Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches the ground is stolen by a Fairy and set an impossible task

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

Lesson 1709 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 the sister just ditch her little bro in the woods?

1. Yeah, she forgot him once she was with her husband — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, she didn't forget him at all, she went straight back into the woods to find him and tell her husband — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, she left him for her husband's sake — no support
4. Yeah, she totally forgot about him the second she got to the village and saw her husband again, poor kid — 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 437, line 14: «The doves talk: "Give me some curds, too, Dovey!" says the mate.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «mate» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, so the wolves actually fed him, innit?

1. Nah, they chased him off — no support
2. Yeah, they let him hunt with them and shared the kill — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Yeah, they let him sit with them and gave him food — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nah, they bit him and left him alone to starve — score 3

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 1294, line 5: «His mother sews the wolf into a ram's skin, and the wolf lets it happen, so the three brothers buy it and then lose their sheep.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+2); the same doer «wolf» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, why'd the little dude start howling like a wolf?

1. He was lost and scared, mate — no support
2. He was turning into one, the tale says — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. He was calling for his big brother — no support
4. He was hungry, bruv — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 397, line 18: «The Thief yawned and howled like a wolf so that the Innkeeper would think he would turn into one.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Queen dies the very next day, yeah?

1. Nah, she dies years after the birth — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Yeah, she dies a week later — score 3
3. Yeah, she dies today — score 3
4. Yeah, she dies the day after the birth — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1709, line 2: «A new tale begins: a King and Queen finally get a son, but the Queen dies after warning that the boy must never put his feet on the ground.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+2); the same doer «queen» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd they put the kid in a wheel chair thing?

1. Cos his legs are way too weak to walk — no support
2. Cos the nurse was too old to carry him and the palace floors are full of dust — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. Cos the Queen made the King promise he mustn't put his feet on the ground ever — score 0
4. Cos he mustn't put his feet on the ground — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1190, line 19: «Old words: "precautions" means things done in advance to keep safe, and "avenge" means to take revenge for a wrong.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old words» (+1). Against it: the same property (-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 ✗

Did he get proper good at riding, though?

1. Yeah, he became a first-rate rider, better than all the courtiers who had trained him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he became a first-rate rider — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, he never rode well because his legs stayed weak and the doctors stopped the lessons — no support
4. Yeah, he got really good, like — no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

What's a girth, then, the bit that snapped?

1. The leather cover on the saddle — no support
2. The wide leather strap that goes under the horse's belly and holds the saddle firmly on — no support
3. The strap that holds the saddle on — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A type of metal shoe that the horse wears on each of its four hooves when riding out — ← Mova's choice · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1635, line 12: «Hard word: "scourged" is an old word meaning whipped or beaten hard, so the host beat the corpse each night.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ayy, so the Fairy's castle is on the other side of a lake?

1. Nah, it's in the forest — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, by the sea — no support
3. Yeah, past a river and a stone bridge — no support
4. Yeah, past a lake and a cloud bridge — ✓ 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 ✗

Did the axe, like, survive the first hit?

1. Yeah, it bent but didn't break — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Nah, it shattered into a thousand little bits that flew all over the place and cut his face — score 3
3. Yeah, it survived the first hit and then he kept swinging it at the trees for hours — score 0
4. Nah, it smashed into a thousand bits — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1709, line 14: «The axe: at the first blow "it broke into a thousand pieces against the tree", so the Prince is terrified of punishment.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+2); the same doer «axe» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Why was the prince so scared of the Fairy, bruv?

1. She'd punish him if he failed her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. She had a terrible temper, mate — no support
3. She was really mean — no support
4. She was going to eat him up — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who's the black girl then, is she the Fairy's daughter?

1. Nah, she's the Queen's daughter — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Yeah, she's the prince's cousin — no support
3. Yeah, the Fairy is her own mother — ✓ the right answer · score 0
4. Yeah, her sister, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1621, line 3: «The king bursts into the secret wing and sees his daughter, who tells him she must die the next day.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Did the prince tell her his whole story, like?

1. Nah, he kept his story to himself, mate — score 2
2. Yeah, he told her all his tale of woe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Nah, he refused to say a word about his father, the King, or the lake — score 3
4. Yeah, he told her every single part of his tale of woe, from the palace to the wood — score 3

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 1664, line 10: «The carpenter's wife says, "You are getting worse, my dear," and he trusts every word she says, so he lies down and lets her do as she pleases.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «wife» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hold up, so the hare just ran off and nobody caught it?

1. Nah, the horses scared it off before he got close — score -1
2. Nah, he missed it by a mile — no support
3. Yeah, he nearly got it, then his girth broke — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he caught it, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1570, line 15: «What he takes: "three bits of bread" from the table-drawer, which a hare then eats, and the man catches the hare.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «hare» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which circumstance most directly precipitates the boy's transformation into a wolf?

1. The boy's abandonment in the forest — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. The loss of his mother, who died shortly after his birth in the palace — no support
3. His prolonged abandonment in the forest and his dependence upon the wolves — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. His prolonged exile in the wood and his fondness for the wolves' company — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1709, line 7: «What: the boy sings "My brother, my brother! I am becoming a wolf, I am becoming a wolf!" and then howls as wolves howl.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «boy» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

According to the narrative, what prohibition did the dying Queen impose upon her son?

1. That he must never set his feet on earth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. That he must never place his feet upon the ground — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. That he must always be carried by his nurse and must never touch a horse or a saddle at all — no support
4. That he must never place his feet upon the bare ground for any reason, even when the palace burns — 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 ✗

What is the function of the glass axe within the Fairy's stipulations?

1. It is the instrument with which the Prince must fell all the trees — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It is a magical weapon that the Fairy will use herself to strike the Prince if he fails to complete the task on time — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. It is the blade the Prince must use to chop every tree in the grove — score -3
4. It is the tool he must use to clear the forest — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1709, line 9: «Why: the sister forgets the boy because she "thought only of her husband", and the wolves feed him because he has "no other friends".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «other friends» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which condition must be fulfilled for the black girl to be released from her enchantment?

1. A youth must defeat the Fairy in a contest, then carry the black girl across the river to the other side of the wood — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. A young man must lift her over the stream — no support
3. A youth must carry her across the river to the other side — ✓ the right answer · score -4
4. A youth must carry her across the wide river to the far bank without ever once setting her down — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1650, line 15: «Why: the wizard said "this is that boy of mine, who befooled me and ran away", and bought the horse to catch him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «boy» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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