Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is slain, the uncles fall, Atalanta's race ends in a trick, and the temple of Artemis burns

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 4 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 513 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 ✗

ok so Meleager basically gets the boar, right?

1. nah, his uncles grabbed the whole boar and ran — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. yeah, he nails it and gives the head to Atalanta — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. nah, Atalanta nailed it first, then Meleager took the glory and the whole carcass home — no support
4. yeah, but he gave the hide to his uncles — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 392, line 2: «An old hound, once the bravest in the forest, grabs a boar by the ear but loses his grip because his teeth have gone bad, and his master scolds him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «boar» (+4); the same action «grab» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv his uncles just grabbed the hide, that's messed up

1. nah, they were just being polite — no support
2. they earned it, the hunt was theirs — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. proper cheeky, they wanted the spoil — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they're fine — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 513, line 9: «Why: the uncles took the hide because they claimed "their right to the spoil as next of kin."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hide» (+4); 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

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait so Althea burned the log, innit?

1. nah, she was furious at her son and set the whole log alight to take revenge on him — score 6
2. nah, she was furious at the uncles and set the log on fire herself to take revenge — score 6
3. yeah, she was well gutted and vexed — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, she burned it by accident — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 513, line 3: «Meleager kills his uncles in the fight, and his mother Althea burns the log that kept him alive.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «log» (+4); the same action «burn» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Atalanta beat everyone in the race yeah?

1. not til Hippomenes chucked the apples — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. not until Milo tripped her up — no support
3. nope, Hippolytus beat her first — no support
4. nah, Hippomenes beat her outright once he threw down the three golden apples at her feet — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 513, line 14: «How: Hippomenes won by throwing down "three golden apples," and Atalanta stopped to pick them up.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «apples» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the apples were proper golden, like legit gold?

1. yeah, three of them, dead shiny — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, two of them, quite shiny — no support
3. nah, they were not gold but enchanted apples from some sacred orchard in the west — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. nah, they were not gold at all but enchanted apples from some sacred orchard in the far west — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 238, line 10: «Why the fruit matters: the apple, pear and plum hold gold and jewellery, "the richest she had ever seen".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «gold» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Hippomenes forgot to say thanks to Aphrodite, dumb move

1. ikr, she dropped him like a hot potato — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. ikr, she got mad and turned them both into lions for ignoring her, mental — no support
3. ikr, she got really mad and turned them both into lions for ignoring her, proper mental — no support
4. ikr, she turned them both into stags — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 513, line 4: «Hippomenes beats Atalanta in a race by dropping golden apples, then both are turned into lions.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Actaeon got turned into a stag and his own dogs ate him, rough

1. nah, he got away — no support
2. yeah, Artemis went mental, no cap — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, Hera went mental, no cap — no support
4. nah, Zeus turned him into a bird — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 513, line 5: «Actaeon is turned into a stag and eaten by his dogs, and the great temple of Ephesus is burned.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «actaeon» (+4); the same action «turn» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

the Ephesian temple was one of the seven wonders, mate?

1. yeah, it was proper massive, mate, and it sat in Athens with a huge statue of Zeus inside — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. yeah, it was proper massive and well famous — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. nah, it was in Corinth, not famous — no support
4. nah, it was just a small shrine, rubbish — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 205, line 17: «Old word: A "talisman" was a small charm, believed to hold magic power, and people often wore it or kept it in a box.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «people» (+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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Herostratus burned it just for clout, didn't he?

1. nah, he burned it to save the city from the Persians — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. nah, he did it for the gold inside — no support
3. yeah, he wanted to be famous, the absolute muppet — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, he was a priest — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 278, line 20: «Old word: "Herostratic" comes from Herostratus, who burned a famous temple only to be remembered, so it means done for fame.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «burn» (+2); the same doer «herostratus» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

the Taurian goddess killed anyone who landed on her shore?

1. yeah, that's dead sus, all strangers got sacrificed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, she killed only the captains and let the crews go free and wander the island — no support
3. nah, she saved every stranger from the sea — no support
4. nah, she only hunted deer on the shore — 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 ✗

Agamemnon killed a stag by accident and the calm stopped the boats, right?

1. nah, Poseidon got mad at the boats — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, Artemis was sick about her grove — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. nah, Agamemnon killed a bull on the beach and the wind changed to the south that day — no support
4. yeah, the fleet sailed too early — 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 ✗

so what did the generals decide, did they sacrifice Iphigenia?

1. they said the state mattered more than feelings, so yeah — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. no, Agamemnon refused, and the generals agreed to wait at Aulis until spring came round again — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. no, they decided to send her home safely to Mycenae in secret — score 3
4. yeah, but they hid it from Achilles — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 436, line 4: «A man from the water offers to pack the cattle away if the King gives him whatever he has at home that he does not know about, and the King agrees.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «agree» (+3); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the principal event described in this passage, namely the slaying of the Calydonian boar and the consequent death of Meleager's uncles.

1. The quarrel over the hide at the feast — no support
2. The hunt and the killing of the boar — no support
3. The slaying of the boar and the deaths of the uncles — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. The boar hunt and the murder of his kin, along with the quarrel that led to the feast's ruin — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 216, line 3: «Now poor, the blind man begs, and he makes each passer-by hit him to pay for his greed, and the Caliph pardons him and promises him money.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hit» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

State the reason given by the uncles for seizing the hide from the maiden Atalanta.

1. They believed it was a family gift — score 3
2. They insisted that as next of kin they were owed a share of the hunt's spoils by law — no support
3. They claimed it as next of kin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. They argued that the spoil belonged to their blood relatives by right of inheritance — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 513, line 9: «Why: the uncles took the hide because they claimed "their right to the spoil as next of kin."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hide» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Describe the manner in which Hippomenes secured his victory over Atalanta in the course.

1. By dropping golden apples to distract her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. By tricking her with a magic potion — no support
3. By throwing three golden apples that she stopped to pick up, lost ground and fell behind — score 5
4. By throwing a golden net at her feet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 513, line 4: «Hippomenes beats Atalanta in a race by dropping golden apples, then both are turned into lions.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «golden apples» (+4); the same action «drop» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Explain the cause of the calm that delayed the departure of the fleet at Aulis.

1. Agamemnon's killing of a stag in a sacred grove — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Agamemnon's killing of a sacred stag in the grove, which the goddess took as an insult to her shrine — no support
3. Poseidon's anger over an unpaid sacrifice — no support
4. Agamemnon's slaying of a sacred stag in the grove of Artemis that angered her — 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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