Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 238 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 ✗
Ken whit colour the bull wis, pal?
- 1. Tan — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Black — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Red — no support
- 4. Dark brown like the peaty moor — 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 ✓
Whit did the wee lass ride aff on, like?
- 1. A bull — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Cow — no support
- 3. A stag — no support
- 4. Fox — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit fruit did the first castle gie her?
- 1. A round red fruit from the tall tree — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A pear — no support
- 3. A green fruit from the orchard wall — no support
- 4. An apple — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did she have tae dae wi the fruit, naw?
- 1. Share it with the old witch — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hide the fruit safely and only eat it when the Bull tells you — no support
- 3. Keep each fruit whole until the very worst part of the journey — no support
- 4. Keep it till the worst bit — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit colour did everything go when the bull won?
- 1. Green — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Red — no support
- 3. Blue — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Tan — 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
Did she sit still on the stane like she was telt?
- 1. Naw, she stood up and got off the stane and went roon the glen — no support
- 2. Naw, she stood up and walked aboot the whole glen tae see — no support
- 3. Naw, she crossed her feet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Aye, she stayed on it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 238, line 3: «In a dark glen she must sit still on a stone, but when everything turns blue she is so glad that she crosses her feet, and the Bull cannot find her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cross» (+5); the same thing acted on «feet» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan?
- 1. A hill made o glass — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A hill o ice — no support
- 3. A bonnie hill — no support
- 4. A muckle hill o' smooth shinin glass that naebody can dae — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Whit did the smith want for the iron shoon, ken?
- 1. Seven years' work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Three years' work — no support
- 3. Seven years o' hard work on the farm — no support
- 4. Seven years o' service at his forge an' a' that — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Whit did the washerwife's dochter dae wi the knight's claes?
- 1. Tried tae wash the blood oot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Tried tae wash the blood oot o' them but couldnae get it tae shift — no support
- 3. Stood there scrubbin awa at the claes but the blood wouldnae come oot — no support
- 4. Tried tae dry them oot — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did the old wife gie the knight tae make him sleep, mental?
- 1. A bitter tea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A warm drink — no support
- 3. A sleepy drink — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Wine — 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 ✗
Whit song did the lass sing every night, like?
- 1. A sad sang aboot a lass who served for seven years — no support
- 2. She sang a sad sang — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Seven long years I served for thee, sung every night wi' tears — no support
- 4. "Seven long years I served for thee" — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 73, line 1: «Alone in his bedroom before the Banquet, Toad locks the door, draws the curtains, sets the chairs in a half-circle like an audience, and sings «Toad's Last Lit…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2); the same doer «toad» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did the knight dae when he heard the singin, mate?
- 1. Pretended tae drink the whole cup, then sat up and listened — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lay still and then got up — no support
- 3. Pretended tae sleep, then ran — no support
- 4. Pretended tae drink, then woke up — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Whit happened tae the washerwife in the end, like?
- 1. She got burnt — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. She got drowned — no support
- 3. She fled — no support
- 4. She got banished — 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 · right ✓
What did the Bull bid the youngest daughter do upon the stone in the dark glen?
- 1. Stand up and wait for him here — no support
- 2. Sit still and move neither hand nor foot until I have killed the Old One — score 5
- 3. Stay put and hold your tongue — no support
- 4. Sit still and move neither hand nor foot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 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 238, line 3: «In a dark glen she must sit still on a stone, but when everything turns blue she is so glad that she crosses her feet, and the Bull cannot find her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «sit» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the damsel offer the eldest daughter in exchange for a night in the chamber?
- 1. Jewellery from her apple, pear and plum, and her silver comb too — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rings and gold from her apple — no support
- 3. Jewellery from her apple, pear and plum — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Jewels from her apple and plum — 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 ✗
By what means was the knight at last awakened?
- 1. He woke to a loud knock — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He heard the lament sung through the night — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He woke up when his wife called out — no support
- 4. The cock crowed. — 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 ✗
What fate befell the old washerwife at the close of the tale?
- 1. She was hanged — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. She was burnt — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Hanged — no support
- 4. She was drowned — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 188, line 11: «Why: Sindbad keeps sailing because "it was my fate to rove", even though his friends try to keep him at home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «wine» (+2); the same thing acted on «fate» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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