Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess is turned into a grasshopper, and the Prince refuses the Fairy's offer

Tests: 2 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1557 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 ✗

Dude, did the Princess really get turned into a grasshopper?

1. Yeah, that's what the goblins said, cos the Fairy wanted her gone for good and the Enchanter agreed — no support
2. Yeah, the Enchanter did it cos she said no to marrying him and laughed at his cats and snakes — no support
3. Yeah, the Fairy did it cos she was jealous of her beauty — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Yeah, the Enchanter did it cos she said no to marrying him — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 365, line 13: «Why: the Grasshopper accepts the wine because he is "taken in by the Owl's flattering words," which he wants to believe.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «flattering words» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, the hall had cats hanging off the ceiling, innit?

1. Yeah, twelve of them, yelling their heads off — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, twelve of them, hanging from the beams — no support
3. No, there were six snakes on the floor — no support
4. Yeah, twelve of them, yelling their heads off and clawing at the walls of the hall — 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 ✗

Lol, the Enchanter had a crocodile on his head, no way?

1. No, it was a crocodile on his belt, weird — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes way, it was on his shoulder, really odd — no support
3. Yes way, it was literally on his head, proper weird — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No way, it was a hat — 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 ✗

So the old lady sent him to the castle, yeah?

1. Yeah, she pointed the way and told him he'd catch up with her later at the castle gates by the river — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Yeah, she pointed the way and said he'd find the castle — score 4
3. Yeah, she pointed the way to the castle and said he'd catch up with her once the cats had gone to sleep — score 4
4. Yeah, she pointed the way and said he'd catch up with her — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1105, line 7: «What: his sister sends him for meal, saying "my soul shall live" if she can eat a cake made from it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «sister» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, the Prince chased a ghost all day in the wood?

1. Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off through the trees until dark — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept hiding — no support
3. Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off and laughing at him all day long — no support
4. Yeah, a phantom of her, and it kept running off — ✓ 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 ✗

The Fairy had goblins and tigers and stuff, yeah?

1. Yeah, she called up goblins with her wand and threatened tigers and a pack of bears — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Yeah, she called up goblins and threatened tigers and sent wolves after him — score 1
3. Yeah, she called up goblins and summoned bears — score 1
4. Yeah, she called up goblins and threatened tigers — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1396, line 5: «The Fairy calls a thousand woodpeckers to peck his nose back to size, and he runs off to meet his father and finds the Cat with a bandaged paw.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, the Prince said no to the Fairy? Like, actually no?

1. Yeah, he stuck to it, no matter what she did — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Yeah, he stuck to it, no matter what she did, even when the goblins came at him with clubs — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. No, he gave in once the goblins came — no support
4. Yeah, he kept saying no, whatever she did — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1455, line 13: «Who helps: the wind wizard's son tells the King to "Send for the old wizard from Finland," and the wizard arrives on the wind.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «arrive» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who's Douceline, then? Is she the Fairy in the castle?

1. No, she's the Fairy he calls on, and she sent the voice, though the Princess never knew her — no support
2. No, she's the Fairy he calls on, and she sent the voice that told him to seek the branch in the wood — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. No, she's the Enchanter's wife who sent the goblins — score 1
4. No, she's the Fairy he calls on, and she sent the voice — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 103, line 3: «A wagoner takes him to an inn, where the host tells him about an enchanted castle.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same receiver «man» (+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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

The Princess's dress was all frilly and old-fashioned, yeah?

1. Yeah, all frills — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, the Princess had a plain grey gown and the Fairy had a veil — no support
3. Nah, the old woman had a ruff, the Princess had green crape — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. No, plain brown — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what's the Golden Branch, then, a magic stick or what?

1. Nobody says for sure, the voice just tells him to seek it in the wood and he never learns what it is — score 4
2. Nobody says for sure, the voice just tells him to seek it and he has to find it before the castle falls — score 4
3. Yeah, a magic stick the Enchanter stole from the Fairy — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Nobody says for sure, the voice just tells him to seek it — ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1519, line 15: «The robbers set a test: steal an ox from a man going to town, "without his knowing, and without doing him any harm."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «steal» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Did the Princess and the Prince have a picnic? What did they eat?

1. Yeah, cream, brown bread, strawberries, cherries, nuts and flowers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, cream, brown bread, plums, grapes, honey and milk — no support
3. Only bread, sorry — no support
4. Yeah, cream, brown bread, figs, apples, wine and cheese — 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 of the following best describes the means by which the Enchanter transformed the Princess into a grasshopper?

1. He touched her and pronounced that she should become a creature neither fish nor fowl, and she shrank to a green insect — score 1
2. He touched her and pronounced that she should become a creature neither fish nor fowl — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. He tapped her with his snake whip and said she should become a bird of the wood — score 1
4. He touched her with his whip made of snakes and pronounced that she should become a creature neither fish nor fowl at once — 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 1557, line 12: «Why: the Enchanter turns the Princess into a grasshopper because she refuses to marry him and says she will "never love anyone".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «enchanter» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «princess» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following is the most accurate account of the Prince's conduct in the Fairy's gallery?

1. He persevered in his refusal despite the threats, the attack of the goblins and the voice that urged him on to seek the branch — no support
2. He agreed to her demands after the goblins attacked him in the gallery — no support
3. He persevered in his refusal despite the threats and the attack of the goblins, drawing his dagger each time — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. He persevered in his refusal despite the threats and the attack of the goblins — ✓ 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 692, line 12: «How: a light wind "swayed him in the direction of the wall," and the queen "seized him in her arms" just in time.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following correctly identifies the phrase used to describe the Fairy's appearance and manner?

1. A lady of great beauty with a voice like bells and jewels in her hair — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. A creature so thin that the light shone through her, with eyes that glowed like lamps and a crown of comets above her head — score -1
3. A creature so thin that the light shone through her, with eyes that glowed like lamps — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. A tall shadow in a veil who moved without sound across the floor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1447, line 18: «Old word: a "scrivener" was a clerk who wrote out legal papers, and an "attorney" was a lawyer; people seldom use these words now.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following best explains the function of the voice heard by the Prince in the gallery?

1. It scolded him for refusing and told him the Princess was lost — score 0
2. It encouraged him to remain firm and directed him to seek the Golden Branch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. It ordered him to fight the goblins and return home to the castle — score -2
4. It encouraged him to remain firm, directed him to seek the Golden Branch and told him of the Princess's fate in the castle — 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 1557, line 5: «The Fairy Queen of the Comets offers to marry him, and when he refuses she threatens his love with tigers, but a voice tells him to seek the Golden Branch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «golden branch» (+1). Against it: the same action «seek» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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