English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 251 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 ✗
Yo, what actually nabbed the Moon, like, for real?
- 1. the Wykes, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a fox, bruv — no support
- 3. the Black Snag, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the bog, mate — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, the Moon was dead and buried, right? Where?
- 1. under the bridge, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. in the bog, under a big stone, with a cross on top, mate — no support
- 3. in the bog, under a stone — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. by the pool — 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 ✗
Proper gutted, innit, that the new Moon never came? What did folk do?
- 1. they sent for the priest — no support
- 2. they went to the Wise Woman — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. they cried loudly — no support
- 4. they asked the miller — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 251, line 2: «The marsh folk wait for a new moon that never comes, so they ask the Wise Woman for help.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wicked, so what's the stone thing about? Why carry it in your gob?
- 1. so the Bogles can't hear your voice when they come creeping, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. to ward off evil, bruv — no support
- 3. so you can't speak, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. so you can't speak until you get home, mate, innit — 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 ✗
Bare creepy, the Bogles and that. What did the witches say they'd do?
- 1. trap her under the stone and leave her there, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. smother her in the mud, mate, and that's all — no support
- 3. drown her, bruv — no support
- 4. poison her, bruv — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, the folk went all skeery. What did they see in the end?
- 1. a coffin shape and a cross — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a grave shape and a bell — no support
- 3. a box shape and a rod — no support
- 4. a black cross — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Sick, what did the Moon's face look like under the water?
- 1. strange and beautiful, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. strange and beautiful, with eyes that followed you, mate — no support
- 3. strange and beautiful, shining up through the black water, mate — no support
- 4. pale and sad, like a ghost — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 106, line 15: «Why: The dwarfs will not bury her, because "her cheeks were still rosy" and her face looked as if she were still alive.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «face» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about?
- 1. having to dig in the rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. working in the cold snow — no support
- 3. having to graft in the heat while his mates just sat and sang — no support
- 4. having to graft in the heat — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Long story, but the master says don't touch what?
- 1. the silver bowl, fam — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the covered dish, fam — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the covered dish on the table, and don't ask why, fam — no support
- 4. the sealed jar, bruv — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
No way, why do you reckon the man stared at the dish?
- 1. he was curious, fam — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. he was bored — no support
- 3. he was hungry — no support
- 4. he was nosy, bruv — ✓ 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 ✗
Honest, what did the man from the far bogs do?
- 1. he went home — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. he laughed and then he cried — score 2
- 3. he ran off — score 2
- 4. he slapped his knee and told — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 118, line 11: «How: When the men poke sticks in, he crawls "still farther in" the mouse-hole, and they go home with their "empty purses".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «men» (+3); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, what made the folk cheer up in the end?
- 1. the Moon came back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. the rain stopped — no support
- 3. the fog lifted slowly — no support
- 4. the sun came up — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 251, line 2: «The marsh folk wait for a new moon that never comes, so they ask the Wise Woman for help.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «new moon» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which object did the folk use to locate the buried Moon?
- 1. the coffin, the candle, the cross and a bundle of dried straws — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the coffin, the lamp and the stone — no support
- 3. the coffin, the candle and the cross — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the coffin, the candle, the cross and the old brewpot from the mill — 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 ✗
What was the condition under which the folk were permitted to speak?
- 1. silence only — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. none; silence was required until they had returned home — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. only the leader spoke, and only at the bridge at dusk — no support
- 4. they could whisper only after dark on the walk — 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 did the Evil Things seek to destroy the Moon?
- 1. by drowning her — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. by smothering and poisoning her — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. by drowning and burying her — no support
- 4. by smothering her with cloth and poisoning her cup at the feast — 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 character first identified the Moon's whereabouts?
- 1. the old Bogle who lived at the far end of the bog lands and knew the paths — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the man from the far side of the marsh — no support
- 3. the man from the far end of the bog lands — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the man from the far end of the bog lands, who had the strange memory — 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
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