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Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, part 4: the Prince meets the old Fairy in a cave and she talks on about noses

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1417 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 ✗

yo, so the Prince gets his pic of the Dear Little Princess, right?

  • 1. yeah, he's proper smitten with that picture, innit, sad but true — score 1
  • 2. he's proper smitten, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. yeah, he's dead keen on her — no support
  • 4. he's gone totally bananas over her, the poor lad, she's not even real — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 717, line 1: «Labakan rides for two days until he sees the great pillar where the real prince was to meet his father.», 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 doer «real prince» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

and the enchanter just nicks her mid-kiss?

  • 1. nah, the enchanter turned up with a massive crowd of goons and dragged her off screaming for ages — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. yeah, the enchanter swooped down in a storm and whisked her off mid-kiss like a magic yank — no support
  • 3. nah, she walked off on her own — no support
  • 4. yeah, whisked her off like a magic yank — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓

then the Prince rides off on his horse, no mates?

  • 1. yeah, mate, he rides off with his whole army and doesn't come back for years — score 2
  • 2. yeah, he rides off to find some mates — score 2
  • 3. yeah, mate, he's not going home till he finds her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
  • 4. nah, he goes back to his palace — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 718, line 5: «Labakan chooses Wealth and Happiness and finds only a needle and thread, while Omar's box holds a crown, so Labakan rides away on his old horse.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+3); the same doer «labakan» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

so he finds a little old lady in a cave with a light?

  • 1. yeah, and her nose is proper stubby — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. yeah, a wizard — no support
  • 3. nah, she's an old goblin — no support
  • 4. nah, just a fox — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

and they both laugh at each other's conks?

  • 1. nah, they fall out over tea — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. yeah, they both say it's dead — no support
  • 3. nah, they both just cry — no support
  • 4. yeah, cos both their hooters are mad — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

she goes on and on about her gob, innit?

  • 1. yeah, she talks loads, poor thing — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. yeah, the old girl never shuts it, bless her — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. yeah, the old girl never shuts her gob for a single second, bless her, it drives him mad — no support
  • 4. nah, she barely says a word, just sits there nodding, till the sun comes up in the morning — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

and the Prince reckons his maid's a bit of a sucker-up?

  • 1. yeah, she's always buttering her up, dead obvious — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 2. yeah, she calls him a genius, obvs — score 4
  • 3. nah, the maid's the one who gets bossed around all day and cries about it in the scullery later — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 4. yeah, she's dead loyal, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 845, line 6: «Who: the glovemaker's widow, who had once been the maid of the mayor's mother, works by a stream on a cold morning.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «maid» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «widow» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

does he catch on that she's taking the mick?

  • 1. nah, he's totally clueless, the muppet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. yeah, he catches on straight away and tells her off for being so cheeky to a prince — no support
  • 3. nah, he's totally clueless, the muppet, and he thinks she's his best mate for life — no support
  • 4. nah, he's totally oblivious, mate — 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 ✗

so the Fairy says she's gonna nag about his hooter?

  • 1. yeah, she keeps going on about it, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
  • 2. yeah, she moans about it, dead annoying — no support
  • 3. yeah, she keeps going on about it, proper annoying — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 4. yeah, she's gonna — 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 1247, line 7: «The prince was enchanted by "a wicked fairy" and "condemned to keep the shape of a ball."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+1); the same doer «wicked fairy» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

and he reckons he's sound with his own nose, dead proud?

  • 1. yeah, he's dead proud of it, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. nah, he's really worried about it and wants a surgeon to fix it straight away tomorrow — no support
  • 3. yeah, he's dead proud of his nose and he reckons nobody in the whole kingdom has a better one — no support
  • 4. yeah, he's happy with it, no biggie — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

does she say his nose is worth three of her mates' noses?

  • 1. yeah, she reckons it's worth four — no support
  • 2. nah, she reckons it's worth a hundred of her mates' noses, all of them shorter and rounder — no support
  • 3. nah, she says it's like a turnip — ← Mova's choice · score 1
  • 4. yeah, she reckons it's like three normal ones — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old woman» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

so he's not a massive fan of big talkers, is he?

  • 1. nah, he reckons people should stop yapping — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. nah, he reckons people should stop yapping and listen properly to what others actually say — no support
  • 3. yeah, he thinks they're great, mate — no support
  • 4. nah, he reckons they're just noisy — 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 · right ✓

Which of the following best describes the manner in which the Prince first beheld the Dear Little Princess?

  • 1. By viewing a large gilded portrait hung in the great hall of the palace on a feast day — no support
  • 2. Through a painted gift from the King — no support
  • 3. By means of a portrait presented to him by the Queen — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
  • 4. By means of a fine painted portrait that a travelling merchant had carried from the far provinces — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1228, line 7: «What: the king promises "the first child that is born to you" in return for his ship's safety.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «first child» (+4). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately states the reason for which the Prince quitted his kingdom?

  • 1. To hunt a dragon in the hills — score 0
  • 2. He sought the Princess after her abduction by the enchanter — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 3. To find a horse — ← Mova's choice · score 3
  • 4. To rescue his father from war — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 1322, line 2: «Grown up, the prince finds the giant's youngest daughter playing a harp, and she warns him to refuse her sisters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «youngest daughter» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following identifies the circumstance in which the Prince came upon the Fairy?

  • 1. He stumbled on her in a field — score 0
  • 2. He came upon her beside a frozen lake at dawn — score 1
  • 3. He arrived at a cavern at nightfall, following a light — ✓ the right answer · score 2
  • 4. He arrived at a cavern at nightfall, following a glowing light that led him up a steep mountain path — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 226, line 8: «Where: the Sultan leads him up to "a room under the roof" that has an opening to watch the princess unseen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following correctly describes the Prince's attitude towards the flattery that he received?

  • 1. He decided to reward every flatterer generously at court, though he never noticed they were mocking him all along — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. He resolved to reject all flattery forever, and to punish every courtier who dared to praise him in any way — no support
  • 3. He resolved to reject all flattery, unaware that he was himself mocked — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. He resolved to ignore flattery, since he was sure no one would dare mock 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

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