Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 865 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 ✗

Yo, so what job did Sarah have in that house?

1. Basically a nanny, kinda — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Servant, like the maid who cleans the rooms and fetches water — no support
3. Servant, basically the maid — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She was the housekeeper, basically the boss of the whole kitchen crew — 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 ✗

Bruh, why couldn't Sarah just join the church crew?

1. The priest refused her — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Her dad's vow said no baptism — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Church was closed — no support
4. Her mom forbade church — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 865, line 5: «They bury her outside the churchyard wall, but the Christian psalms still echo over her lonely grave.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «words» (+2); the same thing acted on «sarah» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Lowkey, what did the master read that got Sarah all teary?

1. A letter — score 4
2. An old story-book legend — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. A cheap newspaper article — no support
4. A sad song — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 865, line 11: «What the master reads: "an old story-book," a legend about a Hungarian knight taken prisoner by a Turkish pasha.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old story book» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

No cap, what was the knight yoked to?

1. A plough with his oxen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A plough and a team of oxen and his squire's donkey — no support
3. A heavy plough with his oxen in the field by the river — no support
4. A harrow with horses — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, who paid the ransom to free the knight?

1. His wife and his friends — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. His wife and the friends who sold their land for him — score 1
3. His sons and the church — score -1
4. His brother and the bishop — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 859, line 9: «When: they set out "at midnight" and wait for "the dawn of day."», 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 «friends» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fr, what did the knight tell the pasha to do?

1. Go home to his people — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Return to his family — score 3
3. Return to his people and build a church on the border for them — score 2
4. Go home to his people and tell them of the mercy shown to him — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 489, line 11: «In his misery he says "Methinks if the devil himself would give me a bride, I'd take even her!"», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «son» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Be honest, why'd the pasha cry?

1. He couldn't believe such mercy — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He heard bad news — score 0
3. He had just heard his own son had died fighting in the war — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. He was ashamed of how cruelly he had treated the knight for years — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 865, line 15: «Why the pasha weeps: he expected pain and torment, and he has secretly taken poison and asks to hear the Christian teaching.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «pasha» (+2); the same action «hear» (+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 ✗

Wild, what had the pasha hidden on him?

1. Gold coins in a bag — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A letter sealed with the sultan's seal inside his robe — no support
3. Poison, in a little vial — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A small knife, sharp — 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 ✗

Ngl, what did the mistress ask Sarah for?

1. A prayer from her book — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Some reading from her Bible — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Some verses from the Gospels — no support
4. Her letter — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Sus, where did they bury Sarah?

1. In the Jewish cemetery across the river, next to her mother — no support
2. Outside the churchyard wall — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Beside the chapel gate — no support
4. Beyond the village well — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 865, line 5: «They bury her outside the churchyard wall, but the Christian psalms still echo over her lonely grave.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bury» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same place «churchyard wall» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Real talk, what made the neighbors' boys tease her?

1. She carried water for the church — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. She sang in the Jewish choir — score -1
3. She watched through the church door — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. She refused to eat the pork the family offered at the table — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 832, line 10: «Her mother was "a poorly clad woman, who picked up wood in the forest", and Inge felt ashamed of her and turned back.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Last one, what were her mum's dying words?

1. Bury me in the old garden and let not my child become a Christian at all — score 5
2. Let not my child become a Turk — score 5
3. Promise me my child will always remain a Jew and never enter a church — score 5
4. "Let not my child become a Christian" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 828, line 3: «The paper cries "Ugh" as it burns, then its words turn to fire and it shouts that it is mounting up to the sun.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «words» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

In what manner did the Turkish pasha subject the Hungarian knight to captivity?

1. He yoked him to a plough with oxen and made him work the fields every day — score -2
2. He locked him in a tower — no support
3. He yoked him to a plough with oxen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. He sent him to the mines — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 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 865, line 12: «What the pasha does: he "caused him to be yoked with his oxen to the plough" and beaten with the whip.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «yoke» (+3). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same circumstance (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the principal sentiment that moved the pasha to tears?

1. Joy at the knight's return home — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Deep astonishment at the knight's mercy and his willingness to forgive his captor — no support
3. Astonishment at the knight's mercy and forgiveness — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Sorrow that the war had ended and his soldiers had all gone home to their families in the north — 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 · wrong ✗

What did the knight direct the pasha to do upon his release?

1. Return in peace to his loved ones — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Leave the country quietly — no support
3. Return to his wife and children — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. Go in peace — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 717, line 12: «He sent the boy to his trusty friend Elfi Bey because soothsayers warned of danger until the age of twenty-two.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «send» (+3). 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Where was Sarah finally interred, and for what reason?

1. In the churchyard, quietly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Beyond the wall, as she was not a Christian — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Outside the gate, as she was a Jew — no support
4. Beside the wall, as she had wished — 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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