a proper monster and he eats everything — 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 ✗
Is the Rocket totally sure he's a mega genius?
- 1. Yeah, he's dead sure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, not really — no support
- 3. Nah, he's not — no support
- 4. Yeah, he reckons so — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what did the Frog reckon arguments were?
- 1. vulgar — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. dead vulgar and tiresome, innit — score 1
- 3. dead vulgar — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. rude — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1839, line 16: «The King is "speechless with surprise" when he sees the seven Queens, because he thought they were in his own palace.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Rocket reckon the Prince got married for him?
- 1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, for his sake — no support
- 3. Nah, no way — no support
- 4. Yeah, in my honour — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the moon, like, come up over the palace?
- 1. Yeah, it rose like a golden lamp — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it rose slowly like a huge silver shield over the palace roof — no support
- 3. Yeah, it rose like a silver shield — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, it stayed low — 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 ✗
Which fireworks were banging loud and happy?
- 1. the Squibs — no support
- 2. the Rocket — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. the Serpents — score 1
- 4. the Crackers — ✓ 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 644, line 15: «The word "squib" is an old word for a small firework that fizzes and bangs; today we would say a banger or a cracker.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bang» (+5). Against it: the same doer «small firework» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
In which manner did the Rocket fail to perform at the celebration?
- 1. He was too wet to go off — no support
- 2. He could not go off at all — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. He went off in the wrong way — no support
- 4. He could not go off at all because he was soaked through — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 2040, line 9: «Why he fails: his tears make him so wet that "he could not go off at all".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go off» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the workman describe the Rocket upon discovering it?
- 1. As a wet stick — no support
- 2. As a very bad and useless rocket indeed — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 3. As a bad rocket — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 4. As a bad rocket that never goes off — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, tied with another option at -2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 807, line 19: «Who tells the tale? The narrator heard it from the sparrows, who heard it from the old willow-tree.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «tale» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What reason did the Frog give for avoiding argument?
- 1. It is just a silly habit — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Arguments are extremely vulgar — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 3. Arguments are awfully dull things — no support
- 4. They are vulgar — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1919, line 10: «The peasants raise a clamour, the King and Queen run out, and they must pay for all the damage the sheep have done.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak?
- 1. The Moth — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. The Bee — score 5
- 3. The Dragon-fly — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. The Butterfly — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 2040, line 18: «Old word: a "Pyrotechnist" is a man who makes and sets off fireworks.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «set off» (+5); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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