Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 4 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 25 of the english 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. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

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 ✓

«the tiger's literally on fire, that's why it's burning bright». What's the best reply?

1. Tigers glow in the dark like a torch — no support
2. It means the tiger is angry and its fur has turned red with rage — no support
3. Yes, it's a real fire in the forest — no support
4. It's imagery: the stripes look like flames — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 2: «Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery. William Blake wrote: «Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night». The tiger is not on fire: i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «orange stripes» (+5); the same action «seem» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★ In «Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches», what do the bridges, houses and hedges show?

1. Things the witches built — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Places the fairies live — no support
3. Things flashing past the train window — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A shopping list — 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 ✗

★★ Which is a simile?

1. She smiled — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her smile was as bright as the sun — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Her smile was the sun — no support
4. The sun smiled down at her and waved hello — 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 ✗

★★★ «Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you.» Which other thing do we know about only by what it does, like the wind?

1. The Moon, which we can see at night — no support
2. A tree, which we can see and touch — no support
3. Gravity, which makes things fall — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. A cat, which we can stroke and hear — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 25, line 4: «Some poems ask big questions. Christina Rossetti wrote: «Who has seen the wind? / Neither I nor you». We never see the wind itself, only what it does to the le…», 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 doer «edward lear» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

★★★ In which pair would the words rhyme for a speaker from Yorkshire but not for a speaker from London?

1. Cat and hat — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Night and bright — no support
3. Cut and put — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Star and are — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓

★★★ «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are.» Which two words rhyme in a standard reading, and why do they match?

1. How and you, both are short — no support
2. Star and are, both end with the same «ar» sound — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Twinkle and little, both end with «le» — no support
4. Wonder and what, both start with «w» — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 11: «Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «end» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓

In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune». What does real poetry also use?

1. Imagery, rhythm and feeling, not only rhyme — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Long lists of numbers — no support
3. Only rhymes that end in «oon» — score 2
4. Nothing else at all, because rhyme is the whole of poetry — no support

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 25, line 11: «Free verse is poetry without regular rhyme; poems use line breaks, imagery and rhythm, not only rhyme.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «line breaks» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

«why's the owl in a boat with a cat, that's not even possible». What kind of poem is it?

1. A true diary — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A science report — no support
3. Nonsense verse, silly on purpose — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A newspaper article — 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 ✗

What would happen to «Faster than fairies» if you read it very slowly, like a lullaby?

1. It would sound even faster and more exciting — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It would become a different poem with new words — no support
3. Nothing would change, it is the same poem — no support
4. You'd lose the rushing train feeling — ✓ 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 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone. What is its mood?

1. Scary and loud — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Sad and lonely — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Happy and excited — no support
4. Funny and silly — 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 ✗

«I wandered lonely as a cloud» — Leo says the poem is about clouds. What's closer?

1. It's about rain falling on the fields — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's about the poet, who felt alone like a drifting cloud — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's a weather report for the hills — no support
4. It's about a lonely cloud that wandered off over the hills and got lost — 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 ✗

Identify the device employed in the line «I wandered lonely as a cloud».

1. Headline — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Onomatopoeia — no support
3. Simile — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Rhetorical question — 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 ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the image of a tiger «burning bright»?

1. The poet is describing a forest fire — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The animal is literally ablaze — no support
3. The image is without meaning — no support
4. The animal's colouring is likened to flame, conveying power and danger — ✓ 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 ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning poetry without regular rhyme.

1. Such writing is prohibited in schools by order of the examination board — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Such poetry is invariably composed by children — no support
3. Such writing is not poetry — no support
4. Such poetry, termed free verse, is nonetheless poetry — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the principal idea conveyed by the lines «Who has seen the wind? / Neither I nor you».

1. That the wind does not exist — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That the wind is visible only to poets — no support
3. That the wind is perceived through its effects rather than seen directly — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. That the poet is blind and therefore unable to perceive the weather — 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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