Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 541 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 ✓
Yo, did Medea really poison the robe, or nah?
- 1. Yeah, she sent it as a wedding gift with poison in it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. Yeah, it was poisoned — no support
- 3. No, Glauce's father poisoned it, not Medea, in the palace — score 4
- 4. Yeah, it was a gift for the bride soaked in poison in secret — score 5
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 541, line 1: «Medea hides her anger and sends Glauce a golden robe as a wedding gift.», 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 «golden robe» (+2); the same doer «medea» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruh, why did Medea kill her own kids?
- 1. She was insane from a curse of the gods — no support
- 2. She was mad Jason didn't love her anymore — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Because the gods cursed her family line and Jason publicly mocked her in the hall before all the guests — no support
- 4. To hurt Jason, because he had abandoned her for Glauce — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 541, line 2: «The robe's poison burns Glauce to death, and Medea kills her own three sons.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same circumstance (+1); 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, so how did Pelops win the race?
- 1. He bribed the charioteer Myrtilus — no support
- 2. He cheated with a bribe — no support
- 3. He had a faster team — no support
- 4. Poseidon gave him winged horses — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 541, line 14: «Poseidon sends Pelops "a chariot drawn by two winged horses" from the sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wing» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, what happened to the king's chariot?
- 1. The bronze pin broke and the chariot shattered as Pelops rode behind him through the dust — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The axle snapped and he fell out — no support
- 3. His horses ran wild into the sea — no support
- 4. The wheels flew off and he got thrown out — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Okay, who picked up the baby Heracles in the field?
- 1. a shepherd's wife — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. Hera — score 9
- 3. the goddess Athene's servant, who was sent to the field — score 1
- 4. Athene — ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 222, line 9: «How do the courtiers react? "A shout of laughter burst from the courtiers" when they hear the Indian's words.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hear» (+6); the same thing acted on «indian words» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Was baby Heracles scared of the snakes?
- 1. No, he fled — no support
- 2. Yes, he was terrified then — no support
- 3. No, he strangled them both — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Yes, he cried — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 541, line 4: «Hera sends snakes to baby Heracles, but he strangles them, and he grows up learning many skills.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «strangle» (+4); the same thing acted on «snakes» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the strongest kid in all Greece at eighteen?
- 1. Amphitryon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pelops — no support
- 3. Heracles — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Jason — 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 ✗
Why did Amphitryon send Heracles to the countryside?
- 1. Amphitryon had heard the prophecy and wanted his son hidden from the gods and from his enemies — no support
- 2. The king ordered him away from court — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. He was worried Heracles would hurt people again — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. He was afraid of Hera's rage at him — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 534, line 14: «fact: Cadmus wants to sacrifice her, so he sends his followers to fetch water from a spring "sacred to Ares".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+6); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot?
- 1. the centaur Chiron of Mount Pelion — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the king's charioteer named Iolaus, who taught him in the fields — no support
- 3. Eurystheus — no support
- 4. Amphitryon — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what did Vice promise him?
- 1. Fame and gold — no support
- 2. A soft life of feasts and gold with no labor or duty at all — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Pleasure with no hard work — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Riches without any cost — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 541, line 5: «As a young man, Heracles meets Vice and Virtue in the forest, and Vice offers him an easy life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «vice» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, where did Heracles go to think?
- 1. A deserted valley at dusk — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A remote mountain shrine beyond the city walls, far from any village — no support
- 3. A lonely spot deep in the forest — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A quiet grove near home — 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 was Vice's dress fancy or plain?
- 1. Heavy purple wool trimmed with silver and set with stones — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Simple and gray — no support
- 3. Gaudy and bright — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Covered in gold thread and glittering jewels all over — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following was the means by which Medea effected the death of Glauce?
- 1. A gift of perfumed oil that was secretly mixed with a deadly poison by her servants — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A robe impregnated with a deadly poison — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A jeweled necklace laced with venom — no support
- 4. A golden robe soaked in a slow-acting poison that burned the skin — 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 · right ✓
Identify the manner in which Heracles was instructed in the art of armed warfare.
- 1. By Castor, who taught him armed combat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. By his father, in the yard — no support
- 3. By Amphitryon, who taught him chariots — no support
- 4. By Linus, with a lyre — 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 · right ✓
State the condition that Oenomaus imposed upon all suitors for the hand of Hippodamia.
- 1. Victory in a chariot race from Pisa to Corinth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Defeat him in a race to Elis — no support
- 3. Winning a great race to the sea — no support
- 4. Beating him in a footrace at Olympia — 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 reason for which Alcmene exposed her infant son in a remote field.
- 1. Zeus ordered her to hide the child — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. She feared Hera's hatred might harm the child — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She feared that her husband would kill the infant — no support
- 4. She feared that Hera's jealous hatred, which had pursued the child since his birth, would destroy him — 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 469, line 6: «Who: the priest's son, a bright young lad, is ordered by the King to read the psalter over the dead Princess.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «order» (+4); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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