Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off
Tests: 4 of 14 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 18 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 204 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, where'd the prince stash the talisman, innit?
- 1. In one jar, with a mark on it — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 2. Under the olive tree, innit — score 2
- 3. In one of the fifty jars, which he marked with a big cross so he'd find it — score 5
- 4. Hidden in a jar full of olives, with a little red mark on the lid, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 14
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 14, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 204, line 1: «The prince fills fifty jars with gold dust and olives, and hides the talisman in one jar with a mark on it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «hide» (+3); the same place «one jar» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, why'd the gardener look proper rough at night?
- 1. Cos he was knackered and old, and the captain had been shouting at him at the door all day long — score 6
- 2. He was dead old and the whole day had wrecked him, plus he was worried about the sailors — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. He was old and knackered from the day — ✓ the right answer · score 8
- 4. He was cold and sad and couldn't sleep — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 204, line 6: «Who: Camaralzaman, a prince, and the old gardener who gave him his passage and a cottage to live in.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old gardener» (+6); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the captain just rock up at dawn, or what?
- 1. Yeah, he came by boat with some of his men — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he waited on the ship till the afternoon — no support
- 3. Yeah, with his sailors at the garden door — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, him and a whole gang of sailors turned up at the garden door before the sun was up — 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 ✗
Wait, so the old man died before the prince got to say bye?
- 1. Yeah, he breathed his last just then — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, he went just as the prince arrived — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. Nah, later — no support
- 4. Yeah, he did — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 120, line 14: «The old man: he warns the new prince that "many, many princes had come" and died in the thicket.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «many many princes» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, how long did the ship wait for the prince?
- 1. All day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Two — no support
- 3. Three hours, then it sailed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Four hours, then it set off — 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 ✗
Did the prince just give up and go home then?
- 1. Nah, he went back to the ship — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he sold the garden and left — no support
- 3. Nah, he hired the garden and stayed — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, he went to the quay, but then came back and hired the garden to stay — 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 ✗
Sick, so the princess was well into olives, yeah?
- 1. Nah, she only ate the figs — no support
- 2. Yeah, she was dead keen on them and ordered every jar the captain had on board — score 1
- 3. Yeah, she was dead keen on them — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Yeah, she loved them a lot — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 204, line 13: «The princess is "very partial to" olives, so she wants to buy all the olives on the ship at once.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+3); the same thing acted on «olives» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Bro, did she faint when she saw the talisman or nah?
- 1. Yeah, she passed out cold — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, sure — no support
- 3. Nah — no support
- 4. Nah, she just smiled at it — 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 ✗
Wait, what's the captain's big plan on the second trip?
- 1. Take the prince back by force, since the princess has ordered him brought to her — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wait for the princess to call — no support
- 3. Get the prince back by force — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Get the prince back by force, using all the sailors and weapons he can gather from the harbour — 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 ✗
Did the captain come right into the harbour on the way back?
- 1. Nah — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah — no support
- 3. Yeah, he sailed straight in — no support
- 4. Nah, he anchored off a bit — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, how many sailors went in the little boat?
- 1. Six sailors, all proper quick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. Five men, all quite young — score 2
- 3. Two sailors — score 2
- 4. Four sailors, all quite strong — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 189, line 6: «Who: Sindbad, a sailor who tells the king, "I am Sindbad," and says men call him "the Sailor."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sailor» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «sailor» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wasn't the prince caught asleep or nah?
- 1. Yeah, he slept through the whole night — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he was wide awake, sitting by the window, when the captain's men came shouting — no support
- 3. Nah, he was awake and heard a loud knock at the garden door before anyone came — no support
- 4. Nah, he was awake and heard a knock — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · right ✓
Bruv, so why'd the king want him anyway?
- 1. Cos the king says he's a debtor and the princess wants him brought back to her — score 7
- 2. Cos the king says he's a debtor — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Cos he owes the king money — score 6
- 4. Cos the king wants his gold back — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 203, line 8: «The king says: "I have no son to whom to leave my kingdom," so he wants a worthy successor.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+6); the same action «say» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 14 · ★ · right ✓
Did the princess want her debt paid in full?
- 1. Yeah, she wanted him brought to her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. Nah, she wanted the gold instead — score 6
- 3. Nah, she wanted her money back and didn't care where the prince was after that — no support
- 4. Yeah, she wanted him brought to her so she could settle the debt in person — 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 204, line 13: «The princess is "very partial to" olives, so she wants to buy all the olives on the ship at once.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same doer «princess» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which option correctly identifies the place where the prince first concealed the talisman?
- 1. Among the fifty jars, in the cellar of the old house — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Within a sealed jar kept beside the cottage door at night — no support
- 3. Within one of the fifty jars, which bore a distinguishing mark — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Within one of the fifty jars, which he had carefully wrapped in cloth and marked with a cross — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 202, line 9: «Why: The prince loses the talisman because he steps away to examine it, and the bird "swallowed the stone and took a longer flight than before."», 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 «bird» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
What was the principal cause of the prince's failure to embark upon the first vessel?
- 1. The gardener's death, which delayed the prince's departure — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The captain's sudden decision to sail before dawn — no support
- 3. The gardener's death, which delayed the prince's departure until the ship had already gone from the harbour — no support
- 4. The loss of his bag on the way to the quay — 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 ✗
Upon what grounds did the captain return to the Ebony Island to recover the prince?
- 1. Upon the princess's command that he be brought as her debtor — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Upon the princess's command that he be brought back to her palace as her debtor, to be questioned — no support
- 3. Because the king had ordered him to return — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Upon the princess's command that he be seized as her debtor, which the captain was reluctant to obey — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 4: «The Sultan cuts the queen in two with one blow of his sword, then finds the prince and tells him the enemy is dead.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sultan» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following accurately describes the prince's response to the captain's abduction?
- 1. He protested — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He denied owing anything to the royal treasury at all — no support
- 3. He protested that he had never heard of the king before — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He insisted he knew nothing of the captain — 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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