Greek Myths, Oedipus, part 2: the truth comes out and the sons quarrel over Thebes
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 549 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 who shoved old Theseus off that cliff, no cap?
- 1. Lycomedes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Aegeus — no support
- 3. Peleus — no support
- 4. Menestheus — 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 ✗
bruh so the name Oedipus means what, like swollen feet?
- 1. bad ankles — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. swollen feet — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. swollen hands — score 1
- 4. it means swollen feet from when he was born — score 0
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 84, line 7: «The names and their meanings: Tegumai Bopsulai, «Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry»; Teshumai Tewindrow, «Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions»;…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2). Against it: the same doer «names» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
wait who actually gave baby Oedipus to the shepherd, innit?
- 1. the messenger — ← Mova's choice · score 13
- 2. the herdsman — score 13
- 3. a guard — score 13
- 4. the servant — ✓ the right answer · 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 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+6); the same receiver «apollo» (+6); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 13. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
lowkey who did Oedipus accidentally kill on the road?
- 1. Ion — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Laius — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Polybus — score 7
- 4. Pan — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 549, line 4: «Oedipus grows up, hears his fate, kills an old man on the road, and solves the Sphinx's riddle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «road» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «kill» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
mate what monster was chilling on the rock outside Thebes?
- 1. a griffin — no support
- 2. the Sphinx — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. some half-woman half-lion thing from the hills — no support
- 4. a winged monster with a lion's body — 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 524, line 5: «The Sphinx asks Oedipus her riddle, he answers "man", and she throws herself off the rock; then the goddesses Tyche and Ananke, luck and necessity, are describ…», 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); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); the same place «rock» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
fr what happened to people who got the riddle wrong?
- 1. they got cursed out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. got torn up and eaten — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. they got exiled — no support
- 4. they got sent away — 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 ✓
bro who did Oedipus end up marrying, like for real?
- 1. Jocaste — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Antigone — no support
- 3. Ismene — no support
- 4. Merope — 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 ✗
no cap how many kids did Oedipus have?
- 1. two — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. five — no support
- 3. four — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. one — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 549, line 18: «Old word: an "equivocal" answer has two possible meanings, so it leaves you unsure today too.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
yo what did Oedipus do to his own eyes after the truth came out?
- 1. cut out his tongue — no support
- 2. ripped out his eyes with a brooch — no support
- 3. blinded himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. stabbed his eyes — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 549, line 5: «The truth comes out, Oedipus blinds himself, and his sons Eteocles and Polynices fight over Thebes.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «oedipus» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «blind» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
lowkey who was the blind old seer who spilled the tea?
- 1. the blind seer from the grove — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Calchas — no support
- 3. Tiresias — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Phineus — 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 ✗
bruh who got kicked out of Thebes by his own brother?
- 1. Eteocles — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Eteocles, his younger twin brother — no support
- 3. Polynices — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Polynices's own brother Eteocles — 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 ✗
yo whose shield had a lion painted on it, fr?
- 1. Eteocles — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Polynices — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Amphiaraus — no support
- 4. Hera — 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 ✗
mate where did Oedipus end up chilling at the end?
- 1. a cave near the sea at Corinth — no support
- 2. Athens — no support
- 3. grove of the Eumenides at Colonus — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the temple of Apollo at Delphi — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 501, line 16: «WHAT: Their cottage turns into a temple, and at the end they are changed into trees, "remaining for ever side by side."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «temple» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which character was the principal agent in the death of the aged Theseus?
- 1. Lycomedes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Aegeus — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. Peleus — no support
- 4. Pirithous — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 548, line 6: «Who: Aegeus is the king of Athens and Theseus's father, and he dies because he believes his son is lost at sea.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what appellation was the infant Oedipus designated, in consequence of his swollen feet?
- 1. Oedipus, meaning Know-the-Riddle, from his birth in Thebes — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Oedipus, or Swollen-foot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Oedipus, or Swollen-foot, the name given by the shepherd — no support
- 4. Oedipus, or Lame-foot — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 549, line 4: «Oedipus grows up, hears his fate, kills an old man on the road, and solves the Sphinx's riddle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «riddle» (+6); the same doer «oedipus» (+2). 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 · right ✓
Which prediction did the Pythia communicate to Oedipus at Delphi concerning his parentage?
- 1. that he would slay his sire and wed his dam — no support
- 2. that he would kill his father and marry his mother — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. that he would murder Laius and marry Jocaste — no support
- 4. that a terrible fate would come from his own hand against his parents — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 549, line 8: «What: the oracle said Oedipus would "kill his father and to marry his own mother."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What penalty did Eteocles impose upon his brother Polynices?
- 1. removal from the royal court — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a fine paid in silver — no support
- 3. a sentence of lifelong exile — no support
- 4. expulsion from the throne — ✓ 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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