Russian Folk-Tales, Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake: Prince Ivan escapes his sister and is weighed against her
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 446 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, why did Ivan's sis sharpen her teeth?
- 1. To bite — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To chomp on her bro — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. To eat — no support
- 4. To scare the mouse off — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, what did the mouse do to save him?
- 1. Warned him in a human voice from under the floorboards near his bed — score 4
- 2. Squeaked a warning in a clear human voice so he could escape the witch — no support
- 3. Warned him in a human voice — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Gave him a magic apple — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 446, line 13: «The mouse warns him: "Save yourself, Prince. Run away quick!" because his sister wants to eat him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «warn» (+1); the same doer «mouse» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what was the brush for, like?
- 1. Making big mountains pop up from the ground so the witch can't follow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Making high mountains pop up out of the plain whenever you throw it — no support
- 3. Sweeping the old floor — no support
- 4. Making mountains pop up — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, how'd the comb work?
- 1. Dense oak forests shot up all over the field right away — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thick grass sprouted — no support
- 3. Oak forests shot up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pine groves grew — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
No way, what did the hanky do?
- 1. Made a deep lake appear — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Made a whole deep lake appear behind him and stopped the witch — score 5
- 3. Made a deep lake appear right behind him on the road — score 5
- 4. Made a wide sea appear — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 434, line 19: «Old word: "dike" meant a bank built along water to hold it back; today we say dyke or embankment.», 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 action «build» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, who piled the oaks in the road?
- 1. The giant who pulled up the trees — no support
- 2. Mouse — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. The Sun's Sister — no support
- 4. Vertodub — ✓ 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 352, line 2: «Brave Horatius and two friends stand in the road and hold back the horsemen while the other Romans chop the bridge down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «road» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Lame, who dropped the big mountain on the witch's path?
- 1. Vertogor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 2. The giant who pulled up the trees — no support
- 3. The sister of the Sun who lived at the edge — no support
- 4. Ivan — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 446, line 15: «Vertogor drops the highest mountain on the road to stop the witch.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drop» (+5); the same thing acted on «highest mountain» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «vertogor» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what got the old women young again?
- 1. Drinking the water — no support
- 2. A golden spoon — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Apples — score 3
- 4. Eating an apple — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 377, line 3: «The young Larks overhear this and tell their mother, who says they must leave at once.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «mother» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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 ✓
Bro, what was the weigh-in for?
- 1. Ivan vs the witch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fight of two heroes — no support
- 3. Ivan's horse — no support
- 4. Who was stronger — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Be real, which one flew into the sky?
- 1. Vertogor — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Ivan — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Witch — score 5
- 4. Mouse — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 223, line 5: «He tells how his father bought the enchanted horse and flew through the sky, and then they dine in a garden room.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «sky» (+4); the same action «fly» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, where'd the witch end up?
- 1. Stuck on the ground down below where the mountains had fallen — no support
- 2. Stuck on the ground — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Stuck on the cold hard ground, groaning, after losing the contest — no support
- 4. Lost in the woods — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 285, line 8: «Where: the cut trees are carried out of the wood by horses on carts, and the Fir ends up in "a large and splendid drawing-room."», 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 place «wood» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Dang, why was Ivan crying on the mountain?
- 1. Lost his old horse — no support
- 2. Hungry — no support
- 3. Missing his old home — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Wanting his mother back — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 446, line 2: «He then lives with the Sun's Sister, but he keeps crying because he misses his old home, which is now in ruins.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «miss» (+3); the same thing acted on «old home» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, what did the Sun's Sister tell the wind?
- 1. To stop blowing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. To blow softer — score 7
- 3. To go away — score 7
- 4. To sleep — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 227, line 5: «They float each newborn prince down a canal, and each time the intendant rescues it, until the Sultan orders the Sultana's execution and the vizir begs for her…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «float» (+5); the same doer «sisters» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which object, when cast upon the open plain, caused high mountains to arise?
- 1. The brush — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
- 2. The silver mirror — score 6
- 3. The handkerchief — score 6
- 4. The handkerchief that made a lake when waved — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 446, line 11: «The brush makes mountains rise, and the comb makes oak forests with "each stem more huge than the other."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+5); the same thing acted on «mountains» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «brush» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the outcome of the weighing between Prince Ivan and the Witch-Snake?
- 1. Prince Ivan rose high into the sky while the witch stayed stuck down on the earth below — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The witch flew off and Ivan fell into the sea — no support
- 3. Prince Ivan rose and flew over the mountains while the witch remained on earth, sinking deep into the mud — no support
- 4. Prince Ivan rose and the witch remained on earth — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Who cautioned Prince Ivan of his sister's intent during the lute performance?
- 1. Witch — score 3
- 2. Ivan — score 3
- 3. The old wind — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. The mouse — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 120, line 20: «Old word: "wondrous" meant wonderful or amazing, so "a wondrous princess" means a marvellous princess.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following accurately describes the term terem as used in the notes?
- 1. A low cellar used for storing grain and wine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A lofty habitation or upper part of a lord's house — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A small stable — no support
- 4. A wooden gate built in the outer wall of a farm — 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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