Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1883 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 ✗

Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit?

1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, they couldn't — no support
3. Yeah, they could talk and whistle — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, they could sing and dance — 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 ✓

Ngl, the King sold all his fish, didn't he, bruv?

1. Nah, none sold — no support
2. Yeah, he sold every one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. Yeah, he sold them all off — score 1
4. Nah, he kept some — 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 1873, line 14: «Where the magic word came from: the pedlar who sold the magic powder gave the word "Mutabor" to the magicians.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «pedlar» (+1); the same thing acted on «word» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who was the mint Fairy looking after the fam?

1. the old nurse who had raised the royal children at court — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. the wicked Fairy who lived in the Thorny Hills — score 3
3. the Witch of the Dark Marsh — no support
4. the Fairy of the Beech-Woods — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1453, line 11: «WHY: The old fairy wants "your little daughter to bring up as our own."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «bring up» (+2); the same thing acted on «little daughter» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

So Featherhead got proper vain, yeah? Like proper extra?

1. Nah, he was dead nice and kind — no support
2. Nah, he never changed much but he did get dead vain about his hair — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Yeah, he got dead vain and frivolous — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Yeah, he got dead proud and cheeky — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1883, line 4: «Featherhead grows vain and runs off to the town, then Saradine bursts in, furious that Celandine wants her gifts back.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Saradine was well raging when she came in, weren't she?

1. Yeah, she was raging and breathless — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, she was not raging at all, she was laughing and singing softly — no support
3. Yeah, she was raging and breathless and shouting at the poor servants — no support
4. Yeah, she was raging and tired — 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 ✗

Celandine wanted her gifts back? Bare random, innit?

1. Nah, she asked Saradine to give them to the poor folk in the town — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Yeah, she asked for them back — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she wanted all of them — no support
4. Yeah, she asked for them back and then cried all night — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1883, line 13: «What: Celandine asks Saradine to take back her gifts, since "how am I to know that it is really I, myself?"», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same receiver «saradine» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Where did Saradine dump Celandine, like, proper miles away?

1. at home — no support
2. in the forest — no support
3. in town — score 0
4. in the desert — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1883, line 14: «Where: Saradine leaves Celandine "into the desert," and the Fairy leads her by a mossy path to the family's bower.», 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 «saradine» (+1); the same place «desert» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Was the Fairy gonna sort Celandine's vanity out or what?

1. Nah, she was gonna keep it — no support
2. Yeah, she was gonna cure it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2
3. Yeah, she'd try — no support
4. Nah, she was not — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1883, line 15: «Why: the Fairy means to "cure her vanity by making her love someone better than herself."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cure» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «vanity» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Featherhead ignored Celandine, yeah? Did she look dead ugly?

1. Nah, she looked fine — score 0
2. Yeah, the King made her look ugly — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. Yeah, she looked ugly — score 0
4. Yeah, the Fairy made her look ugly — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1577, line 17: «The King's guards hold his arms, but on the third night the guards force "a knife into his grasp" and make him cut her finger.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Celandine was well gutted he never looked at her, weren't she?

1. Nah, she was happy and pleased — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she was cross and upset — no support
3. Yeah, she was gutted and offended — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she was gutted and offended and wept all through the night — 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 11 · ★ · right ✓

The Queen and King liked Celandine, right? Did they keep her?

1. Nah, they sent her to the Fairy's house to be cured of her vanity — score 1
2. Nah, they sent her on her way — score 1
3. Yeah, they let her stay with them and gave her a room in the palace — score 4
4. Yeah, they let her stay with them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1852, line 4: «The friend says she is Gulizar of the Ivory City, and they meet two men who invite them to stay at the robbers' tower.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+3); the same doer «friends» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

So what's a bower, like, is it a fish or summat?

1. a big fish from the lake — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a shady shelter of leaves — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. a sort of bird — no support
4. a kind of fish — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1716, line 2: «At the river he saves a big fish, which gives him a scale to call on if he ever needs help.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same thing acted on «big fish» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, state the principal reason the Fairy of the Beech-Woods gave for arranging Celandine's vanity to be cured.

1. to make her care for another more than herself — no support
2. so that she would learn to be humble and kind — score 1
3. to make her love someone better than herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. so that she could give away all her gifts and live as a poor girl in the desert with the fish — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1424, line 7: «What: she changes her face, but her feet "were like those of a griffin", and that gives her away to the King.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give away» (+2); the same property (+2). 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 ✗

With reference to the passage, identify the means by which the Fairy concealed Celandine's true appearance from Prince Featherhead.

1. she sprinkled a potion on the poor girl — score 1
2. she threw an enchantment over the Princess — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. she waved her wand and gave the Princess a grey cloak that hid her beauty from all the court — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. she threw an enchantment over the Princess and made her seem ugly to everyone at the palace — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1880, line 3: «Fairy Melinette whispers in Potentilla's ear, pretending to be the Prince, and tells her to hide what she really feels.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «potentilla» (+2); the same doer «fairy» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, explain why the King and Queen welcomed Celandine when she first arrived at their bower.

1. they knew she had been cast out by the Fairy and wanted to help her find a new home in the valley — score 3
2. they felt she shared their sorrows and hardship — score 1
3. they recognised her as a companion in misfortune — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. they saw she was also a lonely traveller — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1852, line 4: «The friend says she is Gulizar of the Ivory City, and they meet two men who invite them to stay at the robbers' tower.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «meet» (+3); the same doer «friends» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

With reference to the passage, describe the manner in which the King first disposed of the strange fish he had caught in the valley.

1. he carried them to a far town and let them go — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. he took them to the market and sold them there — score 4
3. he kept them in a tank at home — score 1
4. he carried them to the nearest town and sold them — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 733, line 4: «A poor fisherman and his wife live in a pigsty until he catches a talking fish that says it is an enchanted prince, so he lets it go.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+3); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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