Russian Folk-Tales, The Blind Man and the Cripple, part 1: Prince Ivan defeats the whirlwind Vikhor and sets out to woo Anna the Fair

Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 462 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 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, why do hares got no tails now, innit?

1. Cos they got jammed — no support
2. Cos their tails got jammed between cliffs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. Cos they got stuck in rocks — no support
4. Cos a fox bit em off — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 462, line 1: «The Fox gets home safe, but the Hare's tail gets jammed between two cliffs, which is why hares have had no tails since.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «jam» (+3); the same place «two cliffs» (+3); the same thing acted on «tail» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, where's the Queen chilling, like?

1. In a diamond palace, the fourth one, all shiny and that — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. In a gold palace, the third one — no support
3. In the tower by the river — no support
4. In a diamond palace, the fourth one — ✓ 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

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, which water does Vikhor sup?

1. Strength water, the one on the right, straight from the well — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Strength water from the left jug — score 6
3. Strength water, the one on the right — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Youth water, the one on the left — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 462, line 8: «Vikhor always drinks the Strong Water, and he keeps it "on the right-hand side".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «vikhor» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «strong water» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Innit wild, where'd Ivan hide from Vikhor?

1. Under his dad's grey cloak — score 9
2. Under his mum's purple cloak — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
3. Under the bed — score 7
4. Behind the door — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 12, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 462, line 4: «Prince Ivan hides under her purple cloak, grabs Vikhor's mace, and after a long fight Vikhor drinks the wrong water and is killed.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+4); the same doer «prince ivan» (+3); the same property (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, what was that mace thing?

1. Vikhor's battle club he nicked — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Vikhor's battle axe he nicked — no support
3. Some kind of big old sword that Vikhor left leaning against the wall of the palace yard — no support
4. Vikhor's battle club he nicked from the guards in the hall — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 394, line 17: «Old word: "peg" once meant a hook or pin fixed to a wall to hang things on; we still use clothes pegs in the same way.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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 ✗

Ok, so how'd Ivan finish him, like?

1. One stab — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. One chop with a sword — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. He burned him — score 2
4. One chop with an axe — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 372, line 5: «The part also holds short fables about a Dog, a Lion, a Frog, a Crab, and a Wolf, each ending with a moral.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+3); the same doer «wolf» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, did Ivan do the whole burning thing?

1. Yep, he scattered the ashes — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yep, he threw the ashes away — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Nah, he kept the ashes in a jar — score 4
4. Yep, he scattered the ashes to the winds from a hill top — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 430, line 2: «Ivan steals the sorry colt at midnight while the witch sleeps, and gets away by waving his handkerchief to make a bridge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, who was Ivan's minder, the tutor?

1. Kolomar, the old geezer — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Katoma, the tutor — no support
3. Katoma, the old geezer — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Some old bloke — 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 ✓

Mate, what if you dissed your parents?

1. You perish like a fly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. You get banished — no support
3. You perish like a fly in the autumn frost, no questions asked — no support
4. You wither like a leaf — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, how'd Ivan pick his princess?

1. From the portrait in the hall — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. From a letter — score 4
3. By a coin toss — score 4
4. From the painting in the court — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 404, line 3: «A famished wolf waits all day at a cottage door because a mother promised he could have her child, and he goes home with nothing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «child» (+3); the same doer «wolf» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, what happens if Anna guesses your riddle?

1. You have to marry her cousin and live in a tower for seven years instead — no support
2. Your head gets chopped off in front of the whole court, no mercy — score -1
3. Your tongue gets cut out — no support
4. Your head gets chopped off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 16, line 17: «The executioner's argument: you can't cut off a head unless there is a body to cut it off from. The King's argument: anything that has a head can be beheaded.…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «head» (+2); the same action «cut off» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did Katoma nick off the road?

1. A purse full of money that some merchant had dropped on the road — score 0
2. A purse full of money — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. A letter sealed with red wax from a king who lives far to the north — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. A purse full of coins — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 244, line 10: «Jack tells a story on the road, and "the road was shortened as his wife had said."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jack» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «story» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead serious, how long were they travelling?

1. Seven years of walking through forests and deserts and hills and cities — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Three months, loads of rivers — no support
3. Three years, loads of countries — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Three years, loads of countries and rivers and mountains and seas — 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 ✓

Which water did Vikhor habitually consume prior to his defeat?

1. A cup of bitter ale brewed by the old witches of the northern forest — no support
2. The Spring of Wisdom — score 1
3. The Water of Strength — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. The Water of Strength drawn from the well at dawn — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 462, line 8: «Vikhor always drinks the Strong Water, and he keeps it "on the right-hand side".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «vikhor» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «strong water» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did Prince Ivan execute the whirlwind Vikhor?

1. By a single blow of a faulchion — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. By trapping him beneath a mountain and cutting him down with a long curved blade after three days — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. By a single blow of an axe — no support
4. By a single blow of a faulchion across the neck in front of the court — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 431, line 4: «At a high mountain he meets his brothers, and his strong throw of an iron rock opens a ladder up the slope.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

What condition did the Prince's parents impose upon their son before their death?

1. Obedience to his tutor Katoma and a promise to rule the kingdom with mercy and justice — no support
2. Obedience to his tutor Katoma until he came of age — no support
3. Obedience to his tutor Katoma — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Loyalty to his guard Katoma — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 207, line 4: «The money runs out, the steward asks for funds, and the friends leave; when Noureddin visits them, they all refuse to see him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What was the stated consequence of Anna's riddle for an unsuccessful suitor?

1. Decapitation — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Decapitation carried out publicly in the square at dawn — no support
3. Banishment — no support
4. Enslavement — 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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