English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 254 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 ✗
Bruv, what runs without feet, like the fool's riddle?
- 1. Fog — no support
- 2. Water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Wind — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Air — 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 96, line 12: «The Butterfly's boast: «if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.»», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what's yellow and shining but no gold, innit?
- 1. Egg — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The moon — no support
- 3. Moon — no support
- 4. The sun — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so what's the tadpole riddle answer, proper deep?
- 1. A frog — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A beetle — no support
- 3. A tadpole — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A salmon — 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 ✓
Lol, where did the fool reckon his brains were hiding?
- 1. Hidden deep inside his wife's silly head — no support
- 2. Hidden in the bottom of his big wooden chest — no support
- 3. In his wife's head — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Under his old hat — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 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 84, line 5: «But the Stranger-man reads the picture quite differently. He thinks Tegumai must be a great Chief in danger, with enemies all around, and that the child is ask…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «man» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dead funny, what's the old king sick for, like, the cure?
- 1. Honey — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Golden apples — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Silver pears — no support
- 4. Cider broth — 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 ✗
Which bro took the left road, the one nobody rated?
- 1. The eldest — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. The fool — score 7
- 3. The youngest prince who was ignored by all — no support
- 4. Poor Jack — ✓ the right answer · 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 254, line 3: «Poor Jack takes the left road to the first old man, who warns him not to stir all night while frogs and snakes crawl over him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+5); the same thing acted on «left road» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, which road did Valentine bag, the right one?
- 1. The right road — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The wide road running past the old mill — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. The middle road — no support
- 4. The road that climbs the hill to the castle — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 68, line 3: «Off to bed. Toad dreams of roads running away from him, canals chasing him, a barge sailing into his dinner-party with his washing, and the secret passage twis…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+3); the same doer «roads» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, what did the first old man say to Jack as a greeting?
- 1. "Good morrow, young master." — no support
- 2. "Good morning, my king's son." — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. "Good morning, my king's son, and well may you ride on this fine horse today." — score 2
- 4. "Good morning, my king's son, you look weary from the long road." — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 254, line 3: «Poor Jack takes the left road to the first old man, who warns him not to stir all night while frogs and snakes crawl over him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Mental, what happens if Jack stirs in bed, innit?
- 1. He sleeps forever — no support
- 2. He is turned to stone — score 3
- 3. He is turned into a snake — score 3
- 4. He turns into one of them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 254, line 11: «Jack must not stir in bed, for if he does, "you will turn into one of those things yourself."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5); the same action «turn» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, what does the old man chuck between the horse's ears?
- 1. A ball of yarn — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. An apple — no support
- 3. A bunch of straw — no support
- 4. A golden ball from the old king's treasury — 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 ✓
Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like?
- 1. As swift as an arrow — no support
- 2. Like a hare — no support
- 3. As fast as the wind — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Faster than any horse in all the king's stables — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 158, line 3: «The Skin Horse tells him that becoming Real takes a long time and that a child must love you for ever so long.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «skin horse» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Proper weird, what's wrong with the second brother's nails?
- 1. They were very sharp — no support
- 2. They were so long they curled round his fingers twice — no support
- 3. They were never cut — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. They had grown as long as claws and were never trimmed — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 254, line 13: «The second brother has "long grey hair," and his "finger- and toe-nails had not been cut for many thousand years."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cut» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Oi, what's the swan call word, the Griffin one?
- 1. Lord of the Greenwood — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Griffin of the Greenwood — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Swan of the Greenwood — no support
- 4. The ancient Griffin of the Greenwood and the far country beyond it — 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 road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the crossroads?
- 1. Left — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. The north — score 6
- 3. The short road — score 6
- 4. The left road — ✓ the right answer · 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 226, line 2: «The Sultan leads him to a secret room under the roof, where he peeks at the princess singing sadly on a sofa.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lead» (+3); the same doer «sultan» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What condition was imposed upon the prince when he lodged at the first dwelling?
- 1. He must sleep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He must not eat — no support
- 3. He was not to stir — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Stay awake — 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 · right ✓
By what formula must the prince address the swans upon reaching the castle?
- 1. Swan, swan, carry me over — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. "Swan, carry me" — no support
- 3. "Swan, swan, take me across" — no support
- 4. "Griffin, griffin, bear me over" — 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 ✗
According to the wise woman, what is the only cure for a fool?
- 1. A wise woman to advise him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A long stay in the king's castle with a good tutor — no support
- 3. A strict master to watch him — no support
- 4. A good wife to look after him — ✓ 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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