Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins

Tests: 1 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 782 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 wait, what's this dude even trying to learn?

1. how to dance — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. how to shudder — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. how to fight ghosts — no support
4. how to nap — 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

no way, the castle's haunted?

1. never heard of it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. | *yeah, for real — no support
3. totally not — no support
4. nah, it's a shop — ✓ the right answer · 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 767, line 4: «He brings the gold out, the dogs vanish, and on his way to Rome he hears frogs in a marsh croaking a secret that makes him sad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

bruh, did the cats just ask for cards?

1. yeah, lowkey wild — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. yeah, they did, bro — no support
3. nah — no support
4. nope — 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 ✗

is the youth actually scared of anything?

1. yeah, the cats and dogs and the bed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, the chains, dude — no support
3. nope, not one thing — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nope, not one thing, not even the mountain bed — 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 ✗

what did the king promise, like, for real?

1. his daughter to marry and a whole kingdom — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. his daughter to marry — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. half his kingdom, bro — score 3
4. his youngest daughter to marry, for real, no cap — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 776, line 1: «A prince leaves his sweetheart a ring and rides home, where his dying father makes him promise to marry another princess.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «marry» (+5). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

how many nights he gotta stay, fam?

1. all three nights, no leaving early, fam — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. three nights — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a week, fam — no support
4. three nights, every single one — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, the bed just went rogue?

1. yeah, it moved — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. nah, it's still — no support
3. yeah, it moved on its own — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. yeah, it fell over, bro — score 2

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 103, line 18: «The bed "travelled all round the castle" and then "overset, bottom upward."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «travel» (+4); the same doer «bed» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

why'd the youth cut the dogs' chains?

1. to free them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. cos they were too loud — no support
3. cos they bit — no support
4. cos they went too far — ✓ 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 ✗

so the dude gets crushed by a mountain bed?

1. yeah, but he got hurt — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, but he got back up and kept going — no support
3. yeah, but he got back up — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, he's crushed — 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 ✗

why'd the guy in the castle say he's cool with the bench?

1. cos he sat there first — no support
2. cos it's his, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos it's mine — no support
4. cos he sat on it, bro — ← Mova's choice · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 104, line 7: «Where: a castle at night, where he sits on a bench by the fire, singing "If I could but shiver!"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+1). Against it: a different doer (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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the skulls end up round, mate?

1. yeah, he turned them proper on the lathe, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. yeah, he turned them proper — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. yeah, he turned them, bro — score 5
4. nah, they stayed square, mate — 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 104, line 9: «The ninepins: the men bring "nine thigh-bones and two skulls", and he turns the skulls round on his lathe so they roll well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same thing acted on «skulls» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

so did he lose all his money in the end?

1. nah, none — no support
2. nah, all — no support
3. nah, he kept it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. yeah, some of it — ✓ the right answer · 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 758, line 6: «WHO: Hans and his wife Elsie, a farmer and his servant, a little dwarf, and a miser who keeps his money tight.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «money» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

what's the vibe at midnight in that castle?

1. everything's dark and it's wild — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. everything vanishes, it's wild, and the cats come back — no support
3. everything vanishes, it's wild — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. everything vanishes, it's wild and the bed moves — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

In which location does the youth keep his vigil during the night?

1. inside the royal palace — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. in the dark stables — score 0
3. in the haunted castle — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. at the gate — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 276, line 4: «In the morning the girl complains that something hard kept her awake all night and that she is black and blue all over.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. 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 ✓

What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual who completes the vigil?

1. his daughter in marriage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. half the royal treasury — no support
3. his youngest daughter in marriage and a dowry — score 3
4. half the kingdom and his daughter in marriage — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 222, line 7: «Who is the king? A monarch with a large kingdom, who says "My kingdom is large, and filled with fair cities."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «king» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What object does the youth employ to shape the skulls employed in the game?

1. the iron hammer — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a lathe — no support
3. the turning lathe — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a sharp carving knife — 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 · right ✓

At what hour does the apparition of the castle's occupants come to an end?

1. at twelve o'clock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. at dawn — no support
3. at twelve o'clock exactly, by the bell — no support
4. when the cock crows — 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

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