Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 772 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 ✓

Yo, what colour was the raven's ride on the last visit?

1. Grey, mate — no support
2. Dark brown, bruv — no support
3. Red, innit — no support
4. Dead black, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 772, line 7: «What: the raven's coachman and horses are all black on the last visit, and she sighs, "I know he has fallen asleep."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «last visit» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Oi, how many days did he wander the dark forest?

1. Fourteen days, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
2. Fourteen days and nights, no joke, mate — score -4
3. Fourteen long days in the woods, proper — score -4
4. Twelve days, mate — score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -4, tied with another option at -4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 629, line 16: «Old word: "dole" means a share of food handed out, and "plowter" means to wander about in the mud, a word the narrator uses.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, did the giant find the castle on his map?

1. Nah, it wasn't marked — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, it was right there on the big map, mate — no support
3. Nah, it wasn't marked on any of the maps, bruv — no support
4. Yeah, it was marked — 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 ✗

Mate, what was the glass mountain like, proper?

1. Really high, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Dead cold and icy, mate — no support
3. Dead slippery, mate, he kept falling off the sides — no support
4. Dead slippery, mate — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, how long did he sit watching, bruh?

1. A whole month, no joke — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A whole year, no joke — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A whole year, no joke, he never got up — no support
4. Two whole years, fam — 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 ✗

Mad, how many times did he shout God be with you?

1. Once, fam — score -1
2. Three times, fam, once at each of the doors — score 2
3. Twice, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Three times, fam — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 549, line 18: «Old word: an "equivocal" answer has two possible meanings, so it leaves you unsure today too.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fam, what were the robbers scrapping over?

1. A magic stick, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A gold cup — no support
3. A golden bowl, mate — no support
4. A magic stick that opens any door, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 772, line 16: «What: the robbers' stick makes any door "immediately" fly open, which is why they are fighting over it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «door» (+2). Against it: 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did the raven leave by his side?

1. Her hair and a glove — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. A ring and a letter — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. A ring — score 2
4. A note — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 435, line 2: «She looks into the water, sees his head floating, and knows her mother has drowned him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «daughter» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, why was the giant grumpy at first?

1. He wanted the gold, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He was starving, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He hadn't eaten in days, proper, mate — no support
4. He was lost, mate — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Like, what did the man reckon the stick could do?

1. Open any door — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Turn lead to gold — no support
3. Open any door it touched, no matter how locked — no support
4. Make him invisible — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 697, line 18: «Why: the minister thinks "What a wife she would make for the king", so he asks for her hand.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «make» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, did the bread and wine ever run out, then?

1. Nah, never, fam — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, never, fam, they stayed full for ages, innit — no support
3. Nah, sometimes, bruv — no support
4. Yeah, it ran out on the last day, fam — ← Mova's choice · score -3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 772, line 1: «The raven finds the man asleep again and cannot wake him, so she leaves a loaf, meat and wine that never run out, a gold ring and a letter.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run out» (+2); the same doer «meat» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Right, so what did the man do after the robbers?

1. Asked who won — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. Went home — score 7
3. Asked why they fought — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Took the stick back — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 350, line 1: «Napoleon leads sixty thousand men over the Alps, where there is no road, and says a man who means to win never says "Impossible."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+2); the same action «win» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arrival?

1. White — no support
2. Jet black with silver trim — no support
3. Black — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Dark grey with a gilded carriage — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, 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: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «many colours» (-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 · right ✓

For what length of time did the man walk through the dark forest before reaching the giant?

1. Fourteen days — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Two days — score 2
3. Twenty days — score 2
4. Nine days — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 741, line 14: «In the cave the bed "was too big for the little tailor", so he crept into a corner.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cave» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the principal obstacle preventing the man from reaching the princess upon the glass mountain?

1. The slippery sides of the mountain and the giant's guards — score -1
2. The thick fog over the valley — no support
3. The slippery sides of the mountain — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. The slippery sides of the mountain that no man could climb without a rope and a long, patient rest — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 682, line 2: «The grateful king offers any gift, so the knight asks for the king's ear, and the king keeps his word and cuts it off.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What property did the robbers' stick possess, according to the account given to the man?

1. It opened any door it touched — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It made the wearer invisible — no support
3. It turned lead into silver — no support
4. It made things fly — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 436, line 14: «The man from the water asks "Wherefore are you weeping so bitterly, O lord King?" and then makes his bargain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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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