Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 595 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, did Uncle Remus really say his tooth was galloping all night?
- 1. Nah, it was just a dull ache in his jaw — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it was galloping like a whole herd of circus horses dancing a jig through the night — no support
- 3. Yeah, like a whole herd of circus horses — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, like a whole herd of circus horses all running at once across his jaw all night long — 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 ✗
Wait, so the dentist yanked it out with tongs, right?
- 1. Yep, a pair of pliers that slipped twice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yep, a big old pair of tongs that never let go of the tooth at all — no support
- 3. Yep, a pair of tongs that never let go — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he used a rusty wrench instead — 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 ✗
Did the tooth really have four prongs, like a pitchfork?
- 1. Yeah, a fo'-prong feller with a root longer than a fence post, for real — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, a fo'-prong feller, for real — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, a five-prong feller, for sure — no support
- 4. Yeah, a fo'-prong feller, just like a pitchfork, for real — 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 ✗
What's a fonygraf, anyway, the thing that hollers like kids?
- 1. A box that records your words and plays them — no support
- 2. A box that keeps your words and gives them back to you later in the parlor — no support
- 3. A box that keeps your words and gives them back — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A tin box that keeps every word you say and gives them back whenever you shake it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 75, line 12: «The Djinn warned, "I shouldn't say that again if I were you; you might say it once too often."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «djinn» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Uncle Remus know what the watchyoumaycollum was for?
- 1. Yeah, he knew it was for fixing ears — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Yeah, he knew it was for hollering, but he just guessed the rest of it — score 3
- 3. Nah, he just guessed, it was a big mystery nobody at the mill could solve — no support
- 4. Nah, he just guessed, it was a big mystery — ✓ the right answer · no support
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 62, line 20: «The man «knew the riverside well» and tells Toad which way to go; Toad leaves «big, and strong, and careless, and self-confident».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+2); the same action «know» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Is it true the box goes off like a torpedo, bro?
- 1. Yeah, that's what they told him, anyway — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, that's what they told him, anyway, though he never saw it go off himself — no support
- 3. Yeah, that's what the dude told him, bro — no support
- 4. Nah, it doesn't go off at all, that's just what they told him at the mill store — 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 ✗
Why did the young men look so grumpy and sour?
- 1. They had bad moods — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. They were bilious — score 4
- 3. They were all in a sour mood — score 4
- 4. They were all in a bilious mood — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 489, line 12: «The old man appears "as if rising from the earth" and says "Good-day, good youth!"», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old man» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor?
- 1. Yeah, the dude who fixed his cuffs — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids and waved his hat at the crowd — no support
- 3. Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, the dude who smoothed his lavender gloves on the porch — 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 ✗
Why did the stranger think Uncle Remus was Daddy Ben?
- 1. He looked like him — no support
- 2. He thought he saw him at the mill — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. He heard he was a preacher — no support
- 4. He thought he knew him from way back — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 592, line 6: «Uncle Remus is an old man who once bossed the field hands on the plantation, and he tells the story to Miss Theodosia, whom he calls Miss Doshy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «uncle remus» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Where did the stranger say he knew Uncle Remus from?
- 1. Charlstun and Sewanny, back in the day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Charlstun and Augusta, way back then — score 8
- 3. Charlstun and Sewanny, and also up north in Richmond, back in the day — score 8
- 4. Charlstun and Sewanny, back in the day when the mill was running — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 589, line 11: «He tells the boy to "Let dem tell you w'at knows," meaning he should ask people who really know the tale.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «man» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what's the Jawjy 'intment he's gonna put in the guy's ears?
- 1. Georgia salve, yeah, it's healin' stuff — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Carolina ointment, for real, it's fixin' stuff — no support
- 3. Georgia ointment, for real, it's fixin' stuff he makes up at the mill — no support
- 4. Georgia ointment, for real, it's fixin' stuff — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
So Uncle Remus said he ain't been to the mill since when?
- 1. Since the day before yesterday, bro — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Since the day before yesterday morning, bro, when the tooth first galloped — no support
- 3. Since Monday morning, I reckon, bro — no support
- 4. Since the day before yesterday, bro, and I ain't been back since — 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 · right ✓
To which location does the narrator refer when stating the extraction of the tooth?
- 1. The dentist's office, where tongs were applied — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The dentist's office in town, where a pair of tongs was applied to the tooth — no support
- 3. The drug store, where a clerk was waiting — no support
- 4. The kitchen, where the wife was sitting by — 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 ✓
Describe the means by which the narrator's toothache was eventually resolved.
- 1. Extraction of the tooth by a dentist using tongs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Ointment dropped in the ear — no support
- 3. Extraction by a dentist — no support
- 4. Removal of the tooth using a rusty pair of pliers — 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 ✗
State the identity the stranger ascribed to the narrator upon their meeting.
- 1. Daddy Ben, a figure well known from Charleston and the old plantation roads of Georgia — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Daddy Ben, a figure known from Charleston and Savannah during the war — no support
- 3. Uncle Remus, a friend from Savannah — no support
- 4. Daddy Ben, a figure known from Charleston — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 54, line 15: «The clerk laughs: «I should think you were pretty well known in these parts ... if you've tried this game on often»; «you're obstructing the other passengers»…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+4); the same property (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the remedy the narrator proposed for the stranger's ears.
- 1. Georgia ointment, applied in a private place — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Georgia ointment, applied in a private place after the dentist's visit and a long nap — no support
- 3. Georgia ointment, poured in a quiet room — no support
- 4. Georgia ointment, applied in a private place out behind the mill house — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 373, line 16: «The stranger asks: "Why did you put it there?" and "Why did you not keep it in the house?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «house» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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