Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off
Tests: 2 of 14 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 14 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1849 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 ✗
Yaar, what did the queen actually ask the fisherwoman?
- 1. What the fish was doing and whether it could talk to people at all — ← Mova's choice · score -7
- 2. If it was hungry — no support
- 3. Whether the fish was male or female — no support
- 4. If the big fish was a he or a she — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1849, line 14: «Old word: "indisposed" meant unwell; the king asks, "Are you indisposed?" Today we would say "Are you ill?"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bhai, what was the fish doing when the queen asked?
- 1. Jumping about in the basket — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Swimming around the edges of the basket trying to escape the market — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Thrashing wildly and splashing water over the fisherwoman's feet — no support
- 4. Splashing in the water — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1767, line 13: «WHERE: the queen keeps the egg "in her bosom, which was the warmest place she could think of".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «warmest place» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «queen» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mast, how long did the vizier get to solve the fish thing?
- 1. Three months — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The whole season until the next harvest of the year — no support
- 3. Two years — no support
- 4. Six months — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Scene is wild, so what did the queen do after the fish laughed?
- 1. She ordered all the servants out of the palace garden at once and sat down — score 2
- 2. She went back in a huge rage — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. She left quietly in tears — score 1
- 4. She went straight back to her room and slammed the door behind her loudly — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 44, line 3: «The Rat warms up some ale with spices, as people did in those days, and the field-mice sip and cough and laugh. The Mole asks one of them to recite from last y…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «field mice» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, who was the sharp one, the dad or the daughter?
- 1. The dad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The farmer, clearly — no support
- 3. The daughter, obviously — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The father, sure — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ngl, was the farmer's daughter the smartest in the house?
- 1. No, the father was the smartest because he owned all the land around here — no support
- 2. Yes, she noticed he was clever — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. No, the father was smarter — no support
- 4. Yes, she spotted the youth was no fool — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1849, line 12: «The vizier sends away his "clever and handsome" son, who "started off whithersoever Kismat might lead him."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Like, what did the young guy ask the farmer to do with the knife?
- 1. Get two horses — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Get two oxen — no support
- 3. Sell it — ← Mova's choice · score -3
- 4. Buy a cow — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1307, line 3: «The farmer's wife eats the poor man's onion, falls ill, and blames it on him, so her husband beats him with a thick stick until the younger brother stops him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «farmer» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «wife» (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what did the king say the queen must be?
- 1. Ill and confused by the strange smell in the palace — score -4
- 2. Joking — ← Mova's choice · score -3
- 3. Foolish — score -4
- 4. Dreaming — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -3, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 24, line 2: «The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Knave, who is made of cardboard; «they all returned from him to you» — why, there are the tar…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «king» (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, who waded through the water with shoes on?
- 1. A horse — score 1
- 2. The young man — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. The king — score 2
- 4. The old farmer — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1849, line 17: «Old word: "paijamas" are loose trousers; today we spell them "pyjamas," and the youth wades through the water wearing them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «wade» (+5). Against it: the same place «water» (-1); the same doer «youth» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruh, what did the cemetery folk hand out to travellers?
- 1. Warm chapatis, kulchas, and a bowl of spiced lentil soup — no support
- 2. Sweets and milk — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. A large meal of mutton curry, rice, and sweet halwa — score -1
- 4. Chapatis and kulchas — ✓ the right answer · score -1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1052, line 11: «What happens at the door: "in the one pace she passed out of the palace and out of the world."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «folk» (+2). Against it: the same action «pass out» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ya, why was the vizier kinda cooked?
- 1. He'd lose his big house — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He'd lose his gold — no support
- 3. He'd die if he failed in six months — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He'd be sent to prison — 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 ✗
Lowkey, where did Kismat lead the young guy?
- 1. Along the river road — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Straight to the palace where the king was waiting anxiously — no support
- 3. Wherever Kismat might lead him — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Along whichever road his father had warned him against taking — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 1849, line 12: «The vizier sends away his "clever and handsome" son, who "started off whithersoever Kismat might lead him."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lead» (+2); the same doer «kismat» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Dude, what's a fisherwoman even doing on the street?
- 1. Walking about the city streets looking for customers to buy her catch — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Hunting for fish in the river — score 2
- 3. Selling fish by crying out — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Carrying fish to the palace — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1199, line 20: «The hill-man dies when "a loose stone fell on his head" as he walked along a street to the palace.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «walk» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, what did the youth ask about the corn?
- 1. How many people had worked in the field and how long it took them — score -3
- 2. Whether it was eaten or not — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. Whether it was ripe enough — no support
- 4. Whether the farmer planned to sell all of the harvest at market — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1561, line 5: «Dapplegrim hops the hill down into the earth, and then the King demands a bridal horse as fine as his own, or the youth must die.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «bridal horse» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
In what manner did the queen return to her chamber after the fish's reply?
- 1. In a state of great rage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Angrily — no support
- 3. In a quiet and sad mood — no support
- 4. Happily — 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 2 · formal language · right ✓
What period of time was accorded to the vizier for the resolution of the matter?
- 1. Four years — no support
- 2. Six months — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
- 3. Weeks — no support
- 4. Days — score -4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1849, line 11: «The king gives the vizier "six months, on pain of death," and the vizier "laboured indefatigably" for five months.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «vizier» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the vizier's son proceed upon his journey?
- 1. Along whichever road his father had once warned him against taking — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Whithersoever Kismat might lead him — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Along the river road — score 1
- 4. Straight to the palace gate where the king was waiting for news — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1849, line 14: «Old word: "indisposed" meant unwell; the king asks, "Are you indisposed?" Today we would say "Are you ill?"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What response did the farmer offer when questioned about the corn?
- 1. "Not sure, sorry" — no support
- 2. "I don't know" — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. "Maybe" — no support
- 4. "No idea at all" — score 1
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 1784, line 4: «He digs under a cypress tree with brass roots, finds buried bags of gold, and loads the horses with the treasure for the emperor.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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