Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1877 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 ✗
So what was the fountain doing when they got there?
- 1. just sitting there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. dry as dust — no support
- 3. gurgling away, all frothy — no support
- 4. going mental, all bubbling — ✓ 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 ✗
Who was the one who sorted them out, innit?
- 1. the king — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the old fisherman — no support
- 3. the Fairy, obviously — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. nobody, mate — 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 ✗
How far did they go looking for each other, like?
- 1. like, three whole years and more of walking — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. two whole years — no support
- 3. four whole years — no support
- 4. three whole years — ✓ 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 ✗
Yo, what did the Fairy's ride look like?
- 1. a plain cart — ← Mova's choice · score -6
- 2. green rushes, dead cool — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. silver wood, dead cool — no support
- 4. just a cart — 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 1841, line 6: «Who: Prince Rasalu, a brave young man riding his horse Bhaunr Iraqi.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the lovers get proper grumpy at themselves?
- 1. yeah, a bit — no support
- 2. yeah, they blamed themselves a lot — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 3. yeah, they blamed themselves bare — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 4. nah, not really — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1697, line 5: «Lovers hang themselves with silken cords in the labyrinth, and at last the sea rises and the caves scream.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «lovers» (+1). Against it: the same doer «lovers» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
Was the bird just a normal bird, or what?
- 1. nah, she was a Fairy — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. yeah, a normal bird — no support
- 3. nah, she was a wizard — score 0
- 4. nah, she was a Fairy in disguise, like proper magic — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1877, line 15: «The Yellow Bird was once a Fairy "condemned by the High Court of Fairyland" to live as a creature for several years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «fairy» (+1). Against it: the same doer «yellow bird» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
Why'd the bird pick yellow, do you reckon?
- 1. dunno — no support
- 2. cos it's pretty — no support
- 3. cos it was bright, innit — no support
- 4. cos she loved it, innit — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1877, line 16: «She chose a bird because "she loved yellow," and she was caught by a Fowler outside Badi-al-Zaman's palace in Bagdad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bird» (+1). Against it: the same action «love» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the rich geezer in Bagdad?
- 1. Badi-al-Zaman, the wealthy one — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Badi-al-Zaman, the merchant lord — no support
- 3. the old lord of the town — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. Hassan, the wealthy one — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1849, line 18: «Old word: "bazaar" means a market, a place where people buy and sell; the travellers walk about the bazaar in the city.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Fowler's kids get the good bits?
- 1. yeah, the head and the heart, they got the best bits of the bird — score 0
- 2. yeah, the bread and the cake — no support
- 3. yeah, the head and the heart — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. nah, the Fowler's wife kept the head and the heart for herself — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 67, line 8: «Toad sobs «Let me go out and find them, out into the cold, dark night... Hold on a bit! Surely I heard the chink of dishes on a tray!» — his tears stop the mom…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hold» (+3). Against it: the same doer «you» (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the words under the wing say, like?
- 1. become a king, that's wicked and proper amazing, innit — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 2. become a king, that's wicked — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 3. eat it and become a king, cos it said so, like totally — score -1
- 4. become rich, that's wicked — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1867, line 9: «Why the Queen is angry: "Fiordelisa must be in league with them, to annoy me!" she says, because the Princes refuse Turritella.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «bird» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the rich man happy, or was he moaning?
- 1. he was sulking, all day — score 2
- 2. he was moaning, always, about everything and everyone around him — score 2
- 3. nah, he was dead happy, always laughing and dancing about — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. he was moaning, always — ✓ the right answer · score 2
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 1772, line 13: «The sultan answers "I am content", meaning he is happy with the marriage.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where did the elder brother end up, innit?
- 1. a huge market city somewhere in the far east of Asia — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a city in Persia — no support
- 3. a big city in Asia — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. a distant island in the middle of the sea — 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 ✗
Did the parents' quarrel get sorted, like, finally?
- 1. yeah, the lovers' fathers sorted it out themselves, at the wedding — score 0
- 2. yeah, the Fairy sorted it — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. yeah, the king sorted it — score 0
- 4. nah, it kept going on and on until the Fairy finally sorted it out — ← Mova's choice · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1585, line 8: «Where: the quarrel happens at the river, and the wedding feast is in Gunnar's hall.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «happen» (+3). Against it: the same doer «quarrel» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
By what means did the Fairy convey the lovers to their home?
- 1. upon a wooden sledge pulled by six hares across the fields — no support
- 2. on a wagon of carved wood — no support
- 3. in a boat of silver willow — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. in a chariot of green rushes — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 920, line 17: «Old word: "linden-tree" means the lime tree, the tree that shaded the couple's bench.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+5); the same thing acted on «lime tree» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the principal reason the lovers gave for their misfortune?
- 1. carelessness in their own actions — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the cruelty of the Fairy and the spite of their families — no support
- 3. negligence in their own conduct — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. foolishness in their own behaviour — 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 ✓
Which instrument did the Fairy employ to effect the rescue of the lovers?
- 1. her magic wand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. a rope — score 1
- 3. a long rod of enchanted golden wood — score 0
- 4. a staff — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1820, line 19: «At the end the prince keeps his bag, bowl, bed and stick, and "as no one ever came to make war on him, he never needed to use the stick".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same doer «prince» (+1). Against it: the same action «use» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
What did the Fowler's wife state concerning the disposal of the bird's head and heart?
- 1. to her children — score -1
- 2. she ate them — score -2
- 3. she fed them to her children — score -1
- 4. she gave them to her children — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1868, line 10: «What the King says: "then I may as well die at once!" and he turns over to die.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn over» (+3). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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