--- title: Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the you… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 703 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 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/703-pg2435-part43/) [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/) / 703 # Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 703 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/703-pg2435-part43/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} ok so the dad basically kicks him out cause he's a total lazybones, right? - **1.** yep, dude was sus and lazy af — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, dude was just busy — no support - **3.** yep, super lazy — no support - **4.** nah, not really — 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/703-pg2435-part43/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait so the herdsman gives him like two hundred pigs?? - **1.** fr, a hundred, that's wild — no support - **2.** nah, the herdsman gives him fifty pigs and a dog to watch them — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** fr, two hundred pigs, that's wild, nobody gives that much — score 4 - **4.** fr, two hundred, that's wild — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 703, line 2: «At the chief herdsman's house the youth gets a bed and is given two hundred pigs to mind.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+4); the same thing acted on «hundred pigs» (+4). 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/703-pg2435-part43/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} and the kid just sinks them in a swamp by their tails?? - **1.** yeah, only the tails poking out of the mud, lowkey genius move — no support - **2.** nah, he ties them all up and drags them to the far side of the swamp — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **3.** yeah, only the tails poking out, lowkey genius — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, only the heads poking out, lowkey dumb — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 703, line 13: «The youth ties the pigs' tails together with cord and sinks them with a stone in a small swamp.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tie» (+4); the same thing acted on «tails» (+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/703-pg2435-part43/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} how's the herdsman supposed to believe that's real - **1.** he can't, it's kinda sus — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** he won't, it's cap — no support - **3.** he can't, it's totally cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** he can, it's real — 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/703-pg2435-part43/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} and then he does the same with the sheep, ngl - **1.** yup, same vibe, hung the ram's head up — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yup, same vibe, hung the goat's tail up — no support - **3.** nah, he kept the sheep — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** yup, same vibe, hung the ram's head up with the bells on it — 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 703, line 17: «Old word "fold" means a pen or enclosure for sheep, and the sheep were kept there overnight; today we would say a sheep pen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «sheep» (+4). 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/703-pg2435-part43/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} wait so the bells ring cause of a breeze, not the sheep? - **1.** yep, the wind does it, that's the trick — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yep, the wind, that's it — no support - **3.** nah, the sheep ring them — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** yep, the sheep do it, that's the trick — 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 349, line 10: «Who may ring it: "Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ring» (+4); the same thing acted on «bell» (+4). 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/703-pg2435-part43/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} bro does the herdsman buy the sheep story at the end - **1.** nah, he knows it's a lie, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, he believes every word, the boy is honest and sad — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** nah, he laughs at it, no cap — score 3 - **4.** yeah, he buys it, totally real — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 589, line 7: «The old man says "I don't wanter tell you no stories," so he is not sulking for no reason; he thinks the tale is muddled.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «man» (+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/703-pg2435-part43/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} is the kid like a genius or just a dumb kid - **1.** just dumb — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** lowkey both — no support - **3.** lowkey both, kinda sus honestly — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** just a genius, kinda cool — 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/703-pg2435-part43/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} did the pigs and sheep actually run off or nah - **1.** nah, the kid herded them away on purpose — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yeah, they wandered off by themselves in fright — no support - **3.** nah, the kid herded them away on purpose to trick the herdsman — no support - **4.** nah, the dog chased them to the swamp — **← 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 253, line 5: «He brings his pig, then his dead mother in a sack, but each time the wise woman asks a riddle he cannot answer, until a lass offers to look after him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pig» (+4); the same doer «man» (+1). Against it: a different action (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/703-pg2435-part43/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} what's the deal with the old word fold, is it still a thing - **1.** a kind of old cheese — no support - **2.** no, it's the old word for a well — no support - **3.** yeah, a sheep pen — no support - **4.** yeah it's the pen where sheep sleep — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 386, line 16: «A "fold" is a pen where sheep are kept safe, and today we would say "pen" or "enclosure".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «pen» (+4); the same doer «fold» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/703-pg2435-part43/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} so is the kid's dad mad at him or nah - **1.** yeah he's pale with horror, fr, he sent him away for good — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, he's proud of his boy — no support - **3.** yeah he's pale with horror, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** nah, he's totally calm and proud of his clever son's wit — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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/703-pg2435-part43/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} can the herdsman tell the kid is fibbing - **1.** nah, he buys every word, fr — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** yeah he's not buying it at all — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, he buys it — no support - **4.** yeah, he's fooled by it all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 677, line 5: «Tiidu, a lazy boy from a poor family, refuses to work, and an old man tells him to buy pipes and play for money, so he sets off secretly and grows rich.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «buy» (+4); the same thing acted on «pipes» (+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/703-pg2435-part43/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} wait so what did the kid use to tie everything up - **1.** cord and rope, he's crafty af — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** string, lol — no support - **3.** just rope, crafty — no support - **4.** wire and chain, he's crafty af — 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/703-pg2435-part43/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the means by which the youth conceals the animals from the herdsman? - **1.** He sinks the pigs in a swamp by their tails and hangs the ram's head on bushes above the rock so the bells ring — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** He sinks the pigs in a swamp and hangs the ram's head on bushes — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** He sinks the sheep in a pond and hangs the goat's skin on the wall — score 2 - **4.** He drives the sheep to the woods and hides the pigs in the marsh — score 2 **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 703, line 16: «He ties the ram's head to bushes on a high rock, where a soft breeze makes the bells ring.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «youth» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/703-pg2435-part43/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} Which of the following accurately states the reason the herdsman remains unconvinced at the close of the part? - **1.** He sees no proof at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** He sees a clear ring that could not be explained by wind — score 2 - **3.** He finds the sheep alive and the bells are silent on the hill — score 2 - **4.** He hears only a faint ringing that could be explained otherwise — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 361, line 13: «Who: Wilhelm, a young man staying at an inn, first mistakes Mignon for a boy because of her curls.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/703-pg2435-part43/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following identifies the figure of speech used when the herdsman's bells are described as ringing softly from above? - **1.** Simile comparing bells to birds — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Imagery that evokes sound from an unseen source — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Imagery that evokes sound from an unseen source, placed above the speaker's head on the rock — no support - **4.** Metaphor that compares the herdsman to a ringing bell — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 349, line 1: «In the Italian town of Atri the king hangs a fine bell, and anyone who is wronged may ring it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fine bell» (+4). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/703-pg2435-part43/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following is the most accurate description of the youth's character at the end of the part? - **1.** Cunning and idle, using deceit to avoid honest labour, though he is also quite sorry for his lies in the end — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cunning and idle, using deceit to avoid honest labour — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Cunning and idle, using deceit to avoid honest labour and to shame his father — no support - **4.** Gentle and hardworking, always willing to help the herdsman — 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/703-pg2435-part43/e4/) - ← previous: [702. 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