Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 193 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 ✓

Yo, who almost got strung up for a murder he never did?

1. Doctor — no support
2. Hunchback — no support
3. The narrator — no support
4. The tailor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 191, line 13: «Why: the tailor and his wife fear being "thrown into prison for wilful murder" if the police hear of it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «tailor» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, how much dough did Alnaschar's dad leave?

1. A few coins — no support
2. Four hundred dinars — no support
3. Seven hundred drachmas — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Seven hundred — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 193, line 18: «What: his father left "seven hundred silver drachmas", which made one hundred for each son.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «one hundred» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lowkey, what was Alnaschar doing by his basket?

1. Talking out loud to himself about his dreams of wealth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Shouting insults at the tailor while the crowd gathered around his basket — no support
3. Arguing with a passing dog — no support
4. Talking out loud to himself — ✓ 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 ✗

No cap, who heard him yapping about his dreams?

1. The baker down the lane — no support
2. His wife — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. The tailor next door — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The tailor — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 179, line 6: «fact: Who is the narrator? Sinbad tells his own story, so we hear everything through his eyes.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «fact» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who was the Sultan's jester that went missing?

1. The fool — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The hunchback — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The vizir's son — no support
4. Jester — 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 ✗

Be real, what did the hunchback do before he died?

1. Ate too much — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Slept in the hall — no support
3. Ate a whole roast lamb and drank too much red wine — score 7
4. Drank too much — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 191, line 12: «What: the hunchback dies because he "happened to swallow a large bone" while eating fish.», 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 (+3); the same action «eat» (+2); the same doer «hunchback» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dude, who carried the corpse to the palace?

1. The purveyor and the merchant — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The chief of police and his men carried the corpse on a litter — score 3
3. The purveyor, the merchant, and the narrator's wife together — no support
4. The doctor and the servant — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 193, line 11: «What: the doctor finds the corpse at the foot of the stairs and "believed that he himself was the murderer".», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «doctor» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

Sus, what did the narrator slip the servant?

1. A coin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Bread — no support
3. A gold coin from his purse — no support
4. 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Fr, what's Alnaschar's big plan for the vizir's daughter?

1. To buy a house — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her hand — no support
3. To marry her — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. To wed — 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 ✗

Ngl, what did the doctor think he'd done?

1. Robbed the merchant's son — no support
2. Stabbed the tailor — no support
3. Killed the hunchback — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Poisoned him — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 193, line 2: «The doctor hurries down, trips over the corpse on the stairs, and decides that he must be the murderer.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «murderer» (+5); the same doer «doctor» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, what does Alnaschar want to be after ten thousand drachmas?

1. A vizir — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A jeweller — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A goldsmith — no support
4. A baker — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Real talk, did the usher get there on time?

1. Just in time — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Right on time — no support
3. Too late — no support
4. Late — 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 · right ✓

What was the Sultan's instruction concerning the events of the day?

1. That they be recorded by his private historian — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. That they be kept by the royal scribe — no support
3. To be written down — no support
4. That they be sealed by the chief vizir — 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 ✗

What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons?

1. Seven hundred — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Seven thousand gold dinars — score 7
3. Nine hundred silver coins each — score 7
4. Seven hundred silver drachmas — ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 32, line 17: «At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «friends» (+5); the same action «leave» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

By what means did the usher prevent the execution?

1. By force — no support
2. By shouting — no support
3. By delivering the Sultan's command — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. By reading the royal decree aloud — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 193, line 4: «The usher reaches the tailor just in time, and the Sultan calls everyone to the palace to tell their stories.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sultan» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What occasioned the Sultan's inquiry concerning the hunchback?

1. The arrival of a foreign envoy — no support
2. The absence of his jester — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The absence of his jester at the morning audience and the feast — no support
4. The death of his vizir — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 161, line 5: «explain: She asked her father to let her be the next bride, and although he begged her not to, he was too fond of her to refuse.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sultan» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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