Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear takes Rabbit's place on the sapling, gets beaten, then is tricked by Bull-frog
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 581 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 was Brer Rabbit's gig, like how much was he gettin' paid?
- 1. a quarter a minute — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a dollar a minute — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a dime — no support
- 4. a dime a minute for every crow — 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, where did Brer Bear end up hangin' out after the swap?
- 1. on the saplin' high above the field — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. on the saplin' — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. hangin' on the saplin' near the fox's house — no support
- 4. on the big oak — 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 ✗
Lowkey, who got whooped with the walkin' cane?
- 1. Brer Bear — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Rabbit's old friend Brer Bear — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Bear — no support
- 4. Brer Fox — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 71, line 1: «What a squealing and squeaking fills the hall! Weasels dive under the tables and leap for the windows; ferrets rush for the fireplace and get stuck in the chim…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «whoop» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «toad» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
No cap, what did Rabbit yell at Fox to hit?
- 1. "Bite 'im in de tail!" — score 3
- 2. "Hit 'im in de mouf!" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. "Hit 'im in de mouf an' don't let go!" — no support
- 4. "Hit 'im hard in de mouf, Brer Fox, hit 'im now!" — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 360, line 21: «Old word "stone-cut-ter" meant a man who cuts blocks of stone; today we say stonemason.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Ngl, where did Rabbit hide to dodge Bear?
- 1. in a ditch — no support
- 2. in the briar bush — no support
- 3. in a mud-hole — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. by the creek bank — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 581, line 4: «Rabbit hides in a mud-hole with only his eyes sticking out, then Brer Bear asks Brer Frog if he saw Rabbit, and Bear runs off like a scared mule.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same place «mud hole» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog?
- 1. "Is you seed Brer Rabbit go by here today?" — no support
- 2. "Where's Rabbit?" — no support
- 3. "Is you seed Brer Rabbit?" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. "Seen Rabbit?" — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 581, line 5: «Later Bear catches Brer Bull-frog, who begs for mercy, asks to see his family on a flat rock, and dives into the mill-pond, singing his song.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «see» (+2); the same doer «bear» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Fr, how'd Bear bounce outta there?
- 1. like a scared mule — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. like a frightened cow — no support
- 3. like a scared hen — no support
- 4. like a mule — 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 ✗
Dude, who did Bear catch next?
- 1. Brer Fox — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Brer Bull-frog and all his frog kin — score 1
- 3. Bull-frog — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Brer Bull-frog down by the mill-pond — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 567, line 2: «Uncle Remus tells how Brer Fox waits in the road to catch Brer Rabbit, who is plump and sassy.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «brer fox» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, what was Bull-frog beggin' for?
- 1. let him off this time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. let him off this time and never catch him again — no support
- 3. please let him off this one time, Brer Bear — no support
- 4. please let him go free — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, where did Bull-frog wanna chill before the axe came down?
- 1. the big flat rock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. the big flat rock near his family's pond home — score 4
- 3. the tall dry stump — score 4
- 4. the mill-pond bank — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 567, line 9: «What: Brer Fox says he wants a "confab" with Brer Rabbit, and Brer Rabbit answers that he is "monstus full er fleas".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+2); the same doer «brer» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, how did Bull-frog get away?
- 1. dove in the creek bed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. dove down in the mill-pond and swam far away — no support
- 3. dove deep into the mill-pond and hid there — no support
- 4. dove in the mill-pond — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing?
- 1. "My joy" — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "Ingle-go-jang, my joy" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. "Ingle-go-jang" — no support
- 4. "Ole-dum-day, my pride" — 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 ✗
Lowkey, how long did Bear say he'd wait for revenge?
- 1. a day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a long month — no support
- 3. a whole year — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a week — 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 ✗
What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping crows from the pea patch?
- 1. one quarter — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ten cents — no support
- 3. one dollar — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a nickel — 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 · right ✓
Which implement did Brer Fox seize before proceeding to the goober-patch?
- 1. a heavy walking-stick he kept by the door — no support
- 2. a knotty walking-stick from the porch — score 2
- 3. a walking-stick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. a hickory hoe — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 570, line 3: «Brer Rabbit calmly tells the ladies that Brer Fox was once his daddy's riding-horse, and Brer Fox swears he will make him eat his words.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brer» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Into what body of water did Brer Bull-frog escape from Brer Bear's axe?
- 1. the mill-pond — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. the creek — score 4
- 3. the pond — score 4
- 4. the river bank — 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 581, line 14: «Bull-frog escapes when he dives into the mill-pond, going "kerblink- kerblunk!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «escape» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating against Brer Bull-frog?
- 1. one year — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. two years — no support
- 3. one whole year and a day — no support
- 4. until the next harvest season came around — 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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