Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back

Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 728 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 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, Hans lost that gross heavy rock in the river, yeah?

1. Yeah, it plopped in and he was buzzing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, it splashed, he was well narked — no support
3. Nah, it floated and he was chuffed — no support
4. Yeah, he dropped 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, so Hans spent his last penny on the cow, right?

1. Yeah, he was totally skint after that and walked home — no support
2. Nah, he got the cow for free — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, he was skint after that — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he was skint and buzzing — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 727, line 8: «Hans says he likes the cow "a great deal better than this smart beast," so he swaps the horse for the cow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «hans» (+2); the same thing acted on «cow» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, so Jorinda got turned into a nightingale, yeah?

1. Yeah, the fairy nicked her and turned her into a bird for ages — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Nah, the fairy nicked a sheep off him — no support
3. Nah mate, she got turned into a cat and then the fairy let her go free — score 4
4. Yeah, the fairy nicked her into a bird — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 728, line 4: «The fairy turns Jorinda into a nightingale and carries her off, and Jorindel is frozen to the spot by her spell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+3); the same doer «fairy» (+2); the same thing acted on «jorinda» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, how many cages did the fairy have, like seriously?

1. Seven hundred cages — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Like, a hundred cages — no support
3. Seven hundred cages, each with a bird stuck inside it — no support
4. Oh my days, seven hundred cages full of birds in the castle — 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 ✓

Did Jorindel just stand there like a statue, or what?

1. Yeah, he was frozen stiff like a stone — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Nah, he danced about — no support
3. Yeah, he was stuck like a statue — no support
4. Nah, he was walking about proper — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 728, line 12: «Jorindel is "fixed as a stone" and can neither speak nor move until the fairy sings her spell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «jorindel» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Proper dream, innit? Jorindel saw a flower with a pearl in it?

1. Yeah, a purple flower with a big pearl in the middle of it — score 4
2. Nah, he dreamed of a huge castle full of birds and a flower — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Yeah, a purple flower with a pearl — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Nah, a red flower by a cold well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 728, line 5: «Jorindel wanders off, dreams of a purple flower with a pearl in it, finds it after eight days, and frees Jorinda, then the ass sets off to the city as the trav…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «dream» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Blud, how long did he hunt for that flower?

1. Eight days, then he found it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Eight days, then he finally found it under a stone by the river — score 2
3. Seven days, then he gave up — no support
4. For ages and ages, going round the hills, then he found 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 413, line 7: «Who: a young seigneur, a lord's son, who finds the flower and marries the maiden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same thing acted on «flower» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the flower worked on the door, or was it a fluke?

1. It broke — no support
2. It worked, the door sprang open — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It melted, the wall fell in — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Nah, it failed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 153, line 16: «Old word: "amaranth" is a flower that never fades; the text says "your flowers never fade".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fade» (+3); the same doer «flowers» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the fairy couldn't get near him, yeah, cos of the flower?

1. Nah, the flower drew her in close — no support
2. Nah, she came close — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Yeah, the flower kept her away — no support
4. Yeah, the flower kept her two yards off — ✓ the right answer · score 2

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 728, line 14: «The purple flower protects Jorindel, because the fairy "could not come within two yards of him" while he holds it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+3); the same doer «fairy» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

The ass wanted to be a musician, dead right?

1. Yeah, he meant to go to town — no support
2. Yeah, he planned to go to the city — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Nah, he stayed home — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, he wanted a farm — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 150, line 4: «An Ass gets moved from a Gardener to a Potter to a Tanner, and only at the tanning-vat does he wish he had stayed with his first master.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+3); the same doer «ass» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who did the ass bump into first, the cat or the hen?

1. The hen, who was sat in the road looking proper gutted and cross — no support
2. The hen, perched on the gate there — no support
3. The cat, sat in the road looking gutted and sad as ever — ← Mova's choice · score -2
4. The cat, sat in the road looking gutted — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 94, line 14: «The curtain falls «whoosh!» because «it remembered the bargain»; the Cat says «for you have spoken a word in my praise, and now I can sit within the Cave for a…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «sit» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the farmer want to keep the ass, or get shot of him?

1. He wanted to get rid of him because he was too old to work — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. He wanted to keep him and feed him well all through the winter — score 5
3. He wanted to get rid of him — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. He wanted to feed him more — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 610, line 19: «Old word: "fascination" in this part means a snake's power to hold a creature still with its gaze. Today it usually means something that holds your interest, l…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+3); the same property (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hans reckoned he was born in a lucky hour, yeah?

1. Nah mate, he reckoned he was born on a Friday and cursed forever — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he thought luck came hard — no support
3. Yeah, he thought everything came easy — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he thought everything came easy to him in the whole world — 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 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the fairy sing a spell, or just shout it out?

1. She shouted a loud spell and then sang a sweet song to the birds — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. She sang a spell in a hoarse voice — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. She hummed a rhyme in a sweet voice — no support
4. She sang a long spell in a hoarse voice that echoed through the castle — 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 20, line 16: «The Gryphon asks «Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille? Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?»; when Alice eagerly chooses the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+3); the same thing acted on «song» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which object did Hans lose in the river?

1. The cow — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The heavy stone he had carried all the way from home — score 2
3. The coin — score 3
4. The heavy stone — ✓ the right answer · score 3

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 728, line 1: «Hans, now light-hearted after losing his heavy stone in a river, walks home to his mother and tells her how easy the road to luck is.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+1); the same place «river» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

What did the fairy transform Jorinda into?

1. A nightingale — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. A small sparrow — no support
3. A white dove that flew away over the dark trees of the wood — no support
4. A nightingale with a golden voice and beautiful wings — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 728, line 4: «The fairy turns Jorinda into a nightingale and carries her off, and Jorindel is frozen to the spot by her spell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «nightingale» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

What effect did the purple flower have upon whatever it touched?

1. It disenchanted what it touched — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It disenchanted whatever it touched and freed it from the spell — no support
3. It froze everything it touched — no support
4. It turned every living thing it touched into a bright purple flower — 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 · right ✓

Where did the ass resolve to travel when his master planned to end him?

1. To the great city — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Away — score 2
3. To town — no support
4. To the far hills — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 728, line 5: «Jorindel wanders off, dreams of a purple flower with a pearl in it, finds it after eight days, and frees Jorinda, then the ass sets off to the city as the trav…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ass» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «city» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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