Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog

Tests: 7 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1451 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 ✗

Did you see the cats with guitars? They were proper mental, bruv!

1. Nah, the cats just played a boring tune all night — score 2
2. Yeah, the Prince covered his ears and the cats played on, proper mental — no support
3. Yeah, the Prince cried and left the hall, sick — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Yeah, the Prince covered his ears, dead funny — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 1127, line 19: «fact: Old word: "Tsarevich" means a tsar's son, or prince, and "thou" and "thy" are old words for "you" and "your."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+2); the same thing acted on «old words» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit?

1. Nah, the bloke was an old king with a beard, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a bit sus — no support
3. Yeah, the bloke looked just like the Prince — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, just a cat — 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 ✗

Bare food on that table, fam! Two gold plates and everything!

1. Wicked, but the mice stew was minging — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, the food was minging — no support
3. Nah, the stew was fine, the plates were dull — no support
4. Wicked, the cats ate all the bread — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 779, line 7: «What: she ate a small piece from each little plate and drank a small drop from each glass, dropping her ring into the last one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sister» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff?

1. Nah, just wine, fam — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, that crystal goblet was a proper magic drink — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, a proper drink — no support
4. Nah, that goblet was just a posh cup of water, bruv — 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 ✗

Wait, the Prince rode a wooden horse, like, a actual horse made of wood?

1. Yeah, it pranced off like a hunter, sick! — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, it trotted off like a wild stag, bruv — no support
3. Nah, it was a real horse — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Yeah, sick, it pranced — score 2

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 1325, line 20: «Old word "palfrey": it is a gentle riding horse that ladies used, not a battle horse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «word» (+2); the same thing acted on «gentle riding horse» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Mum says the acorn bit is a bit daft, but I reckon it's proper clever

1. Yeah, a dog that fits in an acorn is peak — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, peak, mate — no support
3. Nah, a dog in an acorn is just silly, bruv — no support
4. Nah, just a daft tale — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Bruh, the brothers' dogs were tiny and fragile, shook, innit?

1. Nah, they were big — score 2
2. Yeah, and the Prince's dog was a muddy turnspit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Yeah, all muddy, bruv — no support
4. Nah, the brothers' dogs were big and strong, mate — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1451, line 5: «When she warns him he has only three days left, he remembers, and she gives him an acorn with a tiny barking dog inside; at the palace his brothers' dogs are t…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dogs» (+2); the same thing acted on «muddy turnspit» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Prince's little dog get a chance to win? Honest answer!

1. Nah, he lost, sorry — score 2
2. Yeah, the story leaves it open, that's the vibe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Nah, the big dogs won the race, that's the vibe — score 2
4. Yeah, he won, bruv — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 15: «The Rat had asked: «Do—you—mean—to—say ... that this door-mat doesn't TELL you anything?» Then, «really angry»: «Now look here, you—you thick-headed beast ...…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «word» (+2); the same thing acted on «last chance» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

That monkey the White Cat rode, I was lowkey shook, was it real?

1. Nah, it was a toy, mate — no support
2. Yeah, it climbed right up to the eagles' nests — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Yeah, it hopped right down to the river banks — score 1
4. Nah, it sat on a stick the whole time, mate — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1451, line 15: «On the hunt the wooden horse "pranced gaily off with him", and the White Cat rides a monkey that climbs to the eagles' nests.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «monkey» (+2); the same place «nests» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

The Prince stopped up his ears, but did the music still get in?

1. Nah, not a single note got through, mate — no support
2. Nah, he could hear nothing of it at all, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Yeah, it made him cry and shout loud — score 2
4. Yeah, it still made him laugh his head off — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1430, line 8: «What: the Prince "did nothing but look at her all the time" and hardly touched his food.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+2); the same thing acted on «nothing» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Bro, who was the fam with the black veil?

1. The White Cat, the Queen of the Cats — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The King of the Mice, the Lord of Rats — no support
3. The White Cat, the Queen of the Cats, who wore a black veil — no support
4. The Prince's own sister, the Queen — 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 · ★ · right ✓

So the Prince gets three days to find a dog, that's wild, right?

1. Yeah, and the White Cat saves the day with an acorn — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Nah, the Prince gets lost in the woods, bruv — score 2
3. Yeah, and the White Cat saves the day with an acorn and a tiny bark, bruv — score 2
4. Nah, he is lost in the woods and gives up — score 2

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 472, line 6: «Who: the Princess is the clever one who saves the Prince, and the witch is the villain who dies in the splash.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «clever one» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Prince actually nick the White Cat's bracelet?

1. Yeah, he took it and ran off home, bruv — no support
2. Yeah, he nicked it and ran off, mate — no support
3. Yeah, he stole it, bruv — no support
4. Nah, he only looked at the portrait inside it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1451, line 3: «They eat together, and the Prince finds a portrait of a handsome young man in her bracelet, a man who looks just like him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which character is described as the Queen of the Cats, and in what manner does she receive the Prince?

1. The White Cat receives the Prince courteously, in a sweet voice that moves his heart and makes him weep with joy at the palace gate — score 10
2. The White Cat receives the Prince courteously, in a sweet voice that moves his heart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
3. The White Cat welcomes the Prince rudely, in a harsh voice that frightens his horse — score 1
4. The White Cat receives the Prince courteously, in a sweet voice that moves his heart, though he still fears the black veil and the court — score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1398, line 16: «what: The Farmer finds a boy instead of a Weasel and says "So you are the one who steals my chickens!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); a different doer (counts against) (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What reason does the narrator give for the Prince's failure to remember his errand?

1. He drinks a crystal goblet that contains a magic draught brewed by the White Cat's own maids in secret — score -2
2. He drinks a crystal goblet that contains a magic draught, and then he forgets the errand entirely — score -1
3. He drank too much wine at the feast — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. He drinks a crystal goblet that contains a magic draught — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1207, line 1: «At a feast the prince drinks the king's wine and sings so sweetly that everyone is charmed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wine» (+1). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner does the Prince finally bring his dog before the King?

1. He leads a mule that carries the dog on its back — score -1
2. He carries the acorn, and the tiny dog is heard within it — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. He carries the acorn in his hand, and the tiny dog is heard barking within it before the whole court — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. He carries the acorn, and the tiny dog is heard within it while the court listens closely — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1365, line 19: «Old word: "Augustness" was a respectful title for a prince or noble, and "Ryn Gu" is the old name for the Sea King's realm.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

What is the principal purpose of the White Cat's acorn within the narrative?

1. It shows that a dog fitting the King's wish can be carried small — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. It is a pretty gift from the White Cat's own hand — no support
3. It shows that a dog fitting the King's wish can be carried small, so the Prince wins the wager and the court is amazed — score 1
4. It shows that a dog fitting the King's wish can be carried small, a clever trick the Queen of Cats taught the Prince to play — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 379, line 19: «His reason: "However small you may be, you are better than nothing at all."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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