Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and Seasons, part 36: Asclepius heals the sick, Janus guards the gates, and Vertumnus wins Pomona

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 530 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 ✗

Did the Asclepius dude really get the Medusa blood, or is that just the legend talk?

1. the priests swore it was true fact — score 3
2. yes, the gods confirmed it at Delos — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. no, Asclepius never lived and was made up entirely by the Romans later — no support
4. the legend said so, not proven — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 517, line 21: «What hard word is "sanguinary"? It is an old word meaning bloodthirsty, so a "sanguinary war-god" is a war-god who loves blood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «blood» (+2); the same doer «war god» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so Janus has two faces cuz he's looking at the past and future, right?

1. yes, the faces show the past and the future in every direction — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. yes, it looks both ways in time — no support
3. yes, that's what the text says — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. no, he faces the sea and the sun — 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 226, line 12: «How she feels: her face shows "an expression of joy", the kind that comes when a wish "suddenly happens" after you least expect it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+4); the same doer «face» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why'd the Sabines even want to come into Rome?

1. to make a treaty after their long war with the Tiber people in the north — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. they had been invited by the Roman senate to a festival of peace in the city — no support
3. they wanted revenge for the abduction — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they came to conquer the Roman lands — 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 ✗

Is that Vertumnus dude basically a shape-shifting mad lad, or what?

1. no, he only wore one disguise — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, he changed forms to win Pomona — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, he's a god of shapes — no support
4. no, he only came as a shepherd — 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 ✗

So Robigus was like the villain of the flowers, yeah?

1. yeah, he's a villain — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. no, he guarded the fields from rust — no support
3. no, he was a friend — no support
4. yeah, he wrecked the tender herbs — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · right ✓

Wasn't Pomona like totally obsessed with her gardens, innit?

1. she spent all her days tending the orchards and the flowers of the wild meadow — no support
2. she was obsessed with the vineyards — no support
3. she loved her gardens and fruit trees — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. no, she was not interested in gardens, she preferred hunting in the forests — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 530, line 16: «Who: Pomona was the goddess of orchards, "who loves her gardens and the boughs that bear the thriving fruit."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «love» (+5); the same thing acted on «gardens» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Hold up, the Floralia was a massive party, right?

1. yeah, a time of merriment with flowers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. no, a quiet time of prayer with herbs — no support
3. no, it was a funeral — no support
4. yes, a festival of sorrow and flowers — 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 ✓

Why was Asclepius's dog on the list of his stuff, is that random?

1. dogs were one of his usual attributes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. it was a sign of loyalty to Rome — no support
3. for the hunt — no support
4. dogs guarded his temple — 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 ✗

So Janus gets a sulphur spring as a bodyguard, that's proper wild, yeah?

1. no, the spring only warmed the baths of the rich and never guarded anything at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yes, it stopped the enemy at the gates — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. no, it was a river that flooded Rome — no support
4. yes, it stopped the enemy at the gates of the city and then vanished under the Forum — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Romans fancy the old serpent god so much they built him a temple?

1. yes, after a plague they built one on an island — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. yes, after a war they built one on a hill — score 4
3. yes, they built a huge temple on the Tiber island, honoring Asclepius and the serpent — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. yes, they built it after a long drought, a gift the senators offered to Apollo at Delos — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 505, line 4: «Demeter shows her true, shining self, tells the people to build her a temple, and leaves for good.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+4); the same thing acted on «temple» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Is Pales a boy or a girl, cuz it's confusing?

1. both, as a male and female power — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a boy, clearly — no support
3. only a male, the god of shepherds — no support
4. a girl only — 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 ✗

So when does the Palilia happen, like what day?

1. 1 May — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 18 April — no support
3. 9 May — no support
4. 21 April — ✓ 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 ✗

Was Hygeia like the health boss, is that right?

1. yes, she guarded the city's wealth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. no, she was the goddess of love, marriage and the crops of the fields — no support
3. yes, she kept the community healthy — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. no, she was the goddess of 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

According to the passage, by what means did the god Asclepius communicate the cure to the sleeping supplicant?

1. by sending a sign of the sun — no support
2. in a dream — score 4
3. through a priest — score -1
4. by appearing to him in a dream — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 530, line 7: «What: sick people "sleep in the temple," and Asclepius "appeared to him in a dream, and revealed the means to be employed for the cure of his malady."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «appear» (+4); the same place «dream» (+4); the same receiver «asclepius» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the seasonal significance of the deity Pomona as described in the passage.

1. she typifies Autumn — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Summer only — no support
3. she stands for Spring — no support
4. she is Spring — 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 number of distinct forms which Vertumnus assumed in his pursuit of Pomona.

1. seven forms — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. five forms, including a bee, a farmer, an old woman, a soldier and a youth — no support
3. five different forms of disguise, each more clever than the last — no support
4. five forms — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the traditional significance of the two faces of Janus as recorded in the text.

1. past and future looking in opposite directions, representing the beginning and end of every journey through the year — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. past and future looking in opposite directions — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the god of gates, facing east and west — no support
4. watching both sides of the year at once — 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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