Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy

Tests: 6 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1470 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 ✗

bro, which tree did Ali Baba climb to hide?

1. the old fig by the road — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. the big one by the rocks — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a palm — score 3
4. the oak — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 489, line 3: «An old man rises out of the ground, leads him to a lake, and takes him down into a white-stone palace.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «rise» (+2); the same doer «old man» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

no way, what word opened the rock door?

1. Open, Sesame! — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. Open! — no support
3. Open, Simsim! — score 0
4. Sesame — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1470, line 7: «The Captain's words "Open, Sesame!" made the rock door open, and "Shut, Sesame!" made it close.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

lowkey, how many robbers were there?

1. thirty — no support
2. forty — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. about forty of them, all armed — score 0
4. more than forty men in total — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1470, line 4: «Cassim forgets the magic word, and the robbers catch and kill him, then hang his body up in pieces.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «robbers» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «body» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

dude, what stuck to the measure?

1. the gold dust that fell from the bags — no support
2. a piece of gold — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a bit of silver — score 3
4. a shiny piece of the robbers' gold — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1267, line 18: «Old word "dumbfounded": it means so amazed you cannot speak, and today we say "stunned."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «word» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

so why did Cassim's wife put suet in the measure?

1. to test his wife's honesty — score 0
2. to check on the gold — no support
3. to spy on Ali Baba's wife — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. to hide the gold — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1432, line 8: «Why is the Sultan slow to keep his word? He sees the mother's poverty, and his Vizier advises him to set a price no man can meet.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

fr, what word did Cassim forget in the cave?

1. Sesam — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. Sesame — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. the magic word Open, Sesame, that opened it — no support
4. the word that began with an S, for the door — score -3

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 1470, line 4: «Cassim forgets the magic word, and the robbers catch and kill him, then hang his body up in pieces.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «forget» (+2); the same doer «cassim» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-4). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

bruh, who fixed the body up with a needle?

1. an old cobbler — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. a poor weaver — score 3
3. a tailor — score 3
4. a local smith — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 461, line 7: «fact: She "weeps over it bitterly" and talks the murderer into letting her see the body, and then she gets her revenge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «body» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

ngl, how did the cobbler's eyes get covered?

1. with a blindfold — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. with a dark cloth tied tightly around his head — no support
3. with the thick cloak that Morgiana had brought — no support
4. with a handkerchief — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

yo, who got sent into town as the spy?

1. one thief dressed as a traveler — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a young thief disguised as a traveler carrying a heavy pack — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. the Captain himself, dressed as a wealthy merchant from far away — no support
4. Morgiana disguised as a beggar — 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 1470, line 5: «Clever Morgiana fools a cobbler and an apothecary, and the thieves send a spy to find the secret keeper.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol, what did the thief give the cobbler?

1. a piece of silver — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a piece of gold — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. a whole bag of gold coins from the cave — score 3
4. two gold pieces and a silver ring from his purse — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1462, line 15: «What the servants did on the ship's day: each sent something "to try their luck", with no freight or custom to pay.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+2); the same doer «servants» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

deadass, who got Cassim's shop?

1. Cassim's second cousin — no support
2. the cobbler — no support
3. Ali Baba's oldest son — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Ali Baba's youngest son — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 719, line 3: «He opens a tailor shop, and his magic needle sews neat stitches all by itself, so he gets rich.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «tailor shop» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

bro, what did the Captain say a failed spy would lose?

1. gold — score -2
2. his horse — score -2
3. his life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. rank — score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1470, line 19: «The Captain warned that a spy who failed "must lose his life", so the thieves punished any betrayal harshly.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lose» (+2); the same doer «spy» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «life» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

sus, what did Morgiana say her master couldn't do?

1. eat or speak — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
2. stand up or see the light of day — score 3
3. walk outside, eat, or speak to anyone at all — score 4
4. run or hide — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 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 392, line 6: «The storm keeps going, so the master has to kill his yoke oxen to have food to eat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «master» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

no cap, who was super brave and clever?

1. Zeynab — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cassim — no support
3. Morgiana — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Marjana — 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 ✗

Which of the following words, when spoken by the Captain, caused the rock door to open?

1. Sesame — no support
2. Hocus pocus open — no support
3. Open the door, Sesame, right now please — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. "Open, Sesame!" — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1398, line 7: «what: The young Emperor of the City of Simple Simons won a great victory, so the prison doors were opened.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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 · right ✓

Identify the item which the apothecary was asked to supply to Morgiana for her master.

1. some lozenges — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. some medicine — no support
3. salve — no support
4. tea — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the manner in which the robbers disposed of the body of Cassim within the cave.

1. tied with heavy ropes — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. cut into quarters and hung up beside the door of the cave — no support
3. chopped into many pieces and thrown into the deep well outside — no support
4. cut into four quarters — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 678, line 7: «What: the sailor hides him and ties a rope round his body, so the crew think he "swum after the ship all the way from shore."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Specify the reward which the thief offered the cobbler before requesting to be shown the house.

1. a bag of silver — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a horse — no support
3. food — no support
4. a piece of gold — ✓ 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

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