English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock

Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 264 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 that Lambton lad really skip church just to go fishing every Sunday?

1. Nah, he went to church, man, honest — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, just Sundays, bruv — no support
3. Yeah, every Sunday, man, cursing like mad — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Aye, every Sunday, cursing a lot — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Right, so what was he actually yanking out of the water at the start?

1. A proper minging great worm wi' nine holes and a stink on it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A proper minging worm wi' nine holes — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A right mucky pike wi' spots — no support
4. A massive minging serpent wi' nine holes in its scaly back, like a proper monster — 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 ✗

Why'd he chuck the thing down a well instead of back in the river?

1. He was skint, didn't fancy the river — score 4
2. He was dead lazy and couldn't be bothered to walk all the way back to the river — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. He was dead lazy, couldn't be bothered — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Cos the river was too dirty, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 49, line 12: «A ford is a shallow place where you can walk across a river; the old ford was used «in by-gone days before they built the bridge».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «walk» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the milk trough thing, did the Worm just gobble the lot?

1. Aye, every drop, nothing left, mint — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, all gone, proper dry — no support
3. Aye, it drank the lot, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. Aye, every single drop, nothing left at all in the trough, proper mint — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 54, line 14: «In «a blend of the Squire and the College Don» (a squire is a country landowner, a don a university teacher) he says: «I find I've left my purse behind ... I'l…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «toad» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day?

1. Nine kye, like proper nine, marra — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Seven kye, like proper seven, marra — no support
3. Nine kye, like proper nine, marra, from the byre and the field both — no support
4. Nine cows, mate, proper nine — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 248, line 6: «Who: a farmer, whose cow is called Beauty, as the text says: "dragging at Beauty's halter till they had brought the cow into the middle of the room."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cows» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «cow» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Childe comes home after seven years, is he chill about it?

1. Nah, the whole place was proper dead and he was gutted, mate, right to the bone — no support
2. Nah, the place was proper dead, gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he was dead chill about it, proper relaxed, glad to be home at the Hall with his mates — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Nah, the hall was proper dead, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 264, line 4: «The steward saves the Hall by pouring the milk of nine cows into a trough, and the Childe comes home after seven years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «childe» (+4); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the Wise Woman's deal, is she actually useful or what?

1. She's canny, sound — no support
2. She's canny, tells him bits, mate — score 6
3. She's a witch, gives him a plan, sound — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. She's canny, gives him the whole plan, sound — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 134, line 12: «Why the Old Woman refuses to pay: she argues that she is "blinder than ever", because now she cannot see any furniture in her house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same doer «old woman» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Sick, so what's the plan for beating the Worm?

1. Armour with spear-heads, then wait on the Rock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Hide in the Hall, then wait on it — no support
3. Spiked armour, then sit on the Rock — no support
4. Armour, then fight — 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 Worm just squish him straight away, or what?

1. Aye, squished him, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Nah, it pressed, but the spikes got right in — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, it bit, but the spears stuck fast — no support
4. Aye, it squeezed, but the spikes stuck — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 5, line 12: «When the Mouse says the archbishop "found it advisable" (found it a sensible idea), the Duck asks "Found what?", because when a duck finds "it", "it's generall…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «frog» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's with the blood turning the river all red?

1. It's the Wise Woman's potion, proper odd, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That's the Childe's blood, proper gross, mate — no support
3. Dunno, bruv, paint — no support
4. That's the Worm's blood, proper gross, 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 ✗

So he's just fine at the end, no bother?

1. Yeah, the Worm dropped him, he's fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he's bruised but standing, bruv — no support
3. Nah, the Worm let him go, he's still standing — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he's dead, mate — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Honest, was that whole Worm story mental or what?

1. Proper mental, man, every bit of it, and I'm buzzin' for the next bit of the story — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Bit mad, man, I'm buzzin' for the end — no support
3. Proper mental, man, I'm keen for more — no support
4. Proper mental, man, I'm buzzin' for the next bit — ✓ the right answer · 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following best describes the vow that the Wise Woman required of the Childe, and its consequence for the house of Lambton?

1. A vow to slay the first living thing met, denying a natural death — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A vow to slay the first living thing met at the threshold, failure to keep which would deny the Lambtons a natural death — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. An oath to destroy the first being encountered on entering, with the Lambtons forfeiting peaceful deaths — no support
4. A vow to kill the first living creature met at the door, whose breach would doom the Lambtons — 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 ✗

In what manner did the Worm respond upon encountering the Childe at the Rock, and by what means was it ultimately rendered helpless in this part of the narrative?

1. It coiled about him and tried to crush him until released. — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. It wound its coils about him and sought to crush him, but the pierced flesh forced it to release him at last — score 0
3. It bound the Childe in its coils and strove to crush him, yet the spear-heads wounded it until it loosed him — score 0
4. It wound its coils about him and sought to crush him, but the spear-heads pierced its flesh until it unwound and released him — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 264, line 13: «The Wise Woman's words: "Thou, and thou alone, canst kill the Worm".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «worm» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Describe the sequence of events by which the heir of Lambton first acquired the Worm and the manner in which the creature came to be lodged in the well that bears its name.

1. The heir hooked the creature on a Sunday outing and threw it into a well nearby, so the well took the name of the Worm — score 6
2. The heir snagged the beast while angling one Sunday and flung it into a neighbouring well, which thereafter bore its name — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. The heir, having hooked the creature while fishing on a Sunday instead of attending Mass, cast it into a well close by, and the well thereafter bore the name of the Worm in memory of the deed — score 7
4. The heir hooked the creature while fishing on a Sunday and cast it into a nearby well, whence the well acquired the designation of the Worm Well — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 205, line 10: «Why: Camaralzaman does not know the mystery of his position, because the princess "had taken his name" and few people remember her first name.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «name» (+5); the same doer «princess» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the significance of the nine kye and the stone trough in the protection of Lambton Hall, and indicate what the Worm did when the milk was no longer forthcoming.

1. The milk of nine kye, poured faithfully into the stone trough, pacified the Worm and so sustained the Hall through many years of peril, whereas any failure to supply the milk would have provoked the Worm to wreak havoc upon the Hall, its lands, and all who dwelt within its walls — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. The nine kye were the source of the Hall's protection, for their milk, poured into the trough, quieted the creature and preserved the household, and when it was withheld the Worm would coil round the Hall and lay waste to the park, the byres, and the dairy alike — score 6
3. The milk of nine kye, poured into the trough, calmed the Worm and sustained the Hall, while failure to supply it would have roused the Worm to ravage the Hall — score 6
4. The milk of nine kye, poured into the trough, pacified the Worm and sustained the Hall, while failure to supply it would have provoked the Worm to wreak havoc upon the Hall — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 264, line 4: «The steward saves the Hall by pouring the milk of nine cows into a trough, and the Childe comes home after seven years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pour» (+4); the same thing acted on «milk» (+1); the same place «trough» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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