Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 246 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, how many flies did Johnny dae in one whack?
- 1. Ten — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fifty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fifty-three — no support
- 4. Twelve — 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 ✗
Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff?
- 1. Smith — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Tailor — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Blacksmith's helper — no support
- 4. Miner — 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 ✗
Dae ye ken where he hid fae the giants, pal?
- 1. In a barn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. In a hollow tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. In a cave — no support
- 4. Up a fallen oak — 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 made the giants gang at each other?
- 1. A stone off the wall — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A stick — no support
- 3. A club on the head — no support
- 4. A pebble on the napper — ✓ 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 prize did the King offer, like?
- 1. A purse of gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A reward and his lassie's haund — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A fortune in gold and jewels — no support
- 4. Some siller and his lassie's hand — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did Johnny's horse hae hingin aff its neck?
- 1. A sack — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A rope — no support
- 3. A bridle — no support
- 4. A gallows — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin?
- 1. Hid — no support
- 2. Ran hame — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Fled — no support
- 4. Ran away — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 246, line 5: «Later rebels meet his wild horse, which gallops at them with a gallows on its neck, so they run away and Johnny becomes king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+2); the same doer «rebels» (+2); the same property (+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 ✗
Ur ye sure Johnny ever rode a horse afore?
- 1. No, never — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Aye, often — no support
- 3. Yes — no support
- 4. Yes, he rode every day in the hills — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 109, line 3: «He tricks the Giant into carrying an oak tree while he sits on a branch, then jumps over a cherry tree to escape the Giant.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sit» (+3); the same doer «tailor» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit happened at the end, mate?
- 1. He fled — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He died — no support
- 3. He became king — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He wed the girl — 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 10 · ★ · right ✓
Dinnae say, did the giants win?
- 1. Yes, they beat him — no support
- 2. No, Johnny chopped them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. No, Johnny chopped them all up with a sword — score 4
- 4. Aye, the giants won — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 246, line 3: «He tricks two giants by throwing pebbles, so they start fighting and wear themselves out.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «two giants» (+3); the same doer «johnny» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword?
- 1. An auld spear — no support
- 2. A rusty spear — no support
- 3. A roosty sword — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. A roosty auld sword fae his faither — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 246, line 12: «He leapt out "bold as a lion" and asked, "What do you say to Johnny Gloke with his old roosty sword?"», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whit happened tae the giants' heids, like?
- 1. Johnny burned them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Johnny cut them aff — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He cut them — no support
- 4. He chopped them up — 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 ✗
Whit did the rebels think Johnny wis?
- 1. A mighty giant-killer come tae hang every one of them — no support
- 2. A giant-killer come tae hang them — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A giant-killing tailor come tae hang them all fae the toun — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 4. A giant wi a rope tae hang them — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 246, line 17: «The gallows "was somewhat old and frail" and fell on the horse's neck, so the rebels thought he was coming to hang them.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «come» (+5); the same doer «johnny» (+4). 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 · right ✓
By what means did the protagonist first secure the mutual destruction of the giants?
- 1. By hiding in a tree — no support
- 2. By provoking them with thrown pebbles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. By stealing their food and wood — no support
- 4. By luring them into a deadly trap — 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 246, line 3: «He tricks two giants by throwing pebbles, so they start fighting and wear themselves out.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «two giants» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the nature of the reward proffered by the monarch for the removal of the giants?
- 1. A substantial fortune plus a title and his daughter's hand in marriage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A considerable sum with his daughter's hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A large sum of gold and a noble title — no support
- 4. An enormous treasure, a castle, and the princess's hand in wedlock — 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 ✗
In what manner was the rebellion ultimately quelled?
- 1. By the gallows frightening the rebels away from the castle walls — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By Johnny riding out alone and hanging their ringleaders one by one — no support
- 3. By a long and bloody siege of the walls — no support
- 4. By the gallows frightening the rebels away — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which quality of the protagonist is most clearly demonstrated by his conduct with the giants?
- 1. Loyalty to the King and crown — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Great strength — no support
- 3. Sheer courage in battle — no support
- 4. Cunning exercised under pressure — ✓ 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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