Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine

Tests: 5 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 905 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 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, who was the clown with the hump, innit?

1. Pulcinella — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Scaramouche — no support
3. the Turk who smoked the long pipe — no support
4. the hunchbacked Doctor from Bologna — 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 ✓

Bruv, what made Pulcinella laugh when he was gutted?

1. Columbine kissing a stranger — score 1
2. Columbine whispering she would marry the Turk tomorrow morning — score 1
3. the Turk's pipe and a sudden bell from the tower — no support
4. Columbine saying he was in love — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 905, line 9: «What: Columbine could cheer him up, and once told him "'yes, you're in love!'" which made him laugh.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «love» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, why did the actor cry at the window?

1. he was sick — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he got booed off — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he forgot lines — no support
4. he got hissed off — 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 ✗

Proper, what colour was the little girl's hat, mate?

1. tan — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. mauve — no support
3. pink — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. red — 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 ✗

Lol, what did the little girl reckon the dogs would think?

1. what the dogs would say about her new dress and bonnet and boots — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. what she looked like in her new things — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. whether the whole village would notice her shiny new things today — score -1
4. whether her new hat suited her face — 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 589, line 7: «The old man says "I don't wanter tell you no stories," so he is not sulking for no reason; he thinks the tale is muddled.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3). Against it: the same doer «old man» (-2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice?

1. silver canals — score 5
2. the rippling sunlit waves of the Adriatic sea — no support
3. green water — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. the dark green water of the old canal — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 905, line 16: «Where: In Venice, "the black gondola glides spectrally over the green water" past silent streets.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «glide» (+5); the same place «venice» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, where did the people on the heath walk to?

1. home — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. market — no support
3. church — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. town — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 861, line 9: «Why Rudy is unhappy: He does not feel at home, and he acts as if he were "walking on peas, over a slippery floor."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «home» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead, which city's a floating one?

1. the ancient city of the drowned — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Padua — no support
3. the city on the lagoon — score -4
4. Venice — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 40, line 10: ««People come—they stay for a while, they flourish, they build—and they go. It is their way. But we remain.» (Flourish = do very well.) Badgers were there befor…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «way» (+1); 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower?

1. swoop down to pick up crumbs — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. flutter about the bell-tower all day — no support
3. flutter — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. gather — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 899, line 13: «Old word: "watch-house" means a lockup or police station, where the police take people and animals they have caught.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «catch» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what did the Moon call the tomb of the sea's bridegroom?

1. a great marble palace of the dead — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. mausoleum — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. an enormous stone prison by the sea — score 2
4. monastery — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 504, line 4: «Helios and Hecate hear her cries but cannot help, so Demeter searches for nine days with torches lit at Mount Etna.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+1); the same doer «hecate» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, who did Columbine end up marrying?

1. Brighella — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Lelio — no support
3. Harlequin — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Pierrot — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, what did the nightingale's song sound like it promised?

1. a storm — score 2
2. good fortune — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. rain — score 2
4. a safe return — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 905, line 15: «Where: The caravan heard a nightingale on the heath, a song that "seemed to promise good fortune".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «promise» (+1); the same doer «song» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «good fortune» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Bare cool, what was the Turk smoking?

1. a long pipe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a huge brass pipe from the Orient — no support
3. a long Turkish pipe full of tobacco — no support
4. a tall hat — 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 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit, what was the ship-mast thing the girl leaned on?

1. a rope — no support
2. the old bell rope — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. the mast of victory — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the ship's flag — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 905, line 18: «Old word: "vociferously" means loudly and noisily, and it is rarely used today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which character did the Moon identify as the object of Pulcinella's secret affection?

1. the young Lelio of the theatre company — score 0
2. Pierrot — score 0
3. Columbine — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. Lelio — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 521, line 20: «Old word: "Erebus" was the shadowy underworld realm that gave its name to the dark, and today the word is used in poetry to mean deep darkness.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same action «name» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-3). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What reason did the director give for presenting a merry piece after Columbine's death?

1. to honour the memory of the Turk and his pipe — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. to avoid a riot of angry spectators and the loss of the theatre — no support
3. because the theatre was empty — no support
4. to spare the public from grief — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which feature did the Moon attribute to the spectral city of Venice?

1. a widow's veil of mist over the drowned palaces — no support
2. a silver curtain of rain — ← Mova's choice · score -3
3. a widow's veil of mist — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the cold breath of the lagoon over a sleeping bride — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 512, line 2: «Then the story turns to Selene, the moon, who drives her silver chariot across the sky.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same property (-2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

In which setting did the Moon observe the little girl's delight in her new clothing?

1. a chapel full of candles — no support
2. her bedroom — no support
3. a room lit by the Moon's rays — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. a garden under the stars — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 905, line 14: «Why: The Moon's rays were "not bright enough", so the family called for a candle to see the dress.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ray» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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