Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree

Tests: 0 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1309 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 brother just chopped the pumpkin and her hand off, innit?

1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, proper nasty, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, mate — no support
4. Yeah, it was well nasty — 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 ✗

Wait, so she was sat up a tree crying for, like, a week?

1. Yeah, about a week, bruv — no support
2. Yeah, seven days, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, seven whole days, bruv, up that tree in the rain and the cold — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Nah, just a day — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 233, line 1: «The Sultan asks how the Singing Tree came to the garden, and the princess promises to tell him the whole story later.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2). Against it: the same property (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the prince just pretend he was poorly to get his mum and dad going?

1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a fibber — no support
3. Yeah, sneaky little fibber — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, bit of a sneaky fibber — 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hang on, why's the prince taking a girl with one hand home?

1. Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple, and his mum and dad can deal with it — score -1
2. Cos he loves her, that's the whole story — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple, even with her hand gone and everything — score -1
4. Cos she's the one he fancies, dead simple — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1252, line 6: «Who: a princess is held captive underground by a gnome, and a prince named Ratibor loves her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «love» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «princess» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did his mum and dad go mental about the one hand?

1. Yeah, they went mental, wanting a daughter-in-law with two hands and a proper dowry — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, they wanted two hands and loads of dosh — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, they wanted two hands and loads of dosh, so they went mental at him — no support
4. Yeah, they wanted a posh wife, loads — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the brother got the sister's new life, then came back to moan?

1. Yeah, he was dead jealous, innit — score 3
2. Yeah, he was proper envious, mate — score 3
3. Yeah, he was well jealous, like — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Yeah, he was well jealous, like, and came back to moan about her luck — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 762, line 5: «The queen bee helps him pick the right princess, the spell breaks, and the stone men come back to life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come back» (+3); the same doer «stone men» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did he tell the king she was a witch and a murderer?

1. Yeah, lies — no support
2. Nah, the truth — no support
3. Yeah, total porkies — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he told the truth — ← 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 1303, line 7: «fact: What: the messengers say he is "so dirty and ugly" that he cannot be the winner they seek, and the king orders him hanged.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «order» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

And the king just believed him, no questions?

1. Yeah, he was a hothead, didn't think — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he was a bit of a hothead — score 0
3. Yeah, he just took his word for it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Nah, he was careful — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1281, line 2: «The prince confesses that he swore to marry the old woman, but the king insists he must keep his word.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «word» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did anyone in the town stick up for her?

1. Nah, nobody dared speak up — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, nobody got a word in — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, loads did — no support
4. Yeah, a few people tried — 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 ✗

So they're chucking her out, proper harsh?

1. Yeah, harsh — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, it's fair, she's a witch — no support
3. Nah, fair enough — no support
4. Yeah, after all she's done, mate — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

And the brother's still not happy after all that?

1. Nah, he was happy, the snake — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, greedy — no support
3. Nah, he's chill — no support
4. Yeah, he wanted more, the snake — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Right, so who's the real villain here, the brother or the king?

1. The king, no question, cos he believed the lies without even checking the facts — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. The brother, no question, he's the snake who started it all — no support
3. The brother, obviously mate — no support
4. The brother, no question — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1302, line 6: «Who: Ian, the fisher's son, is the hero, and the deer who helps him is the one who keeps bringing him back to life.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «ian» (+2); the same doer «one» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what's the big lesson, then?

1. Don't believe every rumour you hear, and don't be jealous of your sister's luck — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Never trust a stranger's word — no support
3. Don't believe every rumour you hear — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Don't believe every rumour you hear, check the facts before you act on it — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify, with reference to the passage, the cause of the king's decision to banish the girl from the town.

1. The king was swayed by the brother's false tale, his quick temper meaning he never checked it — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. The king believed the brother's story at once, owing to his hasty temper and lack of proof — score 5
3. The king accepted the brother's false account without enquiry, owing to his hasty temper — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. The king believed the brother's lies — 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 1280, line 4: «At his trial he tells the king how the queen secretly adopted a baby and how the king once married a girl in an orchard.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «man» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the reason the prince gave for choosing to marry the girl despite her disability.

1. He declared that no other woman pleased him as well, even with one hand — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. He said that she was the only woman who pleased him, despite one hand — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. He claimed no other woman was as pleasing to him, though she had one hand — score 2
4. He told his parents that no other woman in the kingdom pleased him as well, even with one hand, and he would wed no one else — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1309, line 5: «Later her brother hears she has married the prince, and he tells the king a wicked lie about her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Describe the means by which the prince conveyed the girl from the forest to his house without his attendants observing her.

1. He concealed her within a curtained litter, sending his attendants away first, and then had the drums beaten all along the road as they travelled home to the palace — score 7
2. He hid her inside a closed litter, after sending his men ahead — score 5
3. He placed her in a curtained litter and dismissed his men beforehand — score 4
4. He concealed her within a curtained litter, sending his attendants away first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1309, line 13: «Why the litter: he hides her inside it, so she is carried home "right inside his own house."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «hide» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+1); the same thing acted on «sister» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Evaluate the conduct of the brother in relation to his sister, with reference to the events of the passage.

1. He was cruel to her — no support
2. He took her hand, sold her house, and afterwards lied to the king about her out of jealousy — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. He cut off her hand, sold her home, and later slandered her to the king out of envy — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. He cut off her hand and sold her home — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1117, line 2: «The youngest brother, whom everyone calls the fool, sits up with a gun, shoots the hog, and his brothers bury it in a ditch and lie to their father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lie» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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