Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away

Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 2034 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 ✗

So what did the Nightingale actually die for, like?

1. A rose — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. A red rose — ✓ the right answer · score 8
3. Love — score 8
4. A white lily — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 913, line 3: «Years later the emperor lies dying, and Death sits on his chest wearing the golden crown.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+5); the same doer «emperor» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, who was the Student tryna impress?

1. The Chamberlain's nephew, who sent real jewels — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The Professor's daughter — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The Student's own old tutor's daughter at the college — no support
4. The Lord Mayor's niece — 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

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, what did the girl say she'd rather have?

1. Gold — score -4
2. Real jewels — ✓ the right answer · score -4
3. Gold rings — score -4
4. Roses — ← Mova's choice · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. 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 what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «rose» (-2). The right option, 2, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the Student proper gutted when the rose got squashed?

1. Nah, he was chilled — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Nah, he just went and got a fresh cup of tea — no support
3. Yeah, proper gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he was proper gutted and threw it in the drain — score 3

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 2034, line 5: «He throws the rose into the gutter, where a cart-wheel crushes it, and then the story turns to the children playing in the Selfish Giant's garden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «rose» (+2); the same doer «student» (+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 ✗

Wot did the Tree shout at the Nightingale, like?

1. Stay on the bough and sing — no support
2. Press your breast hard onto the sharp thorn of the rose and sing — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Press closer to the thorn — ✓ the right answer · score -1
4. Press closer to the thorn and die for love — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2034, line 3: «All night the Nightingale presses her breast onto a thorn and sings until the rose turns crimson and her life ebbs away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «press» (+2); the same thing acted on «breast» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the Student reckon Love was pointless, innit?

1. It pays no bills, mate — ← Mova's choice · score -3
2. It's not useful like Logic — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's not useful like Logic and it doesn't get you a proper career — no support
4. Love's all fluff and it won't win you any proper prizes at uni — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 878, line 5: «Grandmother says mermaids have no souls, and only a man's love could give her one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1); the same doer «love» (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Innit true the Nightingale sang about love's birth first?

1. Yeah, the rose came first — no support
2. Nah, she sang about the thorn first and then the rose — score -2
3. Yeah, love's birth came first — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Nah, the rose came first — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 506, line 11: «What: Her birth came after Uranus was wounded by Cronus, and his blood "mingled with the foam of the sea."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «birth» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wot did the Oak-tree wanna hear from her, fam?

1. Her tale of the thorn and rose — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. One last song — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A final tale — no support
4. A lullaby to comfort him — 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 ✗

Is the Giant's garden proper lush, or what?

1. Nah, it's all grey stones and dead trees under the snow — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Nah, full of weeds — score -3
3. Yeah, full of flowers — ✓ the right answer · score -3
4. Yeah, full of gravel — score -3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2014, line 15: «For the heifers he searches "the likeliest places" first, then "the unlikeliest place" he can think of, which is the roof.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «likeliest places» (-1). The right option, 3, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Who's the Giant's mate he went to visit, like?

1. The Cornish ogre — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A troll — no support
3. The Welsh wizard — no support
4. The ogre — 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 ✓

Wot number of peach-trees, like, was in the garden?

1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Twenty-four — no support
3. Eleven — no support
4. Forty-eight — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where's the Giant headed when he's done visiting, bruv?

1. His own castle far away in the north — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The cold moor — no support
3. His own castle — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Back to the castle where the children lived — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wot did the birds do in the garden, innit?

1. Cried — no support
2. Sang sweetly — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Chirped loudly — no support
4. Flew away — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 2034, line 19: «The Selfish Giant: the children play in his garden, where "the birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly" that the children stopped their games to listen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the kids stop their games, like?

1. To watch the sunset — no support
2. To eat — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. Because it rained — no support
4. To listen to the birds — ✓ the right answer · score -4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score -2, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 140, line 18: «Old word: "thatch" means the straw or reeds used to cover a roof, which the Kid eats from.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «eat» (+1). Against it: the same doer «kid» (-3). The right option, 4, scored -4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which object does the Nightingale sacrifice her life to create?

1. A red rose — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. Gold — score 0
3. A bud — score 0
4. A white lily — 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 1354, line 19: «Old word: a "junk" was a large Chinese sailing ship with flat sails; the Emperor gave Jofuku one of his best junks.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2). Against it: the same doer «emperor» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what manner does the Student respond to the rejection of his gift?

1. He gives it to a dog — score 4
2. He buries the rose quietly — score 0
3. He discards the rose into the gutter — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. He throws the rose into the gutter and walks away sadly — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2034, line 5: «He throws the rose into the gutter, where a cart-wheel crushes it, and then the story turns to the children playing in the Selfish Giant's garden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «gutter» (+4); the same action «throw» (+3). Against it: the same doer «student» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to pursue?

1. Chemistry — no support
2. Astronomy — no support
3. Metaphysics — ✓ the right answer · score -5
4. Practical history and the study of law — ← Mova's choice · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 2034, line 14: «What the Student does at the end: he goes back to his room to "study Metaphysics."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «study» (+2). Against it: the same doer «student» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored -5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

For how many years did the Giant remain with his acquaintance abroad?

1. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Four — score 1
3. Two — score 1
4. Seven — ✓ 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 266, line 2: «The king sets a test: Jack must stay awake all night watching the princess, or lose his head.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «stay» (+2). Against it: the same doer «jack» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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