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# Russian Folk-Tales, Tremsin and the Bird Zhar, part 15: the impossible sea task

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**Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1109 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.

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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/1109-pg29672-part15/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro, what's the shiny thing Tremsin grabs?

- **1.** a long silver spear that was lying near the Bird Zhar's cage — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a shiny golden feather from the Bird Zhar's nest on the hill — no support
- **3.** a feather from the old horse — no support
- **4.** a feather from the Bird Zhar — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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lol why were the servants so salty at Tremsin?

- **1.** he was taller than them — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **2.** his horse was shinier than theirs — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **3.** he was too lazy — no support
- **4.** he won the horse race — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 1109, line 18: «Tremsin and his horse keep to each other's words, and the horse calls the work "not a task, but a trifle".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same circumstance (-1); the same doer «tremsin» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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ngl, what did the nobleman threaten to do?

- **1.** lock him in the tower until the king comes back — no support
- **2.** chop off his head and throw it into the river — score 3
- **3.** chop off his head — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** cut off his arm — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1002, line 13: «He threatens her with "I will draw my sword and cut off your head," and then he does exactly that.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «cut off» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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where does Tremsin catch the Bird Zhar, for real?

- **1.** out on the wild steppes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** on the rocky hills — score 6
- **3.** in the dry desert — score 6
- **4.** in the forest — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 675, line 1: «The prince lets his hawk fly, it catches the bird, and inside it he finds the sparrow, just as the old woman said.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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deadass, how does he finally grab the Bird Zhar?

- **1.** grabbed her by the wing — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** grabbed her by both legs — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** pulled her by the tail — no support
- **4.** grabbed her by one leg — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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how does Nastasia get knocked out?

- **1.** a big cup of wine and brandy served in the tent by the sea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a sleeping drink mixed with wine and brandy in the tent — no support
- **3.** wine and brandy in the tent — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** tea and sweet bread in the hut — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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real talk, who helps Tremsin out at the sea?

- **1.** a gull and her chicks — no support
- **2.** a fish — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** a crab only — score -2
- **4.** a crab and her young ones — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 801, line 8: «WHERE: he climbs rocks by the wood until he stands above the sea.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «sea» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «king» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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what's the coral thing Nastasia wants?

- **1.** her gold ring — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** her little coral necklace — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** her small amber brooch — no support
- **4.** a silver comb — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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wait, what's the last ask, for real?

- **1.** her herd of wild horses — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** her herd of wild oxen — no support
- **3.** her white horse — no support
- **4.** her whole herd of wild horses from the sea waves — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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what does the horse want Tremsin to buy?

- **1.** twenty silk cloths and twenty poods of pitch for the boat — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** twenty hides and pitch — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** twenty hides and twenty poods of pitch and flax — score 2
- **4.** twenty sacks and salt — score 2

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**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 452, line 4: «A Little-Russian old man buys a "thank you" for a purse of gold.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «buy» (+1); the same doer «russian old man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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fr, how is all the stuff stacked on the horse?

- **1.** a hide, then flax, then tar — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a hide, then tar, then flax — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a hide and tar first, then flax and more hides piled high — no support
- **4.** a hide, then tar, then flax, all in turns on top — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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what sea sign does the horse talk about?

- **1.** a big red wave rolling toward the shore with a roar — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** a big red wave — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** a small red wave — score 2
- **4.** a big white wave — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 693, line 17: «Old word: "dumb" once meant unable to speak, as the people take the captive for "a dumb man of the woods"; today it mostly means stupid.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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after the red wave, what's the move?

- **1.** run home — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** wait, then stand and wave — no support
- **3.** run off, then sit and watch — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** sit, then run and hide — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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bet, what does the horse do first?

- **1.** plunges deep into the cold sea and swims away — score 3
- **2.** plunges into the river — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** plunges into the sea — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** runs into the field — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1109, line 17: «The horse plunges into the sea, and Tremsin must run from "a large red wave" and wait for "a white wave".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «horse» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «plunge» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/t14/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which object does the youth pick up in the land of Thrice Ten?

- **1.** the sword of the nobleman — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** the golden feather of the Bird Zhar from her high nest in the hills — score 9
- **3.** the feather of the Bird Zhar — **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** the glowing feather of the Bird Zhar lying on the ground — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1072, line 2: «Mac an Da'v grumbles that Mongan learned nothing in the Land of Promise but eating and doing nothing, and Mongan snaps back.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «land» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+4); the same action «learn» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 9. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which creature assists Tremsin in recovering the coral necklace?

- **1.** a gull with her chicks — score 1
- **2.** a crab with her young — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** a crab — score 1
- **4.** a fish — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**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 990, line 5: «The mouse-king calls the soup strange, and the second mouse, raised in a library, sets off to find wisdom among the ants.», 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1109-pg29672-part15/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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What quantity of hides was the horse instructed to procure?

- **1.** twenty hides of fine leather from the market — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** ten hides — no support
- **3.** twenty hides — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** two hides — no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Subsequent to the passage of the red wave, what course of conduct is prescribed?

- **1.** withdraw up the beach, then sit down and keep careful watch — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** advance, then sit and keep watch — no support
- **3.** withdraw, then stand and wave — no support
- **4.** withdraw, then sit and keep watch — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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/1109-pg29672-part15/e4/)

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