--- title: Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell and the p… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1134 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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/1134-pg29672-part40/) [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/) / 1134 # Cossack Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the whip breaks the spell and the princess becomes human **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1134 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/1134-pg29672-part40/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} ok so who actually kissed the pig in the end, bruh? - **1.** The under-herdsman who made the whip — no support - **2.** Ivan Golik — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** Golik — score 4 - **4.** The princess — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 262, line 15: «"Dame" once meant a respected elderly woman or a lady; today it is mostly used in stories and for titles.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «stories» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1134-pg29672-part40/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait the princess was just chilling with her tea and laughing, right? - **1.** Nope, she cried — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yup, lowkey roasting them — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yup, she was just chilling — no support - **4.** Nah, she was sad — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 326, line 2: «The boys go home in the dinghy, and the mermaids laugh when they call for Peter and Wendy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+4); the same doer «mermaids» (+2). 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/1134-pg29672-part40/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} no cap, what did Ivan even make the whip out of? - **1.** Rope and tar, like thirty poods — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Hemp and pitch, like forty poods — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** Rope, mostly — score 2 - **4.** Hemp and pitch, plus a bunch of iron from the smithy — score 2 **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 425, line 12: «How: Ivan throws a glove, then the other glove, then his cap, and the cap makes the hut's beams fall apart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3). Against it: the same doer «cap» (-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/1134-pg29672-part40/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} why did the prince say it was cringe, like, what's the drama? - **1.** It's just boring — no support - **2.** He had to kiss a boar — score 1 - **3.** Pigs are gross — no support - **4.** Kissing a pig is so sus — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1134, line 11: «Ivan says, "It needs must be so!" meaning the prince has no choice but to kiss the pig.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kiss» (+2); the same thing acted on «pig» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1134-pg29672-part40/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} fr though, how did the whip thing even end? - **1.** It flicked the pig to bits — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It whipped the pig so hard that it fell apart in the courtyard — no support - **3.** It flicked the pig to bits and the serpents ran off in a hurry — no support - **4.** It knocked the pig down — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 251, line 7: «WHAT: The Evil Things pull her down, and she is "dead and buried in the bog" under a big stone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pull down» (+2); the same doer «evil things» (+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/1134-pg29672-part40/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} so the serpents bounced when the pig broke, yeah? - **1.** Nah, they stayed — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Yes, they all stayed calm — score 3 - **3.** No, they stayed put — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, they bolted hard — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1111, line 9: «Why: she must stay a serpent, so she begs him to "pray to God for poor me."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «serpent» (+1). 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/1134-pg29672-part40/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} bro, where did Ivan sleep then? - **1.** In the pig-sty — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** In a barn — score 6 - **3.** He slept in the garden — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** He slept in the stable — score 6 **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 461, line 13: «fact: When the honey is applied, the dead man sits up and says "How long I have slept!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sleep» (+4); the same doer «dead man» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1134-pg29672-part40/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} lol the princess had a rough day, right? - **1.** Yes, she was flicked and cured — no support - **2.** Yeah, she got flicked by the whip and then sat down to tea again — no support - **3.** Yeah, she got flicked and turned back — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, she got flicked and turned back into a woman, so it was a good day — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 177, line 4: «The genius falls as a heap of ashes, but the princess is burned too, and with a cup of water she turns the narrator back into a man.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn back» (+2); the same circumstance (+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/1134-pg29672-part40/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} what's the vibe with the big boar, is he the boss? - **1.** Yeah, he's the big boss pig and everyone in the sty fears him — no support - **2.** Yeah, he's the big boss pig, the one who stands at the gate — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yeah, he's the big boss pig — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, he's the top pig — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1134, line 10: «The princess mocks him, saying, "now he is going to kiss the big boar!"», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2); the same thing acted on «prince» (+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/1134-pg29672-part40/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} wait so is the prince a prince again by the end? - **1.** Nope, Ivan said no — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Nope, not yet — no support - **3.** Yup, Ivan said so — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Nah, still a pig — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1133, line 10: «Why Ivan is upset: he cries, "Did I not charge thee not to confess!" because he told the prince to keep quiet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «ivan» (+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/1134-pg29672-part40/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} honestly, was Ivan the real hero here? - **1.** Yeah, he's the main MVP — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, he's the real hero — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Nah, not really — no support - **4.** Nope, the prince — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1130, line 6: «Who: the poor brother and the rich brother are the main people of the first tale, and Ivan Golik is the naked man of the second.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «ivan» (+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/1134-pg29672-part40/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so is this the end of the story, or is there more? - **1.** Yep, it's all over now — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nope, more coming — no support - **3.** That's all, folks, the end — no support - **4.** That's the end of the kazka — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/1134-pg29672-part40/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} last one, what's the whip actually called? - **1.** A whip — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Just the big whip — no support - **3.** It's a huge whip — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The lash — 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/1134-pg29672-part40/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following most accurately describes the manner in which Ivan Golik constructed the implement used to dispel the enchantment? - **1.** He wound tarred hemp and braided more strands until all the material was used up — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He spun the hemp, coated it with pitch, and knotted layers until the supply ran out — no support - **3.** He twined hemp, tarred it, and plaited further layers until the full quantity was consumed — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He plaited hemp and tar — 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/1134-pg29672-part40/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following accurately states the sequence of events by which the enchantment upon the princess was ultimately broken? - **1.** The pig was struck, the serpents scattered, and the princess was made human once more by the blow — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Ivan made the whip, the leading pig was struck and shattered, the serpents hurried off, and the princess was restored to her human form and walked away — no support - **3.** The whip struck the pig, and she was freed — no support - **4.** The whip struck the leading pig, the serpents fled, and the princess was restored to human form — **✓ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1134-pg29672-part40/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which of the following statements most precisely identifies the reason the leading pig refused to pass through the gateway? - **1.** The pig stood fixed in the doorway until a prince came kissing — score 0 - **2.** The boar stayed put in the gate until its bristles got kissed — no support - **3.** The pig remained fixed in the gateway until the bristles were kissed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** The pig would not move until someone kissed its bristles — score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1134, line 7: «What: a stubborn pig stuck in the gateway, which "wouldn't go in" until someone kissed its bristles.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stubborn pig» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1134-pg29672-part40/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following describes most accurately the condition of the princess at the conclusion of the narrative? - **1.** She was returned to human form after the serpent-blood left her — score -1 - **2.** She walked in human guise at the end, having been flicked free of the serpent-blood, and then she went home to her father to celebrate — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** She stayed a serpent until the whip struck the pig at last — score 0 - **4.** She was restored to human guise after the serpent-blood was removed — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1134, line 19: «The princess is changed back when the whip flicks out "all the serpent-blood out of her" and "she walked the earth in human guise."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «walk» (+3); the same place «human guise» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/1134-pg29672-part40/e4/) - ← previous: [1133. Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1133-pg29672-part39/) - next →: [1135. The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Mak…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1135-pg3027-part1/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)