Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1280 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 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, so the old lady was like ninety, innit?

1. Yeah, she looked bare old but her eyes were proper quick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Yeah, she looked ancient but she was dead sharp in the head — no support
3. Yeah, mad old — no support
4. Yeah, dead old — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 957, line 6: «Who: Karen, a poor girl, and the old lady who looks after her, who "could not see very well".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, why did the young man get bare mad at her?

1. He said she was far too old — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He thought she was a total weirdo — no support
3. He said she was too old to marry and that he'd rather die than be stuck with a mad old witch like that — no support
4. He said she was too old to marry — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the king just chill and let him talk?

1. Nah, he flew off the handle and shouted that the lad was a liar and a traitor and dragged him out the hall — score 4
2. Nah, he told the guards to grab him — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Nah, he wanted him locked up straight away — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Yeah, he listened for a bit, then he flipped — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 733, line 4: «A poor fisherman and his wife live in a pigsty until he catches a talking fish that says it is an enchanted prince, so he lets it go.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2); the same thing acted on «talking fish» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the young man dead gutted when he got arrested?

1. Nah, he looked dead calm and pleased — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, he looked proper pale and desperate — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. Yeah, he looked proper pale and desperate and he kept mumbling to himself about the old lady and his grandad — score 1
4. Yeah, he was a bit rattled — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1007, line 1: «John stops two cruel men from leaving a dead man outside the church by paying them his fifty dollars.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «john» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Did the old woman save him by proper magic or what?

1. Nah, she paid the guards off — score 3
2. She knew his secret and made a deal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Yeah, pure magic — score 5
4. She knew his secret, did a deal — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 1280, line 10: «The old woman says "I know all that has happened to you", which shows she knows secret things about him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+3); the same doer «old woman» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who married them, like, the king or what?

1. The old hermit — no support
2. Some priest from the village church nearby — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. The bishop from the abbey — no support
4. The priest — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, tied with another option at -1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1279, line 3: «Nobody can tell the thief apart, so the council makes a plan: a child will give an apple to the man who should marry the princess.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the king's queen get the baby, innit?

1. She was dead dry for a kid and the king was bored — ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. She was dead dry for a kid and the king had gone off her, so she took the quarryman's baby to keep him sweet — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Because the queen had lost three babies in childbirth and wanted someone to love, the king agreed to the plan — score 4
4. She wanted a child since the king would not give her one — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1254, line 2: «She takes the baby home, buries his mother, and raises him as her son, whom she calls Nur Mahomed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+1); the same thing acted on «baby» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's the deal with the apple orchard girl?

1. The king loved her at first sight and married her quietly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He met her and fell for her — no support
3. The king saw her and wanted her, so he married her in secret — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She was a farmer's girl — 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 king know the young man was his son before?

1. Nah, he had no clue at all until the young man showed him the cross and rings in front of the whole court — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Yeah, he guessed it when she died — score 3
3. Nah, not until the rings were shown him — score 7
4. Nah, he had no clue till the cross and rings — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1280, line 5: «He shows three rings and a cross, the king admits he is the true son, and he orders everyone to accept him as heir.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); the same doer «man» (+2); the same thing acted on «three rings» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

How did the girl's dad react, like, was he chill?

1. Nah, he was mad, and he hid her away from the king — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he was chill — no support
3. Nah, he raged and sent her off to hide — no support
4. Nah, he was livid and he hid her from him — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓

What happened to the rings and that cross, bruv?

1. The young man laid them at the king's feet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. He tossed them to the nobles there — no support
3. The young man put them on the table — score 4
4. He kept them — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1093, line 4: «He finds the tiny emerald ring, and his father sends heralds to test it on every finger in the land.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «father» (+2); the same thing acted on «ring» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

So was the king's answer proper fair or what?

1. He said the young man was his son and not the other, and he publicly apologised and gave him a horse and a title — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. He called the boy his son, not the other lad — score 1
3. He declared the lad was his son, not the other one — score -2
4. He said the young man was his son and not the other — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1236, line 8: «What: the princess answers, "You have given your word, my father, and you cannot break it."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+5); the same thing acted on «word» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the young man's situation before his marriage to the old woman?

1. He was a soldier awaiting pay after a long campaign in the north — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. He was a condemned prisoner awaiting trial for high treason against the heir — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. He was a servant who had been wrongly accused of theft in the palace — score 6
4. He was a free farmer — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1231, line 6: «Who: Pivi is an obedient young man who is "always ready to oblige", and Kabo is cross, greedy, and wants to be "handsome too".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «obedient young man» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Identify the person who first arranged the substitution of the royal heir, according to the young man's account before the court.

1. The queen's own mother, who first proposed the whole scheme to the royal household during a long winter feast — score -3
2. The queen, who adopted the infant of a poor quarryman — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. A nurse who swapped the infants at birth — no support
4. The king's chamberlain, who swapped the babies — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 922, line 11: «The old man dies: "the old man in his coffin was placed in" the hearse, and "no one followed him", because all his friends were dead.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+2); the same doer «one» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the reason the king gives for preferring the death of the prince to his public humiliation.

1. To be feared — no support
2. Honour demanded the boy's life, since the insult could not be borne quietly — no support
3. He would rather the prince were dead than that the injury go unavenged — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He would not let the insult stand, so the prince must answer for it with his life — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1201, line 15: «fact: The riddle is "What did the rose do to the cypress?" and the prince answers with a verse about "the Omnipotent."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «answer» (+2). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the sentence that correctly records the king's final judgment in the hall of justice.

1. He declared the young man his son and ordered the court to honour the queen's judgment as final — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. He declared the young man his true son, dismissed the court with a long speech about mercy and justice, and commanded all those present to acknowledge him as king after his death without exception — score 1
3. He declared the young man his true son and commanded all present to acknowledge him as king after his death — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. He declared the young man his true son and commanded the court to obey him as king after his death — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 4, line 5: «She calls it back kindly, it promises to tell her why it hates cats and dogs, and Alice leads a crowd of soggy birds and animals to the shore: a funny, slightl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2). Against it: the same doer «sentence» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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