--- title: Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voi… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 444 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 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/444-pg22373-part36/) [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/) / 444 # Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko, part 36: the witch tricks Ivashko's voice, but he tricks Alenka and escapes up an oak **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 444 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/444-pg22373-part36/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} yo so the witch fakes her voice, right? - **1.** she copies his mother's voice — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** she uses a magic spell — no support - **3.** she borrows a voice from a bird — score 5 - **4.** she gets a smith to make it — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 325, line 4: «Peter copies Hook's voice and tricks the pirates until they think a spirit is talking.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «copy» (+4); the same thing acted on «voice» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/444-pg22373-part36/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} bro, why'd Ivashko say he's still foolish? - **1.** to scare the witch — no support - **2.** to test her — no support - **3.** to trick Alenka — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** to fool her — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 444, line 4: «Ivashko tricks Alenka into the oven, climbs a tall oak, and the witch's guests eat Alenka without knowing it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «trick» (+4); the same thing acted on «alenka» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} no cap, did the witch eat Alenka? - **1.** yes, she got eaten up — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yes, she was roasted — no support - **3.** yep, baked and served up — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** no, she was pushed in and then ran off home — 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/444-pg22373-part36/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} wait, where did Ivashko go to hide? - **1.** up a bent birch — no support - **2.** in the hut — no support - **3.** up a tall oak — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** in a tree — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 4: «Ivashko tricks Alenka into the oven, climbs a tall oak, and the witch's guests eat Alenka without knowing it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «ivashko» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} lol the witch gnawing a tree, what? - **1.** she broke a tooth — score -3 - **2.** she bit a tree — score -1 - **3.** she broke two front teeth — **✓ the right answer** · score -3 - **4.** she bit the oak, broke teeth — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 5: «Ivashko mocks the witch from the tree, she gnaws the oak until her teeth break, and she runs to the smith for iron ones.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «witch» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/444-pg22373-part36/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} so like, what's a smith's job? - **1.** forge things from iron — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** make things out of metal — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** make things out of metal in a forge — no support - **4.** heat and beat metal into knives, pots and iron teeth for guests — 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/444-pg22373-part36/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} innit the parents called him with food? - **1.** no, from home — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yes, from the woods — no support - **3.** yes — no support - **4.** yeah, from the bank — **✓ 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/444-pg22373-part36/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} dead serious, what did the canoe do? - **1.** floated all the way to the shore where parents waited — score 4 - **2.** floated to the bank — score 4 - **3.** floated to the shore — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** it turned around and went back to the witch's hut — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 444, line 7: «What: Ivashko goes fishing in a canoe, and he makes it float by singing "Canoe, canoe, float a little farther".», 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 action «float» (+1); the same doer «canoe» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} mate, what shirt did mum put on him? - **1.** a grey one — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** white — no support - **3.** a blue one — score 3 - **4.** a white one — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 401, line 1: «A man buys a tame partridge and puts it in his yard with two gamecocks, who peck at it and chase it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} proper question: the witch calls with what? - **1.** a voice like his dad — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** his mum — score 6 - **3.** a voice — score 6 - **4.** a voice like his mum — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 171, line 7: «What: Zobeida asks why they "should first whip the dogs and then cry over them," and the porter says the men want an answer.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «question» (+4); the same action «cry» (+2). 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/444-pg22373-part36/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} bruv, how'd Alenka end up in the oven? - **1.** she jumped in — no support - **2.** lured in by the witch — no support - **3.** pushed in by Ivashko — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** she fell in — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 444, line 12: «Ivashko's trick: He says "I'm still very young and foolish", so that Alenka will teach him how to sit on the shovel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «alenka» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/444-pg22373-part36/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} yo, what did the witch ask the forge for? - **1.** make me new teeth — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** make me iron teeth — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** forge me iron nails — no support - **4.** make me iron teeth so I can bite again — 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/444-pg22373-part36/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which action does Ivashko take in order to escape from the witch's house? - **1.** He hides beneath the hut floor and stays very quiet there — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** He runs to the river and jumps into the canoe again — score -2 - **3.** He climbs an oak-tree and remains concealed in its branches — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** He climbs an oak-tree — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 444, line 14: «Where he hides: Ivashko "hurriedly climbed up ever so high an oak-tree" and waits there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+3); the same doer «ivashko» (+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/444-pg22373-part36/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What is the purpose of the witch's second visit to the smith? - **1.** To obtain a new voice and iron teeth in place of her broken ones and the lost tooth — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** To obtain iron teeth in place of her broken ones so she can chew the oak — score 5 - **3.** To obtain iron teeth in place of her broken ones — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** To get new teeth to replace the broken ones — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 2: «She gets a smith to forge her a thin voice just like his mother's, then calls him to the shore at night.», 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 thing acted on «thin voice» (+2); a different doer (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/444-pg22373-part36/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} By what means does the witch first attempt to lure Ivashko from the bank? - **1.** By pretending to be the smith and calling out from a boat on the river — no support - **2.** By employing a voice imitating his mother's — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** By employing a voice imitating his mother's, shouting from the bank in the dark — no support - **4.** By calling with a mimicked mother's tone — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 93, line 2: «After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic. The wild animals see the fire and wonder. Wild Dog smells roast m…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «woman» (+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/444-pg22373-part36/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} How does Ivashko reveal to the witch that he is still aware of her presence? - **1.** By singing back her rhyme from the branches — no support - **2.** By shouting from the oak — no support - **3.** By singing from the tree — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** By repeating her song from the oak tree — **✓ the right answer** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 5: «Ivashko mocks the witch from the tree, she gnaws the oak until her teeth break, and she runs to the smith for iron ones.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «tree» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/444-pg22373-part36/e4/) - ← previous: [443. Russian Folk-Tales, Vasilissa the Beautiful: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/443-pg22373-part35/) - next →: [445. Russian Folk-Tales, Ivashko: swans and geese car…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/445-pg22373-part37/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)