The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: the griffin dies and the whirlpools are explained

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 650 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 ✗

Wait, the griffin didn't just get wiped out by Nigel's sword, right?

1. Yeah, Nigel's sword did it all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, its lion bit and eagle bit went at each other — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, the lion half was killed by the eagle half in the garden fight — no support
4. Nah, its two halves went at each other, not just the sword — 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 ✓

Dude, why did the dragon even drown, was it too chunky to swim?

1. It sank because it was too heavy — no support
2. It was too heavy, so the whirlpools dragged it down when Nigel was nearby — no support
3. It got trapped under the whirlpools when the tide came in — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. It got trapped under the whirlpools when the tide came back in and the water rose — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 650, line 2: «The dragon drowns under the whirlpools, so Nigel and the Princess make a plan to deal with the griffin.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

So who made the griffin in the first place, like the actual creator?

1. The witch — score 2
2. The King-enchanter — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. The King's daughter — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. A sea wizard — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 115, line 10: «Why the King insists: he says, "I will not stir from the place till you unlock the door."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «place» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

The witch isn't a witch any more, is she? Like she's just chilling now?

1. Nah, she's still a nasty witch — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, she's just a happy old woman now — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Nah, she's still a witch, just a happy old one in the palace — score 5
4. Yeah, she stopped being a witch and now just lives quietly by the sea — score 4

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 102, line 6: «Who: Grethel and Hansel are the children, and the witch is "the old witch" who wants to eat them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+2); the same thing acted on «old witch» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Proper mental, but how did the King's blood make whirlpools anyway?

1. The sea was angry — no support
2. The sea wanted to throw it out — no support
3. The sea kept trying to get rid of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. It was the sea's own fault — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 650, line 10: «Why: the whirlpools came because the wicked King's "blood was so wicked that the sea has been trying ever since to get rid of it."», 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 light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «sea» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where did Nigel find the big red sparkly stones, was it the beach?

1. Up the cliffs in a hidden cave by the palace garden — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. In the sandy hollows at low tide, near the rock where the dragon lay — score 9
3. On the sandy beach near the rocks — score 9
4. In the sandy hollows at low tide — ✓ the right answer · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 334, line 3: «The boys peek out and find that the crocodile is really Peter, who is ticking to frighten the pirates.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boys» (+5); the same action «find» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What were the rubies actually good for, like, besides looking pretty?

1. Throwing them into the fields so the land got ploughed up overnight — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Putting them in the fields to grow — no support
3. Selling them for gold to buy seed — no support
4. Throwing in fields so they got ploughed — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the field got ploughed all by itself overnight, did you get that?

1. The land turned over by itself to get rid of the evil rubies in the soil — no support
2. The rubies in the field made the land turn over to get rid of the evil curse — no support
3. The Princess ploughed it with her horses — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. The land turned over to get rid of the evil — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 539, line 12: «What: Jason yokes the oxen and ploughs the stony field, "four acres" of it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «plough» (+2); the same thing acted on «stony field» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

How did the palace even happen, like what was going on there?

1. Ships came from far and wide and a palace was built — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. A ship came — no support
3. Traders came and the queen made a palace grow — score 2
4. The King built it — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 468, line 4: «The fool orders the tub onto the shore, then orders a marble palace built right across from the King's.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «marble palace» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where did they bury the griffin's bits, the garden or summat?

1. Beside the fountain in the palace garden — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Deep in the sand under the herb-bed, by the palace garden wall near the sea — score 3
3. Under the herb-bed in the palace garden, next to the statue of the Queen — score 3
4. Under the herb-bed in the palace garden — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 264, line 12: «Why the trough: the steward says, "Bring all your milk hither", and the Worm "swallowed all the milk up".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «swallow up» (+4). Against it: the same thing acted on «milk» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what's the stone dragon doing these days then, just lying about?

1. Lying on the cliff where fishermen rest — no support
2. Lying on the sand where little kids play — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Lying about — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Sleeping — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 2: ««Hooray!» He's found a door-scraper, and dances a jig round it. The Mole, hurt and grumpy, can't see why: someone careless has left a door-scraper lying about…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lie» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Princess lived on her income, so basically she was loaded?

1. Nah, she was poor — no support
2. Yeah, she sold the palace — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Yeah, rich — no support
4. Yeah, she lived off her money — ✓ the right answer · score 6

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 226, line 14: «What she vows: she says she would die "sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2); the same thing acted on «princess» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

To what cause does the narrator attribute the formation of the Nine Whirlpools?

1. The enchanter-King's blood dropped into the sea and the tide swirled it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Princess's tears fell in the water — no support
3. The sea spirits made them swirl — no support
4. The enchanter-King's blood dropped into the sea — ✓ 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 · right ✓

In what manner did the lion and eagle halves of the griffin come to perish?

1. Each thought the other was an enemy — no support
2. Each half believed it was attacking the other creature — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. They fought each other — score 3
4. They fought a lion in the garden — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 154, line 7: «Why he waits: he does not dare to attack, because he is afraid of "his sharp horns."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «attack» (+2); the same doer «lion» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the ultimate fate of the dragon lying upon the sand?

1. It remained as a stone figure on the sand where children play every day — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. It was turned to rock by the Princess's spell — no support
3. It stayed as a statue where the children played — no support
4. It remained as a stone figure where children play — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 649, line 10: «The griffin sleeps at teatime, and the dragon sleeps "for five minutes" every day, and each day "it is three minutes later than it was the day before".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «dragon» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

From what source did the Princess derive her means of subsistence in the years that followed?

1. From the rubies she had sold to the ships that came in — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. By selling lilies — no support
3. From her income — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. From the money her late father left her in his will — 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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