Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 222 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 ✓
Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-up?
- 1. No, it didn't — no support
- 2. Nope, walked — no support
- 3. It actually flew — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Yeah it sort of flew — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 4: «A winged black horse flies him high into the sky, drops him on a castle terrace, and its tail knocks out his right eye.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fly» (+3); the same doer «winged black horse» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, so what did the king do to the Indian, like, bang him up?
- 1. He sent him to prison — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. He had him locked away — no support
- 3. He chucked him in the nick — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He had him hauled off to the dungeon under the palace — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 208, line 2: «Saouy runs to the king and lies that Noureddin hit him for no reason, so the king sends forty men to smash Noureddin's house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah?
- 1. Nah, nobody did — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, the lot of them giggled — no support
- 3. Yeah, the courtiers cracked up — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, the guards all grinned — 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 ✗
Was the prince well mad when the Indian went for the princess?
- 1. He was dead angry — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He was well narked — no support
- 3. He was absolutely livid and wanted to fight the Indian right then — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. He was so cross he nearly threw the Indian out of the palace window — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 222, line 2: «The king offers him a kingdom full of cities, but the Indian wants the king's own daughter, and the courtiers burst out laughing.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same doer «indian» (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
How high did he go, like, proper high?
- 1. Way up, so the mountains looked flat — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Up so high the hills went flat — no support
- 3. Way up above the clouds, so high the whole sea looked like a puddle below him — no support
- 4. Super high, till the clouds were below — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did he have a clue how to get back down?
- 1. Nah, he never got told — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, he never asked how — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, he just kept fiddling with the peg and hoping for the best — no support
- 4. Nah, nobody had ever told him how, and he never thought to ask anyone about 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where'd he find the little peg, like, which ear?
- 1. the wing — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. the right — score 5
- 3. the right ear — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. the left ear — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 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 111, line 3: «Red-Cap arrives, notices the strange ears, eyes, hands and teeth, and the Wolf eats her too.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «strange ears» (+3); the same action «notice» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
How long had he gone without scoff before he landed?
- 1. since early morning — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. since noon — no support
- 3. for about two days — no support
- 4. since dawn yesterday — 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 · ★ · right ✓
Where did he land, a roof or a field?
- 1. a huge palace roof — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. a tall church tower — score 3
- 3. a field — no support
- 4. a little garden shed — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 222, line 5: «Lost in the dark, the hungry prince lands on a palace roof, creeps inside to a sleeping princess of Bengal, and she promises him shelter and supper.», 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 (+4); the same place «palace roof» (+3); the same action «land» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was snoring next to their swords?
- 1. the king — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. servants — no support
- 3. black guards — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the court pages — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Whose daughter was the princess, which king?
- 1. the King of Persia — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. the Shah — score 9
- 3. the King of Bengal — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 4. a Persian — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 84, line 15: «The Stranger-man believes his shark's tooth is magic and that anyone who touches it without leave will «swell up or burst»; when Taffy does not, he decides she…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «taffy» (+3); the same thing acted on «wonderful child» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). The right option, 3, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did she say he could have, like, a bed and grub?
- 1. a supper, a warm bath, and a room for the night — no support
- 2. some food — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 3. a meal and a nap — no support
- 4. supper and a rest — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 129, line 13: «Who: the wise Woman tells her to say "Little kid, milk Table, appear!" to get food.», 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 «food» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did she just leave him to starve, or what?
- 1. Nope, nothing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes, she left him alone — no support
- 3. No, she sent him for supper — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. No, she gave him a room — 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 · wrong ✗
In what manner did the Indian stipulate that he would relinquish the horse?
- 1. By force — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By exchange for the hand of the princess — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. By marriage to the princess — no support
- 4. By 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
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
To what elevation did Prince Firouz Schah ascend before he resolved to descend?
- 1. Until the rivers below looked like threads of silk on the valley floor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Until the sea could not be seen from the peaks — no support
- 3. Until the mountains could not be distinguished from the plains — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Until he rose beyond the reach of the eagles and could see the whole world spread out beneath the horse for many miles around — 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 ✗
By what means did the prince ultimately effect his return to the earth?
- 1. By turning the screw — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. By pressing a button on the horse's neck — no support
- 3. By lowering the wooden wings slowly — no support
- 4. By turning a small peg near the right ear — ✓ 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
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What assurance of protection did the princess of Bengal extend to the prince?
- 1. Her word that hospitality would be granted — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Her word that a bed would be given — ← Mova's choice · score -1
- 3. A written safe-conduct — no support
- 4. Her oath that shelter would be given — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 217, line 15: «Why she is angry: the narrator tells her he knows about the grave, and "I had no sooner uttered these words" than she rages.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «place» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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