Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 510 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 ✓

Bro, why did Apollo chuck a deadly dart at Coronis?

1. He was well raging, bruv, cos she'd been seeing a mortal behind his back all week — no support
2. He was livid, mate, and totally lost it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. He was livid, mate, after she cheated on him with some random bloke from Thessaly — no support
4. He was buzzing, mate, and fancied her — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 510, line 5: «Apollo loses his friends Hyacinthus and Cyparissus, has a contest with Marsyas and Pan, and punishes Midas and Niobe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

So, like, did Apollo actually feel gutted after?

1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, he was buzzing, innit — no support
3. Yeah, he was well gutted, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, dead gutted — 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 ✗

Wait, why did Zeus zap Asclepius with a thunderbolt?

1. Cos people were getting way too immortal and skipping death, proper annoying, bruv — no support
2. Cos people were getting too immortal, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Cos he was healing everyone who came to his door, and Hades was proper raging, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Cos folk weren't dying no more, bruv — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 427, line 13: «What the King does: he punishes his sons "as he thought best", but the text does not say how.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+6). 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd?

1. Nine years, which is proper ages, mate, working for Admetus up in Thessaly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nine days, which is well quick — no support
3. Nine years, which is proper ages — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nine years, which is proper ages, bruv, and he hated every single minute of it — 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 ✗

Did Alcestis actually die for Admetus, though?

1. Nah, she lived, fair play to her — no support
2. Yeah, she snuffed it, fair play to her — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she didn't — no support
4. Yeah, she went for him, fair play — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 510, line 4: «Admetus wins Alcestis, who later dies in his place, until Heracles wrestles Death and brings her back to her family.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «admetus» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who pulled off the big rescue with Death?

1. Hermes, the cheat — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Heracles, the absolute beast — ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Apollo, the legend — score 6
4. Theseus, the proper hero — 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 302, line 4: «She begs God to take her child away, so Death carries it off into the unknown land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry off» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

How did Hyacinthus get whacked?

1. Zephyrus blew a discus off course and it smacked him on the bonce — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A discus smacked him on the bonce — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A javelin got him in the chest — no support
4. A discus hit him on the neck — 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 · ★ · right ✓

What did Cyparissus do to Apollo's stag?

1. He shot it by mistake, bare sad — score 5
2. He accidentally killed it, poor lad — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. He grabbed a spear and speared it by accident, then cried for ages, poor lad — score -5
4. He accidentally killed it with a javelin, and felt awful, poor lad — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 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 141, line 4: «He outruns the Lion in the open, but his antlers catch in the branches of a wood, and the Lion kills him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stag» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «kill» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ay, why was Marsyas flayed, though?

1. He lost the music battle, proper unlucky — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. He lost the music battle to Apollo, proper unlucky, innit, and was flayed alive — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. He lost the pipes game, dead unlucky — score 2
4. He lost the battle of the pipes, which was proper unlucky, and then he got skinned — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 510, line 15: «What: Marsyas loses to Apollo, and the Muses decide he must be "flayed alive" as his punishment.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «flay» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ha, what happened to Midas's hair-do, then?

1. He hid his ass ears with a hat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He wore a fancy golden cap over his donkey ears to hide them from everyone — no support
3. He hid his donkey ears under a cap — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He hid his donkey ears under a purple cap, which his barber saw — 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 ✗

Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret?

1. Reeds kept whispering it, bare embarrassing — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Servants kept blabbing it, proper awkward — no support
3. Reeds kept whispering it to everyone who walked by the river, bare embarrassing — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Reeds kept whispering it, dead awkward — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 12: «A ford is a shallow place where you can walk across a river; the old ford was used «in by-gone days before they built the bridge».», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, why did Apollo smoke Niobe's kids?

1. She insulted his mum at the feast and bragged about her brood, massive mistake, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She dissed his mum and bragged about her kids, massive mistake, innit, and he flattened the lot — no support
3. She bragged about her kids, big mistake — no support
4. She dissed his mum and bragged, massive mistake — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Niobe still have any kids left, bruv?

1. Yeah, she had the youngest left, then Leto's lot sorted her out too, proper sad — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, only the youngest, then she got hit too, and she turned to stone, bruv — no support
3. Nah, just the eldest, she got hit too — no support
4. Nah, only the youngest, then she got hit too — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following was the means by which Apollo caused the death of Coronis?

1. a death-bringing dart discharged from his bow — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a death-bringing dart discharged from his bow at her heart — no support
3. a fiery thunderbolt hurled down from Olympus by his father Zeus — no support
4. A sharp arrow loosed from his silver bow — 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 ✗

Identify the penalty imposed upon Apollo by Zeus for the slaying of the Cyclops.

1. Service as a mortal, lightened by Hera's pleading — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Exile to Hades, softened by his mother's pleas — no support
3. A fine of gold — no support
4. banishment to Tartarus, mitigated by Leto's intercession — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the condition upon which the Fates conferred immortality on Admetus.

1. that one of his kin accept death in his place — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. that a member of his own family die in his stead — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. that a member of his own household, bound by blood, willingly die in his place at the appointed hour — no support
4. That someone outside his household die instead — 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 ✗

Describe the manner in which the contest between Apollo and Marsyas was adjudicated.

1. Zeus judged the contest — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A council of gods ruled that Marsyas had lost fairly — no support
3. The Muses acted as umpires, judged the contest fairly, and declared Apollo victorious after a long song — no support
4. The Muses acted as umpires and declared Apollo victorious — ✓ 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

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