Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and a rich moujik's release
Tests: 8 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 476 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 ✓
Yo, who got yanked off the stove by the fiends?
- 1. the Fiddler — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the old peasant — no support
- 3. a fiend — no support
- 4. the moujik — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, how long did he jam for, like for real?
- 1. three years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. seven nights — no support
- 3. like, way longer than anyone could count — no support
- 4. almost three hundred years, no joke — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol?
- 1. a Russian smell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a human smell — no support
- 3. the smell of a Russian soul hiding under the stove — no support
- 4. a super strong Russian smell coming from the house — 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 ✓
Ngl, where did the moujik say the first pot was?
- 1. at the gate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 2. inside — no support
- 3. by the well — no support
- 4. at home — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 476, line 7: «What: the moujik tells the Fiddler to say "one pot is buried at the gate, and the other in the corn-kiln."», 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) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what kept snapping every time he blessed them?
- 1. his bow hair — no support
- 2. the tuning pegs — no support
- 3. the thin strings of the Fiddler's old fiddle — score -2
- 4. the strings — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 476, line 3: «His strings keep snapping, he tricks the fiends into an escort, and he slips off to a wedding.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «strings» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, who did the fiends send to babysit the Fiddler?
- 1. a devil — no support
- 2. one fiend — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. one fiend who was the oldest in hell — score -2
- 4. a fiend — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 475, line 11: «The fiddler asks, "Whatever shall I do?" and is afraid they will torture him too.», 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 (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, what is catgut made of, like?
- 1. the intestines of a sheep or a cow — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. animal gut — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. dried animal gut stretched and twisted into strings — no support
- 4. horse hair — 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 ✗
Yo, where was the party still going when the cocks crowed?
- 1. in the next cottage — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. at the farthest cottage — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. at the nearest village — no support
- 4. in the church — 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 ✓
Dude, what did the fiend say, "time to be ___"?
- 1. off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. on — no support
- 3. off to bed — score 2
- 4. away — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 475, line 10: «The fiends say the money was buried so that they could not keep watch over it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); the same doer «fiends» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fam, what happened to the money when they handed it out?
- 1. it doubled and grew into a huge pile — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. it stayed — no support
- 3. it kept growing bigger every single time — no support
- 4. it grew — ✓ 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 ✗
Omg, how many versts was the crazy long road?
- 1. two — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. fifty versts of rough and muddy road — no support
- 3. fifty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. ten — 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 ✓
Ayy, who ordered the bridge to be built?
- 1. the Emperor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. the Governor — score 4
- 3. the Emperor's chief minister and his engineers — score 4
- 4. the local lord of the village and his court — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 476, line 18: «The Emperor: a petition is presented, and he "ordained" a bridge because the road is "some fifty versts long."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «emperor» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Real talk, what did the kid pray for?
- 1. the kingdom of heaven and salvation for all the villagers — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. the kingdom of heaven — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. the kingdom of heaven for the poor and sick — score 7
- 4. peace for his father — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 362, line 3: «The Kid begs the Wolf to pipe him a tune first, so he can dance and be merry before he is eaten.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «beg» (+4); the same doer «kid» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following was the instruction given by the rich moujik to his offspring regarding the buried monies?
- 1. That the monies be exhumed, counted carefully, and then distributed among the indigent by the eldest son alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That the monies be exhumed and distributed among the indigent — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. That the monies be spent on the church and the monastery — no support
- 4. That the monies be exhumed at once and distributed among the indigent and the sick of every village in the province — 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 ✓
Which of the following accurately describes the manner in which the Fiddler's instrument was rendered unserviceable during his performance?
- 1. The strings snapped each time he invoked the blessing of the Lord — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The strings snapped each time he invoked the blessing of the Lord upon the fiends and their household — no support
- 3. The fiddle cracked each time the fiends began their dancing — no support
- 4. The bow hairs frayed whenever he played a dance tune loudly — 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 ✗
Which of the following was the stated purpose of the bridge ordered by the Emperor?
- 1. To connect the two villages and allow trade among the poor folk — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To shorten the road to town — no support
- 3. To help the poor cross the river — no support
- 4. To shorten a journey of some fifty versts to a distance of five — ✓ 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 ✗
Which of the following occasioned the release of the rich moujik from the depths of hell?
- 1. The prayer of a child born to a maid who had neither eaten nor drunk for three years while the Fiddler played — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The prayer of a child who had neither eaten nor drunk for three years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The prayer of a monk who had fasted for seven long years in prayer — no support
- 4. The prayer of a child who had neither eaten nor drunk for three years and who was born to a maid in the village — 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
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