Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin

Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 586 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 Uncle Remus all bummed about when the boy found him?

1. a bunch of haints walking round the yard every night since the frost came — no support
2. his brother sending letters with no name signed at the bottom of the page — score 3
3. a strange light in the back field — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. some quare goings-on round the place — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 311, line 17: «What wakes her: the window blows open, and a boy drops to the floor with "a strange light, no bigger than your fist."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+5). Against it: the same circumstance (-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 ✗

Bruh, what did Uncle Remus say was tangled in Cholly's mane?

1. tangled burrs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. burrs — no support
3. mud clots — no support
4. witch-stirrups — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road?

1. big black cat with yellow eyeballs — ✓ the right answer · score -7
2. a big black cat with yellow eyeballs that walks upright along the ditch — no support
3. a big gray owl with bright eyes — score -7
4. a black dog — ← 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 -7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 549, line 9: «What: on the road Oedipus struck an old man with his stick, not knowing it was Laius, his real father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored -7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lowkey, what hollers when a witch is near?

1. crow — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. whippoorwill — no support
3. squinch-owl — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. hawk — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Real talk, where did Uncle Jeems take his gun?

1. to the old cemetery to shoot squirrels in the dark with his shotgun — no support
2. out to shoot some turkeys — no support
3. to the Harris farm to trap rabbits near the church — score 1
4. hunting graveyard rabbits — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 252, line 8: «If the children die young, their uncle gets the wealth, "For so the will did run."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+2); the same doer «uncle» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dang, where did the rabbit go after the gun went off?

1. into the briars — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. under a log — no support
3. caperin' on a toom stone — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. into the tall grass — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

No cap, how do witches get outta their skins?

1. through a small slit they cut in the back of the leg with a knife — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. by pulling the whole hide off over the head like a coat when the moon is up — no support
3. slit in the back of the neck — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a hole behind the left ear — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 586, line 16: «Witches, he says, can "drap der body" and turn into a wolf, and they pull their skins off through "a slit in de back er de neck."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sus, what did the man sprinkle on the hide?

1. oil — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. salt — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. ash — score 5
4. pepper — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 217, line 16: «The curse: Amina sprinkles water and cries, "Wretch, receive the reward of your prying, and become a dog."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «amina» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «sprinkle» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bussin', how did the brother feel when the salt got on him?

1. like fire on a cut — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. like hot coals on bare skin — score 5
3. like a bee sting — score 5
4. worse than yellerjacket stings — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 453, line 13: «He finds Fate living at ease, but her riches wane and her house "contracts" day by day.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+5). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fr, when did the brother try to slip out?

1. right after the moon went behind the cloud and the owls started hollering — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. just after the church bell rang — no support
3. right 'fo the chickens crowed twelve — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. when the roosters first called — 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 ✗

Lol, what did the man grab when his brother ran out?

1. a rag — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. the shotgun — score 5
3. a rope — score 5
4. the hide — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 464, line 7: «Where: a dense forest, where the blind hero lives by hunting animals he catches by smell.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «katoma» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «catch» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Lowkey scary, what did the boy hear before bed?

1. the old man singin' a lusty tune — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. frogs croakin' — score 6
3. the mule stompin' in the lot — score 6
4. a fiddle playin' a reel — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 120, line 3: «A new prince hears the old man's story, ignores his warning, and passes through the thicket with ease.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «hear» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Finna ask, what did Uncle Remus make at his next visit?

1. pegs — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. a box — score 5
3. shoe-pegs — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. horseshoes — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 91, line 4: «The Magician makes a Magic with just the little finger of his left hand, and Pau Amma's shell falls off like a husk off a coconut. Soft and ashamed, he begs fo…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «magician» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Real quick, what did the Jack-o'-lantern lead toward?

1. the creek — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. the quagmire in the swamp — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. the road — score 5
4. the deep bog past the cane — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 225, line 10: «Why does the prince take a disguise? He wants to search for her in secret and is "firmly resolved not to return without her."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same action «take» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, to what phenomenon does the narrator attribute the tangled knots in the horse's mane?

1. Witch-stirrups left by the cunjun man who rides the horse down the lane each night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Witch-stirrups produced by nocturnal riding — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Knots left by a nighttime storm of wind — no support
4. Snarls made by a horse rubbing on fence wire — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 586, line 11: «A witch-stirrup is a knot of hair tied in a horse's mane, which people believed witches made by riding the horse at night.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+2); the same thing acted on «horse» (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

According to the narrator, by what mechanism does a witch effect the separation of its integument?

1. Through the mouth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Through a split along the upper back — no support
3. Through a slit in the back of the neck — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. By a cut in the hide — 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 ✓

Which measure did the kinsman employ to restrain the transformed brother?

1. Turning the hide inside out and salting it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Wrapping him in a wet blanket — no support
3. Burning the hide — no support
4. Hanging the hide on a fence post — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 586, line 17: «The brother leaves his skin, and his kinsman turns the hide "wrong-sudout'ards" and sprinkles it with salt, which stings worse than yellerjackets.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which creature, in the sequence described, is the last to approach the dwelling?

1. A great black wolf with eyes like fire coals that glow in the dark — no support
2. A great black wolf with fiery eyes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. The little black cat with yellow eyes that came up the path after the owl was gone — no support
4. A big black cat with yellow eyes — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 528, line 14: «Why: the Napaeae hid behind the leaves when the huntresses came, and even the bold Satyrs "dart away at their approach".», 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 doer «bold satyrs» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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