--- title: English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle hom… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1956 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 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/1956-pg7439-part15/) [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/) / 1956 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son **Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1956 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/1956-pg7439-part15/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Oi, did you see the King go proper mental over Jack's castle? Who was it that got well impressed? - **1.** Mum — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the King — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Jack — no support - **4.** The Duke — 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Innit wild that Jack got his castle back, yeah? Where did the little men go to fetch it? - **1.** from the wicked giant's hall — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** from the King's three brothers in their hall — score -1 - **3.** from the King's brothers — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **4.** from the bottom of the deep sea where it sank — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 290, line 13: «Many young men go to the palace, but inside they are struck dumb and can only repeat "the last word they had uttered".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «many young men» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same place «palace» (-2). 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Bruv, how long did Jack have to wait before going home? - **1.** three years and a day — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a twelvemonth and a day — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** a year — no support - **4.** a month — 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Mate, was Jack's welcome home proper warm? Why was it chilly? - **1.** it was late — no support - **2.** his wife had gone away — no support - **3.** he had no castle with him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -4 - **4.** he was poor — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1956, line 3: «His wife's parents keep her away, so the welcome is cold and he has no castle yet.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (-1); the same doer «jack» (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1956-pg7439-part15/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Ngl, who stopped Jack's wife coming out to meet him? - **1.** her dad — score 2 - **2.** her old nurse — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** the King — score 5 - **4.** her parents — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1453, line 15: «WHAT: A dragon "ate up all the people he met," so the King gives the princess up to the fairies.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give up» (+3); the same thing acted on «princess» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «king» (-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/1956-pg7439-part15/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Lol, what did Jack shout at the little men to make them go faster? - **1.** faster now — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** gallop on through the wood — no support - **3.** spur up and put speed on — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** ride back to the hall — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1930, line 9: «WHY: Jack's first Princess is cast off because he calls her treachery, "That's what you get for treachery," which is why he sends her home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «call» (-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/1956-pg7439-part15/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Wait, what did Jack's wife come out holding? - **1.** a fine basket of bread — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** her baby — score 3 - **3.** a fine young son — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** a little silver ring — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1682, line 16: «Old word: "repent" means to feel deep sorrow for a wrong you did and to wish you had not done it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+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/1956-pg7439-part15/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman? - **1.** so hot that it steamed and burned her tongue at once — no support - **2.** neither too hot nor too cold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** neither too hot nor too cold, but just right for eating — no support - **4.** very thick and very sweet — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1869, line 10: «Why: the Queen walks "eight days and eight nights" because she is searching for the King, who was a Blue Bird.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «search» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1956-pg7439-part15/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Bruv, why did the bears leave their breakfast to cool in the first place? - **1.** for their breakfast — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** because the porridge was too sweet — no support - **3.** so they could go to the wood — no support - **4.** so they would not burn their mouths — **✓ 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Mate, what did the old woman do to the Little Bear's chair? - **1.** she sat on it so hard that the bottom and legs both gave way — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** she moved it to the wall — score 0 - **3.** she sat the bottom out of it and broke the back too — score -4 - **4.** she sat the bottom out of it — **✓ the right answer** · score -4 **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 1956, line 16: «Old word: "a-guiding" is an old way of saying "guiding", as in "were guiding him".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «old way» (-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/1956-pg7439-part15/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Ngl, whose bed was too high at the head? - **1.** the Middle Bear's bed — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** the Great, Huge Bear's bed — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** the Father's bed — score 0 - **4.** the Big Bear's bed — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1597, line 19: «an old word is "perplexity," which means a puzzled, confused state of mind, like the Guardian shaking his head in it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «word» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1956-pg7439-part15/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Lol, what did the Middle Bear shout about his porridge? - **1.** "Somebody has been at my porridge, and my spoon is missing too!" — no support - **2.** "Who has been eating all my porridge?" — score -1 - **3.** "Somebody has been at my porridge!" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** "Somebody has been sitting on my chair!" — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1915, line 8: «What: the Great Huge Bear cries "Somebody has been sitting in my chair!" in his great, rough, gruff voice.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sit» (+7); the same place «chair» (+5). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «somebody» (-3). 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver? - **1.** silver would have gone straight into her pocket and been found out — no support - **2.** silver would have gone in her pocket — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** they were wooden because the bears were too poor to buy silver ones — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **4.** they were wooden and she liked them — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 1933, line 19: «Old word: "stocks" here means a wooden frame with holes to lock in hands or feet; it is a kind of old-fashioned restraint.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+3). 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/1956-pg7439-part15/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} Wait, what was actually in the Little Bear's bed when the bears came back? - **1.** the old woman's ugly, dirty head resting on the Little Bear's pillow — no support - **2.** the old woman's long grey hair — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** the old woman's ugly, dirty head, with her hair in a tangle — no support - **4.** the old woman's ugly, dirty head — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1580, line 10: «The helper is a little grey old man, who says "I will bring you luck, because you have a kind heart".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «little grey old man» (+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/1956-pg7439-part15/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following statements is correct regarding the sum of time Jack was required to remain abroad? - **1.** He had to remain away for many long years and more — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** He was required to remain a twelvemonth and a day — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He stayed a week — score 4 - **4.** He had to stay a year — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1954, line 5: «A valet steals the box and sends the castle across the sea, so Jack sets off for a year and a day to find it, and meets the King of the mice.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «jack» (+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/1956-pg7439-part15/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Identify the object which the old woman occupied last in the house of the three bears. - **1.** the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear that broke under her weight — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** the bed of the Little, Small, Wee Bear — no support - **3.** the Middle Bear's chair beside the big fire — no support - **4.** the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1923, line 6: «Who: Joringel, freed by the old woman, who says "when the young moon shines in the basket, you are freed early".», 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 «old woman» (+2); the same thing acted on «old woman» (+1). 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/1956-pg7439-part15/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} State the reason the three bears perceived that a stranger had entered their dwelling. - **1.** they heard a noise in the wood and went to look — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** their porridge had been eaten and the spoons disturbed — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** their porridge had been eaten and the spoons were lying all over the floor — no support - **4.** the door had been left open and the chairs moved — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1787, line 4: «When Hans wakes alone, he hears a loud noise and finds a cave where tiny, big-headed smiths are working at a forge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+2); the same thing acted on «loud noise» (+1). Against it: a different doer (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/1956-pg7439-part15/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Specify the manner in which Jack's journey home was concluded according to the narrative. - **1.** Jack found his wife and lived in the castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** his wife met him at the hall door at last — score 6 - **3.** Jack's wife and son met him at the door and he forgave the King at last — score 6 - **4.** Jack's wife and son met him and they lived happily — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1870, line 12: «The King hears her and says: "how could you betray me to our cruel enemies when I loved you so dearly?"», 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 same thing acted on «you» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1956-pg7439-part15/e4/) - ← previous: [1955. Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1955-pg7439-part14/) - next →: [1957. English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1957-pg7439-part16/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)