Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1880 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, so the enchanter dude turns up in a dust cloud, innit, and he's got one eye and a stammer

1. which trick did Melinette use to fool Potentilla? — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. which trick did Melinette use to fool Potentilla, and why did the Prince not catch on at all? — no support
3. what did Melinette tell Potentilla to fool her? — no support
4. so which of the fairies' tricks did Melinette use to fool Potentilla in the end, innit? — ← Mova's choice · 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 1869, line 8: «Who: the little old woman is a fairy who grows "tall, and young, and beautiful" and is the sister of Mazilla.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv, Grumedan's frogs sang that rubbish opera for five whole hours, proper grim

1. did the Princess actually enjoy the frogs' opera or was she just being polite about it all? — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. what did the frogs do in the end? — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. who wrote the frogs' rubbish opera? — no support
4. what did the frogs do in the end once the five hours were finally over, bruv? — 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 ✗

mate, how did Potentilla feel when the enchanter started chatting to her?

1. she was well made up and blushing like mad at the enchanter's compliments — score 0
2. she was well gutted — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. she felt quite chuffed — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. she was buzzing at first but then got really properly fed up with him, honestly — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1662, line 2: «In the fields she finds a big fan, and out of it tumbles a letter from her lover.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

right, so Cleopatra rolls up in a fancy boat and hands over a pearl, what's that all about, yeah?

1. she gave her a pearl for free — score 4
2. she told Potentilla to be less vain — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. she got a ring — no support
4. she gave her a hat — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1880, line 15: «What: Cleopatra gives the Princess a "celebrated pearl" and says "You are more beautiful than I ever was."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «cleopatra» (+4); the same action «say» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

sick, Grumedan's whistle got oysters crawling up the bank, mad stuff, yeah?

1. they sang a rude song, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. they were just shells — no support
3. they brought pearls for the Princess — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they got hungry and ate the frogs, bruv — 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 ✗

innit, Narcissus did a proper arbour with her name in the flowers, lush, what else?

1. a frog croaked — no support
2. a nightingale sang "Love" — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a robin sang a rude song — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. a bird sang — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 935, line 11: «The East Wind carries the prince across the water, and the flowers and leaves sing "the sweet songs of his childhood".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «sweet songs» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

ngl, the nightingale's answer to who taught him the song is well random

1. a frog from the brook, obviously — no support
2. nobody, he just made it up on the spot one evening — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Hope — no support
4. Love — ✓ the right answer · 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 889, line 17: «"Spoil" means loot or goods taken in war, and "bard" means an old singer who made up songs about heroes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make up» (+2); the same thing acted on «songs» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

bro, Melinette warned Grumedan about being a bit of a dick, what's the big threat?

1. a thousand years in the nick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the nick — no support
3. a thousand years locked up in a tree with no wand and no frogs, bruv — no support
4. a fine, innit — 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 ✗

mate, the enchanter was well jealous of the Prince, how come?

1. he fancied the Prince's horse — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he was after the same girl — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he wanted her wand — no support
4. he was after her palace gold — 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 ✗

so Potentilla basically dumped the narcissus flowers, why?

1. they were the wrong sort, mate — no support
2. they weren't the colour she liked — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. they weren't the sort she wanted because she'd already promised the frogs a bath — score -2
4. they weren't the sort she wanted — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 876, line 9: «Why: the youngest princess cares only for her red flowers and the statue, because she has "never seen birds" and loves the world above.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «youngest princess» (+2). Against it: the same action «care» (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

yeah, Melinette did a Prince voice to trick her, that's dodgy, why'd she do that?

1. to keep her hidden feelings safe from the enchanter, who was clearly a bit of a dick about it all — score 6
2. so the Prince could be the one who spoke and the enchanter would not get to kiss her hand — score 0
3. to keep her hidden feelings safe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. to stop her blushing in public — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 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 1880, line 12: «Why: Melinette speaks "assuming the Prince's voice", so that Potentilla keeps her feelings hidden.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «feelings» (+3); the same action «keep» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruv, what did the enchanter want as a thank you for being nice?

1. to kiss her hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. to get a hug and then a kiss on both cheeks and the pearl as well — no support
3. to be her new friend — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. a golden kiss, innit — score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1868, line 11: «The Enchanter has searched "eight times" round the world, and he finds the King by his voice.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «enchanter» (+1); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

peak, the Prince was fuming when Melinette told him about Grumedan, what did he want to do?

1. do some daft things — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. fight, bruv — no support
3. get revenge — no support
4. challenge him to a duel — 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, which of the following best describes the Enchanter's reaction to the Princess's cry of terror?

1. He took it for a happy shout of greeting — ← Mova's choice · score -4
2. He was alarmed and immediately vanished in a cloud of dust and smoke — no support
3. He mistook it for delighted surprise — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He thought she was angry at him — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 857, line 17: «Old word: "macadamized" describes a road paved with crushed stone; today we just say a tarmac or paved road.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

According to the passage, by what means did Fairy Melinette prevent the Princess from betraying her true feelings?

1. By turning herself into a frog and hiding in the Princess's bedroom — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. By speaking in the voice of the Prince and then hiding behind the arbour for an hour — no support
3. By wearing a Prince's cloak — no support
4. By speaking in the Prince's voice — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1869, line 8: «Who: the little old woman is a fairy who grows "tall, and young, and beautiful" and is the sister of Mazilla.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grow» (+2); the same thing acted on «fairy» (+1). Against it: 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following accurately identifies the reward the Enchanter requested for his obliging conduct towards the Princess?

1. Leave to kiss her cheek — no support
2. Permission to kiss her hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Permission to kiss her hand and to be named her personal guardian — no support
4. Right to dance with her — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1506, line 7: «What: the twelve princesses dance every night and wear out their satin slippers, and Michael must learn their secret.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dance» (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-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 · wrong ✗

With reference to the final episode, what was the nightingale's answer when the Princess inquired after the teacher of his new song?

1. Peace — no support
2. Practice and patience and a very long study of the old masters — no support
3. The Princess herself, who had taught him every note of it at dusk — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. Love — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1735, line 19: «Old word: "entreated" means begged or pleaded, so when the Princess "entreated him to stay" she was asking him very earnestly.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+1); the same thing acted on «word» (+1); a different action (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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