English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 250 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, did the Moon get proper stuck in a bog snag, bor?
- 1. No, it slipped round her neck — no support
- 2. Yes, the bog snag twined round her wrists and her golden hair too — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yes, it twined round her wrists — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yes, it twined round her wrists and held her there all night long — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 250, line 17: «A snag "twined itself round her wrists, like a pair of handcuffs", so she cannot move, while a frightened man strays nearer the deep hole.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «snag» (+2); the same place «wrists» (+2); the same action «twine» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the fairy give that woodman proper three wishes, my lover?
- 1. Yes, three wishes, be they what they may, and he used them all wisely — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, just one, as I recall — no support
- 3. Yes, three, be they what they may — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, only one wish, and it was small — 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 ✗
Cor, that black pudding stuck on his nose, didn't it, emmet?
- 1. No, it fell off — no support
- 2. Yes, it fell and fell — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. Yes, it stuck and stuck on his nose all through the long winter — no support
- 4. Yes, it stuck and stuck — ✓ 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 250, line 10: «The pudding comes down the chimney with "clatter, clatter, rustle, rustle", a sound you can hear in the text.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come down» (+2); the same doer «pudding» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor?
- 1. Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone and kept all the gold for herself — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ansum, she shared with everyone — no support
- 4. Ansum, she helped each one — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
Why did the witch go gurt mad at the girl, my lover?
- 1. Bad luck — no support
- 2. Girl ran off — no support
- 3. The girl ran away fast — no support
- 4. Her money was taken away — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 243, line 11: «Why: she feels lucky about the stone because she was "terrible wanting something to hold my door open with".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «woman» (+6). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Moon go wandering out in her black cloak, proper?
- 1. Yes, at night — no support
- 2. Yes, with her hood on and her yellow hair flowing free — no support
- 3. Yes, with her hood on — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, in her black cloak — ← 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 250, line 16: «Why: she goes out in "a black cloak, and a black hood over her yellow shining hair" to see the bogs for herself.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «black cloak» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the bog all wisht and squishy, bor?
- 1. Yes, full of squishy mools and dark waters where bogles hide — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, it was firm and dry — no support
- 3. Yes, full of squishy mools — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yes, full of cold water — 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 ✓
Did the poor man get dazed by the fairy, my lover?
- 1. Yes, he could hardly speak and he stumbled home in shock — score 4
- 2. Yes, he could hardly speak — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. No, he was not dazed, he just walked away from the fairy — score 4
- 4. No, he spoke to the fairy — score 4
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 186, line 1: «Sindbad meets Arabic-speaking men who are gathering pepper, and they take him to their king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «speak» (+2); the same doer «sindbad» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the goodwife say he was a fool, emmet?
- 1. Yes, she thought he was wise — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Yes, she said he was a fool — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, she didn't — no support
- 4. No, she called him kind — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 247, line 7: «What: he asks the wise woman to teach him, and she says "thou 'rt a bigger fool than I thought."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Moon's light drive off the Bogles, bor?
- 1. No, they stayed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, they fled to the marsh — no support
- 3. No, they laughed at the light — no support
- 4. Yes, they fled into the dark — ✓ 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 the girl milk the cow, proper?
- 1. No, she had no time — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, she was in a hurry — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, she did — no support
- 4. No, not yet — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Was the apple-tree proper helpful to the girl, my lover?
- 1. No, it gave no answer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, it hid her quickly — no support
- 3. No, it shook the apples — no support
- 4. No, it did not — 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 of the following best describes the fate of the second sister at the witch's house?
- 1. She was robbed of her gold and sent away to the mill — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Robbed and sent home — no support
- 3. She was kept in the house and fed good bread — no support
- 4. She was robbed of her money, beaten, and sent home — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following best describes the woodman's first wish at his home?
- 1. He wished for a link of black pudding to eat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He wished for a big bowl of hot soup for dinner — no support
- 3. He asked for a pot of stew to share with his wife — no support
- 4. Some bread — 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 ✗
Which of the following best describes the goodwife's wish about her husband?
- 1. She wished him gone — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. She wished the soup spilled on his lap — no support
- 3. She wished the pudding were stuck upon his nose — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. She wished the bread were stuck upon his coat — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 127, line 10: «fact: The new tale's people: "a man, whose wife had died; and a woman, also, who had lost her husband."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «husband» (+3); the same doer «woman» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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 ✗
Which of the following best describes the Moon's situation at the end of the part?
- 1. Her hood has slipped and she is lost in the marsh — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Her hood has fallen back, her hair lights the darkness, and the bogles flee from her — no support
- 3. Her hood has fallen back and her yellow hair lights the whole dark marsh below her — no support
- 4. Her hood has fallen back and her hair lights the darkness — ✓ 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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