The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose

Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 15 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2033 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 ✗

Mate, what did the Swallow actually do at the end, like?

1. He died at the statue's feet — ← Mova's choice · score 14
2. He snuffed it dead by the statue's feet — score 3
3. He snuffed it by the Prince — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He sang a song to the Prince — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 14, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2033, line 1: «The little Swallow dies at the Happy Prince's feet, and the Prince's leaden heart snaps in two.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «feet» (+6); the same action «die» (+5); the same doer «little swallow» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Proper bare cold out there, innit? What snapped inside the statue?

1. The heart — score 3
2. The golden feet — score 0
3. The leaden heart — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. The lead — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2033, line 1: «The little Swallow dies at the Happy Prince's feet, and the Prince's leaden heart snaps in two.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «snap» (+3); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «leaden heart» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted for the Prince, yeah? What did the Mayor reckon the statue looked like?

1. Proper shabby and useless looking — no support
2. Quite lovely — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. Proper shabby, like a ruin — score -4
4. Proper shabby — ✓ the right answer · score -2

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 843, line 10: «The mayor is smart, with "his shirt-frill" and "ruffles," and he thinks himself better than the laundress.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «think» (-1); the same doer «mayor» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, why did they bin the statue, like?

1. Cos it looked broke — score 2
2. Cos it looked shabby — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Cos it looked well shabby and useless — score 6
4. Cos it had lost its ruby and looked shabby — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 2033, line 9: «Why: the Mayor says the statue looks shabby and that "he is little better than a beggar," so they pull it down.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «look» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Dead vain, that lot. Who wanted a statue of himself?

1. Student — score 2
2. The Mayor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. The Prince — score 3
4. Lizard — score 2

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 2033, line 11: «What: the Mayor wants a new statue "of myself," and the Town Councillors also say "Of myself," and they quarrel.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «mayor» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, the Lizard's a proper cynic, innit? What did he do when the Student was crying?

1. He laughed outright and mocked him loudly — score 4
2. He laughed outright at the boy — score 4
3. He called him soft — no support
4. He laughed outright — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. 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 2033, line 16: «What: the little Green Lizard laughs outright, because he is "something of a cynic."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, which tree reckoned its roses were white?

1. A Rose-bush — no support
2. The second Rose-tree — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. The first Rose-tree — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. The little Rose-tree — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1629, line 7: «What: the trees are cut down and carried away, and the tree thinks it will go to splendour, but it is "put in a dark corner".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+3). Against it: the same doer «tree» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sheesh, what colour were the roses by the sun-dial?

1. Gold — score -1
2. Yellow — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. White — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Tan — no support

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 638, line 5: «Early next morning Tom throws white roses at the Princess's window, climbs the rosebush to kiss her, and tells her the plan that he and Fido have made.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · right ✓

Ngl, what's the price of the red rose, like?

1. Her own young life for it — score 0
2. Her own life — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. Her golden hair — no support
4. Her sweet song — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 2033, line 5: «The Nightingale hears him, asks three Rose-trees for a red rose, and the last one says the rose can be made only from her own life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what's the rose stained with?

1. Her heart's blood and her song — no support
2. Her own heart's warm red blood — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. Her own red song — no support
4. Her heart's blood — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 886, line 9: «Why is the blood of a hero special? It is "sacred", so no rose can be redder than it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wicked, so what did God choose from the dust-heap?

1. The statue and the sword — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. The lead heart and the dead bird — score 1
3. The broken heart and the dead bird too — score 1
4. The heart and the dead bird — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1811, line 13: «The brother: he is stung "behind the ear" by a scorpion, the shape the ogress takes to kill him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+2). Against it: the same doer «brother» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah? What does she press against?

1. Spine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A bush — no support
3. A thorn — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A branch — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Nah, which bird was not allowed to die in the town?

1. None, the Mayor declared birds mustn't ever die here at all — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. None, the Mayor said birds mustn't die here — ✓ the right answer · score 0
3. None, the Mayor said birds mustn't die in the town — score 0
4. None, the Student thought the birds — no support

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 1971, line 4: «The baron sends her to his brother with a letter ordering her death, but robbers change it to a wedding.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+2). Against it: the same doer «girl» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

In what manner does the Swallow describe his destination when he speaks to the Prince?

1. As the grim and final House of Death — score -1
2. As the cold and silent House of Death — score -1
3. As the House of Death — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. As a dark cold land — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 779, line 13: «Miss Cat is the maid who sits by the fire and does the cooking, and she is the one who speaks to every suitor at the door.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «one» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's sword?

1. A gem — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The emerald — no support
3. The ruby — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The eye — 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 · right ✓

Which colour of rose is specified by the Student as the requirement for his beloved's dance?

1. Red — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -7
2. Ox — no support
3. Tan — no support
4. Jet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 2033, line 4: «In a garden, a young Student weeps because his beloved will dance with him only if he brings her a red rose, and there is none.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «student» (-1); the same property (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What condition does the red Rose-tree impose upon the Nightingale in order to furnish the rose?

1. She must sing against a thorn until she dies of it — no support
2. She must sing all night by the window — ← Mova's choice · score 0
3. She must sing against a sharp thorn all night until death comes — no support
4. She must sing against a thorn until death — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 1759, line 14: «Old word: an "elder" is a small tree with white flowers, and "sheath" means the case that holds a blade.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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