Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 16 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1660 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 mate, did the king actually lose his sword or what?

1. Nah, he dropped it by the well — score -6
2. Yeah, the fairy nicked it and his horse too while he was having a kip — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, the thief nicked it while he ate — score 3
4. Yeah, the fairy nicked it while he kipped — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1660, line 10: «what: Aveline takes the king's sword and horse while he "lay asleep under a tree."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «aveline» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «sword» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so the wind just chucked the princess across the field?

1. Yeah, she went flying like a kite, proper — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Yeah, she got blown off, mate — no support
3. Nah, she just got a bit wobbly on the gravel and then the wind pushed her off gently — score 0
4. Yeah, the wind whipped her up and she went flying across the whole field like a kite, proper — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1654, line 10: «The red silk thread: the princess asks him to tie "a red silk thread" round her little finger so he can know her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «princess» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Why was the king well narked on the way home?

1. Cos his mates took the mick out of him for losing his sword and horse to a fairy — score 2
2. Cos his mates had a right laugh — no support
3. Cos his mates took the mick out of him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Cos he got bored of the lot — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 1657, line 14: «WHY: The king gives the brothers "silver and gold" after the dove, because he is very pleased with the bird they brought him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hang on, did the old lady make him carry her bundle?

1. Yeah, she made him carry it — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Nah, he offered to carry it, but she gave him a right telling-off for his bad manners anyway — score 2
3. Yeah, she gave him a right telling-off — ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. Yeah, she made him carry her bundle all the way and gave him a right telling-off for being rude — 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 1660, line 4: «Hungry and alone, the king meets an old woman with a heavy bundle, who scolds him into carrying it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bundle» (+2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the king a proper posh geezer or what?

1. Yeah, but he were dead rude to folk — score 0
2. Yeah, he were rich and fancy, but he were dead rubbish at manners and never said please — score 1
3. Nah, he were just an ordinary bloke with a horse, but he were dead rubbish at manners — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Yeah, but he were dead rubbish at manners — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1646, line 14: «The king and queen knew the young man "for the eldest son, who had long ago been enchanted by a giant."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «young man» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the bird-like princess land in a ditch or what?

1. She jumped it, like, dead easy — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Nah, she didn't land in it, she jumped it dead easy like a proper bird — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Nah, she flew straight up — score -2
4. Yeah, she landed in it but jumped out again, like, dead quick and easy — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1621, line 13: «The king chooses the chest and the sentinel because it is the last of the three things she offers him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

So why did the fairy wanna marry Minon-Minette to him?

1. Cos she reckoned he was alright, even though he had no manners and lost his sword — score 3
2. Cos he were proper handsome — score 3
3. Cos she reckoned he was alright — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Cos she fancied his horse — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 1660, line 11: «why: Aveline wants the king to "fall back on his powers of pleasing," which she thinks is better for him.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «aveline» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the king get any grub while he was lost, innit?

1. Nah, he was full up — score 1
2. Yeah, he ate some bread — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, he got some berries but he were still starving till the old lady showed up — score 1
4. Nah, he were starving till the old lady — ✓ the right answer · score 1

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 1582, line 7: «What: Cinderlad must tell the King "what my seven foals eat and drink", and he shows the King the bread and the flask of wine.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bread» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the courtiers reckon about the king's trip?

1. They thought it was daft — score -2
2. They reckoned it was mad — score -2
3. They thought it was a right laugh — ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. They reckoned it was a right laugh, the king getting lost and losing his sword — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1643, line 15: «What: he even takes the king's crown and puts it on the top of his load, until "there was nothing left to pile."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «crown» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ooh, what was the bloke with the bundle really like, then?

1. A scruffy beggar — no support
2. A right nosy bloke — no support
3. A proper fairy in disguise — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A proper old witch — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1660, line 4: «Hungry and alone, the king meets an old woman with a heavy bundle, who scolds him into carrying it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «old woman» (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the king know the old lady was the fairy or what?

1. Yeah, he clocked it straight — score 3
2. Yeah, he clocked it at once but kept quiet about it all the way home — score 3
3. Nah, he never clocked it at all — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nah, he never spotted her — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1660, line 9: «who: The fairy Aveline "had made up her mind to marry" Princess Minon-Minette to the young king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fairy» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Was the castle a big fancy palace or what?

1. Yeah, it were enormous, with marble halls and gold, but really just an ordinary house — score 0
2. Nah, it were just an ordinary house, though the rooms inside were very grand — score 2
3. Nah, it were just an ordinary house — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Nah, a tidy little cottage — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1618, line 15: «Who: a nurse tells him the sultan's daughter lives in the castle, where "no one is allowed to see her".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «one» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which action of the fairy Aveline first deprived the king of his means of defence and transport?

1. She stole his horse. — score -1
2. She removed his sword and his horse while he slept. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. She took his cloak and food at night. — score -4
4. She stole his boots while he slept. — score -5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1643, line 15: «What: he even takes the king's crown and puts it on the top of his load, until "there was nothing left to pile."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «crown» (+3). Against it: the same action «take» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner did the king respond when the old woman rebuked him for his want of courtesy?

1. He first protested loudly that she had no right to speak to a king, but then acknowledged her remarks and complied. — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. He acknowledged the justice of her remarks, apologised humbly, and complied with her wishes at once. — score 3
3. He mocked her and walked off. — score 3
4. He acknowledged the justice of her remarks and complied. — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1660, line 13: «what: The old woman scolds him, asking, "Where is your politeness?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old woman» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What was the principal reason the king remained at the castle despite his discomfort?

1. His affection for Princess Minon-Minette retained him there. — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. His deep affection for Princess Minon-Minette, which had grown over many days, retained him there. — score 2
3. His love of the castle food kept him. — score 3
4. His affection for Princess Minon-Minette retained him there, though he had long wished to leave the castle entirely. — ← 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 24, line 11: ««You can't swim, can you?» the King asks the Knave; «Do I look like it?» — he is made entirely of cardboard.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+2); the same property (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Upon what occasion did the king's courtiers ridicule his adventure and so prompt his departure?

1. After his hunt in the valley. — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Upon his return to the palace, following the princess's flight. — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Upon his return to the palace, following the princess's flight, when his courtiers mocked his long adventure openly. — score 3
4. Upon his return to the palace, after the princess had flown away over the plain and back to her own kingdom. — 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 1560, line 5: «Now Dapplegrim is ready, and the lad rides him to the palace, where jealous courtiers trick the King into demanding the Princess's rescue.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jealous courtiers» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «king» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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