Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1019 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.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
so the dude wanted to be a poet by Easter, right?
- 1. yeah, by Easter, but he hated poems — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, by Easter, and to live off his poems — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yeah, by Easter, and also to be famous across the whole kingdom and beyond for centuries — no support
- 4. yeah, by Easter, and to live off his poems and sell them to the rich lords of the town — 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
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
how'd the dude feel about his own time?
- 1. like the good stuff was all taken already by others — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. like every story was already told by old poets, so nothing new was left at all for him — no support
- 3. totally fine, he loved the vibe of his era — no support
- 4. like everything was already written, so nothing new was left — ✓ 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
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
who's the wise lady, anyway?
- 1. the one in the little house by the gate, who knows every secret in the village and every herb — no support
- 2. the one who lives up the hill — no support
- 3. the one in the little house by the gate — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the old lady in the little house by the gate, the one with the cats and the spectacles and the books — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 957, line 7: «What: Karen gets red shoes for her confirmation, though the old lady "would never have allowed" red.», 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 «old lady» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did the potato spill, like, everything?
- 1. her grandmother's whole diary — no support
- 2. her whole story, like a podcast that went on for hours and hours — no support
- 3. her entire life story, every detail, like some super long podcast episode about everything — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. her whole story, like a podcast — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1019, line 2: «The potato sings her story, and the sloes tell of the Northmen who found their berries in a faraway land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «potato» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
what's sloe, lol?
- 1. a small wild sour berry that grows on blackthorn bushes and makes your mouth pucker up badly — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a little bitter herb from the hedge — no support
- 3. a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker and is used to make gin — no support
- 4. a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker — ✓ the right answer · 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
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
what happened to the queen bee's wings?
- 1. they just fell off — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. the drones chewed them off — no support
- 3. the other bees bit them off — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. they got burned in the sun — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 927, line 9: «WHY: the stork is weary, so his wings "could scarcely carry him," and he sinks to the deck.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sink» (+4); the same doer «wing» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
so the dude hit out at every second poet, huh?
- 1. nope, he just liked to insult them all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yup, because he couldn't be one himself — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. nope, just bored — no support
- 4. yup, he was jealous — 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
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
what was the wicked prince all about?
- 1. conquering the whole world and scaring people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. gathering armies to threaten every nation nearby — score 1
- 3. conquering the whole world, scaring people, and building palaces from the loot of every town — score 3
- 4. building huge palaces and stealing lots of land — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 692, line 3: «Death catches him from behind, but the kings and eagles seize Death long enough for the prince to step over the border.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «seize» (+2); the same doer «kings» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
how did the soldiers treat the farms, bruh?
- 1. they paid the farmers fairly — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. they burned every hut and trampled all the crops in the fields — score 5
- 3. they fed the local villagers — score 5
- 4. burned huts and trampled crops — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 186, line 6: «Who: Sindbad, a shipwrecked sailor, tells the king of his adventures, and the king gives him "food and raiment and treated with consideration".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did people yell when they saw the palaces?
- 1. "long live the king!" — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. "what a mighty prince, what a great ruler of all the lands!" — no support
- 3. "what a mighty prince!" — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. "what a mighty prince, look at all those golden towers and marble halls!" — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 29, line 4: «Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water. Toad is rich, the Rat says, and it's one of the nicest houses around…», 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 «one» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did nobody hear, real talk?
- 1. the sighs and wails from the ruins of every village the prince had burned — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the sighs and wails from the ruins that the prince had left behind him on the road — no support
- 3. the sighs and wails from the ruins — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the church bells ringing loud — 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
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
was the prince feeling guilty about any of it?
- 1. nah, he thought it was all totally fine — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. nah, he thought it was all fine — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. nah, he thought it was all totally fine and even necessary for the glory of his realm — score 6
- 4. yes, he regretted some parts a lot — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1019, line 17: «the prince thinks this cruelty is "the natural course which things ought to take".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+4); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter?
- 1. To write a book — ← Mova's choice · score -6
- 2. To earn his bread by writing poems for the rich lords of the town — no support
- 3. To become a poet — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. To live off his poems and become famous in every corner of the kingdom — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1014, line 20: «Old word: "bleak" means bare, cold and windswept, with no shelter from the wind; people still use it today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «word» (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees?
- 1. The queen-bee — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The worker bee — no support
- 3. The drone — no support
- 4. A worker — 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
From what source did the wicked prince's wealth derive?
- 1. From the sea — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. From the conquered towns — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. From the royal treasury — no support
- 4. From bribes — 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What reaction did the spectators display toward the palaces?
- 1. They quietly looked away — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They ran away — no support
- 3. They booed and threw rocks — no support
- 4. They exclaimed admiringly — ✓ 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
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