English Tales, The Lambton Worm, the Childe kills the Worm and his vow is broken

Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 265 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, did the Childe actually kill the worm or what?

1. Yeah, he chopped it up with a spade and dumped it in a pit, bruy, like — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Nah, the Childe never touched it, man, it was the dog that did it all — score 2
3. Yeah, he chopped it in two, man — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Nah, he let it go, like, man — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 265, line 6: «The hero is the Childe of Lambton, a young nobleman who fights the great Worm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «young nobleman» (+3); the same thing acted on «great worm» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, why'd the Childe's dad run out, like?

1. Cos he heard the bugle, man — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cos he was buzzin' the lad was safe — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cos he was mad — no support
4. Cos he was lookin' for his dog — 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 ✗

Howay, what's the bugle thing for, hinny?

1. Aye, it's for callin' the servants oot and tellin' them tae open the big doors — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Blowin' it three times signals the Hall — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Blowin' it three times signals the Hall that the lad's survived the worm, man — no support
4. Tellin' the folks the lad's alive — 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 ✓

Ah man, why'd the Childe chop his own dog's heid off?

1. Cos the dog bit the worm — no support
2. Cos the dog had come out and the vow his dad made got broken, man, so — score 1
3. Cos it was the rule that the hound had to die if the vow was broke, like — no support
4. Cos the vow got broken, so — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 154, line 17: «Why the gods sent the dream: they wanted to see how the man would keep his vow, and he was sold as a slave for a hundred crowns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «vow» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Was the half that fell in the river still alive, like?

1. Aye, it crawled ashore, mate — no support
2. Nah, it got swept away, gone — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Aye, sadly — no support
4. Nah, dead — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 265, line 1: «The Childe cuts the Worm in two, and one half is swept away by the river.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sweep away» (+4); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

How many gen'rations did the curse last, bruy?

1. Seven, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Seven generations, man, yeah — no support
3. Nine, man, nine generations — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nine years, man, I think — 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 ✓

Where'd the last Lambton snuff it, like?

1. In his carriage on Brugeford Bridge — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. On a horse by Chester bridge — no support
3. Doon by the river at Lambton — no support
4. In his carriage on the old bridge at Brugeford after a night out, man — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Aye, was it, like, a long time back then?

1. Aye, it was a hundred and thirty years ago, when the old king still ruled the land — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, about two hundred years — no support
3. Yeah, a hundred and thirty years — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, a hundred and thirty years, man, like, way back before the modern times — 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 9 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Childe actually swim, or nah?

1. Nah, he never swam, he just walked along the bank to the bridge, man — no support
2. Aye, he crawled ashore, bonny — no support
3. Nah, he drowned in the river — no support
4. Aye, he swam ashore, bonny — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 265, line 4: «The Childe swims ashore and blows his bugle three times as a signal to the Hall.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «swim» (+3); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the point of the spear-heads, mate?

1. They finished the worm off proper, mate, after the Childe had already cut it in half — no support
2. They finished the worm off proper — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. They were used to stab the worm's body when it was already dying in the river — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. They poked the worm wi' spears — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 262, line 16: «"Lugs" is an old Scots word for ears; the fox "lifted his lugs and he listened a while" before he crept off.», 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 «old scots word» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the worm have any mates in the river, like?

1. Aye, there were loads of worms living in the river, bruy, like a whole family — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Aye, there was a second one — no support
3. Nah, it was just the one worm — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, it was just the one worm, but its mates lived in the caves nearby, man — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 265, line 9: «The Worm "snorted its last foam of blood and fire" and then rolls into the river to die.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «worm» (+4); the same place «river» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

So the old lord was prayin' the whole time, yeah?

1. Yeah, him and the servants in the Hall — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, him and the servants in the Hall, all of them shut in and praying hard for the lad's life, man — no support
3. Yeah, him and the knights outside — no support
4. Aye, him and the priest by the door — 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 ✓

Did the Childe's dad get to hug him in the end, or nah?

1. Nah, the vow stopped him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Aye, he hugged him tight — no support
3. Nah, the vow stopped him from touching his son, so he stood back, like, sad — no support
4. Aye, he hugged him tight, but then the vow reminded them both what had to happen, man — 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 action did the Childe perform upon the Worm's body immediately prior to its submersion in the river?

1. He pierced the creature with his spear — no support
2. He hacked into the great worm's body with his sword before it plunged into the river — no support
3. He bisected the creature with his blade — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He bisected the creature with his blade and then watched the severed half drift away — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 265, line 16: «The Childe "severed the head of his faithful hound," because the vow has been broken.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sever» (+4); the same doer «childe» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the signal employed by the Childe to alert the occupants of the Hall of his survival.

1. He sounded his bugle three times — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. He sounded his bugle three times to alert the occupants of the Hall of his survival — score 1
3. He sounded his bugle three times from the riverbank to inform the castle that the worm was dead — score 1
4. He shouted loudly to the Hall — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 265, line 4: «The Childe swims ashore and blows his bugle three times as a signal to the Hall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bugle» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the consequence of the Childe's second bugle blast upon the hound Boris.

1. The hound ran into the river and drowned — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The hound was spared and sent back to the Hall — no support
3. The hound was released from its chain and then beheaded by the Childe with his shining sword — no support
4. The hound was released and beheaded by the Childe — ✓ 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the number of generations during which no Lambton died in bed following the broken vow.

1. Nine years — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nine generations of women — no support
3. Nine generations of men — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Seven generations of men — 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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