Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home

Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 233 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 ✗

Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper?

1. figs — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. honey cakes — no support
3. roast lamb — no support
4. cucumber — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓

Wicked, what was well weird about that cucumber?

1. full of pearls — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. stuffed full of pearls and wicked magic — no support
3. crammed with tiny pearls and a secret note inside — no support
4. hollow — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bare jealous sisters lied, yeah? What did they say she had?

1. two dogs and a goat — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. a dog, a cat and a log — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. a dog, a cat, a goat and a big log of wood — score 5
4. a dog, a cat, a parrot and a wooden door — 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 130, line 13: «What the sisters hope: they say "Who knows where our wheat may bloom?", which means they boast their good luck will still come to them.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «sisters» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Who got the kids sorted and kept them safe?

1. the garden boss — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the royal physician — no support
3. the head gardener — no support
4. the guard — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 205, line 20: «Old word: A "coffer" was a strong chest or box for keeping gold and valuables safe, much like a strongbox today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sultan was gutted about his wife, so what did he do?

1. walked to the mosque — score 3
2. dragged her out of prison — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. dragged her out of the narrow prison with his own hand and wept — score 4
4. went on foot to the great mosque and dragged her out of prison — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 233, line 15: «The Sultan goes to the great mosque on foot, followed by his whole court, to ask his wife's pardon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sultan» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, how did the sisters end up, proper?

1. executed in under an hour — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
2. pardoned — no support
3. sold as slaves abroad — score 5
4. banished to the desert — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 12, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 233, line 13: «The punishment: the sisters were "executed in less than an hour," after the grand-vizir questioned them that very day.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «execute» (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like?

1. a narrow prison beneath the mosque walls — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. a stone cell — no support
3. a cold dark dungeon at the edge of the city — no support
4. a narrow prison — ✓ the right answer · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 233, line 4: «The Sultan hurries home, has the jealous sisters punished, and brings the Sultana out of her narrow prison.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «sultana» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «narrow prison» (+1); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-5). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow?

1. the Sultana, their mother, freed at last — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the princess — no support
3. the Sultana — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. the bird — 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 ✗

Lush, how'd the whole family ride home, mate?

1. by camel — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. on donkeys — score 1
3. on foot — score 1
4. on horses — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 147, line 16: «The Miller's family is told to ride, then walk, then ride again, and finally the Ass is tied up and "slung him on a pole".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+2). Against it: the same doer «family» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit?

1. the falcon — no support
2. the parrot — no support
3. a golden hawk — no support
4. the Talking Bird — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 232, line 3: «She finds a golden box of pearls and orders a special cucumber, stuffed with them, for the Sultan's dinner.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «bird» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

What's the Talking Bird to the princess, like?

1. her servant — no support
2. a guest — no support
3. her slave — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. a pet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 233, line 6: «Who: the Sultan of Persia, his children, his wife the Sultana, and the Talking Bird, who is the princess's slave.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sultan» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Allow it, what got the crowd going mad?

1. shouts of welcome — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. drums — no support
3. trumpets and bells — no support
4. cheers — 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 ✗

Which object did the Sultan first enquire about upon entering the princess's garden?

1. the golden flask — score 5
2. the Singing Tree and the golden water beside it — score 5
3. the Singing Tree — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. the Singing Tree that grew in the princess's garden — ← Mova's choice · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 232, line 8: «Where: The Sultan visits the princess's country house, where the Golden Water and the Singing Tree grow in the garden.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «garden» (+5); the same action «grow» (+4); the same doer «golden water» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

By what means did the Sultan's wife come to be released from her confinement?

1. He walked to the great mosque and drew her out of prison with his own hand at dawn — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He drew her out of prison with his own hand after the bird spoke — no support
3. He drew her out of prison with his own hand — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He broke the lock with his own sword — 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 ✗

What was the Sultan's judgement concerning the fabricated account of his children's birth?

1. He recognised the falsehood after the bird spoke — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. He recognised the falsehood only after the Talking Bird spoke in the saloon at dawn — no support
3. He accepted the story until the bird spoke — no support
4. He doubted the tale only after the feast — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 76, line 15: «The story says every rhinoceros since has "great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). 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 · right ✓

In what manner did the royal household return to the capital at the conclusion of the narrative?

1. on horseback, with the princes riding proudly beside their father through the cheering streets — score 5
2. in a golden carriage through the city — no support
3. in a grand procession of horses and carriages, with the princes walking beside their father and the crowd cheering — score 5
4. on horseback, with the princes beside their father — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 13: «How fast: the prince guides the horse so well that in "two hours and a half" he sees Persia's capital.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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