--- title: Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befriends a lio… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 351 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 12 tests right, exam 3 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/351-pg18442-part11/) [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/) / 351 # Roman Tales, Androclus and the Lion: a runaway slave befriends a lion and wins his freedom in Rome **Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 351 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/351-pg18442-part11/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Bro, so Regulus just stayed home with his fam, right? - **1.** Nah, he went back to prison, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Yeah, he stayed home — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** Nah, he went back to the farm — no support - **4.** Yeah, he stayed with them, fr — 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 291, line 15: «The Raven of the woods flies three miles with her and then "flew into a tree," while his wife stays home with a headache.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/351-pg18442-part11/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Ngl, why'd Regulus even go back if they let him go? - **1.** Cause the senate made him go back — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Cause the Carthaginians would have hunted him down wherever he hid in the whole empire — no support - **3.** He promised, and a Roman keeps his word — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** He was scared of Rome's laws — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 351, line 6: «Who: Regulus, a Roman prisoner, is allowed home for a short time, and he goes back to Carthage.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «go back» (+3); the same doer «regulus» (+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/351-pg18442-part11/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Was Cornelia's outfit fancy af? - **1.** Nah, just a plain white robe, no rings — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, a plain blue tunic, no rings — no support - **3.** Yeah, a gold gown with rubies and pearls — no support - **4.** Yeah, a gown woven from gold thread with rubies and pearls sewn all over it — 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/351-pg18442-part11/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Wait, what was inside the friend's box? - **1.** Pearls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Emeralds, gold, silver and amber — no support - **3.** Opals, garnets, topaz, and jade — no support - **4.** Ivory combs, painted fans, and bundles of silk from the east — 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/351-pg18442-part11/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} So Cornelia said her jewels were what, bro? - **1.** Her two sons who stand right beside her, fr, not her jewels — no support - **2.** Her two sons, fr — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** Her husband, fr — no support - **4.** Her two sons and her whole noble family, fr, because they are her treasure — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 351, line 13: «Cornelia answers the friend: "here are my jewels," and she draws her two boys to her side.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «two boys» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Did Androclus just kinda hang with a lion? - **1.** Yeah, they were besties in the cave for months until the men found them and dragged him out — score 4 - **2.** Nah, he fought the lion there — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **3.** Yeah, they chilled in the forest — no support - **4.** Yeah, they were besties in the cave — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 351, line 17: «Soldiers find Androclus and take him back to Rome, where the law says runaway slaves must fight a lion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fight» (+4); the same doer «runaway slaves» (+4); the same thing acted on «lion» (+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/351-pg18442-part11/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Ok, so what was up with the lion's paw? - **1.** A thorn was stuck in it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** A stone was caught there — no support - **3.** It was hurt — no support - **4.** A splinter was in its foot — no support **Why:** It could not read the question into a frame, 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/351-pg18442-part11/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Was Androclus scared in the arena or nah? - **1.** Nah, he was calm and steady — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yes, he ran — no support - **3.** Yeah, he was shaking badly — no support - **4.** Nah, he was hugging the lion — **✓ 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/351-pg18442-part11/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Why'd the crowd in Rome go soft on him? - **1.** They saw the lion lick his feet — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The emperor sent word that he should be spared because the lion had saved a Roman life — no support - **3.** They got bored — no support - **4.** They saw the emperor's order — 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/351-pg18442-part11/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Who ends up owning the lion, lowkey? - **1.** The lion's old master — no support - **2.** Androclus, for his own — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2 - **3.** The emperor — no support - **4.** Nobody — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 351, line 17: «Soldiers find Androclus and take him back to Rome, where the law says runaway slaves must fight a lion.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «runaway slaves» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} So what's the next tale about, then? - **1.** Regulus returns to Carthage and faces the cruel Carthaginian generals in the fortress — score 2 - **2.** The tale of Horatius holding the bridge against the whole Etruscan army from Lars Porsena — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** Horatius and the army at the gate — no support - **4.** Horatius and the Etruscans at the Tiber — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 219, line 3: «He sells his shop and house, then hides a thousand gold pieces under olives in a vase and asks a friend to keep it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same doer «tale» (+4). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (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/351-pg18442-part11/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Did the lion get sent back to the wild, bruh? - **1.** Yeah, the lion was sent back to the wild forest where he was first found by Androclus — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** Nah, Androclus kept him as his own — **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** Nah, the lion was sold to a rich senator who kept him in a cage in Rome — no support - **4.** Yeah, they sent him to the wild — no support **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 351, line 17: «Soldiers find Androclus and take him back to Rome, where the law says runaway slaves must fight a lion.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «runaway slaves» (+4); the same thing acted on «lion» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which reason does Regulus give for returning to the prison in Carthage? - **1.** He had given his word, and a Roman must keep it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** He had sworn, and Romans must honor oaths — no support - **3.** The senate had ordered him back, and he had given his word to the Carthaginian generals as well — score 1 - **4.** He was bound by law to go back there — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 351, line 7: «Why he goes back: "Shall a Roman not keep his word?" he answers the Fathers who beg him to stay.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «roman» (+1); the same thing acted on «word» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means does Cornelia declare that her true wealth consists? - **1.** Through her two daughters at home — no support - **2.** By the sons she raised, who stand proudly beside her as her greatest treasures in life — no support - **3.** By her two sons, who stand beside her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** By her sons and her noble household — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 351, line 3: «Cornelia answers that her sons are her jewels, and they are worth more than all the gems.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sons» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which action does Androclus perform upon the lion in the cave? - **1.** He extracts a thorn from its lame paw — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** He carefully works the long thorn out of the lame paw with his own hands, then binds it — score 1 - **3.** He removes a splinter from its claw — no support - **4.** He washes the wound in a river and then wraps the lame paw in a cloth from his cloak — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 351, line 15: «In the cave, the lion limps, and Androclus pulls out a "long, sharp thorn" from its paw.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «androclus» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/351-pg18442-part11/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which statement best describes the outcome for Androclus in the arena? - **1.** He gets his freedom but loses the lion — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He is pardoned by the emperor, and the crowd cheers as he takes the lion home with him — no support - **3.** He is freed, and the emperor keeps the beast — no support - **4.** He is granted liberty, and the lion is given to him — **✓ 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/351-pg18442-part11/e4/) - ← previous: [350. 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