Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 730 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 ✗

so the bean actually got sewn up by a tailor, right, no cap?

1. For real, a travelling tailor sewed her back together with thread — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Nope, a cook stitched her — no support
3. For real, a tailor sewed her — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Yes for real, the old woman had a tailor sew her up again quickly — score 2

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 730, line 5: «The coal gets scared halfway and stops, the straw burns and falls in, and the coal hisses out, while the bean laughs till she bursts and a tailor sews her back…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sew» (+3); the same doer «tailor» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

yo, which one was hella impulsive, the coal or the bean?

1. Straw — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The coal — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Bean — no support
4. The straw — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

fam, who was almost in the pot, the bean or the coal?

1. The straw, which the old woman threw in — no support
2. The coal, since she was almost in the pot — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. The bean — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The tailor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 647, line 10: «The witch throws everything into her cauldron, and the stuff "boiled up in foaming flashes" of many colours.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cauldron» (+4); the same doer «witch» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

lowkey, why did they dip out to a foreign land?

1. Hungry — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Scared of more trouble — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Bored — no support
4. Wanted to find a new home — 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 straw made a bridge, that's lit, but did it stay up?

1. Yeah, it stayed up the whole time across the water — no support
2. Nah, it burned and fell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Nah, it sank in the stream — no support
4. Yeah, it stayed right up — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 730, line 7: «What: she lights the fire with straw "so that it might burn the quicker."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «burn» (+3); the same doer «straw» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruh, who laughed so hard they popped?

1. The tailor — ← Mova's choice · score 10
2. The bean — ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. Straw — score 10
4. Coal — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 580, line 3: «Buzzard laughs so hard he flaps his wings, and Rabbit warns him that something will drop out from above.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+8); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

what thread did the tailor use, the most basic one?

1. Gold yarn — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Black thread — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Black thread from a spool — score 7
4. Blue — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 229, line 6: «Who: Prince Bahman, the eldest brother, and the dervish, an old holy man with a huge hat he uses as an umbrella.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+5); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

who was the bold one that tripped on the bridge first?

1. Straw — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The straw — no support
3. The coal, the boldest of the three — no support
4. The coal — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the old woman really zap sixty straws at once?

1. No, only six straws, not sixty at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, sixty — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. No, thirty — no support
4. Nah — 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 ✗

wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like?

1. A handful of dry straw — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Straw — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Wood — no support
4. Oil — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓

so the coal was basically gonna be ashes, right?

1. Yeah, burnt to ashes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Yes, ashes — no support
3. Nope — no support
4. No, she was saved — 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 730, line 10: «The coal says she "fortunately sprang out of the fire" and would have been "burnt to ashes."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «burnt» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

dude, what happened to the straw in the stream, pls tell?

1. It stayed afloat fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It burned and sank — no support
3. It burnt and fell in — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. It floated — 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 · right ✓

By what means did the straw effect a passage across the brook?

1. By bending down into the water to reach the far side — no support
2. By floating — no support
3. By being pushed — no support
4. By laying itself straight from one bank to the other — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 68, line 1: «Badger's great secret: there is an underground passage from the river-bank right up into the middle of Toad Hall. Toad says that's nonsense, he knows every inc…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «underground passage» (+3); the same place «river bank» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

According to the account, what was the final fate of the coal upon entering the water?

1. She fizzled and vanished — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She sank — no support
3. She hissed and expired — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She hissed and sank — 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which consequence is attributed in the narrative to the tailor's use of black thread?

1. All beans since then bear a black seam — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. All beans since then bear a black seam from the tailor's thread and the coal — no support
3. They are cooked fast — no support
4. Beans now cook faster than before — 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 ✗

What is the principal reason the three companions resolved to depart together?

1. To escape a renewed misfortune — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. To get away from new harm — no support
3. To escape a renewed misfortune that had struck the old woman's house — no support
4. Because the old woman wanted them gone and they wished to go with a new friend — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 558, line 6: «Who is the giant? Polyphemus, a Cyclops, who "devoured" Odysseus's companions in his cave.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «companions» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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