Russian Folk-Tales, Woe the Woeful, part 44: the rich brother drowns Woe, then Need, Kruchina and the Zluidni turn up in other tales

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 452 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 Woe really get chucked in the river, bruv?

1. Yeah, he got stuffed in a wheel, then dunked right into the river mate — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. Yeah, stuffed in a wheel and dunked — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, locked in a barrel and sunk — no support
4. Yeah, stuffed in a wheel, dunked in the river and left to drown — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 452, line 2: «The clever merchant tricks Woe into a wheel and throws it into the river.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «woe» (+4); the same place «wheel» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the rich brother reckoned he'd be proper rich, innit?

1. Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck so he could be the richest in the village — score 4
2. Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck and his whole farm too — score 4
3. Yeah, he wanted to nick his bro's luck — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yeah, he wanted his bro's money — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 164, line 3: «The second old man tells how his two brothers wasted their money and then tried to drown him at sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «money» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the poor bloke's wife got her sarafan binned?

1. Yeah, wrapped round a barrel, into the river mud — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, it was her coat — no support
3. Yeah, wrapped round a pitcher, into an ice-hole — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she did — 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 ✗

Mate, who even is Need in them Tula bits?

1. Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe, but kept in a horse's head — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe, the brothers' spirit from Tula — no support
3. Nuzhda, a goblin who lives in a house — no support
4. Nuzhda, the same sort of misery as Woe — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what did Kruchina nick off the poor geezer?

1. His hat — no support
2. His bowl of cold stew — no support
3. His crust of bread — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. His bread — ← 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 452, line 3: «In other tales, Need hides in a horse's head and Kruchina steals a poor man's bread.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «kruchina» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, did Kruchina give owt back for the crust?

1. Yeah, a duck that lays golden eggs every single day of the year — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a magic duck that lays golden eggs and never stops laying them — no support
3. Yeah, a duck that lays golden eggs — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, a goose that lays silver eggs — 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 ✗

Dead cool, what's a spasibo, then?

1. Some Russian bread — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A thank you, what you say for a present — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A kind of cake, what you eat at Christmas — no support
4. A sort of coin, what you pay with — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, what did the old man in that Little-Russian tale want to buy?

1. The spasibo, the thank you — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The thank you — no support
3. The gold, the purse of coins — no support
4. The fish, the river's bounty — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Lol, what did the rich bloke say when he got the fish?

1. "Thank you, brother, thank you!" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. "Spasibo!" — no support
3. "Thank you!" — no support
4. "Well done, brother, well done!" — 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 ✗

Fam, did the moujik get proper gold off that horse?

1. Nah, only a horse by the gate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, just a horse — no support
3. Yeah, a bag of silver by the road — no support
4. Yeah, two bags of it by the road — ✓ 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 ✗

Ye, what did the mates in the Viatka tale have to give?

1. Only a bag of old coins — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Some bread and a little ale — no support
3. Nothing, they had no money — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No money — 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 ✗

Yo, where did Need say she'd kipped down?

1. Under the bench by the door — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. In the pitcher on the stove — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. On the stove — no support
4. Behind the oven in the corner — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, which bit of the Viatka tale is the real plot twist?

1. He finds gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Need steals the gold away — no support
3. The horse — no support
4. Need tells him where the gold is — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following best describes the outcome of the rich brother's attempt to release Woe from beneath the stone?

1. He escaped unharmed and went back to his fields happily — no support
2. He was seized by Woe and carried home, where his misfortunes began — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He freed Woe and was rewarded with gold for his trouble — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. He was seized by Woe, carried home on his back, and his wealth was lost for ever — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 452, line 7: «What: He thinks his poor brother's riches come from freeing Woe, so he sets Woe loose himself. "It wasn't I at all who put you under the stone."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «loose» (+5). Against it: the same thing acted on «woe» (-1). The right option, 2, 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 means by which the merchant disposed of Woe, and state the sequence in which he performed the action.

1. He tied Woe to a sack and drowned it in the lake after dark — score 5
2. He trapped Woe in a barrel, then sank it in a lake at dusk — no support
3. He lured Woe into a wheel, wedged the axle, and flung the wheel into the river — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
4. He lured Woe into a wheel, wedged the axle with oak, and then flung the whole wheel into the river at night — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 452, line 2: «The clever merchant tricks Woe into a wheel and throws it into the river.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «woe» (+4); the same place «wheel» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the Viatka variant, explain the significance of the moujik's discovery of the gold at the roadside.

1. It rewarded him for following Need's advice, and it is the basis of his later fortune — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It rewarded him for following Need's advice, and it is the basis of his later fortune and of the rich brother's envy — no support
3. It shows the gold was stolen from a rich merchant who lived near the road — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. It proves that Need helped the poor and that the horse was a gift — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 373, line 4: «A Thief who has been watching him steals the gold one night and runs off with it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «steal» (+4); the same thing acted on «gold» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Summarise the motive attributed to the old stranger in the Little-Russian tale, and indicate the consequence for the poor man.

1. The stranger wanted the fish, and the poor man sold his house for gold — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. The stranger wanted gold — score 4
3. The stranger wanted the thank you, and the poor man became rich and moved house — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. The stranger wanted a purse, so the poor man lost his fish and his house — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 290, line 13: «Many young men go to the palace, but inside they are struck dumb and can only repeat "the last word they had uttered".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «last word» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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