--- title: Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1: a priest's… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 469 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 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/469-pg22373-part61/) [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/) / 469 # Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier's Midnight Watch, part 1: a priest's son outwits a witch princess, then a soldier is warned about a merchant's daughter **Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 469 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/469-pg22373-part61/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} bruh, so the priest's son just stared at the witch all night and didn't blink? - **1.** yeah, he turned round once, ngl — no support - **2.** nah, he kept reading fr, never looked back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** yeah, he blinked — no support - **4.** nah, he peeked — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 469, line 2: «Each night she rises from her coffin and conjures horrors, but he traces a circle, keeps reading and never looks behind him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/469-pg22373-part61/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait, why did the Princess even get mad at the kid? - **1.** cause he was out at the palace making noise and peeping at her window all night, honestly wild — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** cause he peeped at her through a gap, lowkey wild — score 2 - **3.** cause he was peeping in her window every night and sneaking around the palace, lowkey creepy — no support - **4.** cause he was peeping in her window, lowkey creepy — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 20: «The Cat asks "Did you say pig, or fig?", then vanishes slowly, "beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin"; before that Alice asks it not to…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); the same thing acted on «one» (+1). Against it: a different doer (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/469-pg22373-part61/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} ok so what's the deal with the coffin, did she like, come back to life? - **1.** yep, she popped up at midnight and tried to strangle the kid, no cap, super creepy — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yep, she sat up in the coffin at midnight and cursed everyone in the church, fr fr — no support - **3.** yep, she popped up at midnight, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nope, she just got buried, lowkey — 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/469-pg22373-part61/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} that circle thing with the knife, was it just a joke or did it actually work? - **1.** it totally worked, the witch got nowhere — no support - **2.** it was a joke at first but then it worked, the witch couldn't break in, wild stuff — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** it actually worked, the witch couldn't break in — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it actually worked, the witch couldn't break in and the priest's son was totally safe, no cap — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 4: «Suleiman did not even know about the Queens; he had only been playing a joke with a Butterfly. Balkis explains it was her plan, and that she was wise «First, O…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «plan» (+4). 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/469-pg22373-part61/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} fam, why did the King give the boy money and land? - **1.** cause he did the job and got the witch sorted — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** cause he asked nicely — no support - **3.** cause he read all night and sorted the witch — no support - **4.** cause the girl was his daughter, so yeah — 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/469-pg22373-part61/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} so the soldier's grandpa was like a hundred and a bit, right? - **1.** yep, old as anything, that's wild — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yep, super old — no support - **3.** nah, he was a hundred and ten, lol — no support - **4.** nah, like forty — 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/469-pg22373-part61/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} lol the soldier was gone for fifteen years, did he even miss his family? - **1.** nah, he was too busy with the war and the mare to even think about them at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, not really — no support - **3.** nah, he forgot them pretty fast — no support - **4.** yeah, he hadn't seen them in forever — **✓ 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/469-pg22373-part61/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} bro the girl said "God knows who breaks in whom", what did she even mean? - **1.** idk, she was mad — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** she meant who gets the upper hand — no support - **3.** she was like, we'll see who tames who — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** she said it was a threat, fr — 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/469-pg22373-part61/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} did the grandpa actually think the girl was a witch or was he just being extra? - **1.** he was dead serious, she's a real witch — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** nah he was just being extra and dramatic, she was a normal girl but grandpa freaked out — score 4 - **3.** nah he was messing, she's just odd — no support - **4.** he was serious, she was a real witch — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 414, line 16: «Old word: "trough" is a long open tub for holding water or food; the witch is laid in one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «witch» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/469-pg22373-part61/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} the soldier beat her till she was dead, honestly that's kinda dark, right? - **1.** yeah it's bleak, but she's a witch, fr — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** yeah it's super dark, but she was a witch who deserved it, fr fr — score 4 - **3.** nah it's fine, she was evil, fr — no support - **4.** yeah it's dark, but she was a witch, fr — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 469, line 16: «What: the mare runs "over hills and dales and ravines", but the Soldier "stuck on tight" and beat her to death.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «soldier» (+4). 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/469-pg22373-part61/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} how did the soldier even know the witch was gonna come at midnight? - **1.** grandpa said it was her usual hour — no support - **2.** he heard it from the village folk — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** grandpa told him it was her usual time, so he waited by the window all evening — score 6 - **4.** grandpa told him it was her usual time — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 469, line 4: «A soldier home after fifteen years meets a merchant's daughter, teases her, and hears from his grandfather that she is a witch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hear» (+5); the same doer «soldier» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/469-pg22373-part61/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so the mare ran him all over hills and ravines, was he scared or nah? - **1.** yeah, super scared — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, he got thrown off quickly — no support - **3.** nah, he stuck on tight and held his ground — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, he was scared but hung on tight — 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/469-pg22373-part61/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following accurately identifies the instruction the old woman gave the priest's son regarding the conduct of the reading, namely the prohibition against turning round? - **1.** He was forbidden from turning round while he read. — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** He was warned to keep the psalter closed at night. — no support - **3.** He was told never to look behind him while reading. — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He was told to read aloud. — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 74, line 11: «The Mariner sits on his raft trailing his toes in the water, because "he had his Mummy's leave to paddle"; the Whale opens his mouth "back and back and back ti…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn round» (+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/469-pg22373-part61/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Which of the following accurately describes the means by which the witch was transformed into a mare in the Soldier's tale? - **1.** She was transformed by the grandfather's bridle and the words "Stand still!" — score 1 - **2.** She was transformed by the Soldier's utterance of the words "Tprru! stand still, jade!" — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** She was transformed by the Soldier's utterance of the words "Tprru! stand still, jade!" after the bridle was thrown over her head at midnight — score 7 - **4.** She was changed when the Soldier cried out the words "Tprru!" aloud. — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 469, line 13: «What: the merchant's daughter jokes back, "God knows, soldier, who breaks in whom", and laughs as she goes her way.», 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 «soldier» (+2); the same thing acted on «way» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/469-pg22373-part61/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following accurately states the disposition of the body of the deceased Princess following the three nights of reading and the King's subsequent orders? - **1.** The corpse was nailed down with a stake and dropped into a dug pit by the wall. — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The body was pierced with an aspen stake, then burned in a fire and the ashes scattered over the fields by the King's men at dawn. — no support - **3.** The body was pierced with an aspen stake and thrust into a hole in the ground. — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** The body was driven through with an aspen stake and buried in an open grave. — 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/469-pg22373-part61/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following accurately identifies the reward conferred by the King upon the priest's son in consequence of his fidelity during the vigil? - **1.** A large sack of silver and several estates were conferred upon him by royal decree, along with his father's blessing. — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Much gold was granted, and a few estates were given to him in full. — no support - **3.** A sum of money and an estate were conferred upon him by the crown. — no support - **4.** A heap of money and various lands were conferred upon 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/469-pg22373-part61/e4/) - ← previous: [468. 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