Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 594 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, was the Savannah dude straight flexin' on old Remus?
- 1. Yeah, he was showin' out with his brass chain and his fine velvet coat the whole time — no support
- 2. Yeah, he was showin' out with his brass chain — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he was flexin' his gold ring — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was braggin' 'bout his fancy suit — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 586, line 4: «He tells of a witch brother who slipped out of his skin, and how his kin turned the skin inside out, salted it, and burned him with the salt.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «remus» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about?
- 1. Rice-birds and some old oysters — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Rice-birds and shrimp back home, plus his big brass chain and fine coat — no support
- 3. Rice-birds and shrimp back home — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Rice-birds, shrimp, and how the whole coast beats the rest of Georgia by a mile — 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 ✗
Bruh, Remus loaned some dude two dollars, that's wild, right?
- 1. Yeah, and he's still waitin' on that money, and Remus don't mind none at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, and he's still waitin' on the money — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, and the dude still owes him — no support
- 4. Yeah, that's wild, and Remus done lent him two more dollars since then, for real — 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, what's in the big basket Remus is totin' down the street?
- 1. Mustard, poke salad, lamb's quarter, and a jar of sweet pickles from the Savannah market — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mustard, cabbage, and turnip greens — no support
- 3. Mustard, poke salad, and lamb's quarter — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Mustard, poke salad, lamb's quarter, and a big pot of fried chicken — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ain't he eatin' all of it with his ole lady, no sharin'?
- 1. Nah, he's gonna share it with the whole street and all his old friends from church — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, him and the kids gonna share — no support
- 3. Yeah, him and his wife gonna sample it all and not share a bite with nobody — no support
- 4. Yeah, him and his wife gonna sample it — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what's Remus mad about with the pie sellers?
- 1. Sellin' pies when folks are hungry and the young men ain't even workin' hard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sellin' pies when folks are hungry — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Sellin' pies on the corner, fam — no support
- 4. Sellin' pies for a profit when the whole town is hungry and poor and tired — 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 ✗
Did the young man try to corner Remus on the pie thing?
- 1. Yeah, he got him real good — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Nah, he just walked away — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. Nah, not really — no support
- 4. Yeah, he tried it once — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 436, line 4: «A man from the water offers to pack the cattle away if the King gives him whatever he has at home that he does not know about, and the King agrees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3); the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why's Remus wearin' a red rag under his chin, fam?
- 1. Bad tooth — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He's sick, fam — no support
- 3. He got a bad tooth, for real — no support
- 4. He got a toothache, real bad — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was he grumpy 'cause of that toothache, or what?
- 1. Nah, he was grumpy 'cause the pie boys stole his trade and his wife left him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was all sad and quiet — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was all grim and sour, and he been sittin' by himself all day long — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was all grim and sour — ✓ the right answer · 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did his friends tease him about first?
- 1. Revival meetings, mules, pigs, and how he ate too much rice at dinner last night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cotton and mules and hens — no support
- 3. Revivals and mules and pigs and the church choir from the Savannah coast — no support
- 4. Revivals and mules and pigs — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Remus laugh at the joke or just sit there?
- 1. He stood there, grumblin' and frownin' — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. He just sat on the trash-box, sighin' — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. He just sat on the crate, sighin' — score 7
- 4. He grinned and joined in, laughin' — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 592, line 14: «Remus stands by the grindstone near the big house, and he has his Sunday clothes on, as if he were ready for a visit.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+4); the same doer «remus» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Did anybody in the office ask what's wrong with him?
- 1. Yeah, a few of them asked what the matter was and then went back to teasing him — no support
- 2. Yeah, someone asked what the matter was, and Remus just waved them off sadly — score 3
- 3. Yeah, someone asked him 'bout it — score 3
- 4. Yeah, someone asked what the matter was — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 594, line 5: «His friends tease him, but he only sighs on the trash-box, and someone asks what is wrong.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+2); the same doer «someone» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
So is the tale over, or does Remus still got stuff to say?
- 1. It keeps goin', he's still talkin' — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. It's over, fam — score 5
- 3. It's done, he's quiet now, fam — no support
- 4. Nah, he's still talkin' on — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 594, line 20: «The part ends mid-sentence as Remus speaks, so the tale goes on in the next part.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go on» (+4); the same doer «tale» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which phrase best describes the attitude of the Savannah servant toward those not born on the rice-growing coast?
- 1. Quiet respect and envy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Mild interest — no support
- 3. Plain scorn and pride — no support
- 4. Undisguised contempt — ✓ 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 ✗
Which statement best reflects Uncle Remus's view of work and food?
- 1. Food unearned belongs to another man, and a lazy man should starve for his pride — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Idle hands should not eat at all — no support
- 3. Food unearned belongs to another man — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Men who do not work for their food are thieves, and the rice planter owns their share — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 303, line 13: «The strange night: the man sees "a slender, graceful maiden" among shining flowers, but she is gone when he gets up.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which term denotes the condition that causes Uncle Remus's sullen resignation in the final sketch?
- 1. Headache — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Earache — no support
- 3. Toothache — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Fever — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which quality most accurately describes Uncle Remus's response to the teasing of his acquaintances?
- 1. Impassive composure — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Gentle, cheerful humor — no support
- 3. Anger — no support
- 4. Stubborn silence — 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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