English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back

Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 236 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 ✗

Mally's mad at them pigs, right, so what she do to them, like?

1. she pushed their noses in the swill tub — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she grabbed a stick and beat them all round the sty — no support
3. she jammed their snouts into the feed bin — no support
4. she shoved their heads in the trough — ✓ 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 ✗

Yo, where'd the wind blow her meal, mate?

1. from the sty — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. off the big roof — score 8
3. in the mud — score 8
4. off a high hill — ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 191, line 19: «Old word: a "monsoon" is a seasonal wind that blows across the Indian Ocean and brings rain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «blow» (+5); the same doer «seasonal wind» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why'd she give the bag of groats away?

1. cos he was nice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. cos the robber looked dead posh — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos he said it was rent — no support
4. cos he was a dead gent — 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 ✗

Right, what was the bag of groats hanging off, like?

1. a hook — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the rope from the rafters — no support
3. the bed — no support
4. the tester over the bed — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · right ✓

Did Jan say the bag was for the rent or for who?

1. for the pigs' food and for Mally's new dress — score 2
2. for the rent but he'd spend it on ale — score 5
3. for Hereafterthis — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. for the robbers and their fine table in the hill — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 236, line 12: «Who: a robber outside the window overhears Jan say the bag is "for Hereafterthis," and he comes back next day to take it.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+5); the same doer «bag» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nah, what did Jan say he'd lost, proper gutted?

1. all the rent money — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the golden groats — no support
3. his coat — no support
4. the bag — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 236, line 12: «Who: a robber outside the window overhears Jan say the bag is "for Hereafterthis," and he comes back next day to take it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jan» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «bag» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

So Jan took the door off, why was that, innit?

1. cos he needed a board to keep the pigs in — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. cos it was their bed — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos it was for the pigs — no support
4. cos the wind had broken the window — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 236, line 12: «Who: a robber outside the window overhears Jan say the bag is "for Hereafterthis," and he comes back next day to take it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where was they kipping, then, up a tree or what?

1. in the house — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. in the sty with pigs — no support
3. up a tree on the door — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. under the old oak tree — 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who was sat at the table in the hill, mate?

1. two fine gents with a dog — score 5
2. some robbers — score 5
3. a fine gent and his dog — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. two posh gents and their crew — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 136, line 2: «One day he snaps his halter, bursts into the dining room, and prances around, knocking over the table.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «table» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «dog» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What fell smack on the table, bruv?

1. the pigs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a pig — no support
3. a bag — no support
4. the door — ✓ 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 they bag the money, then, or what?

1. nah, they fought over it and fled home to their wives — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, they bagged every groat and ran off to the hill — no support
3. yeah, took as much as they could — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, they took the bags and then gave them back — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, did they live happy, or what?

1. they didn't — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. happy ever after — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. not really — no support
4. they were broke again — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, what's the golden ball story about, like?

1. a lad and his lass chasing a magic ball down a hill — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. two girls and a red hat — no support
3. two girls who lose a golden ball in a well — no support
4. two lasses and a ball — ✓ 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 14 · ★ · right ✓

Was Mally smart or dumb, innit, from what you heard?

1. dumb, she kept ruining stuff — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. clever, but very unlucky — no support
3. smart, really — no support
4. smart, she tried her best — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which outcome did Mally's handling of the bag of groats produce?

1. She lent it to a gentleman in a fine coat who promised to return it next week with interest and more — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She surrendered it to a robber posing as a gentleman — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She handed it to a man who pretended to be a rich gentleman and then ran off — no support
4. She lost it to a thief who acted like a rich man — 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 · wrong ✗

Which object fell upon the robbers' table to disperse them?

1. the iron pot — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the wooden bench — no support
3. the table — no support
4. the house-door — ✓ 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

To what does the narrator attribute the loss of the white bread?

1. the robbers taking the bag — no support
2. the pigs eating it — no support
3. Mally blowing it by mistake — score 1
4. the wind carrying the meal away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 236, line 8: «Where: she takes her white meal to the top of a high hill, where the wind blows "meal and bran and all" away.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wind» (+2); the same thing acted on «meal» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

How did the robbers respond when the door fell upon their table?

1. they grabbed the money and ran out of the hill — no support
2. they fled in alarm from the table — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. they sat still and ate supper — no support
4. they kept counting the coins — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 142, line 14: «Old word: "fain" in the Soldiers tale means "glad" or "forced", so "the Robber was fain to fly" means he had to run.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fly» (+5); the same doer «robber» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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