Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes

Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 708 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 ✗

Bro, did the ogre actually eat the wrong dude in the end?

1. yeah, the baby got eaten — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, the dad got eaten — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. nah, the mum got eaten — no support
4. no, he got away — 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 ✗

Mate, how did the baby even know the ogre was coming?

1. he was told, yeah — score 1
2. his bones told him, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. he heard it all, innit — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. he just guessed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 13: «The bones tell him to gather the village babies, and the ogre comes shouting "Motikatika!" to a crowd who all answer "Here we are!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «bones» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the husband like the honey, or was he just being well fussy?

1. he liked it lots — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. he was just fussy — score 5
3. he was being well fussy — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. he hated the taste, mate — 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 227, line 3: «He grants their wishes: the eldest gets his baker, the second his chief cook, and the youngest, the loveliest, becomes his wife.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wish» (+4); the same doer «husbands» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever?

1. a proper magician who could change into animals and fool the ogre — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a proper magician — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a magician who was only pretending to be magic for the whole village — no support
4. a bit of a trickster — 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 · ★ · right ✓

So the wife legit fetched water four times, yeah?

1. yeah, four lakes, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, five lakes, bruv — no support
3. yeah, she went to four lakes and then went back again, innit mate — no support
4. nah, she went to five lakes and the frog pool too, bruv — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Why did the ogre get so mad at the babies?

1. they all said they were Motikatika, which made him furious because he could not tell who was lying — score 5
2. they all said they were Motikatika — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. they all ran away from the hut — score 5
4. they all started crying and wouldn't stop until the ogre gave up on all of them — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 708, line 11: «The baby is a magician who "heard all that his mother had promised the ogre", so he is ready for the trick.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «baby» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Did the baby change into a mouse, or a fox?

1. a mouse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a rat — no support
3. a rabbit — no support
4. a fox — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did the ogre snap up the bird, or did the bird snap off the beans?

1. the beans fell off — no support
2. the beans snapped up the ogre — no support
3. the ogre snapped up the bird — score -1
4. the bird snapped off the beans — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 202, line 3: «On the long road the prince finds the talisman in her belt pouch, and a bird snatches it and flies off with it in its beak.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «snatch» (+4); the same doer «bird» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the red coverlet the dad's or the baby's?

1. the baby's — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. mum's — no support
3. the dad's — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. his — 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 ✗

Who got the white beads round their neck in the end?

1. the babies in the hut — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. the ogre — no support
3. the babies in the village — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. the children at the lake — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 645, line 19: «Old words: "muffs" were tubes of fur for warming the hands, and "boas" were long fur scarves worn around the neck.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the ogre was basically tricked the whole way, yeah?

1. yeah, proper out-played — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, not really — no support
3. nah, he was proper clever — no support
4. nah, the ogre actually won in the end though, he ate the dad — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 708, line 4: «The ogre cannot tell the children apart, the baby dodges him as a mouse and a bird, and the ogre finally eats the wrong person.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «ogre» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Was the lake of sugar water the one the mum drank from first?

1. yeah, the sugar lake — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, the second lake with the rushes in it, not the sugar one — no support
3. yeah, the honey lake — no support
4. yeah, the sugar lake, but she only had one sip before she left — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓

Did the ogre's head pop up from the last lake, or from the frog pool?

1. the first lake — no support
2. the last lake — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. the pool — no support
4. the frog pool that was full of little green frogs — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 8: «Where: the last lake is "golden like honey", and an ogre's head "bobbed up on the surface" when the wife stooped to drink.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «last lake» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the mum not know the baby was clever?

1. she was so tired from fetching water that she never looked at the baby properly at all — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. she was too busy to notice him — no support
3. she was too busy — no support
4. she had no idea about his magic — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 315, line 13: «Peter wants Wendy to come because "we have no female companionship," and he says girls are too clever to fall out.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately describes the husband's behaviour toward his wife in the passage?

1. He repeatedly rejects her efforts to fetch water — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. He encourages her to try a different lake each time — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. He rejects her efforts to fetch water, mocking her for each lake she visits and never once thanking her — score 2
4. He is grateful but keeps asking for more water — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 217, line 5: «She beats him and tries to crush him in the gate, but he escapes and hides in a cookshop, where the owner, who hates dogs, will not keep him long.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «try» (+4); the same doer «wife» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which statement correctly identifies the reason the ogre fails to eat any of the village children?

1. He is too full to eat — ← Mova's choice · score 10
2. He decides he will eat them later today — score 9
3. He was tricked by their shaved heads — score 3
4. He cannot identify Motikatika among them — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 699, line 19: «Old word: "beheaded" means having the head cut off, and "ogress" is a female ogre, a giant who eats people.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «eat» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «female ogre» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following best explains how Motikatika avoids being eaten by the ogre?

1. He tricks the ogre with a shaved head — score 3
2. He hides under the bed — score 3
3. He uses magic bones to plan his disguises — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. He runs away fast — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 12: «Motikatika uses magic bones to plan, and he tells one bone, "You are my father", showing that the bones act out the people around him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+3); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same thing acted on «magic bones» (+1). Against it: the same doer «motikatika» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which option accurately reports the outcome of the ogre's final attempt at a meal?

1. He eats Motikatika's father by mistake after shaving all the village children's heads — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He eats Motikatika's father by mistake — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He is tricked and eats only beans — no support
4. He eats the mother by accident at last — 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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