Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, and the first labours
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 542 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, so who was the dude Heracles had to serve?
- 1. the king of Mycenae — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. his cousin Eurystheus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the cousin who was born just before him — no support
- 4. his brother Lycus — 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 ✗
Like, what was the lion wrecking near Cithaeron?
- 1. the sheep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the herds of the king — no support
- 3. the cattle and oxen — no support
- 4. the flocks and herds — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, what did Heracles do to those heralds, proper savage?
- 1. tied them up and burned their faces — score 6
- 2. cut off their hands and sent them back — no support
- 3. sent them home — score 6
- 4. mutilated them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 542, line 11: «Why: Heracles was "indignant at this humiliation of his native city" and mutilated the heralds.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «heralds» (+6); the same doer «heracles» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same action «mutilate» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Deffo, why did Hera mess with his birth?
- 1. to rob him of his rights — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. to rob him of his rights and his tomb — no support
- 3. to take his crown — no support
- 4. to win her favour — 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 ✗
Wait, who gave Heracles the gold quiver?
- 1. Phoebus-Apollo, god of the bow — ← Mova's choice · score 13
- 2. Hephaestus — ✓ the right answer · score 13
- 3. Hermes — score 13
- 4. Poseidon — score 13
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 13, tied with another option at 13 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 94, line 12: «That busy morning the Woman carried the crying Baby outside and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with, but he went on crying.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+6); the same receiver «baby» (+6); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 13. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, how many heads did the Hydra have, roughly?
- 1. one — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. two — score 1
- 3. nine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. five — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 425, line 2: «On the third night a twelve-headed Chudo-Yudo comes, and its cut heads grow back whenever it is touched.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, what did the crab do to the Hydra?
- 1. bit his legs — no support
- 2. crawled up and bit his feet and ankles — no support
- 3. bit his feet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. grabbed his legs and pinched his toes hard — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 134, line 16: «How the Fox saves himself: he promises the Lion that the Ass can be caught "without the trouble of stalking him", then leads the Ass into a hidden pit.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Fam, what happened to Amphitryon in the battle?
- 1. he was captured — no support
- 2. he died bravely fighting at the front — no support
- 3. he lost his life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. he was struck down and died on the field — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 542, line 13: «What: Amphitryon, his kind foster-father, "lost his life" in the battle against the Minyans.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+4); the same thing acted on «life» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mad, what were the hind's antlers made of?
- 1. ore — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. tin — no support
- 3. gold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. silver — 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 ✗
Ngl, what did the Centaurs turn up with?
- 1. huge rocks and fir-trees — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. huge rocks, fir-trees, and burning torches — no support
- 3. heavy stones and an entire wooden fence — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. stones and thick logs — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 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 524, line 3: «Angry Athene turned Medusa's hair into snakes and her beauty into horror, so she fled to Africa and turned onlookers to stone until Perseus killed her.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, who was Pholus?
- 1. a Centaur — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a Lapith — no support
- 3. a Satyr from the forest of Erymanthus — no support
- 4. a wise Centaur who hosted Heracles — 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 ✗
Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks?
- 1. because Hera commanded it to him at birth — no support
- 2. to win a kingdom — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 3. to repay his debt — no support
- 4. to end his servitude — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 542, line 4: «The Thebans trap the Minyans in a narrow pass, kill Erginus, and Heracles wins Megara, Creon's daughter.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «heracles» (-1); a different thing acted on (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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Be real, where did Heracles shut himself away after his madness?
- 1. alone in the high tower of Thebes — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. in his chamber — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. in the temple — score 6
- 4. in a dark room at the back of the palace — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 197, line 5: «The angry king locks the prince in an old tower, where he reads his books, prays and falls asleep.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lock» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «angry king» (+2); the same place «old tower» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following was the immediate cause of the Minyan attack on Thebes?
- 1. the refusal to pay the tribute of oxen — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the king's refusal of tribute — no support
- 3. Heracles' attack on the Minyan royal house — no support
- 4. the mutilation of the heralds — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In accordance with the oracle at Delphi, what number of tasks was required of Heracles?
- 1. five — no support
- 2. ten — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. two — no support
- 4. one — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 463, line 2: «She tries to get rid of him with huge tasks, first asking him to chop an iron pillar for the cook's fuel.», 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). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which gift was bestowed upon Heracles by Phoebus-Apollo?
- 1. a bronze shield — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. a golden helmet — score 9
- 3. a bundle of arrows — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. a quiver — 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 138, line 18: «Why: Fortune is displeased and asks, "why do you give Earth the credit" for a gift she bestowed on him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bestow» (+6); the same thing acted on «gift» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the consequence of the Centaurs' discovery of the wine?
- 1. they gathered armed and drunk around the cave — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. they attacked Pholus — no support
- 3. they fled to the hills — no support
- 4. they gathered armed — ✓ 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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