Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 477 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 ✗

bruv, why'd the groom even hop in the grave, was he dared?

1. the dead bloke begged him to come down and help dig his grave out, it was mad — score 2
2. his mate said it was a laugh, innit — no support
3. the dead bloke asked him for a drink — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the dead bloke was lonely and kept shouting at him from the hole, proper creepy — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 477, line 1: «A bridegroom on his way to his wedding stops by a graveyard, where a dead man rises from his grave and thanks him for keeping a promise.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

proper wild, how many cups did he down in there?

1. two — no support
2. three — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. one — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. four — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 177, line 12: «The cup of water: she says "If you are only a monkey by enchantment, resume the form of the man you were before."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, how many years went by after the cups, like proper long?

1. two hundred — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. four hundred — score 7
3. three hundred — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. like, nearly four hundred and fifty years, bruv — score 7

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 477, line 10: «The dead man laughs off the delay: "surely it won't take long to toss off a glass!" Yet each cup costs a long stretch of years.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol, so when he came out, what was left of the graveyard?

1. nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a grassy spot out back — no support
3. a patch of waste ground — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. an empty field then — 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 ✗

no cap, what was growing over the spot, like nettles?

1. nettles and tall grass — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. thistles and some dock — no support
3. a whole mess of thorny stuff, bushes, and some random old fence — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. loads of nettles, tall grass, brambles, and wild bushes all tangled up together — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 463, line 19: «Old word: "waxed very wroth" means became very angry; today we would simply say the Prince grew furious.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «old word» (+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 ✗

was the village still the same, fam?

1. nope, it was dead strange — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope, it was all different — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, pretty much same — no support
4. yeah, same — 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 · ★ · right ✓

who even was the priest at the end, like the same guy?

1. a new one, not the old priest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. some young bloke from town — no support
3. the old guy — no support
4. a different vicar, innit — 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 ✗

what did the church-books say, bro?

1. they showed he'd been buried and forgotten, and nobody had bothered to check the dates for ages — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. he'd vanished three hundred years back — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he'd gone three hundred years back — no support
4. it said he left a century back — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 477, line 5: «The church-books show he vanished three hundred years ago, and his bride had long since married another man.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «church books» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

and what happened to his bride, innit?

1. she moved off — no support
2. she got wed to someone else — no support
3. she'd married some other guy — score 4
4. she'd wed another bloke — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 477, line 5: «The church-books show he vanished three hundred years ago, and his bride had long since married another man.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+4); the same thing acted on «man» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the dead man was nice in the end, right?

1. yeah, he helped him out — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, he gave him a drink — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. nah, not really — no support
4. nope, he was mean — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. 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, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

was the groom gutted about it, like, upset?

1. yeah, he was well upset — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, he was really upset and kept going on about it for weeks after — no support
3. yeah, he was proper devastated and couldn't stop thinking about it for ages after — no support
4. yeah, he was sad, mate — 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 ✗

did the groom say the procession was waiting, bro?

1. yeah, everyone was just sitting there — no support
2. yeah, the whole wedding party was standing outside the gate singing and clapping loudly — no support
3. yeah, all the folks were waiting — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, the whole village was out there waiting for him in the cold, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 477, line 6: «Who: the bridegroom, on his wedding-day, on the road past a graveyard, where the marriage procession was waiting for him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wait» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, did the dead man say a glass takes no time?

1. yeah, he said one glass is a whole night's worth of drinking, bruv, so pace yourself — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. yeah, "won't take long" — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, takes ages, bruv — no support
4. yeah, he said it's gonna take ages and he needed to get comfy first — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 106, line 9: «Why: The queen wants to be the fairest, and she is "very much alarmed" because the glass says Snow-White is "lovelier far".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which statement correctly gives the period the bridegroom spent beneath the grave?

1. He remained three hundred years, the sum of three cups — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Three cups only — no support
3. He stayed under for a century and more — score 3
4. Three hundred years — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 122, line 5: «A stepdaughter drops her shuttle down a well, jumps in after it, and comes to the house of Mother Holle.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «stepdaughter» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Which phrase best describes the condition of the graveyard upon the bridegroom's return?

1. A tract of waste ground overgrown with nettles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A plain of tall grass and a broken fence line — no support
3. A flat plot of abandoned land where a whole village once stood and then disappeared entirely — no support
4. A wide and neglected tract of waste ground, choked with nettles, tall grass and thorny bushes, where the church had once stood proudly — 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 · right ✓

Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the groom's disappearance?

1. The church-books — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Records — no support
3. The village diary — no support
4. Books — 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 action did the bride take after the groom had vanished?

1. She wed a different suitor — no support
2. She waited in vain for many years before finally marrying another man in the village — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. She remarried a local farmer — score 0
4. She married another man — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 477, line 5: «The church-books show he vanished three hundred years ago, and his bride had long since married another man.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+4); the same doer «bride» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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