Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1683 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, did you actually get what the cheats were nicking?
- 1. Gold and silk, proper loot, and a massive bag of dosh for the lot of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Gold and silk, proper loot, plus a massive bag of dosh and a nice house in the city — no support
- 3. Gold and silk, proper loot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Money and some nice wool — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, why did the minister say the cloth was lush when he saw nothing?
- 1. He didn't wanna look thick, so he said it was lush and kept his job at court — score 0
- 2. He was dead keen to impress — no support
- 3. He didn't wanna look thick in front of the Emperor and all his mates at court — score 0
- 4. He didn't wanna look thick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 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 1683, line 3: «Ministers and the Emperor himself praise the cloth, not wanting to look stupid.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
So what's the vibe with the Emperor's mates, were they sus?
- 1. They just copied him and praised everything, total yes-men through and through — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They just copied him and praised everything, and they were proper loyal to the Emperor, no doubt — no support
- 3. They just copied him, total yes-men — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. They were proper loyal, no doubt — 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 ✗
Innit wild that a little kid said it first, right?
- 1. Yeah, kids just say the truth — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Yeah, kids just say what they see — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Yeah, kids just say what they see, cos they don't care what the grown-ups think — score 2
- 4. Nah, the kid was just being rude — 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 362, line 11: «The Kid says "I know you are going to eat me" and asks for one last tune.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what did the impostors do with the yarn and the sewing bit?
- 1. They sewed nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. They faked it with bare hands — no support
- 3. They waved empty spools about — no support
- 4. Pretended with empty hands — ✓ 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 Emperor's new suit actually there, or nah?
- 1. Yeah, it was totally real, mate — no support
- 2. Nah, it was totally made up, the cheats never even picked up a thread of the cloth — score 2
- 3. Nah, it was totally made up by two cheats who never even picked up a single thread — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Nah, it was totally made up — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1351, line 20: «Old word "befits": suits or is right for; a knight should carry a sword as "befits a samurai", meaning as a samurai should.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «suits» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Be honest, did the minister go full cringe or what?
- 1. Yeah, he faked it to fit in — no support
- 2. Nah, he just kept it real — score 4
- 3. Yeah, he lied to look cool — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. Yeah, he lied to look cool in front of the Emperor and all the other lords — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1683, line 3: «Ministers and the Emperor himself praise the cloth, not wanting to look stupid.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «look» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever?
- 1. Being seen as dim by everyone — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Being poor — no support
- 3. Losing his gold — no support
- 4. Looking dumb and not fit to rule — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, how did the crowd end up cheering the suit?
- 1. They all copied, nobody spoke out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Everyone copied, no one wanted to look dim — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They were all scared — no support
- 4. Everyone went along, nobody wanted to be dim — 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 ✗
Did the chamberlains just hold the train, or what?
- 1. They held up nothing at all, playing the part of servants carrying a long, heavy train — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. They gripped nothing, pretending hard — score 4
- 3. They held up nothing, playing the part of servants carrying a long train of silk — score 4
- 4. They held up nothing, playing the part — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 825, line 20: «The chamberlains walk "as if they carried the train which did not exist", pretending the empty train is there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «carry» (+2); the same doer «chamberlains» (+2); the same thing acted on «train» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
So at the end, did anyone admit they saw nothing?
- 1. Only the little kid, everyone else stayed quiet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only the little kid spoke up, and everyone else stayed quiet while the procession marched on — no support
- 3. Only the minister, the rest stayed quiet — no support
- 4. Only the little kid spoke up, and the rest of the crowd stayed quiet until the child was silenced — 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 ✗
Ngl, who got the big title and the bag of gold?
- 1. The minister — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. The cheats, royal weavers — score 5
- 3. The Emperor — score 0
- 4. The impostors, Court weavers — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1668, line 20: «Old word: a "pouch" was a small bag, and the man hides the pebbles in his "pouch" in place of the crusts.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «small bag» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which persons in the tale, having been deceived by the impostors, subsequently professed admiration for a cloth that they could not perceive?
- 1. The Emperor and all his high officials — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The Emperor and his entire household — no support
- 3. The Emperor, his ministers and the entire Court — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The Emperor, his ministers, the entire Court and even the crowd in the streets — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the impostors conduct their ostensible labour upon the looms throughout the period before the procession?
- 1. They pretended to work upon empty looms, day and night, until the procession was ready — no support
- 2. They pretended to work upon empty looms — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They feigned weaving on bare looms — score -3
- 4. They worked on the empty frames — ← Mova's choice · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1151, line 17: «Old word: a "loom" is a frame where cloth is woven, and the girl leans her head against it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «loom» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What remark did the little child make that caused the populace to acknowledge the truth of the matter?
- 1. 'Nothing on!' — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "But he has nothing on!" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. 'He is bare!' — no support
- 4. 'Look, the Emperor is naked!' — 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 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What, according to the text, was the Emperor's response when he perceived that the people had spoken correctly?
- 1. He continued the procession with dignity, though the whole crowd had just seen the truth — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He continued the procession with dignity — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He continued the procession with dignity, ignoring the crowd that had just laughed at him — no support
- 4. He carried on the parade proudly — 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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