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title: World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friend… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1219 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/1219-pg3282-part20/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so did Geirald actually fight the robbers or nah?

- **1.** nope, he hid in the trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, Rosald did all the fighting while Geirald hid behind a rock — no support
- **3.** yeah, he sort of helped — no support
- **4.** nah, Rosald did the fighting — **✓ 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, why did Rosald even go with the rich kid?

- **1.** his dad was super broke and wanted him out of the house — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** his dad was super broke — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** he wanted adventure with the rich kid's horses and gold — no support
- **4.** he owed the rich kid cash — 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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that ring was bling, right? whose was it before?

- **1.** his dad's old friend's — score 3
- **2.** the robber chief's, taken from a dead merchant — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** the robber chief's — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the robber chief's, from his own hand that morning — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 691, line 9: «What: the ring takes you where you wish, "without even the trouble of flying to it through the air".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ring» (+4); the same action «take» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/1219-pg3282-part20/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so Geirald was a total wuss on the mountain?

- **1.** yeah, he wanted to run — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** yeah, he wanted to bolt — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** no, he stayed calm and pulled his sword out first — no support
- **4.** nah, he just stood still — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1219, line 11: «Geirald whispers that "It is impossible to fight them—they are twelve to two" and wants to take the lower road.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «geirald» (+3); the same action «want» (+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/1219-pg3282-part20/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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how many robbers were there, like, roughly?

- **1.** a dozen or more, all hidden in the trees — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** maybe a dozen men — score 5
- **3.** twelve of them, with horses and bows too — score 5
- **4.** twelve of them — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1219, line 9: «What: twelve robbers called "Hankur", with a chief known as Hankur the Tall, who lie in wait for rich travellers.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+5). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1219-pg3282-part20/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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what was Rosald's plan with the rocks, though?

- **1.** roll them down the hill onto the robbers below — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** drop them on the road — no support
- **3.** wait until the robbers came up and then roll them down the hill — no support
- **4.** roll them down the hill — **✓ 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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did the robbers see them coming at all?

- **1.** yeah, they spotted them early — no support
- **2.** nah, they were just waiting — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, they were busy eating — no support
- **4.** yeah, a scout had warned them about the two young men — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1040, line 7: «WHAT: The robber Fiacuil warned him that the lake holds "coiling weeds" and "snaky binders" that can drown a swimmer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same action «warn» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/1219-pg3282-part20/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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what did Rosald's mum tell him before he left?

- **1.** be brave — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** don't betray your mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** stay home — no support
- **4.** never leave your lord — 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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did the friends turn back when they saw the robbers?

- **1.** nah, Rosald said no way — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, they turned back but Rosald followed the path alone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** nah, Rosald said no way and they pushed on together — score 3
- **4.** nah, Geirald said stop — score 3

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**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 352, line 2: «Brave Horatius and two friends stand in the road and hold back the horsemen while the other Romans chop the bridge down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «two friends» (+2); the same action «hold back» (+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/1219-pg3282-part20/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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who was the rich dad, like, the boss of the money?

- **1.** Geirald's father — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Geirald's father, the rich man of the town — no support
- **3.** Rosald's father — no support
- **4.** the rich merchant who had lent Geirald his purse — no support

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**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/1219-pg3282-part20/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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how did Rosald finish off the chief?

- **1.** a sword in his heart — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** a blow to his head — score 4
- **3.** his sword — score 4
- **4.** a sword in his heart after a long fight — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1219, line 5: «Rosald kills the robber chief and takes his ring, Geirald gets all the praise, and the king sets them a new test.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «robber chief» (+3); the same doer «rosald» (+2). Against it: 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so what did the king want them to do to stay?

- **1.** prove their fresh courage — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** show some fresh courage — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** show a new bravery — no support
- **4.** show some fresh courage by fighting the robber band — 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/1219-pg3282-part20/t12/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the individual who was the eldest son of the poor knight?

- **1.** Ivo — no support
- **2.** the eldest son of the neighbouring knight — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** Rosald — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **4.** Geirald — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1200, line 19: «Why he is in the desert: God gave him seven sons, and his eldest son heard of a princess in Turkistan, so the story moves on to her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «stranger» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1219-pg3282-part20/e1/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the condition imposed by the king upon the two young men before their stay was granted?

- **1.** more gold coins — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **2.** the delivery of a second oath of loyalty — no support
- **3.** the presentation of a fresh proof of courage — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the presentation of a fresh proof of courage before the winter's end — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1139, line 17: «Old word: "courting" meant visiting someone to win their love before marriage; today we say "dating."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/1219-pg3282-part20/e2/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the object which Rosald removed from the body of the slain robber chief?

- **1.** a chain set with a small gem — score 0
- **2.** a golden ring set with a large stone and a family crest on it — score 0
- **3.** a ring set with a large stone taken from his left hand — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** a ring set with a large stone — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**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 1010, line 14: «Old word: "crape" was black cloth worn to show mourning, and the cake-women took it off the sugar-sticks.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2). Against it: the same action «take» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1219-pg3282-part20/e3/)

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

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Which of the following accurately identifies the number of robbers who were struck down by the falling stones?

- **1.** roughly a third of the band — no support
- **2.** approximately half of the band — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** approximately half of the band, along with their horses — no support
- **4.** approximately half their horses — **← Mova's choice** · score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 893, line 20: «Old word: "myriads" means countless numbers; today we would say "millions" or "loads and loads".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «countless numbers» (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/1219-pg3282-part20/e4/)

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