Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge
Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 224 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 prince needed posh attendants before meeting the King, right?
- 1. Yeah bro, loads of posh servants and gold stuff to impress the king — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, ones fitting his rank — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, ones fitting his rank, like the king's own posh lot, innit — no support
- 4. Yeah, proper ones for 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what did the princess say her money was for?
- 1. His stuff, take what he wants — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. His stuff, take what he wants, the treasury is always open for him — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 3. Her whole treasury, mate — score 5
- 4. Everything in her treasury for his trip, she said, take what you want, babe — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 224, line 8: «What: the princess offers him money, saying "my treasury is always open to you. Take what you please."», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+5); the same property (+4); the same doer «treasury» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, how long did the two months of parties and hunting feel like?
- 1. Ages, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Like they flew by, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Really boring, to be fair — no support
- 4. Like a week, honestly — 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 ✗
Dude, what did the princess totally love doing when nothing was dangerous?
- 1. Shopping, she was mad for it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hunting, she was mad for it — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Painting, she was into it — no support
- 4. Hunting, she was mad for it, every single day when it was safe — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what did the prince actually touch to make the horse take off?
- 1. A peg — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 2. The screw, lol — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. The saddle, lol — score 5
- 4. The bridle, lol — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 169, line 8: «What: the water was thrown over the prince, and "he at once regained his own form," so the magic was undone.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+4); the same action «form» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Fam, how long did the flight to Persia take?
- 1. Three hours, I reckon — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Two and a half hours from the moment they set off, bruv — no support
- 3. Like the whole of one long morning, from dawn until the sun was high — no support
- 4. Two and a half hours — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Ayy, where did the prince land, not in the big square?
- 1. Country house by the town — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. A villa outside the walls — no support
- 3. Some posh country house by the town near the river, innit — score 1
- 4. Country house by the town, not the big square, fam, honestly — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 224, line 9: «Where: the horse lands at "a country house at a little distance from the town", not in the great square.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «land» (+2); the same place «country house» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
Ngl, what did the Sultan wear when his son got back?
- 1. Black mourning clothes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. White festive silks — no support
- 3. Bright gold robes — no support
- 4. Black mourning clothes, every single one of them, all the court — 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 ✓
Bruv, what did the Sultan want played for the wedding?
- 1. Drums, trumpets and cymbals — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Drums, trumpets, cymbals and some dancing for the whole week of the wedding — no support
- 3. Drums, trumpets, cymbals and a whole choir, bruv, the works — no support
- 4. Lutes, flutes and harps — 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 ✓
Mate, why did the Sultan lock up the Indian?
- 1. In case his son was lost — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Cos he feared thieves — no support
- 3. In case his son was lost, so he kept him locked up for a long time — score 3
- 4. In case his son was lost on the long journey back home, mate — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 175, line 15: «Rise: after the grand-vizir dies, the dervish gets his post, and then the people make him heir, since the Sultan "had no sons."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, what did the Indian tell the doorkeeper, like, to get in?
- 1. He came from the prince — no support
- 2. He was sent to fetch her back to the prince, honest, let me in — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. He was sent to fetch her — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. He was sent by the prince to fetch her home right away, so let me in — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 208, line 13: «Why: Sangiar the doorkeeper warns Noureddin because he had been a slave of Khacan's and cares about the young man.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lol, how did the doorkeeper know it was the same Indian?
- 1. He knew him by sight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He saw him at the gate — no support
- 3. By his voice — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. A guess — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 224, line 18: «The doorkeeper: he believes the Indian because he is free, and he knows him from nearly three months before.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+5). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan?
- 1. Kill the prince — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Snatch the princess away and take her back to India forever — no support
- 3. Snatch the princess away — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Burn the palace down — 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 · right ✓
In what manner did the Sultan signify his consent to the marriage of his son with the Princess of Bengal?
- 1. He gladly and expressly consented to the union — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. He firmly and openly refused the proposal at court — no support
- 3. He agreed — no support
- 4. He said yes — 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 ✗
Which conveyance did the prince employ to return from Bengal, and by what mechanism was it set in motion?
- 1. The enchanted horse, set in motion by a screw — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 2. The flying horse — score 2
- 3. A magic horse — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 4. The enchanted horse, moved by pulling a silver rein — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 204, line 3: «The prince buries the gardener, finds the ship gone, and stays on to hire the garden and fill fifty more jars.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+4); the same action «hire» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
State the length of the journey from Bengal to the Persian capital, as recorded in the narrative.
- 1. Two hours and a half, from the time of starting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Half a day — no support
- 3. Four hours, counted from the moment of their landing — no support
- 4. Two hours — 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 ✗
Identify the official circumstance that enabled the Indian to deceive the doorkeeper of the country house.
- 1. The guards were all asleep at the gate that night — no support
- 2. The doorkeeper recognised him from the palace and believed he was still a free man, sent by the court on urgent business — score 6
- 3. The doorkeeper recognised him and believed him at liberty — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. The doorkeeper recognised him, knew the prince had freed him, and believed him at liberty to come and go as he pleased in the city — ← Mova's choice · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 224, line 18: «The doorkeeper: he believes the Indian because he is free, and he knows him from nearly three months before.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: its «because» matches the remembered cause (+4); the same action «believe» (+3); the same doer «doorkeeper» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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