Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair

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

Lesson 785 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 ✗

Mate, so the golden hair, was it actually shiny gold?

1. Yes, it was very bright — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, it was just a pale brown colour, the same as the hair of his brothers — no support
3. Yes, it shone like the sun — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No, it was only a dull yellow colour, like straw from the barn — 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 ✗

Wait, why did the boy keep his cap on in the palace, bro?

1. He was hiding a bald patch — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. To hide it — score 3
3. He had gold hair under it — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. It was to keep warm — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 739, line 14: «Why the prince returns: "his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest," so he keeps coming back to listen.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, what did the princess want from the boy, innit?

1. a bunch of wild flowers — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a wreath of flowers — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a rose — score 3
4. a basket of cherries — score 3

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 778, line 17: «The little girl is so weak and small at her christening that people think she will not live, but she grows strong and beautiful.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «little girl» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

No way, what did the boy do with the ducats he got?

1. gave the ducats back to the princess and asked for a better reward — score 7
2. gave them to the gardener's kids — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. bought sweets for the village — score 1
4. gave all the ducats to the gardener's children, who were very poor and hungry — ← Mova's choice · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 785, line 14: «She gives him ducats, but he gives them to the gardener, who keeps them for his children to play with.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «ducats» (+3); the same receiver «boy» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «give» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what kind of horse did the boy ride off on?

1. a bay horse with no saddle — score 1
2. an old pony with a bad leg — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. a lame mare — score 2
4. a lame one that limped — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 252, line 3: «The children ride away merrily on a cock-horse; one ruffian grows sorry, but the other insists, and they fight, and the kinder one kills him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «children» (+3). Against it: the same action «ride away» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, who did the boy shout for in the forest?

1. the old wild man who had lived in the forest since he was a child — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Hans — score 2
3. Iron Hans — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. the strange iron man who lived in the deep forest — score 3

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 682, line 5: «A boy shoots a bird in the forest, gets lost, and saves a magician from wolves; the magician takes him in, and the boy wins the magician's horse as his reward.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «forest» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, why did the boy get kicked out of the forest?

1. his hair fell in the well — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. he dropped it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. he lost his cap — score 3
4. he broke the magic well — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 311, line 17: «What wakes her: the window blows open, and a boy drops to the floor with "a strange light, no bigger than your fist."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+2); the same action «drop» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, what did the cook do when the king went mad at him?

1. he passed the boy to the gardener — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. he sent him away — score 5
3. he gave the boy to the steward — score 6
4. he beat the boy — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 722, line 4: «The king sends the friend away on a message and tricks the prince into leaving without him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); the same thing acted on «prince» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, what did the boy have to bring the princess the first time?

1. a small bunch of roses — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. a wreath of silver coins — score 4
3. a wreath of flowers — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. a bunch of wild daisies — 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 115, line 14: «The maid: she is "the lady's maid" who takes John to the princess by the hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1); the same receiver «princess» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Proper, what did the boy tie round his head in the forest?

1. a bandage — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. his woollen scarf — score 4
3. his silk neckerchief — score 4
4. his pocket-handkerchief — ✓ the right answer · 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 772, line 2: «The man wakes, reads the letter and sets off to find Stromberg, walking fourteen days through a dark, gloomy forest.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3); the same place «dark gloomy forest» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, what did the boy say about the wild flowers?

1. the garden ones have less scent — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the garden ones have a fine scent but the wild ones have more colour and light — no support
3. the wild ones have a stronger scent because they grow freely in the forest — no support
4. the wild ones have more scent — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mad, what were the soldiers in the forest dressed in?

1. steel — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. armour made of iron — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. heavy dark chain mail — no support
4. shining silver helmets — 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 ✗

Which of the following was the boy forbidden to allow into the gold well?

1. any foreign object whatsoever — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. any leaf, twig, or wet stone that the wind might blow into the water — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. dust from the forest floor — no support
4. any stone or leaf — 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 289, line 20: «fact: The Snowdrops' song is about a swing, and a boy blowing "soap-bubbles" from a "clay-pipe" while a black dog barks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «blow» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). 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 ✗

Which of the following describes the boy's consequence for failing the third trial?

1. he was banished — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he had to go home — no support
3. he was dismissed from the forest — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he lost his golden hair — 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 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following was the reason the boy declined the ducats offered by the princess?

1. he gave them back to the princess and asked for a bowl of soup instead — score 6
2. he kept them for himself — score 5
3. he gave them to the gardener's children — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. he spent them on a horse — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 785, line 14: «She gives him ducats, but he gives them to the gardener, who keeps them for his children to play with.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «boy» (+3); the same receiver «ducats» (+3); the same action «give» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following best describes the outcome of the boy's request for a steed at the forest's edge?

1. he was offered a lame horse first but then chose a mighty strong steed that could carry him far — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. he received a horse of great strength — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. he got a horse that was weak — no support
4. he was given a small pony that could not carry him very far at all — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 785, line 12: «The cook sends the boy away and the gardener takes him, so he is passed from one job to another.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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