Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey
Tests: 4 of 15 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 19 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 175 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, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right?
- 1. Yep, off a cliff — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yep, down a dry cistern — no support
- 3. Yep, into the old well — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, into a river — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish?
- 1. Greed, bro — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He was super envious — no support
- 3. He was lowkey jealous — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Cause he wanted the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell — 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 ✗
Wait, who saved him from the fall, fr?
- 1. Angels — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Some passing shepherds — no support
- 3. Fairies and genii — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Birds — 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 ✗
What's the cat thing, like what was the cure?
- 1. Burn the hairs of a black cat in the bath every morning for a week — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fed the cat to the princess and then burned his tail feathers — no support
- 3. Seven white hairs burned — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Rubbed with cat's milk — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, who's the genius with the sketchy name Maimoum?
- 1. The son of Ahriman — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The son of Dimdim — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The brother of Dimdim — no support
- 4. A cousin — 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 ✗
So the princess wakes up, what's her first line?
- 1. "Water!" — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. "Who is this man?" — no support
- 3. "What happened to me?" — no support
- 4. "Where am I?" — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, what did the Sultan want to give the dervish?
- 1. A horse — no support
- 2. His daughter's hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Half his kingdom — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. His son's crown — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 161, line 1: «explain: Long ago in Persia, Sultan Schahriar gave his brother Schahzeman his own kingdom, but he still loved his wife more than anything.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «own kingdom» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Lol, how did the dervish end up as Sultan anyway?
- 1. He proved his wisdom in a long public trial before the whole court — no support
- 2. He saved the realm from invaders and the old king named him heir — no support
- 3. The old Sultan had no sons — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Election by the nobles — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 175, line 15: «Rise: after the grand-vizir dies, the dervish gets his post, and then the people make him heir, since the Sultan "had no sons."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sultan» (+2); the same thing acted on «sons» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
The envious guy got gold and carts after, right? Why though?
- 1. The Sultan forgave him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The dervish asked for it — no support
- 3. He paid the Sultan's debts — no support
- 4. He begged — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, what's the genius' whole vibe at the end?
- 1. Totally not chill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Calm — no support
- 3. Very grumpy and loud — no support
- 4. Happy — 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 ✗
So he turns the narrator into what, like a monkey?
- 1. No, a turtle that lives in the sea near the ship — no support
- 2. Yes, a monkey with a golden collar and a silver bell — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Yes, a monkey — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yes, a parrot — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 169, line 1: «The queen boils a cup of water with magic words and throws it on the prince, who becomes a man again.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+2); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
How'd he get across to the ship, like the boat?
- 1. On a branch with sticks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. With a wooden raft, two sails and a crew of loyal sailors from the port — no support
- 3. On a ladder of planks — no support
- 4. By climbing a giant tree that grew up from the sea bottom and fell across — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd the sailors wanna chuck him in the sea?
- 1. They think he's a spy — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. They thought he was a genie in disguise sent to sink the ship — score 3
- 3. He cursed the captain and insulted the sailors' mother in public — no support
- 4. Bad luck, they thought — ✓ the right answer · no support
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 91, line 18: «Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «believe» (+2); the same doer «sailors» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea?
- 1. Only the word hammer — no support
- 2. Both ideas were shouted — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Hammer was the cry — no support
- 4. They shouted to throw him overboard and to hammer him into the mast — ← 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 91, line 18: «Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «sailors» (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lowkey, is the monkey safe at the end?
- 1. Yes, he's home and free — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, the genius turned him back into a man and gave him a ship — no support
- 3. Not yet, still in danger — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, the sailors plan to throw him into the sea tonight after dinner — 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 · right ✓
Which being was held responsible for the princess's affliction?
- 1. The envious man who pushed the dervish into the well at night — no support
- 2. Zoroaster, son of Hafiz — no support
- 3. Ahriman, the cruel genie — no support
- 4. Maimoum, son of Dimdim — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 175, line 4: «The dervish burns the hairs, the princess wakes and asks where she is, and the Sultan makes him his son-in-law.», 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 thing acted on «son» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means was the princess restored to her senses?
- 1. Feeding her cat's milk daily — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Burning seven white hairs of a cat — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Rubbing her temples with ointment made from the genie's own feathers — no support
- 4. Bathing her in holy water taken from the monastery spring each morning — 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 · right ✓
What reward did the Sultan's court propose for the dervish?
- 1. Exile from the realm with all his worldly goods confiscated — no support
- 2. The hand of the princess — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Half the royal treasury — no support
- 4. A seat on the council — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 175, line 14: «Reward: the Sultan's attendants say the dervish "deserved the hand of the princess."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «hand» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
To what form was the narrator transformed by the genius?
- 1. That of a monkey with a golden chain around his neck — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A bird — no support
- 3. That of a goat — no support
- 4. That of a monkey — ✓ 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
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