Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 478 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 ✗

Okay, the grave opens under the moujik, so what does he do for real?

1. He sits up — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He stands — no support
3. He jumps up on his feet — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He rolls over to the side — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, the corpse wants its lid back, so what's the moujik's flex?

1. He makes it spill the healing secret — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He pretends to return the lid but makes it reveal the healing secret first — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. He tells it a lie about the lid — no support
4. He grabs the lid and refuses to return it until it tells him everything about healing — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 478, line 3: «The bold moujik keeps the lid and bargains: he will return it only if the corpse tells him how to revive the dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «return» (+4); the same thing acted on «lid» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, where did the corpse dump that lid?

1. On the altar steps there — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Right at the church door of the tiny chapel near the old oak tree — score 1
3. Right at the church door where the villagers gather each Sunday — no support
4. Right at the church door — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 478, line 2: «A corpse climbs out in a white shroud, carries a coffin-lid to the church, then comes back hunting for it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «corpse» (+4); the same thing acted on «coffin lid» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-6). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

No cap, what did the moujik burn to wake up the lads?

1. A candle — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A scrap of the cloth — no support
3. A bit of the shroud — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Some wood — 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 ✗

Lowkey sus, how many dead youngsters are we talking about?

1. Five — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 1 — no support
3. Two — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Four — 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 6 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, who tied up the moujik, fr?

1. The lads' relatives — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
2. The village elders and the lads' families together at dawn — score 8
3. The lads' grieving relatives who found him near the graves — score 3
4. The lads' neighbours — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 478, line 4: «He saves two dead lads with smoke from a burnt shroud, but their relatives tie him up and accuse him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tie up» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «relatives» (+1); the same thing acted on «moujik» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, how did the villagers finish off the corpse?

1. Hammered a long wooden stake through its body while praying loudly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Stabbed it with a knife — no support
3. Drove a sharpened aspen stake deep into its chest and heart — no support
4. Drove an aspen stake in — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, what's the soldier's time off called?

1. Break — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Rest — no support
3. Holiday — no support
4. Furlough — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over?

1. Who gets to eat the soldier and who must leave the chapel — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Which corpse gets the first bite of the soldier's flesh tonight — no support
3. Who will bury the soldier — no support
4. Who gets to eat the soldier — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting?

1. Dawn came — no support
2. Bells rang — no support
3. The sun rose at last — no support
4. Cocks started crowing — ← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 478, line 13: «The cocks crow at dawn, so the corpse cannot finish going under and "one end of the coffin-lid remained sticking out of the ground."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «crow» (+3). Against it: the same doer «cocks» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by?

1. Its arm — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Its bare calves — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Its hair — score 7
4. Its torn sleeve — score 4

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 95, line 4: «And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails an…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+4); the same doer «cats» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, why did the dog go mad at its master?

1. He was cruel — no support
2. He had starved it for days and then left it alone to fight — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. He was hungry — no support
4. He ran off and left it fighting — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 403, line 10: «WHY: The dogs try to drink the river because they are "famished with hunger" and cannot reach the cowhides.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «famish» (+3); the same thing acted on «dogs» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which object did the corpse carry out of the grave upon emerging?

1. The heavy lid of a sealed oak coffin — no support
2. A grave plank — score 2
3. A stone slab pulled from the churchyard wall — no support
4. A coffin lid — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 478, line 2: «A corpse climbs out in a white shroud, carries a coffin-lid to the church, then comes back hunting for it.», 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 (+3); the same doer «corpse» (+2); the same thing acted on «coffin lid» (+2); the same action «carry» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means were the two youths restored to life?

1. By herbs boiled in fresh milk — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By the smoke of a shroud burnt in a pot over the hearth — no support
3. By smoke from a burnt shroud — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. By smoke from a burnt shroud carried by the soldier in his bag — 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 ✗

What did the villagers do to the body of the corpse?

1. Drove a long sharpened aspen stake through its heart while praying aloud — score 2
2. Pinned its body to the ground with a spear — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Drove an aspen stake through its heart — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Burned the corpse on a pyre and drove an iron stake through its chest first — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 478, line 18: «Old word: "vampire" in these tales means a dead body that rises at night to eat people; today it is a creature of stories.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «dead body» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses?

1. A peasant — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A miller — no support
3. A soldier — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A priest — 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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