Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 217 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, so the wife ate rice with a pin, like, for real?

1. Yeah, a long pin, grain by grain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Yeah, with a fork, all at once — no support
3. Yeah, she used this long pin and ate every single grain of rice one at a time, super slow — score 6
4. Nah, not a pin at all, she scooped it with bread from the cooking pot like everyone else — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 217, line 7: «What: at dinner Amina picks her rice with a long pin, "grain by grain", and eats almost nothing else.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, was he, like, spying on her at night?

1. Yeah, he sneaked after her to the graveyard — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he followed her out to the market square — no support
3. Nah, he was actually looking for his lost goat in the village when he happened to see her leave — no support
4. Nah, he was asleep the whole night — 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 ✗

Ngl, what was she doing with that ghoul creature?

1. Hiding a letter — no support
2. Meeting her lover in secret and planning to poison her husband with the rice she had cooked — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Digging up a dead body to eat it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Burying a stolen purse at night — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 191, line 2: «His master frees him and promises him a fortune for all the ivory they gathered.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «gather» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

No way, so did she, like, curse him for real?

1. Yeah, she said "be a goat" — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Nah, she laughed — no support
3. Yeah, she said "become a dog" — ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. Yeah, she did — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 95, line 1: «Very angry now, the Woman makes a Still Magic so that she will never say a third word of praise. The Cave grows so still that a little mouse creeps out. «Ouh!…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «woman» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, so he's a dog now? That's wild

1. Yeah, he's a dog now, and he was also chased out of the house by the neighbours' sheep — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, and his tail got squished — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he's a cat now — score 5
4. Yeah, and his ears got stuck — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 157, line 15: «Why does the Dog run? He is chasing a Wolf and thinks "he's no match for me, and he knows it and so he runs away."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dog» (+2); the same thing acted on «match» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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 ✓

Did she, like, try to squish him at the gate?

1. Yeah, she banged it, but he dodged — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, she slammed the gate on his tail, and he yelped, but he squeezed through anyway — no support
3. Yeah, she slammed the bolt shut — no support
4. Yeah, she pushed him with a broom — 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 ✗

Wait, why were the other dogs chasing him?

1. Cos he was yelping and howling loud — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos they were hungry — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Cos he had stolen their food bowl — no support
4. Cos he was marking their territory — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 81, line 2: «The Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing both shout "Go away!", but the Big God Nqong says "Yes, I will!" and calls the always-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo to c…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hungry yellow dog» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Where did he hide, lol?

1. In a cookshop with tongues and sheep's heads — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. Under the minaret of the mosque, where the muezzin kept the dogs fed with bread and bones — score 2
3. Behind a stall selling olives and sweet figs — no support
4. In the courtyard of a blacksmith who kept a hot forge and fed his dogs on scraps every morning — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 217, line 5: «She beats him and tries to crush him in the gate, but he escapes and hides in a cookshop, where the owner, who hates dogs, will not keep him long.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «hide» (+2); the same place «cookshop» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the cookshop man nice to him at first?

1. Nah, he kicked him — no support
2. Yeah, he chased the other dogs off — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Yeah, he gave him some bread — score 1
4. Nah, he threw stones at him — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 168, line 4: «Inside, he meets a handsome young man who is half flesh and half stone, sitting sadly on a throne.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «handsome young man» (+2); the same thing acted on «half flesh» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So will the man stay nice to him, fr?

1. Nah, cos he reckons dogs are dirty — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Nah, cos the mullah told him that all animals must be driven from the shop before evening prayer — score 1
3. Yeah, cos he has a soft heart and will feed him as long as he stays quiet in the back room — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, cos he likes dogs a lot — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 40, line 10: ««People come—they stay for a while, they flourish, they build—and they go. It is their way. But we remain.» (Flourish = do very well.) Badgers were there befor…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+3); the same doer «people» (+3). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honestly, how does it end, is he dead?

1. Nah, he lives — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he is killed by the butcher — no support
3. Nah, he escapes to the hills — no support
4. Nah, the story keeps going, mate — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the wife knew he followed her?

1. Yeah, she had seen him from the window the whole time and was waiting for him to move — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Yeah, she got it the second he spoke — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she only found out the next morning when the neighbours told her he was missing — score 3
4. Nah, she never knew until later — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 217, line 2: «One night she sneaks out with a ghoul, and he follows and sees them dig up a fresh corpse and eat it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2); the same action «see» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

On what occasion did the narrator's wife, Amina, depart from the dwelling by night?

1. When she went out to draw water — score 2
2. When she hurried to the graveyard with a lantern, having first prayed and bathed in the courtyard well — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. When she stole out secretly, with the ghoul awaiting her — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. When she visited her sister, in daylight — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 97, line 2: ««She will never laugh at you again,» says Suleiman, and for the Butterfly's sake, not to show off, he turns his ring. Four huge Djinns come out of the earth. T…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «beg» (+7); the same doer «wife» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the narrator's wife transform him into an animal of the canine kind?

1. By chanting over him for hours, then tearing his shirt and leaving him to crawl home alone — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. By burning his clothes at dawn — no support
3. By striking him with a stick — no support
4. By sprinkling water upon him and pronouncing a curse — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 19: «The Mole sees «how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him». His old familiar things «now smilingly receiv…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «mole» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Of what nature was the establishment into which the transformed narrator was obliged to retire?

1. A cookshop wherein tongues and sheep's heads were offered — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A shop selling bread and dates — no support
3. A tavern where wine was served — no support
4. A large covered market where traders sold fish, grain, cloth, and spices to the townspeople — 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 ✗

Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his protection from the narrator?

1. Because a customer complained about dogs in the shop — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Because the neighbours complained that the dog was too noisy — no support
3. Because he held all dogs to be unclean and defiling — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Because he feared the dog would bite — 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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