English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes
Tests: 8 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 252 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 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, that uncle was proper sus, innit? What did he plan for them babes?
- 1. Make them both disappear forever in the wood, bruv, and sort out the cash — no support
- 2. Send them off to London, bruv — no support
- 3. Make them both away, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Make them both away proper, bruv, and get the whole lot of their gold — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 252, line 10: «The uncle keeps the children "A twelvemonth and a day" and then plans "To make them both away."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make away» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, why'd the babes get so gutted on that ride?
- 1. Uncle lied, they got sent off — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Uncle cheated them away — no support
- 3. Uncle lied — no support
- 4. Their uncle lied and sent them off — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, one ruffian got a change of heart, right? What got to him?
- 1. Their pretty speech, proper mint — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Their pretty speech and their cute little faces, proper mint, innit — no support
- 3. The babes' sweet chat, proper nice — no support
- 4. Their nice little voices, proper cool — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, did the two ruffians have a proper scrap? Who came out on top?
- 1. The milder one, dropped the other — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Nobody, they split — no support
- 3. The milder one, who dropped the other with a knife and ran off into the wood — score 7
- 4. The kinder one, took him out — 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 61, line 3: «A horse comes along the tow-path pulling a barge, steered by a big stout woman in a sun-bonnet. Toad, still dressed as a washerwoman, tells her a sad made-up s…», 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 «toad» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, them babes in the wood got lost real bad, yeah? Where'd they end up?
- 1. Lost near the sea on a long bare road to the south of London town — no support
- 2. Beside a village church — no support
- 3. Inside a dark old house — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Within an unfrequented wood — ✓ the right answer · score -5
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 241, line 11: «Where: the story happens in the house, at the hall door and in the hall, and the men end up in the pond.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end up» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, the uncle wasn't skint, was he? What did he get for doing the wrong thing?
- 1. Their whole wealth and estate, if they died young, every penny of it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Their wealth, if they died — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The gold if they expired — no support
- 4. Their money when they passed — 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 ✓
Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what?
- 1. He said he'd bring bread back — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Just water — score 4
- 3. He promised cake and milk — no support
- 4. No, nothing — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 252, line 16: «The ruffian leads the babes "two long miles" and says, "Stay here, I'll bring you bread", but he never comes back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «ruffian» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Yeah, but who covered them up when they croaked?
- 1. Robin Redbreast with leaves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Bird with his green leaves — no support
- 3. The wind with some moss — no support
- 4. Robin Redbreast with leaves gathered from the wood floor and snow on top — 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 ✗
Did the uncle's farm do well after that, or nah?
- 1. Fields flooded, horses sold, bust — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Crops failed, cattle sold, broke — no support
- 3. Barns burnt, cattle died, skint — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Barns burnt — 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 ✓
Right, what happened to the uncle in the end, bruv?
- 1. He died in jail, broke — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He died in a cell, bust — no support
- 3. He hanged — no support
- 4. Jailed — 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 · ★ · right ✓
What's the moral, though? Like, why should we care?
- 1. Look after kids, don't be a rat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Care for babes, don't be mean — no support
- 3. Don't steal — no support
- 4. Mind your kids, don't be cruel — 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 ✓
Mate, that ruffian who did the robbery, did he get off free?
- 1. He was judged to die — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was judged to die, but he escaped from jail and was never caught again — no support
- 3. He was let go, no fine — no support
- 4. He was given a fine — 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 describes the manner in which the uncle's wicked design was finally brought to light?
- 1. The ruffian confessed the truth before his execution — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Through a witness — no support
- 3. A servant overheard the uncle's plan — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. He was caught red-handed — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 252, line 10: «The uncle keeps the children "A twelvemonth and a day" and then plans "To make them both away."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «plan» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «uncle» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
To which of the following circumstances may the death of the uncle be most properly attributed?
- 1. Hanging for the murder of the children — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. A fever in the cell — no support
- 3. Poison — no support
- 4. His imprisonment for debt, following his ruin — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 252, line 11: «He hires "two ruffians strong, / Which were of furious mood" to slay the children in a wood.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «slay» (+4); the same thing acted on «children» (+4). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What, according to the concluding stanza, is the principal duty of those who are appointed as executors and overseers?
- 1. To look after the farm and the cattle — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To deal rightly with the children in their charge — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To give the will to the court at once — no support
- 4. To keep the accounts — 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 · right ✓
Which of the following best characterises the conduct of the milder ruffian toward his companion within the wood?
- 1. He slew him, having been moved to mildness — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He robbed him, having been moved by greed — no support
- 3. He slew him at once, having first been moved to mildness by the children's plea and the sight of their suffering — no support
- 4. He fought him — 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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