The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 633 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 ✗
oi mate, did you see the massive coach with eight white horses, proper bare?
- 1. Nah, it was just a normal cart — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it was dead fancy and proper bare — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, it was rubbish — no support
- 4. Yeah, it was well posh, innit — 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 ✗
Lionel's nan was going mad about his hair, innit?
- 1. Nurse was going on and on about his hair and his face before he left the nursery — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nurse was going on about his boots — no support
- 3. Nurse was going mad about his hair and making him stand still while she brushed his velvet suit — no support
- 4. Nurse was going on about his hair — ✓ the right answer · 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 ✗
wait, so the old King had his crown tinned over, yeah?
- 1. Nah, it was gold — no support
- 2. Yeah, in tin — no support
- 3. Nah, he sold it to the shop — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Yeah, he got it coated in tin — ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 203, line 2: «The old king has no son, so he asks his guest to marry his daughter and take the crown.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); the same thing acted on «crown» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
bare people were paying a halfpenny a week for the crown, bruv?
- 1. Nah, the rich ones paid a halfpenny each week and the poor ones paid nothing at all to the Chancellor — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. Yeah, from the ones with less pocket money — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, from the ones with more money — no support
- 4. Yeah, from the ones with less pocket money, every single week until the crown was paid off — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 20: «Talk in this lesson: «it's giving main character» = acting like the star of the show; «flex» = show off; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, OK; «don't have a cow» (ol…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «word» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
did Lionel get a proper crown or was it just a dodgy cardboard one?
- 1. He got a gold one from the shop — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Nah, it was just a painted hat — no support
- 3. He was crowned with the real crown — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Nah, a cardboard one — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 633, line 9: «What: Lionel is told that his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, the old King, "is dead," so Lionel must now be King.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «lionel» (+2); the same thing acted on «king» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
the library was mad, full of books, wasn't it?
- 1. Nah, it was a tiny room with only three shelves and a broken chair in the corner — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Yeah, shelves of gold and silver — no support
- 3. Yeah, a whole worldful of books — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, a whole worldful of books, stacked up to the ceiling on every wall of the room — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 631, line 19: «Old word "picketed": it means tied to a line or stake for the night, and today "picket" can also mean a group standing outside to protest.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «old word» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Lionel reckoned he was dreaming, so he bit his tongue, didn't he?
- 1. Yeah, to check he was not dreaming, because the news seemed too wonderful to be true — score 4
- 2. Nah, he was sleepy and tired — no support
- 3. Yeah, to check he was not dreaming — ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. Yeah, to see if it hurt — ← Mova's choice · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 633, line 18: «Why: Lionel bites his tongue on the coach, because if it hurts he knows he is awake and not dreaming.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hurt» (+4); the same doer «tongue» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
he lost his hanky, the poor little dude, right?
- 1. He ran off without his clean one because he was too excited to wait for Nurse to find it — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He dropped it on the stairs — no support
- 3. He ran off without his clean one — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He ran off without his clean one and never went back for it when the coach arrived at the door — 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 ✗
the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china, plus loads of jam and butter on a silver tray — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, it was dry bread and tin mugs — no support
- 3. Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, nice cake and plain cups — 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 ✓
Nurse was dead strict about the cake, wasn't she?
- 1. Yeah, two helps of anything, max — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, just one slice each, max — no support
- 3. Yeah, one slice — no support
- 4. Nah, she let him have seconds — 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 ✗
did the crowds wave flags and flowers at him, fam?
- 1. Nah, just some stones — no support
- 2. Yeah, flags — no support
- 3. Yeah, loads of flags and scattered flowers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, they threw stones and shouted rude things — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 337, line 9: «Why are people charmed? The crowds cheer the cab, and "charming girls scaled it to get his autograph."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «crowds» (+2); the same thing acted on «cab» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
so the grave gents were the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, yeah?
- 1. Yeah, they were the Bishop and the Lord Mayor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, they were the Chancellor and PM — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nah, they were the King's cousins — no support
- 4. Yeah, they were the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, who had come to fetch him from the nursery — 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 of the following accurately describes the manner in which the young monarch was informed of his accession?
- 1. He was summoned from his nursery by two gentlemen in red robes, and then taken down to the library to be told the news formally — no support
- 2. He was called by a servant — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. He was informed in the library by a single footman in blue — no support
- 4. He was summoned from his nursery by two gentlemen in red robes — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 622, line 19: «Old word: "feather-brained" describes Darzee as silly, a bird who can keep only one idea in his head at a time.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «old word» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
With reference to the text, state the reason given by the Prime Minister for the public subscription towards the royal crown.
- 1. The old King was too poor — no support
- 2. The people wished to honour the young King — no support
- 3. It was the custom for the Chancellor to pay for it — no support
- 4. The crown must be paid for by the people, per the custom — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 487, line 5: «The old man revives the Princess, shares the King's reward, and gives the Pope the third share meant for the thief.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «give» (+2); the same doer «old man» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the item which the late sovereign had tinned, and state the purpose assigned to the sale of his jewels.
- 1. The jewels, to buy food — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The coach, sold to fund a new palace — no support
- 3. The crown, tinned over to hide its gold — no support
- 4. The crown, sold jewels to purchase books — ✓ 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 ✗
Explain the significance of the young King's remark regarding the library and its volumes, with reference to the Prime Minister's counsel.
- 1. Lionel wishes to sell the books to the people — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Lionel longs to read them, ignoring the Chancellor's gentle warning — no support
- 3. Lionel delights in reading, disregarding the Prime Minister's advice — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Lionel delights in reading the library's volumes, disregarding the Prime Minister's advice that he should not read them at all — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 633, line 11: «What: The old King had his crown "tinned over," which means it was coated with a thin layer of tin, and he sold its jewels to buy books.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); the same thing acted on «books» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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