Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 543 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 ✗

Mate, did Heracles really ride a bull all the way across the sea, innit?

1. Yeah, right across the sea to the Peloponnesus, proper, bruv, every mile of it — no support
2. Nah, he swam beside it, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Yeah, right to the Peloponnesus, proper — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, all the way to Greece, innit — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 347, line 10: «WHERE: Gilbert's ships float among "great white ice-bergs" in the cold sea, three days from land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «float» (+4); the same place «cold sea» (+4). Against it: a different doer (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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so the centaur Chiron was his mate and he still shot him?

1. Nah, he shot him by accident, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Nah, on purpose, mate — no support
3. Yeah, by accident, with a poisoned dart, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, by mistake with an arrow, innit — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 538, line 17: «fact: The Stymphalides: the birds of Aretias shot feathers "sharp as arrows", and the heroes scared them with helmets, shields and cries.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «shoot» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2); a different doer (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, how did the boar get home to Mycenae, like?

1. Heracles wore it out, bound it in chains and dragged it alive all the way to Mycenae — ← Mova's choice · score 13
2. Heracles wore it out and dragged it alive — ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. He chased it and dragged it home — no support
4. Heracles hunted it down through the snow, bound it tight and dragged it alive across Greece to the city — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 13, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 543, line 3: «Heracles buries Pholus, wears out the boar in the snow and carries it alive to Mycenae.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «boar» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same receiver «mycenae» (+3); the same doer «heracles» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the stable job really done in one day, or what?

1. Nah, he diverted one river through the stables — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he dug a trench and diverted two mighty rivers right through the stables in one day, mate — no support
3. Nah, he cleaned it out by hand over a whole season, bruv, and it took ages — no support
4. Yeah, he diverted two rivers through the stables — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did Augeas pay him or nah?

1. Yeah, he paid, mate — score 5
2. Nah, he sent them both away, bruv — no support
3. Yeah, he paid him in gold coins — score 5
4. Nah, he banished him and his son, skint — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 543, line 4: «Next Eurystheus sends him to clean the stables of King Augeas in one day, but Augeas refuses to pay and banishes him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «banish» (+5); the same doer «augeas» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Those birds with metal feathers, how did he sort them out?

1. He rattled brazen clappers from a hill, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He stood on a hill and rattled brazen clappers loudly until the birds fled, innit, every one of them — no support
3. He scared them off with a bow, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. He rattled brazen clappers from the top of a hill and scared the birds off, mate, proper — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 538, line 17: «fact: The Stymphalides: the birds of Aretias shot feathers "sharp as arrows", and the heroes scared them with helmets, shields and cries.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «feathers» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so Minos kept the bull that Poseidon sent, didn't he?

1. Yeah, and he kept it for himself, dead — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, and he swapped it for one of his own bulls and sacrificed the sea bull to Hera, dead — no support
3. Yeah, and he swapped it for one of his own, dead — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he sacrificed it to Poseidon, dead — 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 ✗

Who got eaten by his own horses, then, mate?

1. Diomedes, the king of the Bistonians, the one with the man-eating mares, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Diomedes, the king of the mares, innit — no support
3. Diomedes, the king of the Bistonians, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Diomedes, the Thracian king of the Bistonians, who fed his mares on strangers, proper — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 93, line 13: «Wild Horse comes «tripping and stumbling on his long mane» and asks «where is Wild Dog?»; the Woman laughs and says he came not for Wild Dog but «for the sake…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the Amazons start a fight with Heracles, bruv?

1. Hera spread a rumour that he was kidnapping their queen and wanted her belt for himself, bruv — no support
2. Hera spread a rumour that he was kidnapping their queen — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Hera told them he wanted their queen's belt — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Hera said he was after their belt, mate — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 99, line 3: «The girl tearfully tells him everything, so the king dresses her in royal clothes and she shines with beauty.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the girdle end up with Eurystheus's daughter, or nah?

1. Nah, Hera took it back to Olympus, proper — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, it went to Eurystheus, for Admete, proper — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she wore it proudly in Tiryns, mate — no support
4. Nah, it went back to Hippolyta, bruv — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Laomedon keep his promise to Apollo and Poseidon, then?

1. Nah, he tricked them out of the horses, dead — no support
2. Nah, he cheated them out of their reward, dead — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he gave them the horses, proper — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Nah, he refused and sent them away, dead — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 508, line 4: «Far off on the rocky island of Delos, the goddess Leto gives birth to Apollo under a palm tree, and the earth smiles and the swans gather round.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same receiver «apollo» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Hold up, so Heracles had all that going on and still went to Troy, yeah?

1. Yeah, on his way home, a fresh adventure, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, on his way home he sacked Troy too, a whole new adventure with a wall to break, innit — no support
3. Yeah, on his way home from Crete he stopped there for a fresh adventure, innit, proper — no support
4. Yeah, on his way back, a new quest, innit — 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 ✗

Which implement did Pallas-Athene provide to Heracles in order to dislodge the Stymphalian birds from their habitat?

1. bronze shields forged by Ares — no support
2. brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus in the fires of his workshop on Olympus — score -3
4. a set of brazen clappers forged by Hephaestus and given to him on Olympus — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 543, line 19: «Pallas-Athene gave him "brazen clappers" made by Hephaestus to scare the birds away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same doer «pallas» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which king refused to render the promised recompense to Heracles upon the completion of the labour assigned to him?

1. Minos, King of Crete — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Eurystheus — no support
3. Augeas — no support
4. Augeas, King of Elis — ✓ 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 · right ✓

By what agency was the wound of Chiron rendered incurable, and what was the consequence for his continued existence?

1. the Hydra's venom; a long painful life — no support
2. poison of the Hydra; death sent by the gods — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. a god's curse — no support
4. a centaur's curse; exile from Olympus — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 543, line 10: «Why did Chiron die: "being immortal, he would have been doomed to endless suffering" if the gods had not sent death.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); the same thing acted on «death» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Upon what grounds did Heracles conduct the Erymantian boar alive to the city of Mycenae?

1. he had exhausted it by relentless pursuit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. he had exhausted it by relentless pursuit through snow and bound it in chains — score 4
3. he had wearied it through a long chase across the mountains and then bound its feet with chains — score 4
4. he had cornered it in a deep trench — 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 543, line 3: «Heracles buries Pholus, wears out the boar in the snow and carries it alive to Mycenae.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «boar» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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