Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1820 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 ✗
Bruv, what did the ants actually do for the prince, like, proper?
- 1. they carried the seed to the king — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. they squeezed oil from the seed by hand — no support
- 3. they ate the seed — no support
- 4. they crushed the oil out of the mustard seed — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1654, line 5: «A flower-pot makes a forest and a glass of water makes a lake, the princess blows doves at the witch until she turns to flint, and the prince's brothers kneel…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brothers» (+1). Against it: the same receiver «prince» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Wasn't the king mint about his demons getting bagged?
- 1. he was happy — no support
- 2. he cried when they escaped — no support
- 3. he was glad — no support
- 4. he was glad they were killed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1820, line 12: «The demons are killed when "the tigers and the demons fought and fought until the tigers had killed the demons".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ayo, how did the prince get up to the sky, fam?
- 1. by the ants' rope — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. on his magic bed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. on his magic bed that flew up high — no support
- 4. on a golden horse — 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 1307, line 10: «When: it is winter, yet "the sun rose in a clear sky" on the morning of his jump.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rise» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · right ✓
Did the tigers actually beat the demons, or nah?
- 1. yeah, they killed them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. no, they fled from them — score 4
- 3. yeah, they killed them both with their claws — score 7
- 4. yeah, they lost the fight — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1820, line 12: «The demons are killed when "the tigers and the demons fought and fought until the tigers had killed the demons".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «kill» (+5); the same doer «tigers» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the wax hatchet like, a proper hatchet, innit?
- 1. yes, it was made of wood — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. no, wax — no support
- 3. yes — no support
- 4. no, it was made of wax — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, what did the princess pull out of her head for him?
- 1. a golden hair from her head — score 4
- 2. a hair — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. a long silver hair with a jewel set in it — score 1
- 4. a pearl — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1483, line 15: «When the Queen falls, John "drew three drops of blood from her right side, and spat them out."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «right side» (+3); the same action «draw» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «john» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, what did the king give the prince on the bed journey?
- 1. no gift yet; he beat the drum for hours — score -4
- 2. no gift yet; he beat the drum — ✓ the right answer · score -4
- 3. a silver cup and some grain — no support
- 4. nothing, he just went home — ← 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 -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1805, line 3: «The king has no choice, so he gives his daughter to the young man, and they live in great joy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the prince gutted when the king said cut the trunk?
- 1. yeah, he feared the king's rage — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. yeah, he thought he would die — ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. yeah, he thought he would die right there in the court — score 7
- 4. yeah, he thought he would die and cried for his mum — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1820, line 10: «The demons were caught long ago and "shut up in a cage" because the king feared they "would eat up all the people in his country".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fear» (+5); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the prince get given when they left, like, loads?
- 1. camels — score -2
- 2. camels, oxen and silver — score -2
- 3. a few rupees — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. camels, horses and rupees — ✓ the right answer · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1201, line 3: «His father begs him to wait and offers gifts or an army, but the prince insists on going, with only a few courtiers and a string of camels.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did anyone ever come to fight him after that, or nah?
- 1. nah — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, many kings tried — no support
- 3. no one — no support
- 4. nah, nobody ever did — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the prince keep in his bag, bowl, bed and stick, innit?
- 1. the ring and his old bow — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. everything he had kept — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. his stick — score 2
- 4. his bread and the old map — 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 1801, line 7: «What: the young man must dip bread in the golden bowl of goats' milk, which lets him "understand all the secrets of the night."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «golden bowl» (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «young man» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Was the king's court-house like a proper courtroom, bro?
- 1. yeah, he sat there to hear people — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 2. yeah, he sat there to hear people's complaints each morning — score 7
- 3. yeah, he sat there to hear people and to punish thieves — score 7
- 4. yeah, he judged the disputes there — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 113, line 4: «Dressed in a velvet coat, he rides to the bride's house, where the ring joins and she knows him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ride» (+5); the same doer «soldier» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Does the Lambikin bit start, or is it still Labam, yeah?
- 1. Lambikin starts at the end — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. it's Labam now — no support
- 3. Labam finishes near the end — no support
- 4. still Labam — 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 agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil?
- 1. the ants of the Ant-Raja — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 2. the king's cook — no support
- 3. the Ant-Raja's bees — no support
- 4. the tigers — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1820, line 2: «The king gives him eighty pounds of mustard seed to crush in one day, and while he sleeps the Ant-Raja's ants crush out all the oil.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «ants» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which object did the prince employ to sever the thick tree-trunk?
- 1. a golden sword — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. a wooden spoon — score 6
- 3. a sharp iron hatchet from the forge — score 6
- 4. a wax hatchet — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1698, line 10: «Why the Prince is trapped: his hands are fastened, so he cannot use the stone that could hide him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+5); the same action «use» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the ultimate condition set by the king before the marriage?
- 1. the splitting of the tree-trunk with a wax hatchet — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the splitting of the tree-trunk — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the killing of the two demons — no support
- 4. the splitting of the tree-trunk by the prince's own hands — 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 ✗
Which of the following was the prince's means of reaching the kettle-drum?
- 1. a horse — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. a ladder — no support
- 3. his magic bed — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. a flying carpet — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1621, line 17: «Old word: "smitten" means struck hard, so the land is "smitten with the black pestilence" means a deadly plague hits it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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