Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1846 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 · ★ · right ✓
Bruh, why'd the princess hang the necklace on the broke dude?
- 1. Cuz she's dumb — no support
- 2. She saw past the flex — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. She liked him — score -2
- 4. She thought he was cute — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 1807, line 7: «Who tricks whom? The genius and his mother set traps to prove their guest is a woman, and the princess keeps seeing through them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: the same doer «princess» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, the kings were actually salty, right?
- 1. Yeah, they were real jealous — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Yep, so mad — no support
- 3. Yeah, they were so salty — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Yes, they got super jealous — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 695, line 4: «The king punishes the two jealous soldiers, but the second tale starts with an old man's eldest son going out to see the world.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
So the sisters were roasting her, no cap?
- 1. Nah, not really — no support
- 2. Yeah, they roasted her hard — score -2
- 3. Yep, they dragged her hard — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Yep, for sure — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1178, line 4: «The sisters trick the witch into pitch and hot stones, and then they nurse their husbands back to health.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «witch» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «sisters» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why's her hubby never out hunting?
- 1. He's just chilling at home since he's got no bow or horse — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He's just resting now — no support
- 3. He's just chilling at home — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He's chilling, not hunting at all — 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
Ok so Katar's a donkey or what?
- 1. Yep, a donkey for real — score 0
- 2. Nah, a horse in disguise — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Yep, a donkey — score 0
- 4. Nah, just a plain mule — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1845, line 16: «Katar is a fairy-horse who "could get anything he wanted", and the King does not know this.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «katar» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «fairy horse» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
How does he glow up?
- 1. He twists his left ear three times and the moon appears — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He twists his left ear — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He twists his left ear and becomes a prince — no support
- 4. He twists his right ear — 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 the moon and star thing about?
- 1. Marks on his forehead and chin of his new prince look — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Marks of his new prince look — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Marks of a rich king's look — no support
- 4. The moon and star are marks of his new princely look and status — 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 8 · ★ · right ✓
Did the brothers-in-law get roasted?
- 1. Yep, burned — no support
- 2. Yeah, they got branded hard — no support
- 3. Nah, not really — no support
- 4. Yeah, they got burned bad — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1811, line 4: «She carries him home on her back, turns into a scorpion, and stings the brother dead just as the wedding guests are leaving.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sting» (+3); the same thing acted on «brother» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing?
- 1. A coin on each arm — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A hot pice pressed onto each brother's back — no support
- 3. A hot coin — no support
- 4. A hot coin on each back — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd the six guys agree to that?
- 1. They wanted food — no support
- 2. They figured clothes would hide it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. They were hungry — no support
- 4. They thought clothes would cover it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1846, line 15: «Why do the six princes agree? They think "No one will ever see the mark of the pice", because their clothes will cover it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «cover» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Did the gatekeepers let him in?
- 1. Nah, they said he's a bum — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, they called him poor — no support
- 3. Nah, they called him a loser — no support
- 4. Nah, they said he looked like a total bum and kicked him out — 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 ✗
Wait, the sisters hunt every day too?
- 1. Nah, only their husbands — no support
- 2. Nah, their husbands did the hunting every day, not them — score 1
- 3. Nah, their husbands did — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, they hunted too — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1079, line 8: «Where: the good sister runs and hides "in the forest, not far from thence."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+3). Against it: the same doer «good sister» (-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 ✗
To whom did the youngest princess first award the gold necklace?
- 1. the palace gardener's boy — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. the village trader's servant — score 6
- 3. the poor boy who was a grain merchant's servant — no support
- 4. the grain merchant's servant — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask whom it is for. 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 664, line 16: «The king first offered "nine hundred crowns," and later gave the swineherd "a thousand crowns at once."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «hundred crowns» (+4); the same doer «king» (+3); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means was the husband's transformation effected through Katar?
- 1. He pulled his left ear and became a prince — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He twisted his ear — no support
- 3. He turned his right ear and became a king — no support
- 4. He twisted his left ear and became a prince — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · right ✓
By what stratagem did the prince obtain provisions for the six princes?
- 1. He branded each back with a heated pice — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He branded each of the six princes' backs with a heated pice coin and got food — no support
- 3. He marked each back with a heated coin — no support
- 4. He pressed a red-hot pice onto each brother's back to mark them — 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 ✗
On what grounds were the prince's claims refused at the palace gate?
- 1. He was judged too poor and common — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. His looks were judged plain and poor — no support
- 3. His appearance was judged poor and common — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. His appearance was judged poor and common by the gatekeepers at the palace — 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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