--- title: Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 455 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 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/455-pg22373-part47/) [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/) / 455 # Russian Folk-Tales, The Priest's Daughter and the Leshy **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 455 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/455-pg22373-part47/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, so the hunter just stone-cold blasts the Leshy in the belly, right? - **1.** Yeah, the hunter totally blasted the Leshy in the gut, bro, no cap — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, bang, right in the belly and then he ran off screaming, dude — no support - **3.** Yeah, boom, straight in the chest, bro — no support - **4.** Yeah, bang, right in the paunch, dude — **✓ 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 455, line 11: «The hunter fires his gun and hits the Leshy "right in the paunch", which means in the belly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «leshy» (+4); a different action (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/455-pg22373-part47/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bro, why's the moujik talking about the devil's grandpa? - **1.** Cuz he's some kinda priest, fam — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cuz he's the devil's granddad, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Cuz the Leshy said he's the devil's granddad, so yeah, fam — no support - **4.** Cuz the devil's his son, fam — 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/455-pg22373-part47/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Wait, the girl was in the woods three whole years? - **1.** Yeah, like two years, bro — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, three years, no joke — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, three whole years in the woods, she was totally lost, dude — no support - **4.** Nah, it was five years — 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/455-pg22373-part47/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Dude, why'd she have no clothes on but didn't even care? - **1.** Cuz her clothes were wrecked and she didn't care — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Cuz she spent years wandering and her clothes fell apart and she just didn't care anymore, dude — no support - **3.** Cuz her clothes got totally ripped up by the thorns and she was just zoning out, bro — no support - **4.** Cuz the Leshy took her clothes away, dude — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 276, line 12: «The Queen-mother says not a word of her plan, and quietly goes into the bedroom to take all the bed-clothes off the bed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+3); the same thing acted on «bed clothes» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/455-pg22373-part47/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} So the hunter kept leaving marks on the trees, yeah? - **1.** Nah, he was actually leaving marks so the dog could follow him home — score 8 - **2.** Yeah, he was like tracking his way out — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Yeah, he was like leaving a trail so he could find the way out later — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **4.** Nah, he was just bored and whittling — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 11, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 455, line 16: «The hunter cuts marks on the trees as he walks, so he can find his way back out of the forest.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same doer «hunter» (+2); the same thing acted on «way» (+2); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Bruh, what's a bast shoe anyway, is it fancy? - **1.** Nah, it's a sack woven from wool, bro — no support - **2.** Yeah, it's a fancy shoe from town, bro — score 4 - **3.** Nah, it's a shoe plaited from tree bark — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12 - **4.** Yeah, it's a fancy leather shoe that rich people wear in the city, dude — score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 455, line 19: «Old word: a bast shoe is a shoe plaited from the inner bark of lime or birch trees, and people wore them in old Russia.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «plait» (+4); the same thing acted on «shoe» (+4); the same place «inner bark» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7} Did the dog just run off after the Leshy, lol? - **1.** Yeah, the dog chased him into the bushes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, the dog ran after him all the way to the river and barked nonstop — score 2 - **3.** Yeah, the dog sat down and cried loud — no support - **4.** Yeah, the dog chased him into the bushes and then came back wagging its tail — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 455, line 12: «The dog follows the wounded Leshy into the thickets, and the hunter follows the dog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wounded leshy» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Yo, the girl's mom and dad went looking for the hut after, right? - **1.** Yeah, they searched but never found it, bro — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, they found it the next day, lol — no support - **3.** Nah, they found it right away and went inside and ate dinner, bro — no support - **4.** Yeah, they hunted for it forever, never found it — **✓ 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/455-pg22373-part47/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} So the girl just stood there blinking when her mom hugged her? - **1.** Yeah, she was just blinking, clueless — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, she hugged back — no support - **3.** Nah, she ran right into his arms, bro — no support - **4.** Yeah, she cried — 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/455-pg22373-part47/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Bro, did the hunter get paid for bringing her home? - **1.** Nah, they just said thanks, bro, lol — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, they gave him a horse and a cow — no support - **3.** Yeah, they gave him all kinds of good stuff — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, he got nothing but a lecture, but he did eat a huge dinner, dude — 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/455-pg22373-part47/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Dude, the Leshy's stone dead and the girl's crying, right? - **1.** Nah, she was singing to him — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she was bawling over him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, she's sleeping — no support - **4.** Yeah, she was yelling at him — 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/455-pg22373-part47/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} So where's the sportsman's dog during the whole chase? - **1.** Running right in front of him and then circling back around behind — score 4 - **2.** Lost in the woods the whole time, never seen again by the hunter — score 4 - **3.** Sitting quietly beside the tree — no support - **4.** Running right in front of him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 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 157, line 15: «Why does the Dog run? He is chasing a Wolf and thinks "he's no match for me, and he knows it and so he runs away."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+3); the same doer «dog» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Bruh, did the moon get mad at the moujik or what? - **1.** Nah, he just kept shouting at it to shine bright, and it kinda did, bro — score 5 - **2.** Yeah, it hid behind a cloud and sulked — no support - **3.** Nah, he just prayed to it quietly, friend — score 1 - **4.** Nah, he just kept shouting at it, shine bright — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 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 277, line 1: «A foggy moon shows the Councillor a strange drum-and-torch procession led by a priest whom people call the Bishop of Zealand.», 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 action «call» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which action of the hunter is recorded as the cause of the Leshy's death? - **1.** The discharge of his gun into the Leshy's abdomen — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** The gunshot that struck the Leshy's chest wall — no support - **3.** The repeated firing of his rifle into the Leshy's belly and legs at close range — no support - **4.** The stab of his knife into the Leshy's side — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 455, line 11: «The hunter fires his gun and hits the Leshy "right in the paunch", which means in the belly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fire» (+4). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «gun» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} What is the precise age-related description given to the Leshy's hair? - **1.** Grey, like old ash — no support - **2.** Grey, as a badger's, long and tangled down his back — no support - **3.** Grey, as a badger's — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** Silver-white and thin, like the frost on an old birch — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 455, line 9: «The creature on the log is a Leshy, a wood-demon, who looks like a moujik but has grey hair "as a badger's".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/455-pg22373-part47/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Whose marriage does the priest arrange for the recovered daughter? - **1.** The son of the old miller in the valley — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** The hunter's — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The wealthy merchant's from the next village — no support - **4.** The soldier's — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 211, line 5: «The Sultan refuses the marriage, the genie carries the vizir's son out into the cold, and the princess tells her mother the truth.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). 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/455-pg22373-part47/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What is the final fate of the hut whose location the family attempts to recover? - **1.** It is finally found, but it is empty and abandoned — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It is searched for years but never located again — no support - **3.** It is never found — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It is sold away — 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/455-pg22373-part47/e4/) - ← previous: [453. 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