Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 732 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 ✗

yo did the sparrow really make the carter smash his own kitchen lol

1. nope, he just sat there and stared at it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, he went mad and smashed the kitchen up — score 1
3. nah, not really — no support
4. ya, he went full mental and wrecked the windows and walls — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 732, line 3: «Furious, the carter sits in his kitchen, and the sparrow mocks him from the window until he smashes his own house.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sit» (+4); the same doer «carter» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait so the carter wasn't even sorry??

1. yeah, he was sorry — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nope, he was still not sorry, he just sat there moody — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, he was sorry and cried a lot later on — no support
4. nope, he was sorry but just sat there quietly — 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 3 · ★ · right ✓

bruv the sparrow kept saying not wretch enough yet, what's a wretch

1. a miserable unlucky person, like a right loser — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a miserable, unlucky, wretched person who gets everything wrong all the time — no support
3. a sort of cursed bird, like a pest — no support
4. a really horrible sort of person, like a total loser who never wins — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

how did the bung thing even work, like the wine got out

1. she pecked the lid off and the wine spilled on the floor — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she tapped the cask and the wine just poured out slowly — no support
3. she pecked the cork out of the cask so it all ran out — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. she broke the cask — 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 ✗

so the carter's wife basically killed him by accident??

1. yeah, she threw the knife at the bird and hit him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yes, he was hit when she aimed at the sparrow — score 5
3. yeah, by accident — no support
4. yeah, she swung the hatchet at the bird and whacked him instead — ✓ the right answer · score 1

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 713, line 6: «Who: a tanuki, a shape-changing animal, and his wife, a fox, who live together in a wood.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fox» (+3); the same doer «wife» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait the soldier got a cloak that makes him invisible, sick

1. yeah, he followed them all the way down the stairs and under the trees without them ever seeing him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, he tiptoed behind them but they didn't notice — no support
3. yeah, he crept down the stairs right behind them, and they never noticed him at all in the cloak — score 1
4. yeah, he followed them down the stairs without them seeing — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 732, line 5: «The next tale opens with twelve princesses who slip down a secret trap-door each night, and a soldier follows them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+3); the same doer «soldier» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro why did the soldier throw the wine away lol

1. he thought the youngest had drugged it for him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. cos the eldest princess had put a strong sleeping draught in the wine so he would fall asleep — score 5
3. cos he saw the eldest princess drop a sleeping draught in the wine and he wasn't stupid — score 5
4. cos the eldest princess had a sleeping draught in it, he wasn't stupid — ✓ the right answer · 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 309, line 14: «At the ball she puts on the red shoes because "she thought there could be no sin in it."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «soldier» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

the youngest one was dead nervous, right?

1. yeah, she kept saying that something was wrong and her heart was beating fast — no support
2. yeah, she said something was wrong and felt uneasy — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, she was nervous and worried about the noise — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. yeah, she said something was wrong and she felt really uneasy about going down the stairs — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 672, line 12: «how the twins are used: the youth paints a mask so that "no one would have known one boy from the other," and the witch cuts a sleeve to pick out the one to ki…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the princesses really have leaves made of silver, like proper bling

1. yeah, the trees glittered and sparkled — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, the leaves in the grove shone and rang like bells when they moved — no support
3. yeah, the trees glittered and sparkled like real silver in the moonlight — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. yes, the grove looked like gold — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 49, line 5: «Then the moon rises and the meadows, gardens and river appear again in silver, like old friends in new clothes; the two search hedges, hollow trees and ditches…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «meadows» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the king's sons all died because they kept falling asleep??

1. yeah, all of them, cos they fell asleep first — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. yeah, every single one of them died, cos they didn't stay awake even once to see the soldier — score 5
3. yeah, every one of them, because they kept falling asleep and never stayed awake to guard the door — score 7
4. yeah, every one of them, cos they didn't stay awake — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 725, line 10: «The eldest son falls asleep at twelve o'clock, and the second son does the same, so the apples keep going missing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall» (+3); the same doer «eldest son» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

what did the eldest princess say the noise was, the stupid noise

1. she said it was the princes shouting for joy from far away across the lake — score 5
2. she said it was the princes shouting for joy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. she said it was the princes laughing loudly — score 5
4. she said it was the princes singing — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 731, line 9: «What: the princess says "Why, how now, good mother," and asks the old lady what she is doing there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «princess» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the sequence in which the carter's horses were destroyed?

1. first by a blow from the hatchet, then by the sparrow pecking, and finally by drowning in the well water — no support
2. first by pecking, then by a blow from the hatchet, and finally by fire — score -1
3. first by a blow from the hatchet, then by a blow from the hatchet, and finally by pecking — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. first by the carter's own blow, then by the wife's hatchet, and finally by the sparrow pecking them to death — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 732, line 2: «She then makes his horses rear and kick, and his hatchet blow kills the first horse, then the second.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «sparrow» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

To what extent did the carter's remorse change over the course of the events described?

1. it did not change; he remained unrepentant until his death — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. it grew stronger, and he became crueller — no support
3. he became very sorry for his crimes and wept bitterly, but only once his wife was dead — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. it did not change at all; he stayed completely unrepentant and angry until the very end of his life — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 713, line 6: «Who: a tanuki, a shape-changing animal, and his wife, a fox, who live together in a wood.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «wife» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

What was the ultimate outcome for the carter, according to the narrative?

1. he was struck by his wife's hatchet in the kitchen — no support
2. he was killed when his wife swung her hatchet at the sparrow and the blade struck his skull — no support
3. he was killed by a blow from his own wife's hatchet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. he died of old age — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 732, line 4: «The carter and his wife are tricked into a blow that kills the carter, and the sparrow flies happily home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+3); the same doer «blow» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which character first proposed a quick death for the sparrow, and was she overruled?

1. the carter's wife proposed it, and the carter overruled her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. the sparrow proposed it, and the wife agreed — score 1
3. the carter's wife proposed a quick death for the sparrow at once, and the carter firmly overruled her — score 1
4. the carter's wife proposed it, but he refused — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). 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: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same doer «poor jack» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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