Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1494 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, was the ivory tube mint or just rubbish?
- 1. It was cheap, he thought — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It was mint, he reckoned — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, it was rubbish and the crier had cheated him badly, he reckoned — no support
- 4. It was a bit dodgy but he reckoned the price was still fair for a rare thing — 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 ✗
Ahmed forked out forty purses, no biggie, right?
- 1. Nope, it was a bargain — no support
- 2. Yeah, that was the price — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No, he paid only ten purses because the seller gave him a discount — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Yeah, but he actually haggled it down from sixty purses to forty in the end — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1494, line 14: «Ahmed pays forty purses to test it on a dying man, and the experiment succeeds.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ahmed» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, so the apple cures you just by sniffing it?
- 1. Nope, you have to eat it — score 0
- 2. Yep, that's how it works — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. No way — no support
- 4. Nope — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1494, line 12: «The apple cures the sick, and the crier says it works "by the patient's smelling the apple".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «work» (+3); the same doer «apple» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Did the brothers zoom to the Princess on the carpet?
- 1. Yes, they flew there — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 2. No, they climbed up the palace wall with ropes and a ladder — score 2
- 3. No, they rode a horse — score 2
- 4. Yes, they took a boat — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1387, line 2: «Jokwa's two wise men fly to them on magic chariots, zooming above the clouds faster than anything.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fly» (+3); the same doer «two wise men» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was proper poorly, like on death's door?
- 1. The Sultan's old vizier who had eaten a poisoned date at dinner — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Princess Badroulbadour — no support
- 3. Prince Ahmed's brother — no support
- 4. Princess Nouronnihar — ✓ 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 ✗
Was the widow selling the apple cos she was skint?
- 1. Yes, but she was actually quite wealthy and sold it to help the poor — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. No, she sold it for fun — score 2
- 3. No, she sold it because she wanted to travel to see her brothers — score 2
- 4. Yes, she needed the money — ✓ the right answer · 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 1494, line 13: «Why: the crier says the philosopher who made it died and left "a great many young children" behind, so his widow must sell it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «widow» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did Ali reckon he'd bagged the Princess?
- 1. He was lucky — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. The crier was very kind — no support
- 3. It was cheap — no support
- 4. The glass was super rare — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1494, line 9: «Why: he thinks the crier is mad, because he cries a small, plain-looking tube at "thirty purses".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ali» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the bezestein like a busy market, all shouting?
- 1. No, quiet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, a busy market — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yes, a quiet garden — no support
- 4. No, empty — 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 Prince Houssain hang about in Bisnagar for ages?
- 1. Yes, he lingered a while — no support
- 2. Yes, he stayed in Bisnagar for many months before flying back home — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yes, he waited a month — no support
- 4. No, he flew off quick — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1494, line 1: «Prince Houssain stays in Bisnagar but wants to be nearer the Princess, so he and his officer fly off on the magic tapestry to the inn where the brothers will m…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «bisnagar» (+4); the same doer «houssain» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the caravan just a bunch of camels and travellers?
- 1. No, it was a market — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. No, it was a huge fleet of ships sailing along the coast of Persia — no support
- 3. No, it was just a town — no support
- 4. Yes, lots of travellers — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Did Nouronnihar wake up all groggy and wobbly?
- 1. No, she woke up fine — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Yes, she woke up sick — score 2
- 3. Yes, she was wobbly — no support
- 4. Yes, she stumbled out of bed, unsure where she was, holding her head — 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 1494, line 17: «Ahmed puts the apple under Nouronnihar's nose, and she wakes "just as if she had waked out of a sound sleep".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nouronnihar» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Was the glass made of ivory or plastic?
- 1. Ivory — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Glass — no support
- 3. Marble and gold inlaid stone — no support
- 4. Ebony wood carved finely — 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 city did Prince Ali enter upon his arrival in Persia?
- 1. The walled city of Bagdad on the river Tigris — no support
- 2. Schiraz — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. Bisnagar — score 1
- 4. Samarcand — 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 1470, line 2: «After the robbers ride off, Ali Baba goes in, takes bags of gold home, and his wife measures the coins.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «go in» (+2). Against it: the same doer «ali» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass?
- 1. Ten — no support
- 2. Fifty — no support
- 3. Thirty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Three hundred purses — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1225, line 11: «Why: the old woman asks a price because she wants payment, and Masilo says "I would gladly give her two thousand!" to show how much he loves his daughter.», 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 action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the artificial apple effect its cure?
- 1. By eating — no support
- 2. By prayer — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 3. By the patient's smelling it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. By the patient's touching it — 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 264, line 18: «Old word: "kye" means cows, an old plural of "cow", which today we just call cows.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the Princess Nouronnihar regain consciousness?
- 1. Like a person waking from a cold bath in winter — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Like a child at dawn — no support
- 3. In a fright, calling for her father the Sultan in tears at once — no support
- 4. As from a sound sleep — ✓ 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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