Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the shadow, and the parents blame themselves for that Friday
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 312 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, what was actually in Nana's gob, like?
- 1. the boy's slipper — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a towel from the bathroom sink — no support
- 3. the boy's shadow — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a bundle of Michael's dirty washing — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Dad have a proper fit about his tie or what?
- 1. yeah, he went mental — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, he went properly mental and started yelling at the dog — no support
- 3. yeah, he was fuming — no support
- 4. yeah, he went absolutely mental and threw the tie across the room — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 312, line 5: «They recall the evening: Michael's bath, Mr. Darling's tie, and the romp that ended with Nana's hairs on his new trousers.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
So what did Mum do with the shadow, innit?
- 1. folded it and put it away — score 1
- 2. rolled it up and stuck it in a drawer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. put it in the bin outside — score 8
- 4. stuffed it under the bed and locked up — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 312, line 3: «It looks like the washing, so Mrs. Darling rolls it up and puts it in a drawer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «shadow» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «roll up» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Nah, wait, was Peter dead when he jumped out the window?
- 1. yeah, he was dead for ages before he jumped out of the window — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. nah, he was well alive — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. nah, he was well alive and bouncing about the nursery floor — no support
- 4. yeah, he was dead then — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 311, line 7: «Mrs. Darling finds the word Peter in the children's minds, and "The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stand out» (+2); the same doer «name» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mum ran out to look for his body, yeah? Was it there?
- 1. yeah, the body was there in the garden and Mum fainted — no support
- 2. yeah, it was there in the garden — no support
- 3. yeah, it was lying in the street by the lamp post all night long — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. nah, weren't there, just a shooting star — ✓ the right answer · 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 172, line 8: «Where: the tomb is in a cemetery, and the lovers' bodies lie in a chamber under the ground, "filled with such a dense smoke".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lie» (+3); the same doer «bodies» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why didn't Dad's mate hear about the shadow, like?
- 1. cos it was secret — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. cos Mum thought he'd laugh — no support
- 3. cos Mum didn't want him to know — no support
- 4. cos Mum reckoned he'd just blame the dog — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he?
- 1. yeah, he was on his back — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, it was a proper romp — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. nah, he was dancing alone — no support
- 4. yeah, it was a proper romp round the room with Michael yelling — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Michael get the baby sister he wanted, though?
- 1. nah, John said no more — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, a little sister — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. yeah, Mum got him a sister but John said no more — no support
- 4. nah, Mum said no — 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 307, line 6: «Who: Tuk has to mind his little sister Augusta while he learns his lesson, and the two jobs "would not do together at all".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «little sister» (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was Nana a rubbish nanny or what, innit?
- 1. nah, she's a total treasure who looks after the kids better than anyone — no support
- 2. yeah, she's rubbish but the kids love her anyway and she's a dog — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. yeah, she's a bit rubbish — no support
- 4. nah, she's a total treasure — ✓ the right answer · 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 310, line 14: «Nana is "a prim Newfoundland dog", and "As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank", the family hired her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nana» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Dad came in like a tornado, dint he, when the tie wouldn't go right?
- 1. yeah, he came in like a tornado — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, he came in like a tornado, shouting for the maid and the dog both — no support
- 3. yeah, he came in like a tornado and tore the tie right off his neck — no support
- 4. nah, he came in quite slowly — 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 ✗
Did Wendy lend her bracelet to Mum, though?
- 1. yeah, she loved lending it to her mum every single time Mum asked for it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, she loved lending it to her mum — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yeah, she gave it to Mum every day — no support
- 4. yeah, she loved lending it to her mum, though she wanted it back by Friday — 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 ✓
Did they reckon that Friday was a mint day?
- 1. nah, it was the worst day ever — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, it was a great day — no support
- 3. yeah, a mint day — no support
- 4. nah, it was a dull Friday — 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 · right ✓
With what object did Nana return to the nursery?
- 1. the shadow of the boy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a tangled kite string — no support
- 3. a sock and the shadow of the boy from the bathroom — no support
- 4. the shadow of the boy, rolled up tightly in a sheet — 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 · right ✓
What reason did Mrs. Darling give for not displaying the shadow outside?
- 1. it resembled washing, lowered the tone of the house and was a disgrace to the family name — score 11
- 2. it was torn and would fall off the frame — no support
- 3. it resembled washing hung out to dry and would have upset the neighbours on the whole street — no support
- 4. it resembled washing and lowered the tone of the house — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 312, line 10: «Why Mrs. Darling does not leave it outside: it "looked so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lower» (+6); the same doer «shadow» (+3); the same thing acted on «whole tone» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
To which occasion does the phrase "that fatal Friday" refer?
- 1. the evening on which Mrs. Darling accepted an invitation to dine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the evening on which Mrs. Darling accepted an invitation to dine with her husband's employer at number 27 — no support
- 3. the afternoon when Mr. Darling came home late from work — no support
- 4. the day on which the children lost their shadows and Peter flew away into the night sky — 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 ✗
What did Mr. Darling state was the cause of the family's misfortune?
- 1. the bad weather — no support
- 2. his tie and the late dinner — no support
- 3. the dog who had been left in the nursery — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. his own act of pouring medicine into Nana's bowl — ✓ the right answer · 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 312, line 6: «Who: Mrs. Darling is the mother, Mr. Darling is the father, and Nana is the family's dog, who works as a nurse.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «nana» (+3); the same thing acted on «dog» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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