Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii
Tests: 0 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 903 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 the moon just ghosted us lol, where even was he?
- 1. Behind the thick red morning clouds, hiding from the narrator — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hiding in the dark clouds over the sea, far from the narrator's window — no support
- 3. Lost beyond the far hills tonight — no support
- 4. Behind thick clouds, so no show — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
no cap, what's the vibe of that Greenland part?
- 1. Chill dance, then a dope roast court where everyone got mocked — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Lit party, then a fun fishing trip — no support
- 3. Calm drumming, then a wild hunt by the sea — no support
- 4. Chill dance, then a dope roast court — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
lowkey sad, right? the dude wanted to be buried where?
- 1. In the snow, near his old house — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. In the sea, like waves for his grave, no cap — no support
- 3. On land, lol — no support
- 4. In the sea, like waves for his grave — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
bet, the old maid's wrapper, what color was it again?
- 1. Blue silk, always torn — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yellow satin, always new — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Green velvet, freshly washed — no support
- 4. Black wool — 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 ✗
sus fr, why did the van go zooming like that?
- 1. A cart hit a wall, horses ran — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He lost control — no support
- 3. Scared horses — no support
- 4. The coachman got scared, lashed the horses — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
why'd the lark keep pecking the straw, fam?
- 1. She was hunting for the seeds — no support
- 2. She wanted to tear the covering — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. She tried to break the coffin lid — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. She was hungry — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 377, line 14: «The larks get ready: "There was much fluttering and trying out of wings that afternoon."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «larks» (+1). Against it: the same action «try out» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
bruh, which place did the Moon show next?
- 1. Herculaneum, the Forum Gate — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Vesuvius, the high slopes above the buried city of Pompeii — score 1
- 3. Pompeii, the Street of Tombs near the old gate — score 3
- 4. Pompeii, the Street of Tombs — ✓ the right answer · 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 903, line 3: «Next he tells of an old maid who dies; her coffin rides off in a van that bolts when a hare startles the young horses.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town?
- 1. Marched through the town at dawn — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Gambled away their pay playing cards and dice all night long — score 3
- 3. Sang songs in the quiet square — score 0
- 4. Played cards and dice all night — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 699, line 5: «The princes march on Blauvor's town, she is beheaded, and Lineik and Laufer both find happy husbands.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «town» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
be so for real, how far was the family tomb?
- 1. Seven miles from the town — no support
- 2. Near her home — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. Two miles off — no support
- 4. Six miles from her house — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 171, line 19: «Old word: "sepulchre" means a burial place or stone tomb, and today we would just say a grave or a tomb.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «burial place» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
lmao, what does the volcano do in the story?
- 1. Rumbles like a distant drum — no support
- 2. Sleeps — no support
- 3. Smokes — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Thunders like an endless hymn — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 91, line 12: «Pau Amma is a King Crab, so big that «One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched the beach at Pahang», and he was taller than…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «three volcanoes» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
ok real talk, what's the Moon's whole deal here?
- 1. He sings songs — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He tells tales of human life — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He watches over the sea — no support
- 4. He warns of the storms — 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 ✗
deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip?
- 1. The final walk home — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Her trip — no support
- 3. The short ride to town — no support
- 4. The long journey — ✓ 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which natural body is the narrator's informant in the extract, and by what means does he communicate his observations?
- 1. The sea, by whispering tales of the old hunters — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Moon, by telling tales and describing scenes of human life in every town he passes — no support
- 3. The wind, by carrying songs over the hills at night — no support
- 4. The Moon, by telling tales and describing scenes — ✓ 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Describe the manner in which the funeral van departs and what consequences ensue along the public highway.
- 1. It departs briskly and the coffin is thrown onto the road — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It speeds off quickly, and the horses bolt down the hill — no support
- 3. It rolls off fast and the family follows on foot behind — no support
- 4. It departs briskly along the high-road, and the coffin is thrown out onto the road in the crash — 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 ✓
State the chief reason the narrator withdraws at the close of the coffin episode.
- 1. The red morning clouds conceal him as the lark sings — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Clouds of the sunrise hide the moon from the lark's song — no support
- 3. He is tired — no support
- 4. The dark night ends and the sun rises over the frozen hills — 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 · wrong ✗
Identify the location in which the Moon describes the silent city of the dead.
- 1. Vesuvius, on the slopes above the buried city of Pompeii and its tombs — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Pompeii, in the Street of Tombs — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Pompeii, in the Street of Tombs beside the old city gate — no support
- 4. Greenland, on the frozen coast — 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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