Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 583 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 ✗
Dude, who was starvin' like a tater in this one?
- 1. Brer Terrapin — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brer Possum — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Brer Possum, dat ole fool — no support
- 4. dat hongry ole Brer Possum — 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what fruit was Possum straight-up beggin' for?
- 1. 'simmons — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. them ripe 'simmons off de tree — no support
- 3. dem sweet wild 'simmons, fo' sho — no support
- 4. peaches — 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 ✗
Ay, whose orchard was that, fo' real?
- 1. dat ole Brer Bear's, fo' real — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brer Rabbit's, I reckon, bro — no support
- 3. Brer Fox's — no support
- 4. Brer Bear's — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro?
- 1. to get bees to come and buzz around all day long — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. so bees would come and stay right there — no support
- 3. to get bees to come — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. for shade — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 575, line 17: «"Mud Turkle" is a mud turtle, and Uncle Remus says it "would er got 'im" if Brer Fox had stayed in the water a bit longer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brer» (+2). 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
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Did Possum keep sayin' one more, or nah?
- 1. One more — no support
- 2. Just one more, bro — no support
- 3. "One 'simmon mo'" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 4. Yeah, one more time — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 583, line 13: «Possum climbs the highest tree and keeps saying "One 'simmon mo' en den I'll go," because he cannot stop eating.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+5); the same thing acted on «simmon en den» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear?
- 1. Brer Fox — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brer Rabbit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Brer Terrapin — no support
- 4. Brer Bear — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did Brer Bear do when he got there?
- 1. roared at the tree — score 4
- 2. grabbed Possum tight — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. shook him — score 5
- 4. busted in and shook — ✓ the right answer · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 582, line 11: «Brer Fox tells him to drop his tail in the water and sit there "twel day-light" to catch a big mess of fish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brer» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «catch» (+1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where'd Possum get loose from Bear's grip?
- 1. through the gate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. between the fence rails — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. across the back fence — no support
- 4. through the barn door — 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 ✓
What got stuck in Bear's mouth, fam?
- 1. Possum's hair — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. fur — no support
- 3. Bear's whiskers — no support
- 4. a tuft — 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 ✗
What saved Bear from choking out?
- 1. a cup of tea — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. a gourd of water — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. a big gourd full of cool water — score 6
- 4. a jug of cider — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 583, line 18: «Brer Rabbit brings "a go'd er water," which saves Bear, who would otherwise have "der got strankle."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «save» (+4); the same thing acted on «bear» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why's Possum's tail all bald now, for real?
- 1. Bear pulled hair out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Bear tore the fur off — no support
- 3. Bear yanked the hair out — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Bear yanked the hair out when Possum ran past him — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Who's Uncle Remus talkin' to, anyway?
- 1. the little boy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. the little girl — no support
- 3. a stranger — no support
- 4. the young farmhand — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
What's the little boy askin' 'bout today?
- 1. why Possum has no tail hair — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. why Possum has no hair left on his tail — no support
- 3. why Bear planted his trees — no support
- 4. why Possum runs so fast — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which creature was the principal figure who sought fruit from the orchard of Brer Bear?
- 1. Brer Fox — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brer Terrapin — no support
- 3. Brer Bear — no support
- 4. Brer Possum — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What reason did the narrator give for the loss of hair upon the tail of the Possum?
- 1. Brer Bear's grip as the Possum fled through the fence rails — no support
- 2. the Possum's tail catching on the fence while he fled in fear — no support
- 3. the bees stinging his tail as he ran — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Brer Bear's grip while the Possum fled — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 174, line 14: «The narrator runs away, but the tailor says an old man has brought back his hatchet and slippers.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+2); the same doer «narrator» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following was the means by which Brer Bear was relieved of choking?
- 1. a gourd of water — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a cool drink — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. a jug of cider — score 1
- 4. a sip of sweet tea — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 583, line 21: «Old word: "strankle" means to choke or be strangled, which is a much more dangerous thing than it sounds.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Through what aperture did Brer Possum effect his escape from the grasp of Brer Bear?
- 1. beneath the old wooden gate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. between the rails of the fence near the orchard gate — no support
- 3. by squeezing between the rails of the wooden fence — no support
- 4. between the rails of the fence — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 544, line 18: «Old word: "hair-breadth escapes" means escapes by the tiniest margin. Today we would say "narrow escapes".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «escapes» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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