--- title: Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling'… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1105 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1105-pg29672-part11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1105 # Russian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 11: the starling's warnings and the boiling water **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1105 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} bro why'd the little tsar keep running in and out? - **1.** cuz he was bored — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** cuz the sister kept making him poke the fire — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** cuz the fire kept going out — no support - **4.** cuz he was hungry — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} ngl the starling kinda snitches on the sister, right? - **1.** nah, it doesn't snitch at all, it just keeps telling him to go slow and watch out for the doors — no support - **2.** yeah, it kinda snitches, cuz it keeps warning him about her and the serpent — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** yes, it warns him about the serpent — score 3 - **4.** nah, it just tells him to go slow — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1105, line 12: «The starling calls "Not so fast, not so fast" each time he hurries, and it warns him about his dogs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «warn» (+2); the same receiver «starling» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} so which bucket fills with blood, lowkey tragic - **1.** the bucket with the cracked side — no support - **2.** the one she fills — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** the one if she cries for the snake — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** the one she fills with tears — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 545, line 19: «Old word: "aghast" means shocked and filled with horror, so Eurystheus "stood aghast" when he saw Cerberus.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fill» (+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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} what even was the whitethorn tree? - **1.** a tree from the bullock's bones — no support - **2.** it grew where the horse fell — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** it grew where the bullock got killed — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** it grew where the bullock got killed, from the blood on the ground and the bones — 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 1105, line 11: «The whitethorn-tree grows where the bullock was slain, "so lovely that it may be told of in tales."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+2); the same doer «whitethorn tree» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} why'd the sister hide the tooth, bruh? - **1.** she pulled it out and dropped it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** she knocked it out, cleaned it off, and stashed it in her dress so the brother wouldn't see — score 4 - **3.** she sold it to the miller — score 4 - **4.** she knocked it out and stashed it — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 951, line 4: «The old queen hides a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down beds to test her.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old queen» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} did the dogs eventually get through all the doors? - **1.** no, they chewed the last door — no support - **2.** yep, all of em, then they rested — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** yep, every single one of them got through, and then they lay down and rested by the fire — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** yep, they got through the walls — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 753, line 4: «The heavy door crashes down on the robbers, who think it is a monster or a murder, run off in terror, and leave all their gold behind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «heavy door» (+2); the same property (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} when he's up in the tree, what's he doing? - **1.** playing his flute — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** eating his bread — no support - **3.** playing his flute while the dogs chew through the doors and the serpent sleeps — no support - **4.** sleeping — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} how did he finally beat the serpent? - **1.** his hounds and horses tore it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** his dogs and beasts tore it apart — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** his dogs and beasts tore it apart after he blew his flute and the serpent fell asleep — score 5 - **4.** his dogs and beasts came out of the mill and tore it apart in the yard at night — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1105, line 4: «He climbs the whitethorn and plays his flute while his dogs race in, and they tear the serpent to bits.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «dogs» (+1); the same thing acted on «serpent» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} what's the deal with the little fox? - **1.** it scattered the ashes to the wind, all four of them, across the fields and the hills — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** it dropped them in the river — no support - **3.** it scattered the ashes to the wind — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it scattered the ashes to the wind and then ran off into the forest to hide — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} so he totally ditches his sister, fr? - **1.** yeah, cuz she was a fake friend who cried over the serpent and not over him — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, cuz he's a jerk to her — no support - **3.** yeah, cuz she was a fake friend — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, he ditches her, cuz she was a fake friend and he's just done with the whole family — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} what's the last place he rides to? - **1.** a city with one spring and a dragon — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a city with one spring and a dragon that guards the water at the gate and the wall — no support - **3.** a town with a river and a bridge — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** a city with one spring and a dragon, and no other water for a hundred miles — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 973, line 8: «The princess believes she is cured because she thinks the watering-place is wonderful, and "watering-place" means a spa town where people went to take the wate…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «spa town» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} so what happens if you go for water in that city? - **1.** the dragon rises and eats you — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** the dragon rises up from the water and swallows you, bones and boots and all, in one bite — no support - **3.** the dragon chases you home — no support - **4.** the dragon rises out of the spring and eats you whole, and the city never sees you again — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 638, line 9: «The dragon thinks "I should like to eat you instead of these silly acid drops," while he outwardly wags his tail and smiles a very wide smile.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+3). Against it: the same doer «dragon» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} why's the dragon such a big deal anyway? - **1.** it's the only spring the city has — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** it's the city's main well — no support - **3.** it's the only spring the city has, so everyone has to go there and the dragon eats them — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** it's the only spring the city has left since the old well dried up and the river went bad — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 660, line 17: «Edmund was glad that "dragon and drakling would now have plenty to eat".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+1). Against it: the same doer «dragon» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} what made him cry at the mill, bro? - **1.** his dogs were stuck behind the doors of the mill, and his sister laughed at his tears — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** his dogs were stuck behind the doors — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** his dogs were stuck behind the doors and he could hear them barking, and he couldn't help — score 1 - **4.** his sister had bolted the mill door — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1105, line 1: «The sister tricks her brother into fetching meal from a mill with twelve doors, and his dogs get shut in.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «sister» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which object did the sister conceal after the destruction of the serpent? - **1.** the dragon's scale — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** the serpent's tooth — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** the tooth — score 6 - **4.** the bullock's horn — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 699, line 6: «Who: Lineik is the true princess, and she hides in a tree in the prince's room while she sews.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «lineik» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What was the purpose of the two buckets suspended upon the whitethorn-tree? - **1.** to reveal whether the sister grieved for her brother or for the snake — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** to indicate whether the sister lamented her brother or the serpent — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** to show whether the sister mourned her brother or the monster — no support - **4.** to indicate whether the sister lamented her brother or the serpent after the bloody fight in the yard at dawn — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} By what means were the serpent's remains destroyed? - **1.** by the hunters who cut it with swords — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 - **2.** by the dogs and beasts tearing it to pieces on command — **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **3.** by the dogs and beasts that crushed its bones at dawn — score 4 - **4.** by the dogs and beasts tearing it to pieces on command, after the flute had lulled it to sleep — score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1103, line 18: «Old word: "caparisoned" means dressed in rich horse trappings, like the "gorgeously caparisoned" horse at midnight.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+6); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What circumstance obliged the city to depend upon a single spring? - **1.** drought — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** the drought that dried all the other springs — no support - **3.** the absence of any other source of water — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** the lack of a second river — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1027, line 8: «why: The house was built from the stones of Marck Stig's castle, which "was obliged to be pulled down."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «oblige» (+3); the same thing acted on «castle» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1105-pg29672-part11/e4/) - ← previous: [1104. Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1104-pg29672-part10/) - next →: [1107. Russian Folk-Tales, The Vampire and St Michael,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1107-pg29672-part13/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)