Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1293 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 ✗
Whoa, so the prince was dossing in the castle for a month, right?
- 1. Yeah, a whole month he was just lounging around the castle, eating and sleeping all day long — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. Yeah, a whole month he was just lounging around — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. Yeah, a whole month he was lounging around, though he was really plotting the whole time — score -1
- 4. Yeah, ages he just hung about the castle — score 7
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 1206, line 16: «WHERE: The prince goes into the city and meets a young cloth-merchant, who becomes his friend.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «city» (+4); the same doer «prince» (+3). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what was that snuff-box thing for?
- 1. To call Seven Inches whenever the prince needed help, as it had been made for that very purpose — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To keep snuff for the king's guards at night — no support
- 3. To call Seven Inches when he needed help — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. To call Seven Inches when he needed help, and to shrink him back down — 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 ✗
Did the prince really fool everyone with the hammering?
- 1. Yeah, he hammered loudly and pitched scraps out of the window — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Yeah, he banged away and tossed scraps out — score -1
- 3. Nah, just noise — no support
- 4. Yeah, he hammered all night and chucked bits out the window — ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1081, line 14: «The Fairy's chariot is "drawn by dragons," and she touches everyone in the palace except the King and the Queen.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «palace» (+4); the same doer «dwarf» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2); a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Was the youngest princess gutted when the basket went down?
- 1. She was wrecked, she cried and was dead upset — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. Nope, she cheered — no support
- 3. She was upset and cried a bit — score 1
- 4. She was fine, she laughed and waved goodbye — 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 1263, line 14: «Why: the princess weeps and makes herself ill, because she is sure something terrible has befallen the knight.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «weep» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Like, what happened to the two posh princes at the altar?
- 1. They tumbled through a trapdoor below — no support
- 2. They fell through the floor into the vaults beneath the castle, never seen again — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. They fell through the floor into the vaults — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. They were struck by the king's guards — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1291, line 1: «The king and queen dig up the threshold and find a stone, a sheep, a duck and an egg.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the smith want to make the crowns for the king?
- 1. Not at all, he said he could not — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. No, he said he could not imitate them, and he sent the prince away — score 1
- 3. No, he said he could not imitate them — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. No, he said it was impossible — 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 1146, line 15: «Ian tells the French king a "tale so pitiful" that the royal family comes down to the shore to see the wreck.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Wasn't the prince's head on the line for the crowns?
- 1. Yes, the prince offered his head as a pledge — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. Yes, he staked his life on it — no support
- 3. Yes, the prince offered his head as a pledge to the king and the smith — score -2
- 4. Yes, he risked his own life as the pledge — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1236, line 6: «Who: the old woman's son is a head, because "A wicked fairy enchanted me at my birth."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «head» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Was the youngest prince sound with the basket trick?
- 1. Yeah, he dropped a stone in and it smashed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, he dropped a stone in, and it smashed when the basket went down the well — no support
- 3. Yeah, he dropped a stone in the basket and it smashed to bits on the floor — no support
- 4. Yeah, he swapped himself for a rock — 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 youngest pair go down last?
- 1. Yes, the youngest pair went last, after both elder couples had already gone — no support
- 2. Yes, the youngest pair went last — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, they went down at the end — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. No, the eldest went first — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 809, line 4: «A stranger in a black cloak with a hood speaks to her: "Thou wouldst gladly go down and be with thy child."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same action «go down» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the eldest princess get, like, out of the first set?
- 1. She received the first crowns from the tiny man — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. She got the first set of crowns from Seven Inches — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. She got a set of crowns from him — score 3
- 4. The first set — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 160, line 19: «Old word: "scarlet fever" is today treated with antibiotic medicine, so children rarely suffer from it as they did long ago.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «old word» (+1); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the prince bored in the castle?
- 1. Yeah, he missed his sweetheart badly — no support
- 2. Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love, and he couldn't stop thinking about her — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love and wandered the halls all day — ← Mova's choice · score -3
- 4. Yeah, he was lonesome for his true love — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 663, line 11: «The prince wanders for "three days" through the wood, and he walks in and out of the town and forest, showing how far he travels.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wander» (+1). Against it: the same property (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Was the king well chuffed with the crowns?
- 1. Yeah, pleased — no support
- 2. Yeah, he was overjoyed and cheered — score -1
- 3. Not really, he was rather cross — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was delighted and rejoiced — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1009, line 3: «The old king is delighted, the crowd claps, and John's fellow-traveller is glad to hear it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which object did Seven Inches give the youngest prince to summon his assistance?
- 1. A box — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. A snuff-box — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. A ring — score 0
- 4. A brass bell — 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 1236, line 10: «What: the king gave them "two bows exactly alike," so nobody can tell whose arrow is whose.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). Against it: the same action «give» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Upon which occasion did the youngest prince place a stone within the basket?
- 1. When the basket was to be drawn up from the pit, as the youngest princess cried — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. When the basket was to be drawn up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. When the basket was lowered down — no support
- 4. When the basket was to be drawn up, and the youngest princess had already climbed in — 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 ✗
What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand in marriage?
- 1. Three crowns — score -2
- 2. Presentation of three crowns — ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. Supply of silver crowns — score -3
- 4. Presentation of three crowns of gold, silver and copper to the king — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1250, line 15: «How does the king react? He tears his robes, dashes off his golden crown, and then hurries to the spot to look for himself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). Against it: the same action «crown» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by the smith?
- 1. Gold, silver and copper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Iron and tin — no support
- 3. Gold, bronze and tin — no support
- 4. Gold only — 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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