--- title: Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 413 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 10 tests right, exam 1 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/413-pg22373-part5/) [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/) / 413 # Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, the flower maiden **Tests:** 3 of 10 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 413 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/413-pg22373-part5/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} yo, the flower on the grave, who even found it, lowkey wild? - **1.** the young lord, fr — no support - **2.** the priest, ye — no support - **3.** the seigneur's son, fr — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** the maid, idk — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 392, line 14: «The other man says, "do not say 'I,' but 'We' have found an axe," and then they see the owner chasing them.», 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 doer «other man» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/413-pg22373-part5/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} ok so she turned into a girl at midnight, that's so cringe right? - **1.** yeah, at noon, weird — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, at twelve, wild — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, at dawn — no support - **4.** yeah, ok — 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/413-pg22373-part5/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} wait, why'd she even stomp the ground, like what's the vibe? - **1.** to make sure the flower could return to the grave before anyone saw her — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** to scare the guests away — no support - **3.** to go back to flower mode — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** she had to do it to get back to the flower mode and stay hidden from her husband forever — 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/413-pg22373-part5/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} bro, did she really make her hubby promise no church for four years? - **1.** yep, she made him promise that and then he broke it the very next day — no support - **2.** yep, she made him swear it — no support - **3.** yep, that was her condition — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yep, she said he could not ask her to go to church for four years, no matter what — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 413, line 8: «What: Marusia says, "Only on this condition will I marry you," so she will not go to church for four years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «church» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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/413-pg22373-part5/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} lowkey the guests were so rude about their wives, no? - **1.** ngl, super rude, fr — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** ngl, no — no support - **3.** nah, polite — no support - **4.** lowkey yeah, bit rude — 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/413-pg22373-part5/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} so the Fiend showed up at church, like out of nowhere? - **1.** nah, he was sitting by a window in the church and had come in with the guests — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** yeah, he was sitting by a window in the church, staring at everyone during mass — score 6 - **3.** yeah, sitting by a window — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nah, he came from the hall — no support **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 413, line 5: «He marries her, they have a son, but a Fiend threatens their family at church, and the grandmother's two phials save them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «church» (+4); the same doer «fiend» (+1); a different action (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/413-pg22373-part5/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} and the grandma gave her two bottles, what's in them? - **1.** holy water and water of life — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** holy water and water of life, plus a little honey and dried herbs — no support - **3.** wine and some bread crumbs — no support - **4.** milk and some dried herbs — 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/413-pg22373-part5/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} bruh, she splashed the Fiend and he turned to dust, no cap? - **1.** yeah, he turned to ash too — no support - **2.** for real, he fell apart — no support - **3.** for real, gone with the wind — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** for real, gone with the wind, and the whole room was covered in dust after that — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 25, line 1: «The Mole has been spring-cleaning his little underground home all morning, until he is covered in dust and whitewash and fed up. Suddenly he throws down his br…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cover» (+5); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/413-pg22373-part5/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} and the husband and kid came back to life after the water? - **1.** yeah, they woke up now — no support - **2.** nah, they died — no support - **3.** yes, straight up revived — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yes, the husband and the kid came back to life and went right back to dinner — **← Mova's choice** · 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 241, line 17: «After "seven years and a day," the bird-husband comes back "restored to his own shape again" and takes her from being a servant.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come back» (+5); the same doer «bird husband» (+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/413-pg22373-part5/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} so basically they all lived happy and never had drama again? - **1.** lowkey yes, happy, fr — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yep, long and happy, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yep, kinda happy, fr — no support - **4.** nah, there was more drama later when the Fiend's friends came back for revenge — 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/413-pg22373-part5/t10/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which character, having been advised by her blind grandmother, requested burial at a crossway where four roads meet? - **1.** The young seigneur's son — no support - **2.** The blind grandmother — score -1 - **3.** Natalka — no support - **4.** Marusia — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 161, line 11: «fact: The town's grief: "every day saw a girl married and a wife dead", and "the air was now full of curses".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «girl» (+1). 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/413-pg22373-part5/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Upon what condition did Marusia consent to marry the young seigneur, and for what duration was it stipulated? - **1.** no church attendance for four years, with the guests sworn to silence on the matter — no support - **2.** no church attendance for four years, and he must never ask her about the Fiend — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** no church attendance for four years — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a vow not to kneel for seven years — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 412, line 11: «He asks her, "You were in the church last night?" and then tells her what will happen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same receiver «marusia» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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/413-pg22373-part5/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} By what means did the grandmother's remedies restore the husband and son to life after the Fiend's malice? - **1.** sprinkling with the water of life — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** by holy water — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** by rubbing them with oil and warm wine — no support - **4.** with a herb — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 31, line 14: «Toad appeared «fresh and gay, remarking what a pleasant easy life it was», after «the cares and worries and fatigues of housekeeping at home» (gay here = cheer…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/413-pg22373-part5/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What became of the Fiend when Marusia sprinkled him with the holy water? - **1.** he was reduced to dust and ashes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he was reduced to dust and ashes, scattered by a wind across the fields — no support - **3.** he was burned by the holy fire — no support - **4.** he was reduced to dust and ashes and his name was never spoken again in the village — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 150, line 1: «The Father visits his two daughters, and the gardener's wife wants rain while the potter's wife wants dry sun, so he gives up praying for either.», 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 doer «wife» (+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/413-pg22373-part5/e4/) - ← previous: [412. Russian Folk-Tales, Marusia, part 4: Marusia fol…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/412-pg22373-part4/) - next →: [414. Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/414-pg22373-part6/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)