Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, part 37: the prince refuses to marry and is locked in a tower
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 4 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 197 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 king's kid got locked in a tower just cos he said no to getting wed, innit?
- 1. Yeah, he was proper mad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he went mental and kicked off at the guards — no support
- 3. Nah, he was furious — no support
- 4. Yeah, bruv, the prince was well chill about it — ✓ 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, the barber was legit the GOAT, right? He got a massive pension and the king's bro-level respect?
- 1. Yeah, he was mint — no support
- 2. Yeah, he got a nice pension and a seat — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Nah, he was a bit dodgy — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was mint, got a big pension — ✓ 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 197, line 3: «The barber gets a big pension and a place near the Sultan, and then we meet King Schahzaman, who has no heir.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «big pension» (+3); the same doer «barber» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Hold up, the hunchback sneezed and came back to life, that's proper mad, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, he was dead ages, then he got up again — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he just nodded off for a bit, no biggie — no support
- 3. Yeah, that was well wild, he was dead for ages — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he just fainted — 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 ✗
So the king had no heir for ages and his vizir was like, just pray, mate?
- 1. Yeah, the vizir was dead wise about it and gave the king loads of sensible advice on his heirs — score 4
- 2. Yeah, the vizir was dead wise about it — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Nah, the vizir was well useless, he told the king to pray and then went off to the baths — score 5
- 4. Nah, the king was dead wise about it — ← Mova's choice · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «sultan» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the prince just fancy the idea of a wife he'd never even met?
- 1. Yeah, he was dead keen and wanted to meet her — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 2. Nah, not really — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was well keen — no support
- 4. Nah, he was dead against it, didn't fancy it at all — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 197, line 13: «What: the prince says marriage is "very distasteful to me" and he does not want a wife he has never met.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «wife» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
His mum Fatima tried to talk him round, but he weren't having it, right?
- 1. Yeah, he was right stubborn with her — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he gave in to her straight away and promised to marry whoever the king picked — no support
- 3. Yeah, he was well stubborn with her and kept refusing even after she cried for ages — no support
- 4. Yeah, he was well stubborn with her — ✓ 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
The king locked him up in the tower for good, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, for good — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, just till he changed his mind, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he was freed after a week, innit — no support
- 4. Nah, he was freed — 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 ✗
Wait, the prince just read books all night in the tower, lol?
- 1. Nah, he cried all night — score 2
- 2. Yeah, he was chilling with his books and his slave — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. Yeah, he read his books and played chess with his slave — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Nah, he prayed all night and cried for his mum — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 164, line 13: «The third old man: his tale is never told, because the narrator says "I cannot tell you what it was, as I do not know."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «narrator» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was the tower like a proper dungeon with rats and chains, bruv?
- 1. Nah, it was a palace — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, rats and chains — no support
- 3. Nah, it was a cold room with a broken bed — no support
- 4. Nah, it had books and a slave, not that grim — ✓ 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 ✓
So the prince said his mum was the only one who gets him, yeah?
- 1. Nah, he said the vizir was sound too, not just her, and his slave was great company as well — score 6
- 2. Nah, he said the vizir was sound too, not just her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Nah, he said the king was sound too, not just her — score 6
- 4. Yeah, he said his mum was the only one who gets him, and nobody else in the whole palace — 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 173, line 6: «Who: the young prince, who was taught to read, write, learn the Koran, history, poetry and geography.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «read» (+3); the same doer «young prince» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the prince reckon all girls were rubbish and spoiled, innit?
- 1. Yeah, he said they were all proud and cruel — score 2
- 2. Yeah, he reckoned all girls were rubbish and spoiled, and he wouldn't meet a single one — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. Nah, he said some were good, just not all of them, and he hoped to meet a sensible one someday — score 2
- 4. Nah, he said some were good, just not all of them — ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 172, line 11: «The narrator breaks his oath because he thinks it is "my duty" to tell his uncle what he knows.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+3); the same doer «narrator» (+3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, the old king said the prince had to marry for the good of the whole empire, right?
- 1. Yeah, the vizir said it was for the people — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Yeah, the king said it was for the empire — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. Yeah, the king said it was for the empire, and that a prince without a wife is no prince at all — score 6
- 4. Nah, the king said it was only for his own pleasure and vanity at court — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 169, line 13: «Why: the Sultan had no children, so he said he would make the young king "my heir."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «sultan» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following best describes the reason for the king's decision to imprison his son in the old tower?
- 1. The prince's persistent refusal to comply with the royal command to marry — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. His repeated defiance of the council's advice on the matter of heirs — no support
- 3. The prince's persistent refusal to comply with the royal command to marry, which he regarded as an insult to his dignity — no support
- 4. The prince's stubborn refusal to obey the royal wish for a bride — 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 · right ✓
Identify the principal function of the grand-vizir within the narrative, with particular reference to the king's successive dilemmas concerning succession.
- 1. To counsel the king with measured advice on matters of heirs and marriage — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. To advise the king on the treasury and the conduct of foreign wars — no support
- 3. To manage the palace guards and the royal household accounts — no support
- 4. To counsel the king with measured advice on matters of heirs and marriage, while also governing the provinces and the army — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Evaluate the justification offered by the prince for his reluctance to contract marriage, as expressed in his conversation with the Sultana Fatima.
- 1. He objects to marrying an unknown woman chosen without his knowledge or consent — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He objects to marrying an unknown woman chosen without his knowledge or consent, as his mother had already warned him against the match — no support
- 3. He resents the idea of any marriage at all, since his books matter more — no support
- 4. He thinks marriage is a waste of time for princes of his rank — 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 ✓
Describe the manner in which the Sultan's intentions regarding the barber are made manifest at the conclusion of the first episode.
- 1. The Sultan bestows upon the barber a substantial pension, retains him near his person, and orders the hunchback's tale written down — score 5
- 2. The Sultan awards the barber a modest gift and sends him to the provinces — score 5
- 3. The Sultan bestows upon the barber a substantial pension and retains him near his person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. The Sultan orders the barber's story to be archived for later reading — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 169, line 14: «Why: the fisherman was rewarded because he was "the first cause of the deliverance of the young prince."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «first cause» (+3); the same doer «sultan» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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