German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 689 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 ✗

Mate, was Peter just messin' with Friedlin or what?

1. He was messin' with him for the whole evening at the table — no support
2. He was mocking Friedlin — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. He was dead drunk, mate — no support
4. He was dead serious — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 689, line 6: «Friedlin is the young man who loves Peter Bloch's daughter, Lucia, and Father Peter is the clever old man who helps him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «friedlin» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «young man» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Innit true Friedlin got to be the rich son-in-law?

1. Yeah, he played the part — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nah, he didn't — no support
3. Yeah, he got the gold, bruv — no support
4. Nah, he was just a beggar — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 689, line 11: «Friedlin must play "the rich son-in-law" and "keep a still tongue," so that they can enjoy their wealth together.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «play» (+3); the same doer «friedlin» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wha' did Peter stuff in Friedlin's pockets, bruv?

1. some bread — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a letter from Lucia — no support
3. gold for the dowry — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a note — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did the lad chuck the whole lot in the sea, fam?

1. No, only half of it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. No, he kept the rest — no support
3. No — no support
4. Nah, mate — 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 ✗

Wha' did the dream bloke reckon about the half of the money?

1. It was theft — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It was a warning sign — no support
3. It was ill-gotten — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Money's bad — 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 ✗

What did the lad get for six shillings, proper dead cool?

1. a dog — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. a grey singing cat — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a golden bird flying — no support
4. a cat — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 254, line 3: «Poor Jack takes the left road to the first old man, who warns him not to stir all night while frogs and snakes crawl over him.», 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 doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «first old man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the cat, like, actually singing?

1. Nah, it just purred softly — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, it sang in an odd way — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Nah, it meowed — score 5
4. Nope, silent — no support

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 94, line 19: «Real life: bats really do hang upside down and find their way in the dark by listening to the echoes of their own squeaks; cats really purr, and kittens play-h…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «purr» (+3); the same doer «cats» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where'd the cat chill at the old couple's gaff?

1. in the old wooden chest — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. up on the high mantel shelf above the hearth — no support
3. on the mantel shelf — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. on the kitchen floor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 260, line 19: «Old word: "carl" means an old country man, and "carl cat" is a grumpy old cat who walks on his back legs in the rhyme.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «carl cat» (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate?

1. straight to the royal palace to see the king himself — score 2
2. to town — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. to the royal palace — ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. to the old mill — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 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 14, line 1: «The Dormouse starts singing «Twinkle, twinkle» in his sleep and won't stop till they pinch him. The Hatter finishes his tale: the Queen screamed «He's murderin…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «time» (+4); the same receiver «hatter» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old miser die 'cause he was too greedy?

1. He starved himself too often — ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. He drank too much cold water — no support
3. Old age, mostly — no support
4. He was too greedy — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 373, line 19: «Old word: "lurking" meant hiding close by and waiting unseen; a "miser" is a greedy person who hoards money, a word still used today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «miser» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the cottage proper grotty, like?

1. Yeah, dirty and tumble-down — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, clean and well-kept — no support
3. Yeah, dirty and tumble-down, with a leaking roof and rats everywhere — no support
4. Nah, it was a grand little house with a fine garden and a stone wall — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 344, line 18: «Old word "broad-swords" meant wide, heavy swords; "cottages" meant small country houses, and we still use the word today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cottages» (+2); the same thing acted on «small country houses» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the old lady nice to the lad at the hut, innit?

1. Yeah, she gave him stew — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she slammed the door — no support
3. Yeah, she said come in and gave him a warm bowl of milk — no support
4. Yeah, she said come in — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which statement accurately describes how the youth came into possession of the cat?

1. He purchased it for six shillings from the forest household after being offered it by the old woman, who had kept it for years — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. He was given it as a gift by the old woman of the hut — score 0
3. He paid six shillings to a neighbouring farmer's wife in town — score 0
4. He purchased it for six shillings from the forest household — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 339, line 14: «Why: Peter never came the next year, and Michael whispers, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «peter» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Which statement accurately records the instruction Master Peter gave Friedlin upon their parting?

1. To guard their secret and tell no one at all, not even Lucia or her father, until the wedding day — score 3
2. To marry Lucia at once and tell her everything — no support
3. To keep the secret safe in his pocket and to tell absolutely nobody, not even his own mother, about the plan — no support
4. To guard their secret and tell no one, not even Lucia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 596, line 18: «The family paid "a fi'-dollar bill" to a man in Jonesboro, who said "dat settled it", but he had no real ticket for them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

According to the dream, what was the youth instructed to do with the second portion of his father's wealth?

1. To share it with the old cottager and his wife — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. To cast it into the sea and retain any floating object — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. To give it to the poor — no support
4. To bury it under the old oak tree — 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 · wrong ✗

How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered the hut?

1. eight people in all, counting the children — no support
2. two — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. five — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. seven — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 124, line 11: «Who: Henry is called "trusty" and "faithful", two words that both mean loyal and can be trusted.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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