Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each
Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1878 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, who got made Emir cos of a pigeon?
- 1. the lad who rode that bird into the town — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the bloke the weirdest thing happened to, mate — no support
- 3. the bloke the most mental thing happened to, dead random like — no support
- 4. the bloke the most mental thing happened to — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
What landed on his noggin, like?
- 1. a brown sparrow, sort of random — no support
- 2. a snow-white pigeon, dead random, sat right on his noggin — score -5
- 3. a snow-white pigeon, dead random — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. a snow-white pigeon, dead random, and then it did a massive poo — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1878, line 8: «Where: the young traveller enters the town, and "a snow-white pigeon" lands on his head.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «land» (+5). Against it: the same doer «white pigeon» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why'd the whole town chase him to the palace?
- 1. cos the pigeon was sat on his head — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. cos the pigeon was sat on his head and the whole town went proper mad — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 3. cos the pigeon was sat on his head and they reckoned he was the new boss — no support
- 4. cos they fancied a bit of pigeon — no support
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1016, line 3: «He wanders through Germany and finally stops in the old town of Nuremberg.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «knud» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the Emir get a good run of it, or what?
- 1. nah, the city kicked off and he lost the lot — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. yeah, dead lush — no support
- 3. yeah, he got made Emir and had a laugh — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. yeah, he ruled the lot and got a lovely pad — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1878, line 9: «Why: the crowd follows him to the palace and makes him Emir, "to his great astonishment."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «emir» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
What's the Fairy's big message, innit?
- 1. flashy stuff rules — no support
- 2. keep your land and your flock, yeah — ← Mova's choice · score -8
- 3. be rich, innit — no support
- 4. a cottage is better than flashy stuff — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1878, line 18: «Old word "degenerated" meant sank into something worse; today we would say "turned into."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-2); a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Iris got the beauty gift, yeah? What went wrong for her?
- 1. she got fat — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. she got ill and her looks went — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. she fell sick and lost her bloom — score 1
- 4. she went blind — score 1
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 809, line 18: «Old word: "confirmed" meant a church ceremony where a young person affirms their faith; the elder daughter is about to take it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one 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
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Daphne's the one who yaps non-stop, right?
- 1. yeah, she talks in her sleep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, she never shuts up, bare boring — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. yeah, she never shuts up, bare boring, and she yaps even when she's eating — no support
- 4. nah, she's quiet — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Cynthia's the pleaser, so was she happy?
- 1. nah, she was a total flirt, not chuffed at all, and her lovers left in a huff — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, proper chuffed, she loved it all — no support
- 3. nah, she was a total flirt, not chuffed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. nah, she was a bit of a moaner, 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
So Sylvia wanted to nab Cynthia's gift at first?
- 1. yeah, she begged for it at first, but then she saw it wasn't cool at all — score 1
- 2. yeah, she wanted it till she saw it — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. yeah, till she saw it wasn't cool — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. yeah, till she saw it wasn't cool and then she told the Fairy off — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1535, line 14: «Why the giant came: he wanted the knight's gifts, which "rumour whispered" about, so he bribed a false servant.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+2); the same thing acted on «gifts» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who did Sylvia go to after Cynthia?
- 1. Phyllida, the one with the sharp wit and the big palace — no support
- 2. Phyllida, the one with the golden hair — no support
- 3. Phyllida, the one with the sharp wit, who lived in the north — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 4. Phyllida, the one with the sharp wit — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1878, line 20: «Phyllida has "that brilliant wit," and wit means quick, clever humour that Sylvia is about to face.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «brilliant wit» (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Had Sylvia been to the Fairy's palace before?
- 1. nah, not once — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. yeah, twice, and it was dead boring — no support
- 3. nah, never, mate — no support
- 4. yeah, loads, it's proper lush there — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
How long was she meant to stay at Cynthia's?
- 1. two months, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. three months, mate — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. one day, mate — score 2
- 4. four years, mate — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1280, line 16: «Old word: "crone" means an old, ugly woman; today people use it as a rude name for a spiteful old woman.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
Was the Fairy chuffed with Sylvia's report?
- 1. yeah, she said she was pleased — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. yeah, she said she was pleased and gave Sylvia a big cake and some gold — score 2
- 3. nah, she said it was rubbish — score 1
- 4. yeah, she gave her a hug — score 1
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 1691, line 13: «The fairy is pleased with Serpentine, and she "was quite satisfied with her conduct."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: the same doer «fairy» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner was the young traveller elevated to the office of Emir?
- 1. by a vote of the old council — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. by his father's will — no support
- 3. by a royal decree signed in the palace after a long debate — no support
- 4. by the spontaneous acclamation of a crowd that followed a pigeon — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
For what reason did the city ultimately revolt against the young Emir?
- 1. because he raised the taxes too high — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. because of his cruelty to the poor and his pride — no support
- 3. because of his misgovernment and his neglect of the Fowler — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. because of taxes — 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 · wrong ✗
Which gift was bestowed upon the Princess Cynthia, and what consequence did it produce?
- 1. the gift of wit, which made her clever but her lovers jealous — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. the gift of eloquence, which made her talk endlessly and bore everyone — score 1
- 3. the gift of singing — no support
- 4. the gift of pleasing, which made her insincere and her lovers disdainful — ✓ the right answer · score 0
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 925, line 13: «What the drop gave: a gift that would make the lamp "rusty" and let it crumble into dust in one night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «gift» (-2). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
How did Sylvia describe the situation of the Princess Iris following her illness?
- 1. she lost her beauty, and she wept in the garden every single night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. she was sad — no support
- 3. her beauty was gone — score 1
- 4. her beauty had vanished, and she despaired and begged for its return — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1878, line 6: «Who: the Comte de Caylus wrote this tale, the Flower Fairy is the wise teller, and Sylvia is the young princess who travels.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sylvia» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). 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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