Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1094 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 ✗
Mate, the visitors took the mick out of her 'cos she was dressed in donkey-skin, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Yeah, they laughed at her in that skin and said it was rubbish, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, they took the piss out of her — score 4
- 4. Nah, they just smiled at her kindly — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1094, line 7: «The visitors mock her "in derision", telling her the King wants to marry her to his son.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «visitors» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Innit wild that the ring slid on dead easy, yeah?
- 1. Nah, it slid onto her middle finger — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. Yeah, it slid onto her little finger — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. Nah, it wouldn't go on at first, then it slid onto her index finger somehow — score 9
- 4. Yeah, it slid right onto her little finger, dead easy, like it was made for her — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1094, line 2: «He asks if she lodges in the dark alley, then asks to see her hand, and the ring slips onto her little finger.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «little finger» (+4); the same action «slip» (+3); the same doer «ring» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Did the Prince go all gooey when the skin fell off?
- 1. Yeah, he dropped to his knees and grabbed her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 2. Nah, he stared at her quietly — no support
- 3. Nah, he just stood there — no support
- 4. Yeah, he kissed her hand and left — 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 865, line 19: «How she dies: she sinks fainting by the sick widow's bed and is carried to the hospital for the sick poor.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sink» (+3); the same doer «child» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Was the Lilac-fairy a proper legend or what?
- 1. Yeah, she came down in a flowery chariot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Yeah, she came down in a flowery chariot from the sky, proper magic — score 8
- 3. Yeah, she arrived in a silver carriage — score 5
- 4. Nah, she was a made-up story — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1094, line 3: «The skin falls away, the Prince kneels to her, and the Lilac-fairy comes down in a flowery chariot to tell her story.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come down» (+4); the same property (+2); the same doer «lilac fairy» (+1); the same place «flowery chariot» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Mint, so the King got invited first but nobody said who the bride was?
- 1. Yeah, that was the plan, to keep trouble off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. Nah, everyone knew who the bride was — no support
- 3. Yeah, the bride was announced first — score -2
- 4. Yeah, that was the plan, to keep trouble off and keep the bride a total secret — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 8: «The six verses are full of «he», «she», «they», «you» and «it», so nobody can tell who anyone is; that is Carroll's joke about evidence that sounds important a…», 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 «joke» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Did the foreign kings roll up in carriages and that?
- 1. Nah, none of them came in carriages, they all rode on elephants and tigers from far away lands — score 4
- 2. Some did, others rode on elephants and tigers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Some did, others rode on elephants and tigers and even giant eagles — score 6
- 4. Some came by boat, some by horse — no support
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 1094, line 14: «Kings come in "sedan-chairs" and carriages, and the most distant ones ride "elephants and tigers and eagles".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did her dad get his head straight again, bruv?
- 1. Yeah, he'd got his marbles back after years of being proper barmy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he never got his head straight again and stayed a raving loony till the end — no support
- 3. Yeah, he got back his crown — no support
- 4. Yeah, he'd got his marbles back — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't the wedding gonna be over in like a day?
- 1. Nah, it went on nearly two months — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, it went on nearly three months and everybody was still partying at the end of it — no support
- 3. Nah, it went on nearly three months with feasts every single night, mad innit — no support
- 4. Nah, it went on nearly three months — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Prince's dad just crown him that day, no warning?
- 1. Nah, he gave his son loads of warning first, then crowned him after a long chat over dinner — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, though his son kicked off — no support
- 3. Yeah, even though his son moaned about it and begged him to wait a bit — no support
- 4. Yeah, even though his son moaned about 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
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Could they have loved each other for like a hundred years, proper?
- 1. Yeah, that's what the tale says — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, not really — no support
- 3. Yeah, it does — no support
- 4. Nah, that's not what it says — ← 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 1012, line 10: «Why the others hate him: "He is too big," they all said, and the turkey cock chases him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «others» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Is the little poem at the end saying the tale might not be believed?
- 1. Yeah, it says it may be doubted — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. Yeah, it says it scarce may be believed by those who hear it — score 5
- 3. Nah, it says the whole story is perfectly true and every word of it can be believed by anyone — score 5
- 4. Yeah, it says it scarce may be believed — ✓ the right answer · 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 970, line 4: «The tale says Cupid sneaks about among students, theatre lamps and parents, always after people.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «tale» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't the Prince the one who asked where she lodged, mate?
- 1. Nah, he asked where she was going — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, in the dark alley in the farm's third yard — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, in the dark alley in the farm's third yard, behind the pigs — no support
- 4. Yeah, in the stable by the gate — 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Did the girl say yes to him, or did she sulk?
- 1. She didn't sulk at all, she said "Yes, your Highness" and then smiled shyly at him — score 5
- 2. She said "Yes, your Highness" quietly and blushed a lot — score 5
- 3. She said "Yes, your Highness" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. She said "No, your Highness" — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1062, line 5: «There a young girl steps out of a coracle, and when Conn asks her questions she says she is Delvcaem, daughter of Morgan.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «girl» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Upon what object did the Lilac-fairy's chariot consist, from which the fairy derived her appellation?
- 1. Branches, flowers and a canopy of silver moonlight — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Branches and flowers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Ivory and gold leaf — no support
- 4. Branches and flowers woven together by the fairies of the frozen north — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which individual was the first recipient of the invitation to the nuptials, notwithstanding his non-disclosure of the bride's identity?
- 1. The Prince — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. The neighbouring Queen — no support
- 3. The Princess's father — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. The Prince's father — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1094, line 13: «The father receives the first invitation but "was not told the name of the bride".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «father» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the duration of the celebrations that followed the illustrious marriage?
- 1. Far longer than anyone in the kingdom had expected to see — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nearly three months of feasting and dancing — no support
- 3. Nearly three months — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Almost two months — 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 · right ✓
Which quality did the young man's protests against his coronation display?
- 1. Nobility of heart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Sheer stubbornness — no support
- 3. Stubbornness — no support
- 4. Cowardice — 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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