Greek Myths, The Muses and Their Friends, part 33: Pegasus stamps out a fountain and the Hesperides lose their golden apples
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 527 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 ✓
Oi, which muse is holding the big globe, like the one in Mr Patel's class?
- 1. Melpomene — score 6
- 2. Polyhymnia — score 6
- 3. Urania — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Euterpe — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 527, line 1: «The book shows the Muses first, each with her own tool: Thalia has a shepherd's crook, Urania holds a globe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hold» (+4); the same thing acted on «globe» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, who's the one with the comedy mask and the crook?
- 1. Terpsichore — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thalia — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Euterpe — no support
- 4. Polyhymnia — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Proper ace question, innit: who made the muses?
- 1. Poseidon — score 6
- 2. Pan — score 6
- 3. Zeus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Ra — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 527, line 10: «Who made the Muses: "Zeus" created them after the victorious gods asked for singers to honour their "glorious deeds".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «create» (+4); the same thing acted on «muses» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Which horse came outta Medusa's body when Perseus did her in, fam?
- 1. Pegasus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Hippocampus the sea-horse — no support
- 3. Bucephalus — no support
- 4. Sleipnir — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 466, line 13: «What: a horse comes with "a flame rushing from its ears and nostrils", and Vanya crept in one ear and out the other.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wicked, where did the horse stomp to make the fountain pop up?
- 1. on Mount Ida — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. on Mount Helicon — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. on Mount Ossa — score 7
- 4. on Mount Parnassus near Delphi — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 527, line 4: «When the Muses sing so beautifully that the mountain Helicon lifts itself up, Poseidon sends Pegasus to stamp the ground, and the fountain Hippocrene gushes ou…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stamp» (+5); the same doer «pegasus» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Which sea god was well miffed about the mountain moving?
- 1. Poseidon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. Hermes — no support
- 3. Hephaestus — no support
- 4. Triton the sea-messenger — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 431, line 4: «At a high mountain he meets his brothers, and his strong throw of an iron rock opens a ladder up the slope.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Did Bellerophon get a ride on Pegasus, or nah?
- 1. Yes, at Athene's command — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yes, on Poseidon's wish — no support
- 3. Yes, by Zeus's order — no support
- 4. Nope, never — 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 ✗
Which bossy dragon is guarding the golden apples, like a proper watchdog?
- 1. Ion — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Argus — score 2
- 3. Pan — score 2
- 4. Ladon — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 517, line 15: «Who are Phorcys and Ceto? They are the parents of the Gorgons, the Graeae, and the dragon that guards the golden apples of the Hesperides.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «guard» (+2); the same doer «dragon» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who gave the golden apple tree to Hera as a wedding present?
- 1. Demeter the goddess — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Hera the queen — score 4
- 3. Gaea — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Themis — 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 398, line 15: «In the land of the Apes, the king asks his visitors "what sort of a king" he seems, and the Lying Traveler flatters him and is given a handsome present.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which daughters of Atlas got the apples, bruv?
- 1. the Graces of Olympus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the Pleiades, seven sisters of the sky — no support
- 3. the Hesperides — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the Pleiades — 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 ✓
Thalia's in the Graces too, innit, so how many Graces are there?
- 1. three — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. twelve Olympians — no support
- 3. seven — no support
- 4. thirty-three — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which season-girl holds a sheaf of corn, the one for summer?
- 1. the goddess of the autumn harvest — score 5
- 2. Spring — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. the summer one — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. the winter girl — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 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 91, line 15: «The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers he…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fam, what's the drink poured out for the gods called?
- 1. a rite — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. an oath — no support
- 3. a sacrifice — no support
- 4. a libation — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the Muse who, according to the text, bears in her left hand a celestial globe.
- 1. Terpsichore — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Polyhymnia — no support
- 3. Urania — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Calliope — 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 ✗
State the parents of the Graces, according to the primary account given in the passage.
- 1. Cronus and Rhea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Uranus and Gaea — no support
- 3. Zeus — no support
- 4. Zeus and Eurynome — ✓ 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 ✗
Specify the deity who commanded Pegasus to check the presumption of the mountain on Mount Helicon.
- 1. Hephaestus the smith-god — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Poseidon — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Hermes — no support
- 4. the sea-god Oceanus the elder — 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 ✗
Indicate the number of Horae recognised by the ancient Greeks as seasons of the year.
- 1. four — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. thirty-three — no support
- 3. three — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. twelve — 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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