Indian Fairy Tales, The Seven Princesses, part 6: the pomelo tree is cut down, the girls are left in the jungle, and Balna is turned into a dog

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1822 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, why'd the Ranee fake a headache, innit?

1. To get rest — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. So the Raja gets to shoot — no support
3. Cos she's lazy — no support
4. So the tree gets chopped — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, wait, did the Raja actually kill the girls?

1. Nah, he shot a deer — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, he hid them — score 5
3. Yeah, he left them — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. Nah, he didn't — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1822, line 14: «The Raja leaves his girls, saying: "It is better my poor daughters should die here".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+5); the same doer «raja» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, the cream cake, was it proper tasty?

1. Nah, it was gross — no support
2. Yeah, the girls liked it — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Nah, nobody touched it — no support
4. Yeah, they ate it all — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1554, line 10: «fact: Blanchette is still "trembling with fear in the bed" until she eats cake and drinks wine.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+5). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Princesses ever eat the Ranee's dinner, like?

1. Yeah, most nights — no support
2. Yeah, they ate it every night after the Ranee left — ← Mova's choice · score 7
3. Nah, they only ate it on the days the Ranee was ill — score 7
4. Nah, never once — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1646, line 2: «She tidies the secret palace every day, eats a good dinner there, and finally asks the young man his name.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+5); the same doer «girl» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, who's the magic bloke pretending to be a Fakir?

1. The Raja's brother — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Balna's husband — no support
3. Punchkin — no support
4. Punchkin, the wicked one — ✓ 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 Balna proper brave or what?

1. She told him no — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. She stayed with her baby boy — no support
3. She told him to get lost — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She was scared — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Who found the girls in the jungle, like?

1. Seven old soldiers — score 6
2. Three wandering Fakirs — no support
3. A hunter — score 6
4. Seven young Princes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1822, line 5: «Seven young Princes find the girls, marry them, and later the magician Punchkin turns Balna into a black dog.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same thing acted on «girls» (+2); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «seven young princes» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Did the step-mum get the tank totally bashed?

1. Nah, the Prudhan fixed it — no support
2. Yeah, her servants smashed it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Yeah, her maids broke it — no support
4. Nah, it's whole — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1822, line 3: «The Ranee smashes the tank, then fakes her own death and demands the blood of the seven daughters.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «smash» (+5). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the tree chopped up root and branch, or what?

1. Yeah, every piece was dug up and the roots pulled out too — score 3
2. Yeah, pulled up by the roots — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, only the leaves gone — score -2
4. Yeah, chopped at the base — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1628, line 18: «Old word: "Hew" means to chop with an axe, so the woodcutters "used to hew some of the tallest trees".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+5); the same action «chop» (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who's the spy girl, the Prudhan's daughter?

1. She follows the girls and reports everything to her mother the Prudhan's wife — score 0
2. She creeps out at night to watch the girls from the bushes — score 5
3. She tells the Ranee lies — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. She grasses to her mum — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1567, line 2: «An old woman tells her that she must stay silent and never laugh for seven years to save them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same doer «old woman» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did Balna's husband ever come back, like?

1. Yeah, he came back to the jungle to look for her one day — ← Mova's choice · score 9
2. Nah, he went off to fight in a distant war and never returned to her — score 7
3. Yeah, he came back — score 7
4. Nah, he never came back — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1671, line 3: «The husband searches for days, then finds a garden where the sparrow has become a lovely maiden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «search» (+5); the same doer «husband» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, what happened to Balna in the end, bro?

1. She died — no support
2. She got a dog — no support
3. She was made a black cat — no support
4. Punchkin made her a dog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1822, line 5: «Seven young Princes find the girls, marry them, and later the magician Punchkin turns Balna into a black dog.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «magician» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following identifies the substance that sustains the Princesses after the pomelo tree is destroyed?

1. A nourishing bowl of rice — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. A nourishing cream-like cake — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. Pomelo fruit — score 1
4. A bitter pomelo juice mixed with the blood of a wild deer — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1735, line 20: «Old word: "beheld" means saw or looked at, so "beheld the most beautiful woman" means he saw her, and we say "saw" now.», 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 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following states the reason the Raja gave for abandoning his daughters in the jungle?

1. He feared his wife's cruelty — ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. He feared his wife's cruelty and her wicked plan to kill them — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. He had been ordered by the Ranee's servants to take them away quietly — score 1
4. He was afraid of the Ranee — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 426, line 12: «The Prince "poured forth tears" when he is abandoned, which shows that he is sad but does not give up.», 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, 1, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes Balna's response to the Magician's proposal of marriage?

1. She refused, to remain with her son — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. She accepted his proposal gladly — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. She agreed happily — no support
4. She ran off with the Fakir — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1684, line 2: «Each day his plate turns full of gold, so the old fisherman's wife takes his proposal to the King.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1); the same thing acted on «proposal» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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 of the following identifies the outcome of Balna's refusal to the Magician?

1. She was transformed into a little black dog and sent to live in the jungle — score -2
2. She was turned into a black dog and her son was taken away by the Magician — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. She was sent far away to the jungle — no support
4. She was transformed into a black dog — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 638, line 7: «Uncle James is the one wicked person in Rotundia, and the narrator calls him a "Threefold Complete Bad" because he is a magician, an uncle and named James.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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