Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 546 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, what's that river called where Heracles crossed?
- 1. Nile — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Peneus — no support
- 3. Lycus — no support
- 4. Evenus — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash?
- 1. Pholus — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the Centaur Eurytion of Pelion — no support
- 3. Nessus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Eurytion the Centaur — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what did Nessus try to do to Deianeira?
- 1. drag her off to the wild mountains — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. snatch her off — no support
- 3. nick her away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. drag her off — 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, right? What did Deianeira keep from Nessus?
- 1. a lock of his mane — ← Mova's choice · score -4
- 2. his tears — score -4
- 3. a bit of his hide — score -4
- 4. a drop of his blood — ✓ the right answer · score -4
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 206, line 3: «Khacan's wife dresses her in fine clothes, and Noureddin, the vizir's son, is charmed by her and wants to keep her for himself.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «keep» (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what did Heracles do to Oechalia?
- 1. razed it and took the girl — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. trashed it and nabbed Iole — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. looted the walls — no support
- 4. burnt the town — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 546, line 4: «Heracles attacks King Eurytus, who refused him Iole, and brings the captive girl home after burning his town.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «captive girl» (+6); the same doer «heracles» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same action «bring» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Be honest, why did Deianeira freak out?
- 1. cos Iole might nick his love — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. cos Iole was getting his heart — no support
- 3. cos Iole might be his new bird — no support
- 4. cos Iole might nick his love and his bed — 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 7 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, what did the robe do over the flames?
- 1. heated the poison — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. it burned — score 1
- 3. released the venom — no support
- 4. melted the blood — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 546, line 15: «How did the poison work? "the hot flames rising from the altar heated the poison", and it penetrated his body.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «poison» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «heat» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Ha, what did Deianeira do when she saw his pain?
- 1. hanged herself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. fled — no support
- 3. wept — no support
- 4. stabbed herself — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wicked, who lit the pyre in the end?
- 1. Philoctetes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Iolaus, the hero's faithful nephew — no support
- 3. Eurystheus — no support
- 4. Hyllus, Heracles' eldest son — 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 ✗
Whoa, who zoomed Heracles up to Olympus?
- 1. Zeus's messenger Hermes flying down — no support
- 2. the eagle sent by Zeus from Olympus — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Pallas-Athene — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Hephaestus — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 525, line 9: «Why is Ate thrown out? Zeus seizes her "by the hair of her head" and hurls her from Olympus for stirring up Hera.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «olympus» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Sick, who did Hera give him as a wife?
- 1. Eos — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Hebe — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Io — score 1
- 4. Aphrodite of the golden hair — score 1
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 546, line 20: «Where did Heracles end? Pallas-Athene carried him to Olympus, and Hera gave him her daughter Hebe as a wife.», 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 «hera» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, what did Heracles pay Philoctetes with?
- 1. his golden bow and the poisoned arrows of Hydra — no support
- 2. his bow and arrows — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. his lyre and harp — score 5
- 4. the lion-skin cloak and club — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 544, line 14: «Why does Heracles raise his bow to heaven? The heat is so "insufferable" that he threatens to shoot the sun-god.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «heracles» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Yeah? Which god was the sacrifice meant for?
- 1. Zeus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Poseidon, lord of the sea — no support
- 3. Hera — no support
- 4. Apollo of the silver bow — 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 ✗
Upon which river did Heracles and Deianeira first arrive during their journey?
- 1. the river Alpheus — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. the Nile — score 5
- 3. the river Evenus — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. the Lycus — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 95, line 4: «And so, says Kipling, cats catch mice and are kind to babies, but at night they go out to the Wet Wild Woods and the Wet Wild Roofs, waving their wild tails an…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same circumstance (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
What purpose did the dying Centaur assign to the blood that Deianeira was to preserve?
- 1. to serve as a love-charm — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. to heal wounds — no support
- 3. to bind a lover close — no support
- 4. to win back love fast — 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 ✗
By what means did the poisoned garment inflict its harm upon the hero?
- 1. the burning poison that the robe released in the flames of the altar — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the smoke of the burning altar — no support
- 3. the venom that spread through his veins — no support
- 4. the heat of the altar's flames — ✓ 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 ✗
Which deity bestowed the hand of Hebe upon the hero following his reconciliation?
- 1. Persephone, queen of the dead — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Aphrodite, goddess of love — score 2
- 3. Hera — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. Eos — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 169, line 18: «Old word: "ebony" is a very black, hard wood, and "porteress" means a woman who guards a door; today we say "door-keeper."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «black hard wood» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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