Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess

Tests: 8 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1901 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 · ★ · right ✓

Dude, so John gets totally robbed and wakes up with NOTHING, right?

1. no purse, no cloak, no Princess — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. no Princess — no support
3. no coat, no shoes, no Princess — no support
4. no cloak, no purse, no horse — 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 ✓

Wait, the plums gave him HORNS? That's well wicked, bro!

1. yellow ones gave horns — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. yellow ones — score 1
3. green ones gave horns — score 2
4. the yellow ones gave him horns — score 2

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 1901, line 7: «What: John eats two kinds of plums, the yellow ones give him horns and the green ones take them away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what did he eat to make the horns go away again?

1. the green plums that he picked — no support
2. the green plums — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. the small green plums from the tree — score 2
4. the red plums — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1901, line 3: «He eats green plums, the horns vanish, and he makes a clever plan to punish Ludovine.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «green plums» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, so he sold plums in a fake beard? Gutted for the Princess!

1. at the church door in the village square — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. by the river bank — no support
3. at the church door — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. sitting at the church door all day long — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually?

1. fifty pence each — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. fifty crowns each for the plums — no support
3. fifty crowns each — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. twenty crowns each — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Did she just pay him with her own purse? Massive fail, innit!

1. yes, she paid with her own purse — score 2
2. yes, her own purse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. no, a gold ring — no support
4. yes — no support

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 1901, line 4: «He sells the plums at a church door in a false beard, and Ludovine pays him with her own purse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Seriously, what did the King say about doctors who flopped?

1. they'd hang — no support
2. they would get hanged — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. they would be jailed — score 3
4. they would be beheaded — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1901, line 11: «The King says that "one should refuse nothing to a man with a rope round his neck," so he lets the disguised doctor in.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «disguised doctor» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So John strolls in as a doctor with a wig and specs? Dead clever!

1. a grey wig and round spectacles — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a wig and spectacles — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a hat and a cloak — no support
4. a beard and a mask — 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 ✗

Yo, what did he squeeze into that tiny bottle?

1. yellow plum juice — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the juice of many green plums — no support
3. plum juice — no support
4. green plum juice — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · right ✓

Ludovine admitted what, like, to get cured?

1. she stole a purse — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. she took a ring — score -3
3. she stole — no support
4. she found a coin — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1900, line 20: «Ludovine wins the purse because John, under the spell of the scarf and the wine, sleeps "so soundly that no one could wake him."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «ludovine» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «purse» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the fake doctor want next, the cloak, yeah?

1. a hat — score -1
2. the purse — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. the cloak — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. gold — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 780, line 11: «The lady steals the heart, but the cloak is the witch's next goal: "we must also get" it.», 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 «cloak» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Nah, what did she see when he took off the wig?

1. the Little Soldier's face — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. the Little Soldier's bright and grinning face — no support
3. the soldier's bare hand — score 0
4. the Little Soldier's face under the wig — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1473, line 16: «The text says witches have "red eyes," cannot see far, but have a keen sense of smell.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+4). Against it: the same action «see» (-2); the same doer «witches» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, why did she just freeze and go dumb at the end?

1. she was dumb with fright — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. she was stunned silent — no support
3. she was too dumb with fright to speak — no support
4. she felt quite sick and ill — 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 ✗

Which of the following states the object John found missing upon waking?

1. his purse, cloak and the Princess — ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. his purse, cloak, shoes and the Princess too — score -1
3. his cloak, boots and the Princess — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. his purse, cloak, horse and the Princess — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1658, line 17: «Old word: "procure" means to get or obtain, so when the brothers "procured" the dove and the boar, they got them.», 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, 1, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the colour of the plums John first ate?

1. gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. red as blood — no support
3. pale as milk — no support
4. yellow as gold — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following describes the proclamation issued by the King concerning the cure?

1. half the kingdom and her ring — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. her hand in marriage to whoever cures her — no support
3. her hand in marriage to the curer — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. her hand in marriage and half the kingdom — 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 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following describes the disguise adopted by the Little Soldier upon entering the palace?

1. a wig and spectacles with a doctor's robe — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a wig, spectacles, robe and a long gold chain — no support
3. a hood and a monk's robe with cord — no support
4. a grey hood and a long black cloak — 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

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