--- title: Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1535 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 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/1535-pg540-part32/) [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/) / 1535 # Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans **Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1535 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/1535-pg540-part32/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Bruh, did Jack seriously trade his mum's cow for some beans? - **1.** Nah, he got some magic beans — no support - **2.** Yeah, total fail, he got beans — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yep, and then he climbed the beanstalk to a giant's castle up top — score 1 - **4.** Yeah, mum was SO mad, he swapped her cow for beans at market — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1184, line 3: «The cows burn through a moor and plunge across a river, and Covan follows them into a strange plain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «cows» (+2); the same place «strange plain» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: 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/1535-pg540-part32/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, so the beans just grew overnight, like sus magic? - **1.** Yup, they shot up in one single night and it was totally wild — no support - **2.** Yup, they shot up in one night — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, bro they just exploded out of the soil and climbed the cliff — no support - **4.** Yep, it's wild, they grew lol — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **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 1535, line 3: «His mother is cross, so Jack plants the beans, and by morning they have grown into a huge beanstalk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «beans» (+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/1535-pg540-part32/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Dude, how high was that beanstalk, like Minecraft tall? - **1.** Taller than any tree around — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** So high that it poked right through the clouds into the sky above — no support - **3.** So high the village looked tiny — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Way higher than the big hill — 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/1535-pg540-part32/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Did Jack chicken out halfway up, or what? - **1.** Nah, he kept going, never quit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** Yeah, he got scared and stopped — no support - **3.** Nah, he kept climbing up and up until he was totally exhausted — score 0 - **4.** Nah, he just kept climbing up — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1500, line 13: «Blunderbore "vowed to be revenged on Jack" after Cormoran's death, and he keeps an enchanted castle "in the midst of a lonely wood".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+1). Against it: the same doer «jack» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1535-pg540-part32/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Who's the random old lady in the red hat, innit? - **1.** Some fairy, obvs — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A talking magic hen — no support - **3.** Some old witch, prob — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** Mum, lol — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 289, line 14: «fact: The one flower Gerda missed was a rose, which she saw on the old woman's hat, where the old woman had forgotten it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old woman» (+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/1535-pg540-part32/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} So the castle used to be Jack's dad's, right? - **1.** Yep, his dad's, then the giant took it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Yep, it was his uncle's, then gone — no support - **3.** Yep, his dad's, and the giant nicked it after killing the king in a fight — score 2 - **4.** Nah, it was always the giant's, but Jack's dad lived in a hut near the cliff for years — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1425, line 3: «She carries the real King to the Castle of Steel and gives him a sword made from one diamond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «real king» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1535-pg540-part32/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Did the giant just walk in and clean up? - **1.** Nah, he had to bribe a fake servant first and then sneak into the hall — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nope, he tricked the gate guard first — no support - **3.** Nah, he bribed a fake servant first — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nope, he sent a fake letter to the king and then got in through the kitchen door — 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/1535-pg540-part32/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Was the mum at home when it all went down? - **1.** Yeah, she was in the kitchen then — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nope, she was at her nurse's place — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nope, she was off at her aunt's place — no support - **4.** Nope, she was away at her old nurse's house down by the river for the week — 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/1535-pg540-part32/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} How old was the baby, like a newborn? - **1.** Two or three months old, still in the cradle and not yet walking — no support - **2.** About a year old, maybe — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Two or three months old — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Like one or two weeks old, a tiny little infant still feeding from its nurse — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1533, line 18: «Old word: "rival" means to equal or match someone, so "no one on earth could rival her" means no one was as lovely.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). 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/1535-pg540-part32/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} So what's the mission, like a proper quest? - **1.** Go up the beanstalk, grab the golden-egg hen, and take the talking harp too — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Get the golden-egg hen and talking harp — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Steal a golden sword and a magic goose — no support - **4.** Get the golden-egg hen and the talking harp back from the giant's castle right away — 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/1535-pg540-part32/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Did the old lady warn Jack it's dangerous? - **1.** Nah, not really — no support - **2.** Yep, bit risky, she said — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Yep, she did — no support - **4.** Yep, full of peril, she said — **✓ the right answer** · 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 1516, line 3: «The hen-wife tells the Queen to invite the sons to court and challenge them to cards with a bargain.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «hen wife» (+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/1535-pg540-part32/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} Hey, did the lady in red just vanish into thin air? - **1.** Yeah, poof, she disappeared — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nope, she stayed — no support - **3.** Yeah, she ran out the door — no support - **4.** Nope, she walked off quietly — 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/1535-pg540-part32/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market. - **1.** Jack's mother's cow traded for some scarlet-runner beans — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A goat for seeds — no support - **3.** The family's prize milking cow for a bag of magic beans — no support - **4.** The cow for beans — **✓ 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/1535-pg540-part32/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Specify the material from which the old lady's headwear was constructed. - **1.** Knitted blue cotton — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Red silk — no support - **3.** Pressed white linen — no support - **4.** Quilted red satin — **✓ 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/1535-pg540-part32/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} State the number of children slain by the giant in the nursery. - **1.** Three little children — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** A dozen sleeping children — no support - **3.** Several lovely children, all asleep in their beds in the nursery upstairs — score 1 - **4.** Several lovely children — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1467, line 14: «fact: The children cry "as loud as they could," but Little Thumb tells them, "Be not afraid, brothers," and promises to lead them home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «children» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1535-pg540-part32/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Describe the lawful claim Jack holds over the castle and its treasures. - **1.** He has legal papers from the king that name him heir to the castle and its treasures — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** He is the son of the rightful knight — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He owns it by his father's right — score 2 - **4.** He is the only living son of the rightful knight who first built the castle walls — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1533, line 5: «Now the Prince keeps the lost things and calls everyone to a great banquet on the fourth day.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+3); the same action «call» (+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/1535-pg540-part32/e4/) - ← previous: [1534. Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 3…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1534-pg540-part31/) - next →: [1536. Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1536-pg540-part33/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)