Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl
Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 892 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 ✗
Bro, did the priest really get tied up with bark?
- 1. Nah, it was chains round his neck — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was tied with a sock — no support
- 3. Nah, it was silk ropes — no support
- 4. Yeah, strips of bark round his hands and feet — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Ok so who's the frog really?
- 1. Helga, under a spell — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Viking's guard dog — no support
- 3. A normal frog off the moor — no support
- 4. The priest's little brother — 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 ✗
Wait, the frog let him out, right?
- 1. Nah, a dog chewed the door — no support
- 2. Nah, he broke out by himself — no support
- 3. Nah, the Viking let him go — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 4. Yeah, she cut his ropes and lifted the bar — ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 892, line 13: «What: Helga snatches her knife from her girdle and rushes at the priest, crying "Let me get at thee!"», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+5); the same thing acted on «helga» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the ride on a donkey or a horse?
- 1. A goat, no way — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A horse, a proper gallop — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A cow, lol — no support
- 4. A donkey, super slow — 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 ✗
Lowkey, did Helga turn back at sunrise?
- 1. Nah, she stayed a frog all day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, she turned to stone — no support
- 3. Yeah, sunbeam and she's a girl again — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, she turned into a bird — 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 ✗
Bruh, she tried to stab him, right?
- 1. Nah, she gave him a massive hug — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, she sang him a song — no support
- 3. Nah, she handed him some bread — no support
- 4. Yeah, she charged at him with her knife — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · right ✓
So the priest didn't just let her go?
- 1. Yep, he ran off without her — score 4
- 2. Nope, he made the sign of the cross — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Nope, he gave her money — score 3
- 4. Yep, he kicked her out — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 892, line 15: «Why: he makes "the sign of the cross" on her forehead and breast, and she sits before him "like a tame bird".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «priest» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Did the water thing work on her?
- 1. Nah, she just got soaking wet — no support
- 2. Kinda, she dropped her arms and sat like a tame bird — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Nah, she laughed and drank it — score 2
- 4. Nah, she turned into a fish — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 17, line 7: «Alice thinks «perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage» (savage = fierce and cruel) in the kitchen in chapter VI.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «thing» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the roots help the priest?
- 1. Yeah, they grabbed her feet and held her — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, they grew into a fence — no support
- 3. Nah, they tripped him over — no support
- 4. Nah, they fell on the horse — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 883, line 19: «Old word: "decayed wood" means wood that has rotted; here Tiny uses it as her lantern.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «old word» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Where's he taking her, then?
- 1. To Hedeby, to St Ansgarius — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Back to the moor — score 6
- 3. To the blood-stone grove — score 6
- 4. To the Viking's big hall — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 194, line 11: «Why the old woman refuses his money: she is offended that he takes her for a beggar, and she says, "I am thankful to say I do not need it."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+4); the same thing acted on «woman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd he make her sit behind him?
- 1. Cos she was too heavy to ride — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Cos she asked him to — score 1
- 3. Cos the horse liked her more — score -1
- 4. Cos her magic beauty is evil — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 586, line 11: «A witch-stirrup is a knot of hair tied in a horse's mane, which people believed witches made by riding the horse at night.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Did the wife know any of this?
- 1. Nope, she never told the lord — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Nope, she went to sleep — no support
- 3. Yeah, she planned it with Helga — score 6
- 4. Yeah, she helped him escape — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 836, line 14: «The burgomaster's wife says Peter was "quite smitten with Charlotte" when he was young, and that he was saucy and an enthusiast.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «wife» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what's the vibe at the end?
- 1. He prays, and the wood feels like a church — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He cries on his own — no support
- 3. He cheers and dances about — no support
- 4. He goes to sleep on the grass — 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 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what's a girdle even?
- 1. A hat for the head — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A belt round the waist — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A cloak for the back — no support
- 4. A sock for the foot — 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 ✗
Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to his release?
- 1. The horse stables — no support
- 2. The great upper hall — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. The deep stone cellars — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. The hanging gallery — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 892, line 18: «Old word: "immured" means walled up or shut away in a dark place; today we would say locked in.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the transformed woman regain her human form at sunrise?
- 1. Recitation of a holy prayer — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Exposure to the first sunbeam — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Immersion in the spring water — no support
- 4. Removal of the iron bolt — 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 ✗
To which settlement did the priest resolve to convey Helga, so that the enchantment might be lifted?
- 1. The open heath — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Hedeby — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. The blood-stone grove — score 1
- 4. The Viking's castle — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 611, line 3: «The priest decides his wolf-bite scars mean he is a lost wolf-child, so Messua takes him home as her son.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «decide» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Which action of the priest caused Helga to sit meekly before him?
- 1. The strips of bark he wore — no support
- 2. The offer of a horse — no support
- 3. The sign of the cross made upon her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The shout of holy names — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 892, line 15: «Why: he makes "the sign of the cross" on her forehead and breast, and she sits before him "like a tame bird".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sign» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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