The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 644 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 ✗
Oi, did you see that massive ice road?
- 1. Yeah, it was proper class, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, that was well rad, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, it was well wicked, mate, went right down the hill — no support
- 4. Yeah, it was well wicked, mate — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
So what did George do with his pockets?
- 1. He turned them all out on the ice and showed us, dead cool — score 3
- 2. He showed us what was in them — no support
- 3. He turned them out, dead cool — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. He turned them out on the snow, dead cool, innit — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 102, line 1: «Grethel tricks the old witch into the oven, bolts the iron door, and frees Hansel, and the children fill their pockets with jewels.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «children» (+2); the same thing acted on «pockets» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Did the sportsman get his grouse?
- 1. Nah, George said no, so he skived off up the hill in a huff — score 5
- 2. Nah, George said no, so he skived off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Nah, he never got one, so he left — no support
- 4. Nah, he got nothing, so he went — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 644, line 3: «A sportsman with a gun wants George's firework to shoot a white grouse, and George says no.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «george» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Was Jane chuffed about the moth?
- 1. Yeah, she let it out, proper brave, and it flew off happy — score 6
- 2. Yeah, she let it out, proper brave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Yeah, she let it go, dead brave — score 6
- 4. Yeah, she was dead chuffed, mate — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 644, line 13: «Jane is brave and polite: she asks the moth "quietly if it would please step outside for a moment".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jane» (+2); the same thing acted on «moth» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
What was the collector like?
- 1. Dead grumpy and gutted, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Grumpy, innit — no support
- 3. Proper cross and sulky, mate — no support
- 4. Dead miserable, a right moaner — 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 ✗
Did they go uphill or downhill?
- 1. Uphill, the sledge went up that way — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Downhill, the slide goes all the way down, and we went down it too — no support
- 3. Downhill, the slide goes all the way to the bottom, innit — no support
- 4. Downhill, the slide goes all the way — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did George hurt his mate Jane?
- 1. Nah, she fell on him, no biggie, they both got up laughing — score 3
- 2. Nah, she fell on him, no biggie — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Nah, he bumped her a bit, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Nah, she landed right on top of him, no biggie, they were fine — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 643, line 9: «The new tale is about George and Jane, who live in Forest Hill and are told not to do something on the eleventh of December.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «george» (+2); the same thing acted on «george» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did they stop on that slide?
- 1. They just fell — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They tumbled, the only way, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They tumbled, the only way, innit, right over and over — no support
- 4. They rolled off, the only way — 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 ✗
What's the massive heap at the end?
- 1. Loads of soft snow, they went right in and got stuck in it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Loads of soft snow, they went right in — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Heaps of snow, they fell right in — no support
- 4. Tons of powder, they landed in it — 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 did the grouse do, then?
- 1. Thanked them, dead polite and that, then waddled off down the ice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Thanked them, dead polite and that — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Thanked them, dead polite and that, then flew off home — no support
- 4. Said cheers, dead polite, mate — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the moth hang about?
- 1. Nah, it flew off, no bother — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, it stepped out, no bother — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, it stepped out, no bother, and flew off over the ice — no support
- 4. Nah, it stepped out, no bother at all, and then it had a nap — 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 ✗
What were they hunting for, then?
- 1. Butterflies, obviously, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Pole, obviously, innit — no support
- 3. The North Pole, obviously, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Pole, the big one, obviously — 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 · wrong ✗
Which object did the sportsman request from George in order to dispatch the white grouse?
- 1. The squib, which George had produced from his pocket and was holding in his hand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The gun cartridges that George had hidden away — no support
- 3. The squib, which George had produced from his pocket — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The gun that the sportsman had carried up the hill — 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 ✓
What reason did George give for refusing to surrender the firework to the sportsman?
- 1. That the cause for shooting the grouse had ceased the previous day, and the sportsman had no right to it at all — score 1
- 2. That the cause for shooting the grouse had ceased the previous day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Because the grouse had already flown off to the south — no support
- 4. That the grouse had been spared by the nurse the previous week — 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 644, line 3: «A sportsman with a gun wants George's firework to shoot a white grouse, and George says no.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shoot» (+3); the same thing acted on «white grouse» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Describe the manner in which Jane persuaded the Arctic moth to leave the collector's net.
- 1. She respectfully requested the moth to step outside the net for a moment while the collector looked on in dismay — score 6
- 2. She opened the net and waved the moth gently outside into the air — score 6
- 3. She politely asked it to leave the net for a short while — score 4
- 4. She respectfully requested the moth to step outside for a moment — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 644, line 13: «Jane is brave and polite: she asks the moth "quietly if it would please step outside for a moment".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jane» (+2); the same thing acted on «moth» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the physical appearance of the North Pole as it became visible to the children at the conclusion of the slide.
- 1. It was a white tower that shone like a glass lamp in the sky — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was towering, white, glistening, and resembled an ice-lighthouse — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It stood very tall, bright and white, a bit like a lighthouse — no support
- 4. It was towering, white, glistening, and looked exactly like an enormous ice-lighthouse standing on the ice — 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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