Myths of Greece and Rome, Hecate and the Moon-Goddesses, part 18: three night and hunt goddesses, then a boar sent in anger
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 512 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 ✗
Oi, whose kid was Hecate, like, proper?
- 1. the children of Nyx and Erebus — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Perses and Astraea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Hyperion and Theia — no support
- 4. Coeus and Phoebe of the Titans — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kid» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, how many bodies did Hecate have in them pics?
- 1. three — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. one — no support
- 3. many bodies in art — score -3
- 4. four — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 512, line 8: «Hecate is shown in art as a triple goddess, with "three female bodies, all young and beautiful, and united together."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, what was Hecate well boss at, like?
- 1. herbs and healing potions — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. witchcraft and enchantments — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. ghosts and the dead of the underworld — no support
- 4. the moon and the night sky above the earth — 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, who drove the moon motor across the sky?
- 1. Helios — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Selene — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 3. Eos — score 8
- 4. Phoebe — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 512, line 11: «Selene was the sister of Helios, and she drove her chariot across the sky while "her brother was reposing".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drive» (+5); the same place «sky» (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit, who did Selene fancy, that sleepy shepherd?
- 1. Narcissus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ajax — no support
- 3. Endymion — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hylas — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wicked, where did Selene spot him kipping?
- 1. Mount Cithaeron — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mount Latmus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Mount Helicon — no support
- 4. Mount Ida — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, who was Artemis's twin, like the sun god's mate?
- 1. Apollo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Hermes — no support
- 3. Ares — no support
- 4. Eros — 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 ✗
Bruv, what was Artemis proper into, like hunting?
- 1. archery — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. hunting and chastity — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the wild — no support
- 4. sailing and the sea — 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 ✗
Mate, what did Oeneus skip, like a sacrifice?
- 1. honour Apollo at the feast — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. make an offering — no support
- 3. include Artemis in a sacrifice — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. bring first fruits to Hera — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 512, line 17: «Why: Oeneus had left Artemis out of a sacrifice, so the goddess, "enraged at this neglect", sent a boar that "laid waste the fields".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+4); the same doer «oeneus» (+3); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dead, what did the goddess send as payback?
- 1. a fierce bull — no support
- 2. a giant snake — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. a monstrous boar from the mountains — score 3
- 4. a wild boar — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 512, line 5: «Angry Artemis sends a giant wild boar, and the hero Meleager gathers heroes to hunt it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+4); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Oi, which hero called the whole squad to hunt it?
- 1. Meleager — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the son of King Oeneus himself — no support
- 3. Nestor — no support
- 4. Pirithous, friend of the Lapiths — 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 ✗
Innit, who was that fleet-footed huntress, like?
- 1. the swift daughter of Iasus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Procris — no support
- 3. Atalanta — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the Arcadian maiden Atalanta of Scyros — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, who nursed Atalanta, a she-bear innit?
- 1. a she-bear — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a mare from the Parthenian herd — no support
- 3. a wolf pack — no support
- 4. a flock of wild goats from above — 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 deity was held to be the daughter of Perses and Astraea?
- 1. Hecate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Astraea — no support
- 3. Gaia — no support
- 4. Hera — 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 · right ✓
What consequence followed Oeneus's omission of Artemis from the sacrifice?
- 1. the sending of a destructive boar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. the loss of his sons in battle — no support
- 3. a wild boar — score -3
- 4. the ruin of his royal household — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 512, line 17: «Why: Oeneus had left Artemis out of a sacrifice, so the goddess, "enraged at this neglect", sent a boar that "laid waste the fields".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the oracle foretell for Atalanta should she give herself in marriage?
- 1. bitter loneliness — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. inevitable misfortune — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. unending sorrow — score 9
- 4. that she would be turned into a bear — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 509, line 12: «He is called Apollo-Delphinios because he "had first appeared to them under the form of a dolphin".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «oracle» (+5); the same action «call» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which mortal was accorded eternal youth by Zeus?
- 1. Hylas — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Endymion — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the mortal son of a Thessalian king — no support
- 4. Ajax — 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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