tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1530 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, the Princess just knocks at the Sun's gaff and asks to come in, yeah?

1. Yeah, she begs for admission — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, she climbs in the window and begs the Sun to let her stay — no support
3. Yeah, she begs for admission and sleeps in the cellar — no support
4. Yeah, she knocks politely — ← Mova's choice · 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 1530, line 1: «The Princess knocks at the Sun's house, and the Sun's mother hides her in the cellar.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, why's the Sun always proper grumpy at night?

1. He sees the Princess crying — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cos the Wind keeps blowing his light out all night long, bruv — no support
3. He sees all the evil stuff people do — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He hates the cold at night, yeah — 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 ✓

So the Wind's mum sends her on the Milky Way, innit?

1. Yeah, it lies across the sky at night — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Yeah, it's in the sea — score 2
3. Nah, it's a path up the hill — no support
4. Yeah, it's a road of stars, yeah — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1530, line 11: «The Wind's mother sends the Princess along "the Milky Way, which at night lies across the sky".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lie» (+2); the same place «sky» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, her shoes went bust and she just went on barefoot?

1. Yeah, bogs and thorns and all, she just kept on going through the wood — no support
2. Nah, she found some nice new boots in a cottage by the wood, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, she just walked on mud — no support
4. Yeah, bogs and thorns and all — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1311, line 8: «The ring: the snakes say "tell the ring and it will find them for you", meaning food, clothes or a house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, how did she get up to that door in the roof?

1. She stacked up some old wooden planks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She flew up on a bird — no support
3. She built a ladder out of chicken bones — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She used the rope — 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 ✗

Hang on, she chopped her own finger off for the last step?

1. Nah, she used her finger as a peg and it stuck to the roof beams, bruv — score 4
2. Yeah, it stuck like the bones did — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she chopped it off and it stuck like the bones did, proper gross — score 4
4. Yeah, she cut it with a blade — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1518, line 11: «How: the woman cut a finger off the child, and the Thief brought "a young wild pig" in its place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut» (+2); the same thing acted on «finger» (+2); the same doer «woman» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Pig just turn into a dove so the witchcraft wouldn't get him?

1. Yeah, that's what he did — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he hid in a box — no support
3. Nah, he turned into a cat — no support
4. Nah, he just ran — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, the Pig's wife is totally knackered, right?

1. Yeah, she's been through loads — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, she walked miles and miles — score 3
3. Yeah, she's been through loads, she walked the whole world for him — score 3
4. Nah, she's not tired at all, she just wants the pig to come home — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1528, line 12: «Why: the King of the Peacocks wants to show "how sorry he was" for the way the King and Prince were treated.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Blud, who was the witch that cursed him then?

1. The mother of the dragon he slew — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The witch who lived near the river — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. The sister of the dragon he killed — no support
4. The mother of the dragon he slew in the mountains of the north — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1178, line 6: «Who: the two sisters, the frog's mother, the little boy, and the ogress, a wicked witch who lives in a hut near a forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same thing acted on «wicked witch» (+2); the same doer «wicked witch» (+1); the same place «hut» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Princess had to go round the whole world for him, dead proper?

1. Yeah, she went everywhere for him — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, she stayed home — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, she went to the sea — score 2
4. Yeah, she went far — score 1

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 1255, line 10: «The princess is staying with the governor's wife because she was sent away "for her health".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2); the same doer «princess» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fam, how long did he have to be a pig in the end?

1. Three more years after the three days of the first spell — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Three more years — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Three more days — no support
4. Two years — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Sun's mum hide her in the cellar, yeah?

1. Yeah, so the Sun wouldn't clock her and nobody found her there, bruv — no support
2. Yeah, she hid her in the kitchen — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. Nah, she hid her in the cellar and fed her roast chicken all night — score 5
4. Yeah, so the Sun wouldn't clock her — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 747, line 3: «She finds an empty house, a warning bird, and an old woman in the cellar who hides her behind a cask.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+2); the same thing acted on «daughter» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, the Wind's cave was massive, wasn't it?

1. Yeah, a huge hole in a hill — no support
2. Yeah, a massive cave by the sea — no support
3. Nah, it was small — no support
4. Yeah, an enormous cave in a mountain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1530, line 10: «The Wind lives in "an enormous cave in the side of a mountain" with a little door in the railing.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «enormous cave» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the means by which the Princess gained entry to the dwelling of her husband?

1. She built a ladder from the chicken bones and used her little finger to reach the very top of it — score 2
2. She constructed a ladder of chicken bones, sacrificed her little finger to complete it, and then climbed through the roof door into the dwelling of her husband — score 2
3. She constructed a ladder of chicken bones and sacrificed her little finger to complete it, after walking three days through the wood with her bundle — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. She constructed a ladder of chicken bones and sacrificed her little finger to complete it — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1422, line 16: «"Insensible" is an old word meaning unconscious, so the Princess has fainted and cannot feel or know anything.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «princess» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What, according to the Sun's mother, is the principal cause of the Sun's ill temper during daylight hours?

1. Hunger — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cold nights — no support
3. The sight of wicked acts done by people — no support
4. The contemplation of the evil deeds committed by mankind — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did the Pig effect his transformation so as to enter the dwelling without disturbing the ladder?

1. He turned into a sparrow and flew in — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. He became a dove and flew into the room — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. He shrank down and crept beneath the door — no support
4. He became a dove — score 0

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 1530, line 16: «Why the Pig turns into a dove: so that "no witchcraft could have power over him" when he enters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately records the period for which the Pig was obliged to remain in his enchanted form?

1. Three years in addition to the three days originally stipulated — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Three years beyond the three days first stipulated, during which the Pig remained enchanted in the wood far from home — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. Three years after the first spell was broken — no support
4. Seven years on top of the three days first fixed by the old witch — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 757, line 14: «old word: "to woo" means to court someone, that is, to try to win a person's love and make them agree to marry you.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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