Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 15 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1681 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 ✗

Yo, did the maiden just hand over that ring like it was nothing?

1. Yeah, she trusted him completely, mate, and it was a huge big mistake, bruv — no support
2. Nah, she kept it safe, mate, fair enough — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, she just handed it over to him, mate, proper daft move, innit — score 3
4. Yeah, she trusted him, mate, big mistake — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1231, line 8: «What: the woman tells Pivi to climb "with your legs only, not using your hands", and he carries the nuts down as she asks.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «hands» (+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 ✓

Wait, what was the ring's power on the little finger?

1. You could fly, proper — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Invisible, mate — no support
3. You could vanish, innit — no support
4. Super strength, proper — 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 ✗

So the third finger makes you invisible, right?

1. Yeah, you go invisible, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, you vanish and see everything — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, you vanish and see everything, but it's dead dangerous — no support
4. Nah, you can see through walls — 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 ✗

Bruv, did he actually get the ring off her?

1. Yeah, he tricked her proper — no support
2. Nah, he begged her and she handed it over, innit, proper — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, he pretended to be daft — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he pretended to be daft and then ran off, bruv — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1512, line 4: «She swaps his ring, wishes them to Soria Moria Castle, and the sisters vanish with her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «ring» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was that stone just proper smashed to bits?

1. Yeah, it cracked into bits — score 1
2. Yeah, one massive punch and it went into loads of pieces — no support
3. Nah, he hit it, and it flew everywhere across the field, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Yeah, one punch, thousand pieces — ✓ 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 1292, line 15: «The horses' heels "struck the stones outside the gate", which wakes the giant, who "roared and he shouted".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «strike» (+1); the same thing acted on «stones» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who did the youth go to for help, though?

1. His mate, the king — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. The old priest who knew birds — score -7
3. The wise woman in the village — score 2
4. The magician who taught him bird talk — ✓ the right answer · score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1132, line 3: «With a gnat's help, the prince picks out the right bride from twenty-one daughters who look exactly alike.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

How long did the magician take to crack the code?

1. Nah, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Seven weeks, innit — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Ages, innit — score 4
4. Ten days, bruv — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1681, line 12: «the magician: he "had taught him the speech of birds" and took "seven weeks" to read the signs on the ring.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «magician» (+3); the same action «take» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

How big was the spear the youth needed?

1. Three fathoms, massive — no support
2. Ten feet, massive — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Massive, mate — no support
4. Two fathoms, massive — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1681, line 14: «the trap: the youth must thrust a spear through the Dragon's jaws and fasten it with two chains "ten fathoms in length".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «spear» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

What did the King offer to whoever beat the Dragon?

1. His daughter and half his land — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. His daughter and half his land and the whole kingdom, bruv — score 7
3. His crown and half his gold — score -1
4. His daughter, mate — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1610, line 3: «The big tiger says a giant spider-monster is eating the animals, and the Lion promises to beat it if they obey him as King.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «beat» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Why couldn't a hundred blokes shift the iron horse?

1. Cos the blokes were too weak and it was dead heavy, innit — score 3
2. Cos it was bolted down — score -2
3. Cos it was dead heavy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. It was just too huge — score 3

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 1597, line 15: «there are no horses; the men push "little green carts" before them to carry things.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «horses» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Are the Dragon's springs close, or what?

1. Nah, still a bit away — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Nah, far away — score 6
3. Yeah, close — score 6
4. Yeah, over the border soon — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1590, line 12: «In the forest, the trees are so close that "their branches met over the road of yellow brick," and the light goes out.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the youth think the ring was all hype at first?

1. Nah, he believed every word — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, he didn't fully buy it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he didn't fully buy it, mate, till he tried it himself — score 2
4. Yeah, he thought it was rubbish — 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 1219, line 18: «Old word: "reigning king" meant the king who was ruling at that time, so the ring was thought to belong to a royal father.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+1); the same thing acted on «ring» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the maiden feel proper gutted when he flew off?

1. Yeah, she regretted trusting him — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, she was relieved, mate — no support
3. Nah, she didn't care at all, she just laughed and went home, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Yeah, she regretted trusting him, bruv, proper gutted all day — 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 860, line 13: «The Ice Maiden is proud and cruel; she calls the people in the valley "worms" and laughs when avalanches roll.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the youth undertake to do with the ring after the maiden had surrendered it to him?

1. He flew away with it, having deceived her — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. He secretly kept the ring after deceiving her and then flew far away across the sea — ← Mova's choice · score 5
3. He stole it and vanished quickly — score 3
4. He flew away with it, having deceived her completely and cruelly — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1681, line 6: «who: the maiden, who keeps the ring, and the youth, who wants it for himself.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «ring» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «keep» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

By what means did the magician decipher the secret signs engraved upon the ring?

1. By the labour of seven weeks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. Through a year of careful reading — score 7
3. By the patient labour of seven long weeks in his tower — score 7
4. By sending for the wise elders — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1512, line 17: «"Whither" is an old word that means "to where," and we now say "where."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); the same thing acted on «whither old word» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What condition did the King attach to the reward offered for the destruction of the Dragon?

1. The hand of his daughter together with a large part of the kingdom and all its wealth — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The hand of his eldest daughter in marriage, together with a very large part of the kingdom and its rich farmlands — score 7
3. The hand of his daughter and a large part of the kingdom — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. The hand of his daughter and a share of his gold — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1276, line 13: «Old word: to apprentice someone means to bind a young person to a master who teaches a trade, usually for several years.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «bind» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What obstacle prevented the removal of the iron horse by ordinary men?

1. The horse's excessive weight and its rust — score 2
2. Its hidden enchantment — no support
3. Its excessive weight — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Its heavy iron — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1644, line 8: «Why does the young man almost cut the princess in pieces? He has sworn an oath and says "I will keep my word," so he keeps his honour.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «man» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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