--- title: Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his maste… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1928 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 tests right, exam 2 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/1928-pg7277-part65/) [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/) / 1928 # Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1928 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/1928-pg7277-part65/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Wait, the snake came back with leaves in its gob, innit? - **1.** Nah, a rock, man — no support - **2.** Nah, three white feathers, bruv — no support - **3.** Nah, one red berry, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, three green leaves, proper — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 528, line 10: «Where: the water-lilies were linked with the Naiades, and their "broad, green leaves and yellow cups" float on the water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «broad green leaves» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} So what did the bloke do to bring the Queen back, like? - **1.** Put leaves on her mouth and eyes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Gave her a good whack — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **3.** Shook her about a bit — score 3 - **4.** Gave her a massive fry-up — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1436, line 20: «the little man gives the Queen "three days to guess my name" because she cries so bitterly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «little man» (+5); the same action «give» (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Was the Queen a proper baddie or what? - **1.** Nah, she was just a bit moody — no support - **2.** Nah, she gave loads of cash away — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Nah, she saved a whole ship — no support - **4.** Yeah, she chucked her hubby in the sea — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1692, line 9: «What does the old woman give the Queen? An apple, which she sells for money; "Whoever eats this apple shall have a child."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «old woman» (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} The captain was well up for it too, wasn't he? - **1.** Yeah, he was well up for the Queen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, he was a right grump — no support - **3.** Nah, he was dead scared of boats — no support - **4.** Nah, he hated the sea totally — 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/1928-pg7277-part65/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} Who rowed like mad to get the old King, was it the servant? - **1.** Yeah, the servant, dead loyal — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Nah, the guards, dead lost — no support - **3.** Nah, the captain, dead lazy — no support - **4.** Nah, the Queen, dead bored — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1928, line 2: «The Queen then betrays her husband, throws him into the sea, and her faithful servant rescues him with the last leaves and rows him home to the old King.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «faithful servant» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} And did the old King believe his daughter? - **1.** Nah, he said the truth would out — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Nah, he banned boats forever — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Yeah, he gave her a big hug — score 2 - **4.** Yeah, he went proper mental — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1908, line 1: «King Kojata promises a hoarse voice from the water something he knows nothing about.», 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 «king» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} So the prince nicked the witch's cup, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he got a free pint — no support - **2.** Yeah, he drank the whole lot — score 3 - **3.** Yeah, he chugged it down — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** Nah, he never drank, she warned him — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 1433, line 14: «She keeps her cup at her lips while the magician drains his, and he falls back lifeless.», 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 «princess» (+2). 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/1928-pg7277-part65/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} The witch's daughter was sound, right? - **1.** Nah, she was a total liar — no support - **2.** Yeah, she was good and kind — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Nah, she was well dodgy — no support - **4.** Nah, she was a mega thief — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1533, line 6: «Who: the good man's daughter, the witch, the witch's daughter and the Prince, who is the King's son.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «daughter» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} The horse died, didn't it? - **1.** Yeah, poison done it in — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, it ran off happy — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Nah, it got lost in the trees — score 3 - **4.** Nah, it just went to sleep — 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 1784, line 3: «At the sun meadow the shy horses run off, but when he holds the knife up to the sun, the whole meadow shines and the horses bow to him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «shy horses» (+2); the same action «run off» (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} The raven went in the stew, dead? - **1.** Nah, it flew off home — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Nah, it got let go free — no support - **3.** Nah, it ended up in a pie — no support - **4.** Yeah, it was in the broth — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1928, line 18: «What does "carcase" mean? It is an old word for the body of a dead animal, so the raven was pecking at the dead horse.», 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 «raven» (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} How many murderers rocked up at the inn? - **1.** Seven of them, bare lads — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Fifteen of them, proper mad — no support - **3.** Ten of them, dead sketchy — no support - **4.** Twelve of them, all in — **✓ 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/1928-pg7277-part65/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} Did the prince keep the robbers' loot for himself then? - **1.** Nah, he left it all to her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Yeah, he buried it somewhere — score 3 - **3.** Yeah, he took the lot — score 3 - **4.** Nah, he gave it to the witch — score 3 **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 1911, line 3: «Prince Fickle wins her heart, then leaves under the lime-tree to ask his parents for permission to marry her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+2); the same action «leave» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Upon what occasion did the faithful servant employ the three snake-leaves, and upon whom? - **1.** to cure the old King's illness — no support - **2.** to restore the drowned King to life — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** to heal the servant's wounded hand — no support - **4.** to revive the captain from the sea — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 922, line 14: «She wipes the soldier first with "a green leaf" and then with her fine pocket-handkerchief, which smelt of beautiful perfume.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+5). Against it: the same thing acted on «soldier» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} By what means did the poison reach the twelve murderers, as recounted in the narrative? - **1.** by way of the horse's saddle — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **2.** by way of the landlord's wine — score 11 - **3.** by way of the stirrup cup alone — score 11 - **4.** by way of the raven into the broth — **✓ the right answer** · score 11 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 388, line 19: «OLD WORD: A "chattel" in the old woman's speech means a movable possession, like furniture or goods, and "physician" means a doctor.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «mean» (+3); the same doer «old word» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 11. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following did the Prince decline to accept from the landlord's daughter? - **1.** the treasures of the robbers — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** the bread of the inn — no support - **3.** the warning of the girl — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** the lodging for the night — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 462, line 10: «The Prince is warned not to strike Vikhor after he is dead, because "a hero's hand does not strike twice".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «warn» (+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/1928-pg7277-part65/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Of what nature was the punishment assigned by the King to the Queen and her accomplice? - **1.** a public execution in the square — no support - **2.** a holed ship sent out to sea — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** exile to a distant island — no support - **4.** a dungeon in the castle tower — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1181, line 2: «She tells him that his queen is alive, that the queen sent a letter written in her own blood, and that he has a daughter nearly nine years old.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1928-pg7277-part65/e4/) - ← previous: [1927. Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1927-pg7277-part64/) - next →: [1929. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1929-pg7277-part66/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)