Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda
Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 535 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 ✗
Dude, who wanted to chuck Danae and her baby in the sea?
- 1. Acrisius, the king of Argos — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Polydectes, king of Seriphus — no support
- 3. Acrisius — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pentheus — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, how did Perseus not get turned to stone?
- 1. used his polished shield as a mirror to see her — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. used his shield as a mirror — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. kept his eyes shut and used his shield as a mirror — no support
- 4. used his sword as a mirror — 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 ✓
Wait, who was Ares raging at?
- 1. Cadmus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pentheus — no support
- 3. Cadmus, the king of Thebes — no support
- 4. Cadmus and his whole family in Thebes — 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 ✗
Proper gutted, what happened to Cadmus's throne?
- 1. Pentheus took it — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. it was stolen — no support
- 3. he lost it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Pentheus seized it — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 535, line 2: «Later Cadmus loses his throne to Pentheus, and he and Harmonia are changed into serpents.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «throne» (+2); the same action «lose» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, which dude got turned into a mountain?
- 1. Dictys — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Cadmus — score 4
- 3. Atlas — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. King Atlas of the west — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 535, line 4: «Perseus gets magic tools, cuts off Medusa's head, and turns the greedy King Atlas into a mountain.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «mountain» (+5); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same action «turn» (-3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit, what did Zeus rain down to get into the tower?
- 1. ore — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 2. gold — ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 3. dew — score 11
- 4. rain — score 11
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 122, line 16: «The trap: the enchantress hangs the cut braids from the window and mocks the prince, who "leapt down from the tower".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «tower» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 11. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, what was the monster in the sea?
- 1. a huge sea beast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a kraken — no support
- 3. a sea dragon — no support
- 4. a serpent — 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 ✗
Like, which one is the flying horse thing?
- 1. Ladon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Chrysaor — no support
- 3. Cerberus — no support
- 4. Pegasus — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, what bling did Cadmus give Harmonia?
- 1. a gold brooch — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a necklace — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a ring — no support
- 4. a sacred necklace blessed by Hermes — 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 ✗
Peak question: where did the chest wash up?
- 1. the island of Seriphus in the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. the shore of the island of Seriphus — no support
- 3. Illyria — no support
- 4. Seriphus — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 178, line 3: «He washes up on an island, hides in a tree, and watches a ship land ten slaves who dig up a trapdoor.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wash up» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «island» (+1). Against it: a different doer (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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Sick, how did Perseus flex on the Graeae?
- 1. took their hair and teeth — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. took their eye and tooth — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. seized their shared eye and tooth in a cave — score 1
- 4. took their one eye and one tooth away by force — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 524, line 4: «The three old Graeae share one eye, one tooth and one grey wig, and Perseus takes them away from them to force the way to the Gorgons out of them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take away» (+5); the same doer «perseus» (+1); the same thing acted on «hair» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, who was the rival at the wedding?
- 1. Phineus, brother of the king Cepheus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pentheus — no support
- 3. Atlas — no support
- 4. Phineus — ✓ 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 ✗
Dead serious, what made the sand snakes?
- 1. the dripping rain of Zeus — no support
- 2. Medusa's dripping blood — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Poseidon's dripping rain — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 317, line 5: «The sun's golden arrows point the way, and the children greet the island like an old friend until night makes it dark and frightening.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «island» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, who sent the sea flood on Ethiopia?
- 1. Triton — score 4
- 2. Ares — score 4
- 3. Zeus — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Poseidon — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 498, line 5: «Zeus sends a flood, and only Deucalion and Pyrrha survive in a ship; they throw stones behind them, and those stones turn into new people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+4); the same thing acted on «flood» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Of which deity was Harmonia the daughter?
- 1. Cadmus — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Hephaestus the smith god — no support
- 3. Ares — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Hermes — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 535, line 1: «Cadmus makes peace with Ares, marries Harmonia, and all the gods come to the wedding.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «harmonia» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did Perseus avoid the petrifying gaze of Medusa?
- 1. by hiding in a dark cave — no support
- 2. by closing his eyes — no support
- 3. by viewing her reflection in his shield — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. by seeing her image in his sword — ← Mova's choice · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 535, line 5: «In Ethiopia he saves Andromeda from a sea monster with Medusa's head, then fights off Phineus.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «perseus» (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
What was the fate of the sea monster that threatened Andromeda?
- 1. it fled into the deep sea — no support
- 2. it drowned in the waves — no support
- 3. it sank in the sea — no support
- 4. it was transformed into a black rock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 453, line 15: «One forgetful word, "It is mine," sets the corn on fire; he saves it by naming Militsa as owner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «word» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «fate» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which claimant appeared at the marriage feast to contest Perseus's right?
- 1. Atlas — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cepheus — no support
- 3. Eos — no support
- 4. Phineus — ✓ 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
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