Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 780 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 ✗
Oi, what did the lady nick off him first, innit?
- 1. the cloak and the sword and all his gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the diamonds from the rock — no support
- 3. the golden ring — no support
- 4. the bird's heart — ✓ the right answer · 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, where did they take him to get the diamonds, like?
- 1. the high moor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the far end of the wood by the castle gate — no support
- 3. the granite rock — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a mountain top — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, what did the giants reckon should happen to him?
- 1. eat him up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. lock him up in the tower — no support
- 3. a cloud should carry him off — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. hang him from the tall tree — 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 ✗
Was he proper sly when he pretended to be asleep, yeah?
- 1. no, he was awake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yes, he lay still like a stone until the giants had gone away — no support
- 3. yeah, he faked it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. yeah, he faked it really well and the giants believed him — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what did he say the king wanted, like the posh salad?
- 1. the finest salad — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. the sweetest greens — score 1
- 3. the rarest herb from the king's own far garden — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. the royal cabbage — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Did the witch get dead greedy and eat it first?
- 1. no, the giant did — no support
- 2. no, she didn't — no support
- 3. yeah, she ate it first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. nah, not her — 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 780, line 19: «The witch, the maid and the lady each eat the bad salad and run "braying" into the court as asses.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+4); the same doer «witch» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
What did he do to his face so nobody clocked him?
- 1. stained it brown — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. washed it clean — score 6
- 3. wore a thick hood and hid under a long dark cloak — no support
- 4. covered it with walnut juice and soot from the fire — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 780, line 18: «He stains his face brown so that "even his mother would not have known him."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «face» (+4); the same property (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Which one got the stripes three times a day, the old witch?
- 1. no, the young one — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. no, the young lady who was kind to him at the castle — no support
- 3. yeah, the old one, the witch with the window — no support
- 4. yeah, the old one — ✓ 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 ✗
Who did he not wanna beat, cos he's soft on her?
- 1. the girl who had been turned into a donkey by the witch — score 2
- 2. the lovely lady who gave him the cloak back — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. the kind old witch — score 2
- 4. the beautiful lady — ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 779, line 10: «The seventh raven says: "O that our little sister would but come! then we should be free." He wants her to come to free them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «little sister» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did he end up at the mill with the asses, like?
- 1. no, he left them home — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. yeah, he took them there — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. yes, he sold them — score 5
- 4. nah, he didn't — 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 387, line 8: «Where: the Ass was left in a stable and worked at the corn-mill and in the forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+4); the same thing acted on «ass» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Was the gold under his pillow, like, a proper trick?
- 1. no, the giants hid the gold beneath the pillow himself — no support
- 2. yes, the heart did it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. yes, the bird's heart did it by casting a spell on him — no support
- 4. yes, the witch did it — 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 779, line 19: «The old woman promises that the bird's heart will bring gold: "you will find a piece of gold under your pillow every morning."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «gold» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Which giant was the one who said let him live?
- 1. the third giant said it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. the cloud — no support
- 3. the eldest — no support
- 4. the second giant said so — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 780, line 16: «The giants say "let him live," and a cloud "caught him in a whirlwind" and carries him away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+1). Against it: the same doer «giants» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following is the principal means by which the huntsman effects his escape from the granite mountain?
- 1. a cloud carrying him away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a sudden flight on wings — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. the lady's secret plan — no support
- 4. the bird's wing — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 82, line 13: ««I don't rib Painted Jaguar» is Kipling's playful spelling for «I don't like» or «I don't trust» him; «a very narrow escape» means they were nearly caught. Hid…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What is the function of the second variety of salad in the narrative?
- 1. it restores him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. it restores his former form — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. it returns his old shape — no support
- 4. it turns him into a bird — 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner does the huntsman discipline the witch and her companions at the close?
- 1. by sending them away — no support
- 2. by making them work at the mill all day — no support
- 3. by assigning them unequal stripes and fodder — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. by assigning them unequal stripes and fodder and then leaving them alone at the mill for good — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 780, line 3: «They trick him onto a granite rock full of diamonds, make him sleep, and leave him there alone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which individual does the huntsman spare from corporal punishment, and for what reason?
- 1. the witch, since she pleaded for mercy — no support
- 2. the lady, from unwillingness to see her beaten and bruised by the miller's stick — score 1
- 3. the lady, from unwillingness to see her beaten — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 4. the servant-maid, because she begged him — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 776, line 11: «The lion's claim: he says "You are mistaken, they are twelve girls", and proposes strewing peas in the ante-chamber.», 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 «twelve girls» (+1). Against it: the same doer «huntsmen» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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