Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 5: the White Bear takes the youngest daughter home to her family, but she must keep a promise

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1418 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 ✗

Oi, did you clock the bear in this one, mate? Proper weird, innit?

1. He turns into a man when the lights go off — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Yeah he turns into a proper man when the lights go off and then he goes away again before dawn — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. He's a bear by day but he turns into a man when the lights go off, which is mad — score 1
4. He eats the family's food every night — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1308, line 10: «The father says "I have no herds of cattle to leave you", so the children inherit only a few things from the house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+1); the same doer «father» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the family's skint, right? Like, properly broke?

1. Nah, they've got loads of food and clothes — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, they've got barely any food or clothes — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, they've got hardly any money at all — no support
4. Yeah, they're properly broke, they've got barely any food or clothes and the farm is falling apart — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Why's she so gutted in the mountain, then?

1. Cos she's stuck on her own all day — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos she's lonely — no support
3. Cos she misses her mum a lot — no support
4. Cos she's bored — 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 ✗

Wait, the bear gives her a bell, yeah? What's that for?

1. It makes a sound when she rings it — score 2
2. Ring it and she gets whatever she wants, even a bed or a feast in the mountain — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Ring it and she gets what she wants — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Ring it and whatever she wants appears instantly, so she never needs to leave the castle — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1164, line 7: «What: "the garment shall belong wholly to whoever first rings the bell of the nearest mosque at dawn to-morrow."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bell» (+2); the same action «ring» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the bear's castle, like, mint or what?

1. Yeah, mint, gold and silver everywhere, proper royal stuff that she can ring a bell for — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, gold and silver everywhere, and the whole place is dead posh with a feast every night — no support
3. Nah, just plain stone walls and no windows — no support
4. Yeah, gold and silver everywhere, dead posh — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the bear actually tell her off for anything?

1. Yeah, don't talk to your mum on her own — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, don't go to the forest alone — no support
3. Nah, he just told her to be good — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, he shouted — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1257, line 7: «What: the king tells his daughter to send a present so magnificent that the giver will be "ashamed to send anything at all".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «daughter» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did she keep her promise when her mum wanted a chat?

1. Yep, she sat and chatted all day — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yep, she said it could wait, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she broke it and talked to her mum on her own for ages — no support
4. Nah, she told her mum everything — 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 8 · ★ · right ✓

So what's the Prince's whole deal, then? Why's he a laughing stock?

1. His nose is massive and everyone's on at him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. His nose is huge and everyone teases him — no support
3. He's rude and everyone's dead annoyed — no support
4. His nose is massive and everyone's on at him all the time, even his own mum and dad — 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 Fairy's crystal palace get smashed in the end?

1. Nah, it stayed up, it's still standing — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, it shattered into bits all over — no support
3. Nah, it's still there — no support
4. Yeah, it went into a thousand splinters — ✓ 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 1171, line 8: «Where: the new palace stands "close to that of the king and queen," with "no windows, and only a door right under the earth."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+1); the same doer «new palace» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Prince finally get it, then?

1. Yeah, he admitted his nose was too long and he said sorry to the Fairy — score 3
2. Nah, he still thinks he's perfect — no support
3. Yeah, he admitted his nose was too long — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Yeah, he said his nose was too big — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1418, line 6: «explain: The Prince is the one who learns the lesson in this part: "it must be admitted that my nose is too long!"», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «nose» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Prince and the Princess end up together?

1. Yeah, they married and lived happily ever after — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Yeah, they married after a big feast and lived happily ever after, as the Fairy had promised them — score 1
3. Nah, she ran off and never came back to him — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Yeah, they married and lived happily ever after in the crystal palace with the Fairy's blessing — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1085, line 4: «At the ball the Prince runs out to meet her, the music stops, and everyone stares, then she shares oranges with her sisters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run out» (+1); the same doer «prince» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Where did the bear first come from, then? Like, where's he from?

1. He just turns up at the window at night, with no reason given and no one to ask about it — score 9
2. He just turns up at the window, no reason given — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. He turns up at the window every autumn night, having been cursed by a wicked witch long ago — score 9
4. He lives in the castle with a huge garden — score 9

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1243, line 11: «The fox tells the bear, "You bear pain so badly," so the bear digs a deep pit to prove he is not weak.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bear» (+5); the same action «prove» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately describes the terms of the bargain offered by the White Bear to the husbandman?

1. He demands the family's farm in return for their daughter — no support
2. He offers the family great wealth in exchange for the youngest daughter, who must live with him in his castle — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. He asks for the eldest daughter in exchange for gold — no support
4. He offers wealth in exchange for the youngest daughter — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1222, line 5: «Inside the mountain the boy finds himself among bears sitting on every side of him, holding a council.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «boy» (+3). Against it: the same doer «boy» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately identifies the condition the White Bear imposes upon the daughter during her visit to her parents?

1. She must not talk with her father alone — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. She must not speak with her mother alone, and must return to the castle before nightfall — score 0
3. She must not speak with her mother alone — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. She must not speak with her mother alone in private at any time during her visit — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1418, line 17: «What warning does the bear give? She must never talk with her mother "alone," or she will bring "great misery on both of us."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same doer «bear» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately explains why the daughter never sees the White Bear in his human form?

1. He is only a bear and cannot change form — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He leaves her room before the sun rises — no support
3. He is always asleep — no support
4. He departs from her chamber before daylight appears — ✓ 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

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately states the moral conveyed by the Fairy's remarks to the Prince at the close of this part?

1. Pride keeps us from seeing our own faults clearly — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Self-love stops us from ever admitting our wrongs — no support
3. Self-love prevents us from recognising our own defects, so we must listen to honest friends who warn us — score 2
4. Self-love prevents us from recognising our own defects — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1418, line 8: «Why was the Princess shut away? The Fairy wanted to help the Prince see his faults, so she put the Princess where he would find her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «faults» (+3); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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