Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Bear into a bee-tree, then Brer Rabbit is caught in Mr. Man's trap
Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 584 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 ✗
Bruh, did Brer Rabbit actually trick Brer Bear or nah?
- 1. Yes — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he totally did — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nope — no support
- 4. Nah, he didn't really — 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 ✗
No cap, what was Brer Bear's big problem?
- 1. He got stung on his tail and his head swelled up big and pink in the sun — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His head swelled up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. His back got sore — no support
- 4. His nose bled out — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, where was the honey hiding?
- 1. Hidden way up inside a big hollow tree by the creek bank — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. In a rotten log — no support
- 3. Up a hollow tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Stuffed inside the trunk of a huge old oak tree down the road — 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 ✗
Lowkey, who did the climbing?
- 1. Brer Wolf, the fool guy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mr. Man's dog, who had been sleeping under the porch the whole afternoon — no support
- 3. Brer Bear, the big dummy — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The rabbit — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
Fr, how did Brer Rabbit react when the bees got loose?
- 1. He hyped it up and sang — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He hid — no support
- 3. He stomped and yelled loud — no support
- 4. He ran — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, why did Mr. Man come after Brer Rabbit?
- 1. Rabbit ate his beans — score 2
- 2. He stole — score 5
- 3. Rabbit crept into Mr. Man's field at night and chewed up his best greens — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Rabbit ate his greens — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 571, line 3: «Fox bargains with Buzzard to watch the hole while he fetches his axe, and Rabbit tricks Buzzard into running round the tree after a fake squirrel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «tree» (+3); the same doer «rabbit» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what was Brer Rabbit's move when he got caught?
- 1. Played dead and wait — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Fake laugh and lie — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Cried — no support
- 4. Ran away — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 575, line 5: «Brer Fox goes hunting, but Brer Rabbit plays dead, steals the game he left behind, and makes a joke about it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+5); the same action «play» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Deadass, who strolled by while Mr. Man was gone?
- 1. Brer Fox, chillin' — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Brer Possum, sleepy — no support
- 3. Brer Fox, walking slow and whistling a tune by the creek — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Brer Turtle, slow — 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 584, line 15: «Where does Brer Rabbit go wrong with Mr. Man? He eats Mr. Man's "greens en truck" and walks right into the trap.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+3); the same doer «man» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, what did Brer Rabbit tell Fox about the wedding?
- 1. He had to go to it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He would be late — no support
- 3. Yes — no support
- 4. He went — 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 ✗
No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited?
- 1. Like he was just about to laugh at the whole joke he had planned — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Like it was about to happen — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Like he was pretty happy — no support
- 4. As if he was sleepy — 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 ✗
Okay but who's the real hero here?
- 1. Brer Bear, for sure — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brer Rabbit, clearly, because he tricked the bear and the man both at once — no support
- 3. Brer Rabbit, for sure, since he got the honey and avoided the whole trap — no support
- 4. Brer Rabbit, obviously — ✓ 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 ✗
Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story?
- 1. Honey is sweet food — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lazy folks get trapped — no support
- 3. Greedy folks get stung — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Tricks get you hurt — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what does Uncle Remus call the trapped guy?
- 1. Mr. Man — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Brer Bear — score 3
- 3. Brer Fox — score 3
- 4. Bear — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 584, line 17: «Who is Mr. Man? A man with no known name, as Uncle Remus says: "Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «mr.» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
To whom did Brer Rabbit address his deceptive invitation regarding the bee-tree?
- 1. To Brer Fox, who declined it — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. To Brer Fox, who politely refused the invitation and walked off down the road — score 6
- 3. To Brer Bear, who eagerly accepted the offer and climbed right up the tree — score 6
- 4. To Brer Bear, who accepted it — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. 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 12: «Brer Rabbit plays a trick: he runs to Brer Bear's house and tells him that somebody is "'stroyin' un his 'simmons."», 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 (+3); the same doer «brer» (+2); the same receiver «brer» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the consequence for Brer Bear's cranium after the bees attacked it?
- 1. It turned rather large and tender — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was swollen to an absurd size and kept growing until his hat no longer fit — no support
- 3. It grew extremely round and pink — no support
- 4. It became considerably swollen — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did Brer Rabbit come to be ensnared in the trap set by Mr. Man?
- 1. He took the greens by stealth — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. He stole — score 5
- 3. He nibbled Mr. Man's cabbage — score 5
- 4. He consumed the greens unlawfully — ✓ the right answer · score 5
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 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 «bring» (+3); the same doer «brer» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was Brer Fox's reaction upon discovering Brer Rabbit's predicament?
- 1. He danced in a circle and whooped at the sight of the rabbit's terrible trouble — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He showed a lot of real surprise — no support
- 3. He hollered out loud and made the whole neighborhood come running to the gate to look — no support
- 4. He expressed considerable astonishment — ✓ 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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