Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos
Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 508 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 ✗
yo so Eos got her own ride, what she drive?
- 1. a winged chariot pulled by white steeds — score 3
- 2. a golden chariot with two swift horses — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. a chariot pulled by Lampetus and Phaethon — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. a golden chariot pulled by four winged horses of fire from the east — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 506, line 5: «Each day Helios drives his golden chariot across the sky, with Eos going before him and Selene coming after.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «golden chariot» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
wait, who was Eos married to first, bro?
- 1. Orion the hunter — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Astraeus the Titan — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Astraeus, son of the Titan Crius — no support
- 4. Cephalus the hunter — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
ngl, why was Tithonus kinda cursed?
- 1. he got to live for ever but not stay young — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. he lied to the gods — no support
- 3. he asked for youth and forgot age — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. he wanted to be a god forever — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 508, line 3: «She forgets to ask for eternal youth, so Tithonus grows old and weak, and Eos at last turns him into a grasshopper, which is all voice.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did Eos turn poor old Tithonus into in the end?
- 1. a tortoise, all shell — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. a grasshopper that only chirped all day long — no support
- 3. an insect that chirped and chirped in the fields of Troy — no support
- 4. a grasshopper, all chirp — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 478, line 5: «The villagers stake the corpse, reward the moujik, and then the tale turns to two more stories about vampires.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «two more stories» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
where was Apollo born, like which dead rock?
- 1. a rock — no support
- 2. the wild island of Naxos — no support
- 3. the barren island of Delos — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Delos — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 508, line 12: «who: Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the poets say he was born "beneath the shade of a palm tree" on Mount Cynthus, on Delos.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bear» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
who was Apollo's mum, the one Hera was bullying?
- 1. Leto — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ate — no support
- 3. Persephone — no support
- 4. Aphrodite — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
who fed the baby Apollo, like his nanny?
- 1. the goddess Demeter — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Themis — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Hestia — score 4
- 4. the nymph Calypso — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 74, line 21: «Whales are mammals, not fish: they breathe air through a blowhole and feed their babies on milk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feed» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
what did baby Apollo chow on?
- 1. nectar and ambrosia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the sweet milk and bread of the golden age — no support
- 3. honey and bread — no support
- 4. nectar, ambrosia and the fruit of the gods — 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 ✓
bruv, what two things did Apollo ask for straight off?
- 1. a lyre and a bow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. a bow — no support
- 3. a flute and a drum — no support
- 4. a harp — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 508, line 15: «what: Apollo said, "The golden lyre shall be my friend, the bent bow my delight", and he promised to tell mankind the will of Zeus.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «golden lyre» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
what was Apollo the god of, like the big stuff?
- 1. the sun and the moon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. music — no support
- 3. the sun — no support
- 4. light and music — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
who did people mix Apollo up with?
- 1. Hermes the messenger — no support
- 2. Helios the sun-god — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Zeus — score 0
- 4. Ares — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 508, line 16: «where: Apollo went up to Olympus, where the gods received him "with joyful acclamations" and called him the most glorious of Zeus's sons.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «apollo» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
how did Apollo wipe out the Greek camp in the Iliad?
- 1. with a plague of arrows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. with a storm of spears — no support
- 3. with a plague of arrows sent from the sky — no support
- 4. by sending a raging plague of arrows over the whole camp — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
why are shepherds Apollo's peeps?
- 1. he keeps the wolves away from the young lambs — no support
- 2. he warms the fields and gives the flocks pasture — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. he sits on the hills and plays his lyre while the flocks graze — no support
- 4. he protects the flocks from wolves and lions and leads them to the fields — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 405, line 12: «The punishment is that he is "to be cast to the Lions," which means he will be thrown to hungry lions.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (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 14 · ★ · right ✓
what's Apollo's whole vibe in music, like what does he hold?
- 1. the seven-stringed lyre — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a golden lyre given by Hermes with seven strings — no support
- 3. the nine-stringed harp — no support
- 4. a twelve-stringed harp — 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 · wrong ✗
Which deity is described in the passage as the personification of the rosy morn?
- 1. Hera — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Eos — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Io — no support
- 4. Ra — 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 · wrong ✗
From which island is the god Phoebus-Apollo said to have been born?
- 1. Kos — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Delos — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ios — no support
- 4. Lemnos — 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 form did the goddess Eos give to the aged Tithonus at the close of his sufferings?
- 1. a tortoise — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. an old crow — no support
- 3. a cricket — no support
- 4. a grasshopper — ✓ 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 ✗
Over which of the Muses was Apollo regarded as leader according to the passage?
- 1. the Graces — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. the Muses — score 4
- 3. the three Fates — score 4
- 4. the nine Muses — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 30, line 10: «The caravan was «shining with newness, painted a canary-yellow picked out with green, and red wheels». The book calls it a «gipsy caravan» — an old phrase; tod…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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