--- title: Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the w… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 666 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 14 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/666-pg2435-part6/) [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/) / 666 # Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast **Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 666 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/666-pg2435-part6/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} bruh, the king kept offering the shepherd stuff for one tiny phrase, so what was the first thing he tried? - **1.** the golden field — no support - **2.** a silver wood full of birds and cattle — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** the silver wood with its glittering trees — no support - **4.** the silver wood — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 356, line 9: «Why: Schacabac plays along because he is polite, and he says, "Your table is full of good things."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-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/666-pg2435-part6/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} no cap, why did the king sneeze so hard at the feast? - **1.** the smell was super strong from the boar — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the roast smell was super strong across the whole hall — no support - **3.** the bread was burnt out — no support - **4.** the smell was super strong — **✓ 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/666-pg2435-part6/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} lowkey wild, who got to the wedding toast first? - **1.** a guest — no support - **2.** the cook's boy — no support - **3.** the king — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** the shepherd — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 538, line 19: «fact: Old word: a "libation" was wine poured out as a gift for the gods, and today we might say "a toast" or "an offering".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «fact» (-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/666-pg2435-part6/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} fr, what did the guards do with the hat and cloak? - **1.** chucked them down the deep stone well in the yard — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** chucked them down the well — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** dropped them in the moat — no support - **4.** buried them in the field — 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/666-pg2435-part6/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5} so the shepherd survived the well, what did he do? - **1.** he hid in a dark corner and laughed quietly for hours — score 3 - **2.** hid in a corner and laughed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** he crawled out of the well — no support - **4.** he climbed out of the well and hid in a corner, laughing — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 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 666, line 1: «The guards throw the shepherd's hat, cloak, knapsack and stick down a well, but he has hidden in a dark corner and is laughing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «dark corner» (+3); the same doer «shepherd» (+1). Against it: the same action «hide» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/666-pg2435-part6/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} wait, what was the deal for the princess? - **1.** he had to say the toast — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** a toast — no support - **3.** say it — no support - **4.** marry the princess first — **← 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 486, line 3: «In the first kingdom the two of them chopped up the princess, stuck her back together with a puff of breath, and took gold and silver.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «princess» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). 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/666-pg2435-part6/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about? - **1.** no toast till he got the princess as his wife — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** no toast till he got the princess — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** he refused any toast until the king agreed to the princess — score 2 - **4.** no marriage without the crown — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 665, line 13: «The shepherd won't say "To your good health" until he gets the princess for his wife.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «princess» (-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/666-pg2435-part6/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} ngl, what kind of king did the shepherd turn out to be? - **1.** a cruel one — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** a rather lazy one — score 4 - **3.** a very good one — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** a very good one who ruled the people kindly — no support **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 450, line 12: «A pelisse is a long coat, here made of sheep-skin, and he turns it "inside out so that the wool was outside."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+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/666-pg2435-part6/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} deadass, what did the king say the rich field would feed? - **1.** more grain than the barns held — score 1 - **2.** more bread than people could eat — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** all the people — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** more meat than they could carry — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 20: «Talk in this lesson: «it's giving main character» = acting like the star of the show; «flex» = show off; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, OK; «don't have a cow» (ol…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «word» (+2); 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/666-pg2435-part6/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} hold up, how long was the journey for an envoy there and back? - **1.** twenty years — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** twenty weeks — no support - **3.** a month — no support - **4.** ten 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/666-pg2435-part6/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} sus, who did the merchants say was the smartest princess? - **1.** Princess Helena — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Lady Anastasia — no support - **3.** the princess — no support - **4.** Helena — 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/666-pg2435-part6/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} mate, what did the people do at the wedding? - **1.** sang — no support - **2.** they cheered — no support - **3.** wept and prayed — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** danced and feasted — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 463, line 12: «At the wedding the horse stands "as if petrified," and the people cry, "What a hero! What immeasurable strength!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/666-pg2435-part6/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} honestly, what did the king offer for free to the merchants? - **1.** a gift of silver coins — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** no duties on their trade and a feast every single night — no support - **3.** no duties on their trade for the rest of their lives — no support - **4.** no duties on their trade — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 544, line 8: «What does Laomedon offer as a reward? The horses that Zeus gave to Tros "in compensation for robbing him of his son Ganymede".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/666-pg2435-part6/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14} bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride? - **1.** chasing a red deer — no support - **2.** blowing their horns — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** hunting — no support - **4.** riding fast — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 117, line 18: «The Huntsman "could not find it in my heart" to shoot, so the two swap coats and the Prince hides in the wood.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huntsman» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). 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/666-pg2435-part6/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} By what means did the shepherd evade the sentence of death imposed upon him? - **1.** by concealing himself in a dark corner until the guards had gone home — score 8 - **2.** by escaping through the well — no support - **3.** by concealing himself in a dark corner of the courtyard, unseen — score 8 - **4.** by concealing himself in a dark corner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 666, line 1: «The guards throw the shepherd's hat, cloak, knapsack and stick down a well, but he has hidden in a dark corner and is laughing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+5); the same place «dark corner» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/666-pg2435-part6/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which precise objects did the king offer the shepherd in exchange for the customary toast? - **1.** the silver wood, the golden castle, the diamond pond and the royal forest — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** the silver wood, the golden castle, the diamond pond and half of the royal treasury — no support - **3.** the silver wood, the golden castle and the diamond pond — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a silver forest, a golden tower and an emerald pond — 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/666-pg2435-part6/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What condition did the shepherd impose before he would utter the toast? - **1.** that the princess must be his bride — no support - **2.** that the princess should become his wife and the king swear an oath — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** that the princess should become his wife — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** that he would marry the princess — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 589, line 19: «The book writes its words as they were spoken by the old man, so the spelling is not the way people write today.», 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 thing acted on «way» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: 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/666-pg2435-part6/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} How did the shepherd conduct himself at the wedding feast? - **1.** he gave the first toast to the king — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **2.** he proposed the first toast to the king's health — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** he proposed the first toast to the king's health, loudly and proudly before everyone — no support - **4.** he proposed the first toast to the king's health and danced all night — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 510, line 12: «What: Alcestis dies "in the arms of Admetus", and Heracles holds Death until it gives her back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+5); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same doer «shepherd» (+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/666-pg2435-part6/e4/) - ← previous: [665. pg2435 tales, To Your Good Health, part 1: the s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/665-pg2435-part5/) - next →: [667. Russian Fairy Tales, The Seven Simons, part 7: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/667-pg2435-part7/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)