Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest with the Greedy Eyes, part 78: a greedy Pope steals loaves and tries to cure a princess by chopping her up

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 486 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 ✗

Did the Pope nick the old bloke's loaves while he was kipping?

1. Yeah, he nabbed them quiet like a fox — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he scoffed them dead sneaky — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, he didn't — no support
4. Nah, he left the bread right there — 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 ✓

Mate, so the Pope was mingin' and didn't even pay Nicholas?

1. Yeah, he never paid Nicholas a penny, the cheeky git, proper mingin' — no support
2. Yeah, he got battered with the keys — no support
3. Yeah, he battered his picture with the keys — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Nah, he gave Nicholas a fat purse of gold and kissed his feet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 486, line 1: «First the Pope, who had served St. Nicholas for years, had nothing left to eat, so he took the church keys and thumped the saint's picture with them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «picture» (+4); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the princess properly dead in the first kingdom?

1. Nah, she was chopped up, then sorted — ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Yeah, she was stone dead, then he chopped her up and tossed her in the river — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Yeah, she was dead as a doornail — score 5
4. Nah, she was just knocked out cold, then the Pope woke her up nicely — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 486, line 5: «He chopped the second princess up like so much beef, paying no heed to her screams, and then tried to fit the pieces back together.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «chop up» (+4); the same thing acted on «second princess» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old man get the biggest handful of gold?

1. Nah, the Pope was grabbin' whole fistfuls but the old man got a bigger share anyway — no support
2. Nah, the Pope was grabbin' whole fistfuls — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, the old man was grabbin' huge handfuls while the Pope just watched him all day — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. Yeah, the stranger grabbed more coins — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 178, line 2: «A metal boat rows him for nine days, but when he shouts "Allah be praised!" it sinks and he is left to swim.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «man» (+4); the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different doer (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 5 · ★ · right ✓

Who came up with the idea to do the second cure alone?

1. The Evil One, innit, not the Pope — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. The Evil One, innit, but the Pope said he thought of it first — no support
3. The Pope himself, we reckon it — no support
4. The old bloke, innit, no way — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 53, line 19: «On the way out the warders «chaff» him (tease him) with jokes; the book's jokes about men and a «widow woman» come from old ideas about men and women. Toad kee…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Pope reckon he'd be a proper doctor?

1. Nah, he reckoned he'd be caught — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, he thought he'd be a doctor — no support
3. Nah, he knew better — no support
4. Yeah, he thought he'd get all the gold — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 486, line 15: «What is an old word here? "Pope" means an ordinary Orthodox parish priest, not the Pope of Rome.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ordinary orthodox parish priest» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Pope mind screamin' from the princess?

1. Yeah, he stopped — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he just kept on chopping — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he covered his ears up — no support
4. Nah, he sang to her gently — 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 ✗

Was the Pope's second cure a bit of a wind-up?

1. Nah, he was dead serious about curing her with holy words and gentle prayers — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he was messin' with the King — no support
3. Yeah, he was hacking her up like meat for the King's own dinner table — no support
4. Yeah, he was hacking her up like meat — ✓ 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 ✗

Did the old man use a sharp sword to fix her?

1. Yeah, he used a blade on her — score 4
2. Yeah, he used a rusty knife — score 4
3. Nah, he just breathed on the bits — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he used his hands — ← 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 86, line 11: «He foretells «letters, all twenty-six of 'em», when «we shall be able to read as well as to write».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «letters» (+4); a different action (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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the Pope honest about the loaves at the start?

1. Nah, he told the truth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he said "not I" and lied — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he said "it was not me" — no support
4. Yeah, he did, 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Pope get the gold in the end, or what?

1. Nah, the King kept it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, the Pope kept all the gold — score 3
3. Nah, the old man got the coins — score 3
4. Nah, the stranger got to keep the gold — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 486, line 14: «What does the Pope do in the second kingdom? He acts alone, because the Evil One suggested he could take all the gold for himself.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Pope think he'd get off scot-free?

1. Nah, he reckoned he'd be hanged — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, he thought he'd be sound — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Nah, he knew the Evil One would drag him down to hell for it that very night — no support
4. Yeah, he thought he'd be safe — no support

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 486, line 15: «What is an old word here? "Pope" means an ordinary Orthodox parish priest, not the Pope of Rome.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ordinary orthodox parish priest» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the principal action performed by the Pope upon the image of St. Nicholas prior to his departure.

1. He knelt before the image, then struck it sharply with his keys and cloak together — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. He struck the painted image of the saint on the wall with a heavy iron key — score -1
3. He kissed the image of the saint — no support
4. He struck the image with the church keys — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 486, line 1: «First the Pope, who had served St. Nicholas for years, had nothing left to eat, so he took the church keys and thumped the saint's picture with them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the means by which the Pope obtained the loaves belonging to his travelling companion.

1. He gave them to beggars at the gate and then lied about it to the King — no support
2. He sold them to a passing merchant at dawn — score 5
3. He consumed them secretly while the companion slept — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. He stole them quietly while the old man slumbered — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 486, line 2: «Then he walked off with a stranger, and while the stranger slept, the Pope secretly nibbled the stranger's loaves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «loaves» (+4); the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Specify the penalty which the King prescribed for any physician who failed to restore his daughter.

1. Burning alive in the public square at noon — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Beheading, nothing else — no support
3. Hanging, the body to be burned at dawn — no support
4. Beheading, the head to be displayed upon a stake — ✓ 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 ✗

Determine the reason why the Pope undertook the second cure without the companion.

1. He was moved by avarice, prompted by the Evil One — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He was moved by avarice and pride, and the Evil One whispered to him in his sleep — no support
3. He wanted the gold badly, and he was prompted by the Evil One and a mischievous spirit of mischief — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. He hoped to win the King's favour quickly — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 486, line 14: «What does the Pope do in the second kingdom? He acts alone, because the Evil One suggested he could take all the gold for himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «gold» (+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

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