Myths of Greece and Rome, Theseus, part 54: Theseus loses his throne and goes into exile

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 548 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, why did Aegeus jump in the sea, bruv?

1. Cos he lost his mate — no support
2. Cos he saw the black sails and thought his boy was gone — no support
3. Coz he reckoned his lad had been topped at sea, like — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Cos he reckoned Theseus was dead, coz of the black sails — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 548, line 1: «Theseus sails home but forgets to change the black sails, so his father Aegeus thinks he is dead and jumps into the sea.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2). Against it: the same doer «father» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit mad that Theseus forgot to swap the sails, mate?

1. Nah, he did check them, but the wind changed — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, that was a proper daft move, he never checked — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, proper daft, mate — no support
4. Yeah, he was well careless and never looked — 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 548, line 1: «Theseus sails home but forgets to change the black sails, so his father Aegeus thinks he is dead and jumps into the sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «black sails» (+3); the same doer «theseus» (+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 · ★ · wrong ✗

So did Theseus get the throne lol, or what?

1. Nah, the people wasn't having it, mate, so he left — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, he got it, and everyone was well chuffed — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Yeah, but the people were not well happy about it — score 0
4. Nah, he didn't — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 548, line 19: «Old word: "abdicated" means gave up a throne, so when Theseus "voluntarily abdicated the throne" he chose to stop being king.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, the Amazons came to Athens for revenge, right?

1. Yeah, cos Theseus nabbed their queen's sister, Hippolyte — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, the Amazons came cos Hippolyte's people wanted their gold back from the Athenian treasury — no support
3. Yeah, cos Theseus stole their princess Helen, innit — no support
4. Yeah, cos Theseus nabbed their queen's sister, Hippolyte, and kept her in Athens as his wife — 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 ✗

Bruv, was Hippolyte a goodie or a baddie in the fight?

1. A proper baddie, she fought Theseus and lost her life — no support
2. A total goodie, she fought for Theseus and got killed — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. A total goodie, she fought for Theseus and got killed by a spear from her own sister in the fight — score 2
4. She fought for the Amazons, so a baddie, I reckon — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 548, line 3: «The Amazons attack Athens to get revenge for Hippolyte, but Theseus beats them back and Hippolyte dies fighting beside him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fight» (+4); the same doer «hippolyte» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Pirithoeus really nick Theseus's cows, like, for real?

1. Nah, he gave them back, then they swore loyalty — no support
2. Nah, he never nicked them, he bought them off the Thessalian king and they swore loyalty — no support
3. Yeah, but then they got mates and swore loyalty — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, but then they got mates and swore loyalty and Theseus made Pirithoeus his best man — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 548, line 4: «Theseus makes friends with Pirithoeus, the Centaurs ruin a wedding, and Poseidon's curse kills Hippolytus.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «theseus» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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 7 · ★ · right ✓

Why'd the Centaurs gatecrash the wedding, though?

1. Cos they fancied a party — no support
2. Cos they hated the Lapiths and wanted a fight — no support
3. Cos they were well wasted and wanted the brides — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Cos they were pissed and wanted the food — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 548, line 12: «What: At the wedding the Centaurs try to carry off the brides, and Theseus helps Pirithoeus drive them away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «brides» (+2). Against it: the same doer «centaurs» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nah, what was the deal with Phaedra and Hippolytus?

1. She fancied Theseus, he ignored Hippolytus, and she topped herself after the wedding feast — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She loved him, he refused her, and she died — no support
3. She fancied him, he ignored her, and she topped herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She wanted him, he said no, and she hanged 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 ✓

Whoa, Theseus cursed his own son? That's proper harsh, mate

1. Yeah, he was well angry, and Poseidon did the rest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he was well cross, and Hades finished him off — no support
3. Yeah, he was well angry, and Poseidon did the rest by sending a monster out of the sea at Troezen — no support
4. Nah, he was well upset, but Poseidon had already decided to do it and sent a bull — 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 ✗

Yo, Helen was only nine when they nicked her, yeah?

1. Nah, she was like twenty, mate, I reckon — no support
2. Yeah, that's what the story says, dead young — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she was older — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, she was about twelve or so, innit — 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 548, line 15: «Who: Theseus and Pirithoeus take Helen from the temple of Artemis at Sparta, and Helen is only nine years old.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «helen» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So Pirithoeus and Theseus got stuck in Hades, like, forever?

1. Pirithoeus stayed stuck for ever, and Theseus got out on his own by begging Hades for mercy and grace — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Pirithoeus stayed stuck, but Heracles got Theseus out — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Pirithoeus stayed stuck, but Heracles got Theseus out after he'd been down there for years and years — score 5
4. Theseus stayed stuck, then Athene pulled him out — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 548, line 5: «Theseus and Pirithoeus kidnap young Helen, Pirithoeus gets stuck in Hades, and Theseus gives up his throne and retires to Scyros.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «pirithoeus» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who was Academus, then, a legend or what?

1. He was a local who helped the Amazons find Theseus — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He was a citizen who told the Dioscuri where Helen was — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Some Athenian bloke — no support
4. He was a soldier who spied on Theseus for the Lapiths — 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 ✗

Did Theseus get the throne back or nah, after all that?

1. Yeah, but the lot of them had lost faith — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, but his people had forgot everything he'd done — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, Menesthius kept it, and he were exiled — no support
4. Yeah, but his people had forgot everything he'd done for them and had to be won over again — 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 event directly caused Aegeus to end his own life at Athens?

1. The sight of the black sails upon Theseus's returning ship — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The failure of Theseus to change the black sails upon his return from Crete and the sea's rising waves — no support
3. The failure of Theseus to change the black sails upon his return — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The report that Theseus had been killed by the Minotaur — 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 what manner did Theseus secure the political unity of the Attic communities?

1. By persuading their leaders to surrender sovereignty to a central court and to a single public festival in Athens — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By persuading their leaders to surrender sovereignty to a central court — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. By persuading every local ruler to surrender sovereignty to a central court, a tribute council, and a shared treasury — no support
4. By arranging marriages between the leading families of each Attic community — 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 ✓

Upon what grounds did Poseidon destroy the innocent Hippolytus at Troezen?

1. Upon the sworn accusation of Phaedra, who had named him falsely — no support
2. Upon the solemn malediction of Theseus, who had demanded it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Upon the solemn malediction of Theseus, who had demanded it at the altar of Poseidon in the presence of the court — no support
4. Upon the solemn malediction of Theseus, who had demanded it in anger after hearing Phaedra's false tale — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 548, line 13: «Why: Hippolytus is cursed because Poseidon had promised to grant Theseus whatever he asked, and Theseus asked him to destroy his son.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the ultimate fate of Pirithoeus after his attempted abduction of Persephone?

1. He remained bound to the enchanted rock for ever — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He was eventually released by Heracles after many years, but his body was left upon the rock forever — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. He remained bound to the enchanted rock for ever, while Theseus was rescued by Heracles in the end — no support
4. He was cast into the river Styx for ever — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 444, line 13: «Alenka's fate: She is "pitched into the oven", and the witch later serves up her baked body to the guests.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «fate» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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