Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's daughter escapes the robbers' house

Tests: 0 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 747 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 ✗

Dude, did the robber really chop the girl's finger off with a hatchet?

1. Yeah, he did it right there in the cellar, and then the finger flew up and hit the old woman in the face — no support
2. Yeah, the robber swung the hatchet so hard that the finger went flying across the whole cellar and landed in some girl's lap — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, it bounced off the cask and landed on the floor — no support
4. Yeah, and it flew right into the other girl's lap — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 747, line 4: «The robbers come home with another girl, kill her, and cut her up, and one finger lands in the hiding girl's lap.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «land» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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 why'd she drop peas on the way, bro?

1. Because she wanted to feed the birds along the path so they would sing to her on the walk back home — score 0
2. To find her way back if the path got wrecked — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. To make a trail that the robbers would follow, so they would go into the forest and get lost in the thick woods — no support
4. To be sure she could return home safely — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 682, line 20: «The horse speaks: "It is no use your returning home just now, your father will only beat you."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «return» (+1); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, the bird was a total snitch, right?

1. Yeah, it told her to go back, kind of — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Nope, it just sang a song — no support
3. Yeah, it kept shouting warnings at her from the cage, and she still walked into the house anyway — score 2
4. Yeah, it screamed "turn back" at her twice — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 68, line 19: «Talk in this lesson: «spill the tea» = tell the gossip; «ken» (Scotland) = know; «snitch» = tell on someone; «big yikes» = that's bad; «mardy» (Midlands) = sul…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «snitch» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what were the robbers' three drinks?

1. White, red, and yellow wine poured from the robbers' own barrels in the cellar — no support
2. White, red, and yellow wine — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Three different wines, each one stronger than the last, which the old woman had secretly mixed for them — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Dark, red, and sweet cider — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 527, line 20: «Old words: a "libation" was a drink poured out for a god, and "hymeneal" songs were wedding songs; we rarely use either word today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old words» (+3). 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old lady totally get them drunk and knocked out, or what?

1. Yeah, the old lady mixed poison into their wine and waited in the cellar until both of the robbers died — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she just watched them drink the whole night — no support
3. Yeah, she slipped a sleeping draught in their wine — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she secretly poured a strong sleeping draught into the wine and then sat by them until they fell asleep — 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 ✗

Okay, but how'd they get out of that cellar, fam?

1. They crawled out a little window — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. They stepped over the snoring robbers and bounced — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. They climbed out — no support
4. They tiptoed past the robbers and left quick — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 738, line 16: «Old word: to "bespoke" a supper means to order it beforehand, so the friends ordered a fine meal at the inn.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the bride spill the whole thing at the wedding, or chicken out?

1. She told him the whole thing, and he kept saying it was a dream — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. She told the guests every detail of the murder plot, and the groom was shocked and ran out of the hall at once — score 7
3. She spilled it all, like a dream, and he kept saying "only a dream" — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. She confessed the crimes, but he just laughed and said no — score 7

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 99, line 16: «Who passes the sentence? The false bride does, when she says "Thou art she!" is the king's reply to her own words.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «bride» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, was the groom sus the whole time, or what?

1. Yeah, she felt nervous about him early — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she never trusted him, not one bit — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she had some doubts at the start, but she thought he was honest until the wedding feast — no support
4. Nah, he seemed super nice and chill — 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the miller's girl bounce back home safe, or nah?

1. Yeah, she got back to the mill by morning, and her father was waiting at the gate with tears in his eyes — no support
2. Nah, she got lost again and only found the mill after a whole week of searching through the dark woods — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Nah, she was stuck in the forest — score 3
4. Yeah, she got to the mill by morning — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 52, line 5: «By bedtime he is his old cheerful, self-satisfied self, sings a little song and sleeps well; as the days pass the girl feels sorry for him, and vain Toad think…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+4); the same doer «girl» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the old lady was actually cool, right?

1. Yeah, she helped them escape well — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she saved her and got them both out — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she was in on it all — no support
4. Yeah, super cool — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, did the peas and lentils just grow up out of nowhere?

1. Yeah, they sprouted, so they could follow — no support
2. Yeah, they sprouted overnight and then grew tall enough to guide them through the dark forest by moonlight — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Yeah, the peas and lentils sprouted into a whole field of vines that led them safely all the way home to the mill — no support
4. Yeah, they sprouted and guided them in the moonlight — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 18: «Old word: "pease" was an old plural of "pea", so it meant peas, which the grandfather in another tale grows.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «peas» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, how long did they walk back to the mill?

1. All the way across the forest, and they arrived at the mill only after a full day and night had passed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They walked the whole night long through the forest, stopping only once to rest by a stream in the woods — no support
3. All night long, till it was morning — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Through the dark, until early dawn — 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 ✗

In which manner does the narrator relate the sequence by which the maiden, having been deceived, succeeded in escaping the robbers' dwelling?

1. By presenting a long series of flashbacks that reveal the girl's childhood, the groom's previous marriages, and the events of the wedding night in exhaustive detail — no support
2. By alternating between the girl's inner thoughts and the robbers' conversations, cutting back and forth across the forest, the house, and the cellar until the reader is fully informed — no support
3. By describing how she marked her path, took refuge behind the cask, and passed the sleeping robbers — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. By recounting the bird's warning, the cellar search, and how the robbers were drugged to sleep — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 723, line 5: «The king gives the merchant an impossible task, and Maria saves her father with a doll and a string, then the king finds the true Maria.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «merchant» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Pursuant to the text, what precise cause is assigned to the death of the second young woman in the robbers' cellar?

1. She was forced by the robbers to drink wine laced with poison, and she died in agony a few hours afterwards in the cellar — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Her heart failed after she drank the sleeping draught the robbers poured — no support
3. Her heart gave way after she had been made to drink three glasses of wine — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. She died of a stab wound after drinking the wine the robbers brought her — no support

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 413, line 17: «Old word: "expired" means died, so "straightway expired" means she died at once.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «expire» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Enumerate, in the order given by the narrative, the measures by which the maiden disclosed the crimes committed against her at the wedding feast.

1. She recounted the crimes as a dream, one by one, and got the same reply each time — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. She reported the murders to the magistrate, and the guards arrested the robbers after a long trial in the town square that lasted several weeks — no support
3. She told her tale as a dream, naming each crime, and each time received the same answer — score 1
4. She related her experience as a dream, reporting each crime in succession, and was met each time with the same reply — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 747, line 5: «At the wedding feast the bride tells the robbers' crimes as a dream, and her bridegroom keeps saying it's only a dream.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same thing acted on «crimes» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the text, what significance attaches to the gold ring on the murdered girl's finger, and what consequence follows from its removal?

1. The ring identified her family to the robbers, who then tracked the miller's household through the forest and attacked the mill later that same week — no support
2. It marked her as betrothed, and the finger was cut off to take the ring, which fell near the hidden girl — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. The ring was too tight to draw off, so a robber cut off the finger, which then fell to the hidden girl — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The ring was too tight, so the robber cut the finger, which fell to the hidden girl — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «princesses» (-1). 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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