Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor

Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1744 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, that fake bird was a total fail, right?

1. Its wheels cracked and it sang — no support
2. Its works went crack and it went quiet — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Its works broke and it stopped — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. It went quiet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1744, line 13: «When the works wear out, the clockmaker says it is "impossible to put in new ones," so the bird may sing only once a year.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wear out» (+2); the same doer «works» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, who actually bailed out the window?

1. She flew away — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The real Nightingale flew back to her woods — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The Nightingale flew out to the old woods — no support
4. The real Nightingale flew to her green woods — 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 wait, the Emperor was dead, yeah?

1. Everyone said he was dead, but he was not — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Court thought him dead, but he was not — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The Court thought him dead, but he was not, and the whole palace wept for him for a full week — no support
4. The Court thought him dead, but he was not, and the bandmaster had said so all along — 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 ✗

Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it?

1. Few read it — score 0
2. Everyone said so, but no one read it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Many praised it, few understood it — score 0
4. Everyone said so, but few understood it — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 987, line 2: «Years later a man reads the book and calls the flower a "summer gauk", a poor fool who came too early.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «read» (+1); the same doer «man» (+1); the same thing acted on «book» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone?

1. So no one else would hear of her visits — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. So nobody else would learn of her visits — score 3
3. So nobody else would know about her visits — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. So nobody else would know about her visits, because the Court would have punished her — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1743, line 2: «He orders his First Lord to find the bird, and the First Lord runs up and down the Palace asking everyone.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «emperor» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, which side did the bird get, like, the bling?

1. The left side, First from the left — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
2. The right — no support
3. The left side — score -2
4. The left side, Second from the right — score -2

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 1744, line 16: «Old word: "intoxicated" once meant wildly excited or drunk, and here it means the people were delighted by the bird.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Dude, so the Nightingale was basically the real MVP?

1. She saved the Emperor with her song, and the Court gave her a golden cage — score 0
2. She cured the Emperor with song — score 0
3. She healed him with her singing — no support
4. She saved the Emperor with her song — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 905, line 15: «Where: The caravan heard a nightingale on the heath, a song that "seemed to promise good fortune".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «nightingale» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland?

1. A king's son and a clever foster lad — no support
2. A queen's son and a brave foster child — no support
3. A king's daughter and a clever foster son, whose story the fishermen told each winter — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. A king's daughter and a clever foster son — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1685, line 10: «The Prince says, "Do you remember how I told you that day that you would betray me?" and so he knows she has come back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+1); the same doer «prince» (+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 ✗

Hadvor's the king's only kid, so she's what?

1. The heir to the kingdom, though the Court and her foster brother both doubted it greatly — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The heir to the kingdom — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The heir to the kingdom, as the old king had declared before the whole assembly — no support
4. The heir to the throne — 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 ✗

Mate, the fishermen, what did they reckon was off?

1. Something in the song was missing, and they could not say what, though they had listened all night — ← Mova's choice · score -3
2. Something in the song was missing, so the fishermen rowed back to shore at once — no support
3. Something in the tune was lacking — no support
4. Something in the song was missing — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. 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» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1); the same doer «mate» (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruh, what was the Emperor's first word when he woke?

1. Good-morning, and why has the clockwork bird been placed beside my bed? — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Good evening! — no support
3. Good-morning! — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Good-morning, my dear Court, and where is the Nightingale who saved me? — 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 ✗

Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke?

1. No, once a year, but not more — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. No, never — no support
3. Yes, daily — no support
4. No, only once a year, and even that was too much — ✓ 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

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

To whom did the inscription on the collar attribute the superior nightingale?

1. The Emperor of China, whose court was the most famous in all the world and his palace the grandest — no support
2. The Emperor of China, who had ruled the great palace for many years with his bandmaster — no support
3. The King of Iceland — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. The Emperor of China — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1733, line 5: «A poor Prince sends a rose and a nightingale to the Emperor's daughter, she scorns them, and he disguises himself as a swineherd who makes a magic pot.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «rose» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same receiver «daughter» (-1); 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

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the Nightingale request concerning the clockwork bird?

1. That it be fixed and not broken — ← Mova's choice · score -3
2. That it be kept and not broken — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. That it be kept and not sold — score -4
4. To be kept — 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 914, line 9: «What: the emperor threatens to "break the artificial bird into a thousand pieces."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1); the same doer «emperor» (-3). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which description applies to the Emperor before the Nightingale's song?

1. Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court, as the bandmaster had announced that morning — no support
3. Warm, flushed, and believed alive by the Court — no support
4. Cold, pale, and believed dead by the Court, lying still upon his golden bed in the great hall — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 865, line 20: «Old words: a "vow" is a solemn promise, a "pasha" was a high Turkish official, and "psalms" are sacred songs.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «old words» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-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 ✗

What rank was conferred upon the bandmaster's man for presenting the bird?

1. Bird-bearer — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. Imperial Bringer — score 0
4. Keeper of the Imperial First Nightingale — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1285, line 12: «Why: she went to consult a fairy man about a sick cow, which shows how people in the tale trusted such folk.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «consult» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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