Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the suitors fail, the Emperor comes, the Princess tells her secret
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1358 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, which Knight got busted for faking the golden branch?
- 1. The Third — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The First Knight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The Second — no support
- 4. The Second Knight — 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 ✗
Bruv, why'd the Princess torch the fire-rat skin?
- 1. To warm up — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To prove the Knight had lied about where he had found it this time — no support
- 3. To test if it's real — no support
- 4. To see if it was real — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
No cap, what did the Fourth Knight's lot do instead of hunting?
- 1. Relaxed out in the fields — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Spent weeks relaxing at a country villa with music and wine — no support
- 3. Took a rural break — no support
- 4. Chilled out in the countryside — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, what did the Fourth Knight blame her for in the end?
- 1. Bringing him all the hardship he had met, from the wreck to the illness — score -4
- 2. Making him suffer on the quest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Causing his trouble abroad — no support
- 4. Making him travel through storms and suffer the cold on the sea — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 359, line 15: «Dick later becomes a sheriff, lord mayor three times, and a knight made by King Henry V.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «knight» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, how'd the Emperor get to see her?
- 1. He sent his lady first, then followed her to the house on horseback — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Passing by her house during a hunt with his full train of servants and guards — score 6
- 3. Hunting nearby with his retinue — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Out hunting with courtiers — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1349, line 5: «In China, Emperor Kotei invents a carriage that always points south, beats the rebel Shiyu's fog, and builds boats after watching a spider cross a pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «watch» (+4); the same doer «emperor» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Dead serious, what did she do when he grabbed her?
- 1. Hid her face in her sleeves — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Pulled away and hid behind a screen while calling for her servants — no support
- 3. Sank to the floor and covered her face with her long silk sleeves at once — no support
- 4. Covered her face quietly — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruh, what did she threaten if they made her go to the Palace?
- 1. Fade into nothing — no support
- 2. Vanish like mist — no support
- 3. Turn into a shadow — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Return to the moon and never be seen by mortals again — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 468, line 5: «The King sees the palace, calls his daughter home, forgives them, and they all live happily together.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, what did the Emperor do after she vanished?
- 1. Swore to release her — no support
- 2. Wrote a formal decree to release her and ordered his servants to search for her — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Promised to let her go free — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Ordered the palace guards to search the mountains for her for three days straight — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1252, line 5: «The gnome searches the palace, sends clouds after her in vain, and vanishes his palace, and Ratibor marries her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
So, what kept the Emperor busy after he left?
- 1. Composing verses for her — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Writing poems to her — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Sitting in the palace garden, writing letters and poems to his court — no support
- 4. Sending letters to friends — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, what did she tell the old man about her home?
- 1. She came from the moon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. She was a moon spirit — no support
- 3. Her home was the sky — no support
- 4. She was local — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fr, when are her moon friends coming back?
- 1. Next spring — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. First of September — no support
- 3. Fifteenth of August — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Twentieth of July — 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 ✗
Like, why did the Third Knight fail?
- 1. Her test burned the skin — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He ran off — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. Her burning test showed the skin was fake, so he fled in shame — no support
- 4. He lost his nerve and fled — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1358, line 1: «The First Knight is caught cheating, because his workmen tell the secret, so he gives up and goes off to live alone in the mountains.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go off» (+1). Against it: the same doer «knight» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the Emperor first attempt to obtain an audience with the Princess?
- 1. He had his messenger deliver a gift of silk and gold — no support
- 2. He dispatched a Court lady to assess her beauty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He sent a palace officer to observe her quietly at home — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. He rode to her house disguised as a hunter and demanded an immediate audience with the lady inside — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 676, line 5: «The prince chases a deer into the forest, meets Wildrose, and the emperor sends heralds to find her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «heralds» (+4); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the Princess declare would occur should she be compelled to attend the Palace?
- 1. She would dissolve into a shadow — ✓ the right answer · score -3
- 2. She would die — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. She would fade away into darkness — score 0
- 4. She would flee — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 776, line 2: «He keeps his word, and his first love is so unhappy that she nearly dies of sorrow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+1). The right option, 1, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which account of her origin did the Princess present to her foster-father?
- 1. She had come from heaven — score 1
- 2. She had fallen from the sky — score 1
- 3. She had descended from the moon — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. She said she had been sent down from the moon palace as a child to live among mortals — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 783, line 13: «Why: the father vows that "willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man, be he prince or beggar, that came to the door," so she must wed the fiddler.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which action did the Fourth Knight take upon recovering from his illness?
- 1. He sent for the Princess again — score 1
- 2. He resolved never to approach the Princess again — ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 3. He stayed in bed — score -3
- 4. He went home — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1358, line 5: «She turns into a shadow when he tries to take her, so he goes home sad and writes her poems, and she tells her foster-father that she came from the moon.», 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); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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