Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn
Tests: 6 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 101 of the religion ethics 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 ✓
«Kipling made up Solomon and Balkis for his book» What is true?
- 1. Kipling made up both of them, and nobody had heard of them before 1902 — no support
- 2. They are from a Greek play written by Homer — no support
- 3. Solomon is from Kipling but Balkis is from a film — no support
- 4. Kipling took them from much older stories in the Bible, the Qur'an and legends — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 1: «King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, appears in the Bible, in the Qur'an and in the stories of many peoples. One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Qu…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «bible» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓
A friend says historians have proved every part of the queen's visit. What is fairer?
- 1. Yes, a painting made on the day of the visit was found in Jerusalem — no support
- 2. No, historians have proved there was never a Saba — no support
- 3. Yes, the queen's diary was found in Yemen last year — no support
- 4. Saba was real, but no record outside these books tells of the visit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 3: «Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit. We…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «record» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · right ✓
Why might the queen come with hard questions, not soldiers?
- 1. She wanted to see for herself if his wisdom was real — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Solomon would only let people in who asked riddles — score -1
- 3. Questions were used as the money of those days, instead of coins — score -1
- 4. She had no soldiers left after a war — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 1: «King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, appears in the Bible, in the Qur'an and in the stories of many peoples. One of the best-loved tales is the visit of the Qu…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «rich queen» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
«genies are from Disney lol» What is the longer story?
- 1. Disney made them up for Aladdin and nobody had heard of them before — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They come from the jinn of Arabic belief and old tales like the Thousand and One Nights — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They come from Ancient Egypt, where every pharaoh kept one in a jar — no support
- 4. They come from Kipling, who was the first to write about them — 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 ✗
Ethiopia's emperors said they came from Solomon. What does that show about the story?
- 1. Every king in the world said exactly the same thing about Solomon — no support
- 2. It was only a children's story nobody believed — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. It mattered so much that kings built their family history on it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ethiopia was part of Israel at the time — 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 36, line 13: «A case is a short story given to the teams to discuss, before or during the competition.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «case» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
In the Just So Story, Suleiman tries to show off by feeding all the animals in the world, and a single sea-creature eats it all. What is the lesson?
- 1. Sea animals are greedy and rude — no support
- 2. Showing off can turn into shame — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Big dinners are always a bad idea — no support
- 4. Kings should never feed animals at all — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 12: «The Book of Proverbs, which tradition links with Solomon, says «Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall»; Kipling's Suleiman is asham…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «animals» (+3); the same action «feed» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓
The Butterfly boasts to his wife, and Balkis helps make the boast come true. Why is this kind?
- 1. It punishes his wife for not believing him — score 1
- 2. It makes him the most powerful and feared animal in the whole world — no support
- 3. It saves him from shame, and he learns not to boast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. It shows that boasting always works in the end — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 101, line 13: «In Kipling's tale the Butterfly boasts to his wife that if he stamps his foot Suleiman's palace will vanish, and she tests him by telling him to do it; Balkis…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «boast» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓
Your cousin brags that he can jump over the school. What would a wise friend like Suleiman do?
- 1. Smile and not shame him, and talk to him quietly later — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. Tell everyone he is a liar and stop talking to him — score 9
- 3. Dare him to jump off the school roof to prove it — score 7
- 4. Shout at him in front of the whole class — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 94, line 15: «With a friend who cheats in a small test, talk to them first; it's your judgement whether to tell, but don't lie for them if asked.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «talk» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓
«I felt like the Queen of Sheba» says Nan, after getting new shoes. What does she mean?
- 1. She felt like going on a long journey — no support
- 2. She felt rich and splendid — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. She felt she had to answer hard questions — no support
- 4. She felt tired and old — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 101, line 15: «People still say «I felt like the Queen of Sheba» for feeling rich and splendid, and «a Solomon» for a very wise judge.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «feel» (+3); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★ The queen tested Solomon; the Butterfly's wife tested her husband. What do both tests show?
- 1. A husband is always wiser than his wife — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Kings and butterflies both love riddles — no support
- 3. You should never believe anyone at all — no support
- 4. Testing a claim shows whether it is true — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 14: ««Do not commit adultery» means husbands and wives keep their promise to be faithful to each other.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «husbands» (+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 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
★★★ In the Bible the queen gave Solomon 120 talents of gold. If she had given it in 4 equal loads on her camels' trains, and each load was split equally among 6 camels, how many talents would each camel carry?
- 1. 20 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 24 — no support
- 3. 30 — no support
- 4. 5 — ✓ 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 ✗
Identify the principal object of the visit paid by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, according to the Bible.
- 1. The negotiation of a military alliance against Egypt — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The purchase of horses and chariots for her army — no support
- 3. The arrangement of a marriage between their children — no support
- 4. The testing of his reputed wisdom by means of difficult questions — ✓ 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 ✓
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the historical evidence for the visit?
- 1. The kingdom of Saba is attested, but no independent record of the visit has been found — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The visit is recorded in numerous Egyptian inscriptions — no support
- 3. The visit is proven by the discovery of the queen's tomb in Jerusalem — no support
- 4. The kingdom of Saba has been shown never to have existed — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the teaching of Islam concerning the jinn.
- 1. They are spirits of the dead which return to earth — no support
- 2. They are beings created by God from smokeless fire — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. They are inventions of the Thousand and One Nights alone — no support
- 4. They are angels who dwell in the heavens — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 88, line 6: «At baptism parents and godparents make promises before God and the church; "When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfil it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same action «make» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the name by which the Queen of Sheba is known in the Ethiopian tradition of «The Glory of the Kings».
- 1. Bilqis — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Esther — no support
- 3. Makeda — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Balkis — 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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