Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 999 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, who's the dude getting roasted on stage in Athens?
- 1. Zeno — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Plato — no support
- 3. Socrates — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Euripides — 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 ✓
Bro, which guy is blind but still writes poems for cash?
- 1. Virgil — no support
- 2. Hesiod — no support
- 3. Ovid — no support
- 4. Homer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -7
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 999, line 2: «In Athens, Socrates is mocked on stage, and blind Homer recites poems to earn his bread.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-3); the same doer «blind homer» (-4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, whose slave is begging on the palace steps?
- 1. Petrarch — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Camoens — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Lope — score 7
- 4. Dante — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 106, line 18: «What: The prince offers money and begs the dwarfs for the coffin, and they give it to him only because they "had pity on him".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «beg» (+5); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff?
- 1. The inventor Solomon de Cares himself — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The guy in the madhouse who says steam pushes stuff, Solomon de Cares — no support
- 3. Johann Müller — no support
- 4. Solomon de Cares — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Okay but who got iron chains for finding the new world?
- 1. The navigator who sailed west for Spain and got chained — no support
- 2. Columbus — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Magellan — no support
- 4. The Genoese sailor who found the Americas — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 999, line 12: «Columbus is followed and jeered by street boys, yet he "has discovered" a new world.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Dude, who stamped and yelled "Yet it moves!"?
- 1. The Italian astronomer who got in trouble — no support
- 2. The old scientist from Pisa who stamped his foot — no support
- 3. Galileo — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Descartes — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 999, line 13: «Galileo sits "Blind and deaf" in the dark and stamps the ground, saying "Yet it moves!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stamp» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, who got burned as a witch, the White Lily lady?
- 1. The peasant girl who led the French armies — no support
- 2. Marie — score 2
- 3. Joan of Arc — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The maid from Domrémy who carried the banner — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 999, line 15: «Joan of Arc is burned as a witch, and Voltaire later mocks her in "La Pucelle."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «burn» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere?
- 1. The astronomer who moved to Prague for the emperor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Copernicus — no support
- 3. The Danish guy who left for Prague — no support
- 4. Tycho Brahe — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, what stopped Fulton's boat before the nail broke?
- 1. A loose hook — score 1
- 2. A little nail — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. A small bolt — score 1
- 4. A nail — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 999, line 5: «Robert Fulton's ship stops, the crowd laughs, then a little nail breaks and the ship sails on.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ok sus, what did the crowd do when the boat stopped?
- 1. Shouted and clapped — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cheered and yelled — no support
- 3. Cheered — no support
- 4. Laughed and whistled — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fr, where is Griffenfeldt chained up?
- 1. On Munkholm island — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. On a remote island, chained up by the king's men — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. On Bornholm island — no support
- 4. On the lonely island of Munkholm near the sea — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 337, line 10: «Who is Nana? The family dog, who is chained up, and who is "wiser than he" in Mr. Darling's own opinion.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «chain up» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, who wrote "La Pucelle" to make fun of Joan?
- 1. Racine — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Diderot — no support
- 3. Voltaire — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The French writer François-Marie Arouet — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, what did the thistle show, and for who?
- 1. For beauty — score 6
- 2. A flower on a grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. A purple flower on a grave, for the dead — score 7
- 4. A flower on a grave for the poet's memory — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 999, line 14: «Why do the thorny road and the thistle matter? The thistle shows a flower "only to adorn the grave."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «thistle» (+4); the same action «show» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which figure is described as blind while reciting verses for his livelihood?
- 1. Homer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pan — no support
- 3. Hesiod — no support
- 4. Bard — 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 · wrong ✗
What was the reward bestowed upon Columbus by his contemporaries?
- 1. He was given a title and a pension — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was rewarded with iron chains — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He was honored with a royal statue — no support
- 4. He was rewarded with iron chains and exile to a distant prison — 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 mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and weather?
- 1. Steam — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A paddle wheel — no support
- 3. A steam engine — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A sail — 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 · right ✓
For what purpose does the thistle display its flower, according to the passage?
- 1. To adorn the grave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 2. To feed the bees — no support
- 3. For beauty — no support
- 4. To catch the sun — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 999, line 14: «Why do the thorny road and the thistle matter? The thistle shows a flower "only to adorn the grave."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «grave» (+6); the same action «adorn» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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