Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 239 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 ✗
Oi, who got the sack from the farm, innit?
- 1. Jack Hollis — no support
- 2. Sam Tiver — no support
- 3. Tom — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Tom Tiver — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 239, line 19: «Why he is sacked: the lads swear "they'd not stay on the same garth with Tom," so the master gives him the sack.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «lads» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, where was Tom when he first heard the wailing?
- 1. by the barn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. in the west field — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. in the north field — no support
- 4. at the far gate — 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 ✗
Mate, was it proper warm that night or chilly?
- 1. wet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. warm and still — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. damp and foggy — no support
- 4. cold — 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Wicked, whose babby did Tom reckon was crying?
- 1. Mary Cooper's infant — no support
- 2. Sally Bratton's child — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. a neighbour's — no support
- 4. Betsy Dun's bairn — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 8: «He first thinks it is Sally Bratton's child, left alone because she "has clean forgot the babby."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes?
- 1. dark green — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. blue — no support
- 3. black — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. red — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Allow it, what did the creature call Tom?
- 1. a good lad — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. a fool — no support
- 3. a clever little boy — no support
- 4. a fine young man — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 239, line 2: «He prises up a flat stone, and out of the hole blinks a tiny wrinkled creature with yellow hair and a beard, who calls himself Yallery Brown.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «call» (+4). Against it: the same thing acted on «tom» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bare cheeky, what did the creature refuse to get?
- 1. gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ale — no support
- 3. thanks — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. any payment — 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 ✗
Mint, how did the little thing leave, like?
- 1. flew out the gate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. vanished — no support
- 3. blew a dandelion puff — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. floated off on a dandelion puff in the breeze — 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 ✓
Gutted, what did Tom find at work every morning?
- 1. all the work already done — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. the ploughing finished — no support
- 3. a whole field ploughed by someone in the night — score 5
- 4. the work already done, every task finished for him — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 239, line 4: «Every morning Tom finds his work already done, while the other lads find their buckets spilt and their tools spoiled, and they turn against him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tom» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Peak, why did the other lads turn on Tom?
- 1. he was a cheat — no support
- 2. his work was done and theirs undone — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. he got the easy jobs — no support
- 4. he cheated on the pay — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 4: «Every morning Tom finds his work already done, while the other lads find their buckets spilt and their tools spoiled, and they turn against him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «work» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Fam, what did the lads swear they would not do?
- 1. stay on the same garth with Tom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. work with Tom again — no support
- 3. speak to the master — no support
- 4. leave the farm — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 19: «Why he is sacked: the lads swear "they'd not stay on the same garth with Tom," so the master gives him the sack.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+7); the same action «stay» (+5); the same place «same garth» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Nowt fair, how did Tom feel about Yallery Brown at the end?
- 1. cross — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. sorry and sad for him — score 7
- 3. quite pleased with him — score 7
- 4. fair mad with him — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 239, line 4: «Every morning Tom finds his work already done, while the other lads find their buckets spilt and their tools spoiled, and they turn against him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same doer «tom» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
By what means did the creature conclude its interview with Tom?
- 1. by floating away on a dandelion seed in the breeze — no support
- 2. by blowing away on a dandelion puff in a gust — no support
- 3. by blowing a dandelion puff — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. through a gap in the hedge — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 239, line 16: «When Tom asks its name, it says "Yallery Brown thou mayst call me," then blows a dandelion puff at him and vanishes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «dandelion puff» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge?
- 1. the Stone — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. the Table — score 2
- 3. the Mourners' Bench — no support
- 4. the Strangers' Table — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 227, line 21: «Old word: "nuptials" simply means a wedding, and "mortify" means to shame or embarrass someone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Upon what grounds did the master terminate Tom Tiver's employment?
- 1. the complaints of all the other lads and the master's own doubts — score 2
- 2. the complaints of the other lads about his strange work — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. the complaints of the other lads — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. he broke his tools — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 239, line 18: «What goes wrong: Tom's work is done for him, and the other lads find "theirs undone for them."», 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 «tom» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what locality did Tom Tiver first perceive the lamentation?
- 1. the low orchard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the yard — no support
- 3. the lane — no support
- 4. the west field — ✓ 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
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