Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses
Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 526 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, why'd Hymen dress up as a girl, innit?
- 1. So he could tag along with his crush — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To get close to the girl he loved — score 3
- 3. So he could tag along with his crush and sneak into the feast — no support
- 4. To follow his beloved to the festival — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 526, line 3: «Poor young Hymen loved a rich girl, so he dressed as a maiden and followed her to a festival.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «festival» (+3); the same action «follow» (+2). Against it: the same doer «hymen» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Those pirates were proper sus, weren't they?
- 1. They knocked out the girls and nicked them while the whole festival was asleep — score 4
- 2. They knocked out the girls, nicked them and sold them as slaves abroad — score 4
- 3. They nabbed the girls at the harbour — score 4
- 4. They knocked out the girls and nicked them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 526, line 4: «Pirates carried the girls off, but Hymen slew the sleeping pirates, rescued the maidens and won his bride.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «girls» (+2); the same doer «pirates» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Did Hymen actually kill them all, mate?
- 1. Yeah, while they were snoozing after the grog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, while they were snoozing after the grog and didn't wake up — no support
- 3. Yeah, he went below deck and killed them all while they slept off the grog — no support
- 4. Yeah, they were asleep after the grog — 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 ✗
What's the goss on Iris, like?
- 1. She's the rainbow messenger for the queen of heaven, fast as the wind — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. She's the rainbow messenger for the queen of heaven — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She's Zeus's messenger, the rainbow one — no support
- 4. She's a goddess of the rainbow sky — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
Was Hebe mint at pouring drinks?
- 1. Nah, she slipped and got sacked — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, she poured for the gods — no support
- 3. Nah, not really — no support
- 4. Nah, she was rubbish — 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 ✗
Who took over Hebe's gig?
- 1. Hermes, the son of Maia, the swift messenger — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ganymedes, son of Priam — no support
- 3. Ganymedes, the son of Tros — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hermes, the son of Maia — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓
Why did Zeus's eagle nab Ganymedes, bruv?
- 1. He was dead fit and Zeus fancied him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was dead fit and Zeus fancied him so he took him up to Olympus — no support
- 3. He was dead fit and Zeus fancied him, so the eagle nabbed him from Ida — no support
- 4. Zeus wanted a new cup-bearer — 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 ✗
Did the Muses let anyone blag them, though?
- 1. No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them, every single time — score 2
- 2. No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them and turned many into stone — score 2
- 4. No, they forgave every rival — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 526, line 5: «Then we meet Iris the rainbow messenger, Hebe the cup-bearer, Ganymedes, and the Muses who punish any rival.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «rival» (+2); the same doer «muses» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
What happened to that Thracian bard Thamyris?
- 1. He lost and was struck blind — score 1
- 2. He got blinded and lost his singing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. He got blinded and lost his singing and his lyre was given to Apollo — score 3
- 4. He got blinded and lost his singing, then was sent to wander the roads — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 526, line 19: «Thamyris, a Thracian bard, challenged the Muses, who struck him blind and took away his song.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2); the same doer «thamyris» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Pierides win their sing-off?
- 1. Nah, they got turned into birds and flew off to the forest — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, they got turned into birds, but they were sent back to their father — no support
- 3. Nah, they got turned into birds — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, they were drowned at 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Were the Sirens kinda lame at singing?
- 1. Nah, their songs were lovely and loud — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Yeah, their songs were dull and flat — score 5
- 3. Yeah, their songs were fake and they lost their feathers — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Yeah, their songs were fake and they lost their feathers to the Muses at once — score 5
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 517, line 17: «What are the Sirens? They have the upper body of a maiden and the lower body of a sea-bird, and their songs lure sailors to their doom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+4); the same doer «sirens» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Which Muse handled history, the big boss?
- 1. Clio, with a roll of parchment — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Clio, with a bronze quill pen — no support
- 3. Clio, the muse of history, with a roll of parchment tied in red — no support
- 4. Clio, with a roll of parchment and a golden crown on her head — 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 ✗
Ngl, what do you pour for the Muses?
- 1. Water, milk and honey, never wine, poured onto the altar at dawn — score 4
- 2. Water, milk and honey, never wine, and sometimes a little oil as well — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Water, milk and honey, never wine — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Wine mixed with honey, mate — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 526, line 21: «Old word: "libations" means liquid offerings poured out to the gods, and the Muses received water, milk and honey, "but never of wine."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «water» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who's the god of weddings, then?
- 1. Eros — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hymen, son of Apollo — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Dionysus, son of Zeus — no support
- 4. Hermes, son of Zeus — 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 ✗
Of what did the parents of the abducted maidens promise to grant Hymen?
- 1. the throne of their father — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. a share of their kingdom — score 6
- 3. the maiden he loved in marriage along with a rich dowry of gold — score 5
- 4. the maiden he loved in marriage — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 162, line 13: «What is the merchant's mistake? He threw date stones about while eating, and one struck the genius's son in the eye.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «son» (+5); the same doer «one» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What penalty did the Muses impose upon the daughters of King Pierus?
- 1. transformation into singing birds that could never return home — score 2
- 2. transformation into singing birds, as a warning to all mortals — no support
- 3. transformation into dark owls — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. transformation into singing birds — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 510, line 3: «Furious, Apollo destroys the Cyclops who forged the thunderbolts, and is sent as a shepherd to serve King Admetus.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «furious apollo» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
To which divinity is the presidency of marriage and nuptial solemnities attributed in the passage?
- 1. Hermes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Aphrodite, goddess of love — no support
- 3. Hymen — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Apollo — 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 ✗
What principal function is assigned to Iris in the passage?
- 1. messenger of the sky father — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. messenger of the queen of heaven — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. messenger of the queen of heaven and bearer of the rainbow bridge — no support
- 4. the goddess of the storm — 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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