Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1240 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 ✗
What did the prince and his dog do all day, mate?
- 1. Hunted in the hills with the king — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Played together till the boy grew tall — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Walked through the woods at dusk — score 4
- 4. Slept in the grass — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1200, line 1: «A proud young prince goes hunting in the hills and chases a beautiful deer until he is far from his men.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «proud young prince» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the castle on a mountain, or was it, like, in a swamp?
- 1. In a forest of tall pines — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. On a mountain, or maybe in a swamp, I'm not sure which — no support
- 3. On the top of a mountain — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. In a swamp — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Who wanted the prince to get a puppy, proper?
- 1. His old nurse — score 5
- 2. The king himself — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. The king's steward — score 5
- 4. The king's own councillor, who advised him — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1207, line 12: «Why she is shown: the king wants the prince to see Gul's sorrow, and the lesson of the feast is to show power and pain.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+4); the same thing acted on «prince» (+3). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the prince want when he saw the dog across the moat?
- 1. A ride home — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. To play with the creature — score 4
- 3. To have one just like it — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. To cross the moat quickly — score 5
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 1206, line 16: «WHERE: The prince goes into the city and meets a young cloth-merchant, who becomes his friend.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+3); the same action «meet» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
How did the other princes do on that wall, bruv?
- 1. They gave up — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Each one fell halfway up — score 8
- 3. Nobody got near the top — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They all fell — score 8
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1130, line 5: «Ivan stops the prince from hunting the mice, the grateful mouse promises to help him, and they march on toward the gnat's huge host.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stop» (+5); the same doer «ivan» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was the palace king obsessed with, lol?
- 1. Counting his coins daily — score 5
- 2. Hunting stags each morning — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Making riddles all day long and asking them of all — score 5
- 4. Making riddles all day — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 666, line 2: «Next morning the king drives him to a silver wood, a golden castle and a diamond pond, offering each one if he will say "To your good health".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
What did the prince tell everyone his dad did, like, for real?
- 1. Looked after horses for the king, and boasted of it loudly — score 4
- 2. Kept the royal stables in order — no support
- 3. Looked after horses for the king — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Looked after horses for the king, the richest man in the land — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 576, line 6: «"Brer Rabbit... jump in de bucket" is how the story starts, and he is a trickster who makes everyone look foolish.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «everyone» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Why was the palace king so mad, like, seriously?
- 1. A youth who was not a prince dared to ask for her hand in marriage — score 2
- 2. A commoner dared to ask for her hand — no support
- 3. A youth who was not a prince wanted her, and the king would not allow it at all — score 3
- 4. A youth who was not a prince wanted her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 1238, line 13: «What the king begs for: he "implored her to give up all thought of the peasant boy, and to share his throne."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the princess threaten to do, no joke?
- 1. Stop eating and drinking, and also refuse to see her father — score 4
- 2. Starve — no support
- 3. Stop eating and drinking — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Refuse all her meals — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1182, line 9: «Why: the king and queen beg the giant, and Muffette says "I will not buy my life with faithlessness", so she refuses to break her word.», 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 action «refuse» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the king do in the end, be honest?
- 1. Fled — score 4
- 2. Hugged the young man — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Thanked him — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. Gave him a horse — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 692, line 1: «The prince wakes the bald-headed king and the king of the eagles with drops from his golden flask, and they thank him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+3); the same receiver «prince» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Where was the black horse waiting, like, exactly?
- 1. Near a rock — no support
- 2. Tied to a tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Under the big oak — no support
- 4. By the old barn — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1240, line 13: «where: The black horse waits on the far side of the river, "tied to a tree".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tie» (+6); the same circumstance (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
How many windows did the princess's house really have?
- 1. Seventy windows, as the riddle said — score 4
- 2. Seventeen — no support
- 3. Seventy windows in total across three floors — score 2
- 4. Seventy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1240, line 14: «what: The princess's house has "seventy windows, each seventy feet from the ground".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the prophesied manner of the prince's death?
- 1. By a wolf or a bear — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By a crocodile, a serpent, or a dog — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By drowning in the swift river — no support
- 4. By a serpent — 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 ✗
What was the king's stated objection to the youth's suit?
- 1. He was poor — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. That he was not royal — no support
- 3. That he was not a prince — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. That he was a stranger — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1100, line 10: «Why: the poor man plans to shame his rich brother, who "wouldn't come to us when we were poor."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the youth ascend the wall to the window?
- 1. By climbing the rough wall slowly — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. By grasping one projection after another — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By using a long wooden ladder — no support
- 4. By grasping one projection after another with bare hands — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 650, line 18: «Old word: "clambering" means climbing slowly and awkwardly, the way the witch got down from her pedestal.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the ultimate resolution of the king's anger toward the young man?
- 1. He forgave the youth — score 0
- 2. He sent him away — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. He pardoned him — score 4
- 4. He embraced him warmly — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1041, line 13: «Why the king sends him away: "I do not want you killed under my protection."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send away» (+2); the same thing acted on «mac» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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