Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north
Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 965 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, Jurgen went full psycho with a knife over a plate, right?
- 1. Yeah, he got real angry and chucked the knife into the sea, bruv — score 1
- 2. Yeah, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, but he said sorry, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nah, he was dead calm the whole time and never even picked up the knife, bruv, honest — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 965, line 13: «Jurgen apologises and says, "Hit me in the face! I deserve it."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, why was Jurgen so gutted about Else?
- 1. Else ditched him — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Martin got her — no support
- 3. Martin went behind his back and stole the girl he loved — no support
- 4. Martin nicked her — ✓ 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 ✗
Was Jurgen's foster-dad already proper poorly in the boat?
- 1. Nah, he was actually fine until they reached the reef, then fever hit him hard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was properly ill with a high fever and couldn't move — no support
- 3. Nah, he was just tired — no support
- 4. Yeah, fever got him bad — ✓ the right answer · 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Jurgen actually drown anyone out at sea?
- 1. Nah, he saved two — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he drowned two — no support
- 3. Yeah — no support
- 4. Nope, he just chilled — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Jurgen got the house, innit? Was it massive?
- 1. Nah, small but still something — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, massive — no support
- 3. Nah, it was a shed — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Yeah, pretty big one — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 738, line 18: «Old word: a "coach-house" is a shed for carriages, which today we would call a garage.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «shed» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where's Old Skjagen, like, ridiculously far?
- 1. Down south — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Right up north in Jutland — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Right up in Norway — no support
- 4. Over in Sweden, mate — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd Jurgen wanna bounce from the dunes?
- 1. His foster-father had died and he couldn't stand the empty house — score 1
- 2. He wanted to see the world — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. He was bored with fishing — no support
- 4. He had fallen out with Martin and wanted to escape the village — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 965, line 10: «Jurgen and Martin are friends, and they take service together in a ship to Norway and then to Holland.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «jurgen» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin?
- 1. Martin, he's her friend — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Jurgen, because Martin was always rude to her and mean — no support
- 3. Neither, she liked the old fisherman much more than both boys — no support
- 4. Martin, she's his girl — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 965, line 10: «Jurgen and Martin are friends, and they take service together in a ship to Norway and then to Holland.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «friends» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Was Jurgen a total nerd or a clever one?
- 1. Clever, the cleverest of the two — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Clever, but not the brightest — no support
- 3. A total nerd who spent all his time reading old books at night — no support
- 4. Clever, though Martin was the one who always got the top marks at school — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did Martin clock that Jurgen was salty?
- 1. Nah, he didn't clock it at all because he was too busy fishing — no support
- 2. Nah, he didn't clock it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, he saw the knife and told the whole village about it — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Nah, he was just angry — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 965, line 12: «Jurgen raises his pocket-knife, and Martin only says, "Fond of using the knife!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «jurgen» (+3); the same thing acted on «pocket knife» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was it a long winter after the summer?
- 1. Nah, just rainy and grey — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, mega snow and cold — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, the winter was mild and warm and the sea stayed calm all along the coast — no support
- 4. Yeah, it was a long freezing winter with loads of snow and ice — 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 ✓
Did the sharks grab the best swimmers, bro?
- 1. Nah, they just swam off — no support
- 2. Yeah, they dragged them down — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Yeah, sure — no support
- 4. Yeah, they bit the swimmers — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 965, line 9: «In spring the sea is dangerous, because the sharks "seize the best swimmer, draw him down, and devour him."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «best swimmer» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what colour was Else's hair?
- 1. Golden, like wheat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Brown — no support
- 3. Flaxen, like sunshine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Dark, like wet sand — 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 did Jurgen do after the quarrel with Martin?
- 1. He returned to his work without speaking — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. He ran away — score 1
- 3. He challenged Martin to a fight — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. He left the village that night — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 899, line 2: «That night he sneaks out, kisses the Metal Pig, and finds Bellissima, the little dog, following him in the cold without her lambskin coat.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «boy» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which description accurately characterises Else's appearance?
- 1. She was pale, fair, and flaxen-haired — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. She was tall, dark, and freckled — no support
- 3. She was fair but very thin — no support
- 4. She was flaxen-haired and tall, with a dark coat and worn leather boots — 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 ✓
What was the principal reason Jurgen resolved to depart for Old Skjagen?
- 1. He wished to flee his grief — no support
- 2. He sought to experience the wider world — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. To escape Martin — no support
- 4. He sought to find his lost father — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 965, line 14: «Else tells Jurgen she is Martin's lover, and Jurgen feels "as if the loose sand was giving way under his feet."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the old fisherman predict regarding Jurgen's future?
- 1. He would marry a fisher's girl — no support
- 2. He would stay with the fishermen — ✓ the right answer · score -6
- 3. He would leave the village and never return to the fishermen or the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. He would sail to the north — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 341, line 6: «Who: King Alfred, the queen, one servant, and the fishermen who went out to catch fish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 2, scored -6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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