English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie
Tests: 10 of 15 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 19 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 258 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, who sorted Rushen Coatie's outfit for church, like, proper?
- 1. the red calf — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. the cat — no support
- 3. the raven — no support
- 4. the old nanny — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 2: «The red calf gives her fine clothes and glass slippers, and she dazzles the prince at church.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «calf» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, what's she gotta say to the fire so the dinner don't burn?
- 1. Every peat make t'other burn — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Peat, go out — no support
- 3. Every log must feed the flame — no support
- 4. Each peat helps the other glow — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 10: «What: The calf tells her to say "Every peat make t'other burn" to the fire so the dinner cooks by itself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same doer «peat» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «t'other burn» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, what did she lose running off from church, like, the shoe?
- 1. the fine velvet cloak her mother gave her — no support
- 2. a glass slipper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. a golden ring — no support
- 4. the coronet from her hair — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 3: «She runs home before anyone can catch her, but on the last day she leaps over the guards and loses a slipper.», 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). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, what did the queen do to the third sister's feet?
- 1. hacked off her toes and heels — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. pinched her toes with tongs — score 7
- 3. locked her in the tower and starved her for a week — score 7
- 4. had her feet bound and thrown into the river — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 258, line 13: «What: The queen, "mad with spite", hacks off the toes and heels of the third sister so that the slipper will fit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «toes» (+4); the same doer «queen» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper weird, what was the raven singing when the prince rode?
- 1. The bride is false, her heels are hacked and her toes are pinched all through — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Turn back the prince, for the shoe is full of blood and the bride is not the one — no support
- 4. Shoe of gold, the bride is cold — 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 ✗
Init, how'd she dodge the guards at church the last time?
- 1. she slipped through a gap — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. she ran — no support
- 3. jumped over their heads — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. she hid — 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 ✓
Ya, where was the sexton when he heard the meowing?
- 1. mending the fence around the churchyard wall — no support
- 2. digging at Mr Fordyce's grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. sweeping the church steps — no support
- 4. ringing the bell at dusk — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 5: «Then a sexton digs a grave, hears nine black cats, and Old Tom learns that Tim Toldrum is dead, so he becomes King o' the Cats.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dig» (+3); the same doer «sexton» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton?
- 1. Tom Tildrum is ill — no support
- 2. He's dead — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Tim's gone — no support
- 4. Tim Toldrum's dead — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 85, line 19: «Talk in this lesson: «it's giving» = it looks like, it has the feel of; «mardy» (Midlands) = sulky; «yeah nah» (Australia/New Zealand) = no; «craic» (Ireland)…», 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 «message» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Lmao, what did Old Tom do when he heard the news?
- 1. shot up the chimney — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. ran out the door — no support
- 3. shot up the chimney and vanished into the sky — no support
- 4. sat by the fire and wept for his lost kingdom — 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 ✓
Sus, what colour were the cats' eyes?
- 1. green — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. amber — no support
- 3. red — no support
- 4. pink — 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 ✓
Aye, what did the sisters call Rushen Coatie?
- 1. nasty thing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. dirty beggar — no support
- 3. a useless, filthy, dreadful scullion of the house — no support
- 4. ugly slattern — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 258, line 6: «Who: Rushen Coatie is the girl her sisters call "nasty thing" and leave in the kitchen nook.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Och, what's a rushen coatie made of?
- 1. willow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. rushes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. straw — no support
- 4. reeds — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, how'd the prince find the girl with the slipper?
- 1. the raven told him where — score -1
- 2. he asked each of the maids — score 5
- 3. by her song — score 5
- 4. he tried it on every lady — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 258, line 8: «Where: At church she is "the grandest and finest lady there", and the prince falls in love with her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fr, what's the name of the calf's job, like, what does it do?
- 1. guards the gate — no support
- 2. carries her bag — no support
- 3. helps her out — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. feeds her — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 149, line 3: «The trees give him an ash sapling, and he uses it to chop down the noblest trees in the wood, which then groan that they brought it on themselves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same receiver «calf» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 15 · ★ · right ✓
Ngl, what did the cats carry through the churchyard?
- 1. a box — no support
- 2. a small coffin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. a sack — score -4
- 4. a bundle of rags — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 258, line 17: «What: Nine black cats carry a small coffin with "a small coronet all of gold" on its black velvet pall.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
In accordance with the proclamation, by what condition was the prince's bride to be determined?
- 1. by the sound of the bell tower — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. by the fitting of the glass slipper — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. by the sworn testimony of every maid in the household at court — no support
- 4. by a long public procession and the reading of a royal decree in the square — 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 ✗
Which creature uttered the warning addressed to the prince upon the road?
- 1. a crow — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. a raven — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. a magpie — score 7
- 4. a blackbird — 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 178, line 14: «Agib cries "Allah be praised!" too early, and the boat sinks because he broke the old man's warning about speaking the name.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «speak» (+5); the same thing acted on «warning» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
What activity was the sexton engaged in at Mr. Fordyce's grave when he heard the cats?
- 1. shovelling soil into a freshly dug hole for a funeral — no support
- 2. mending the gate — no support
- 3. digging the grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. repairing the stone wall around the churchyard for the parish — 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 258, line 5: «Then a sexton digs a grave, hears nine black cats, and Old Tom learns that Tim Toldrum is dead, so he becomes King o' the Cats.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «grave» (+2); the same action «dig» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death of Tim Toldrum?
- 1. Prince of Mice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lord Cat — no support
- 3. the Cat King — no support
- 4. King o' the Cats — ✓ 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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