Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the prince beats the dragon, and the princess's kiss ends the fight

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 674 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, did you see that shepherd dude, all sneaky in his sheep clothes?

1. Yeah, he was totally sus, and he kept on fighting the dragon — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, he was totally sus in those sheep clothes, and he kept on fighting the dragon by the lake until the whole village came out to stare at the water — no support
3. Nah, he was just a bloke minding sheep, and he went back home — no support
4. Yeah, he was sus — 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 ✗

Wait, why do the sheep keep running to that lake?

1. Cos the meadows there are the greenest, and they never come back — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos the meadows there are the greenest in the whole valley, and they never come back, which is why the emperor is so worried — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. Cos someone's hiding food by the lake, so they follow the smell — no support
4. Cos the meadows there are the greenest, and the dragon waits there to eat every sheep that never comes back home — score 0

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 674, line 2: «The emperor warns him never to let the sheep run to the meadows by the lake, and the prince goes out anyway.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+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 ✗

Bruv, the dragon's a total beast, right?

1. Nah, he's soft really, just a lost old lizard — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he's massive — no support
3. Yeah, he's a bit scary but mostly harmless, mate — no support
4. Yeah, he's massive and horrible, like proper nasty — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the horsemen tail him the whole time?

1. Nah, they went home early and gave up on him — no support
2. Yeah, they followed him along the road and waited — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Yeah, they hid up the steep hill and watched him all day — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yeah, they hid up the steep hill above the lake and watched him fight the dragon all day long, without moving once — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 674, line 14: «The horsemen "turned aside up a steep hill" so they could watch without being seen by the prince.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «watch» (+2); the same doer «horsemen» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

So the princess just cried and cried, yeah?

1. Yeah, she was in a right state, mate, poor thing — no support
2. Yeah, she was bawling her eyes out, proper sobbing, and then she begged her dad to call the whole thing off — score 7
3. Nah, she was angry and stomped off to her room — score 6
4. Yeah, she was bawling her eyes out, proper sobbing — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 123, line 15: «The Sun was delighted when the princess came out, which shows how very beautiful she was.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «princess» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the shepherd call her, like, a nickname?

1. Goldie — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Princess — score 5
3. Heart of Gold, innit — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Little Dove, innit mate — 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 549, line 6: «Who: the baby's feet were pierced and swollen, so the shepherd named him "Oedipus, or Swollen-foot."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «name» (+2); the same doer «shepherd» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the prince just kiss the dragon or what?

1. Nah, the princess kissed his forehead and then he swung the dragon up — ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Nah, the princess kissed his forehead at the lake, then he swung the dragon up and the whole village saw it — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Yeah, he kissed the dragon on the snout and it just sat there — score 4
4. Nah, the shepherd kissed the princess and then he threw the sheep up — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 637, line 5: «The whole town rushes out to see the dragon, the Schoolmaster drops Tom's prize book, and the dragon eats it.», 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 action «see» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

When it was noon, did the dragon get a sneaky drink?

1. Yeah, he drank — no support
2. Nah, he just wanted to rest his tail, the cheeky chancer — score 1
3. He begged to dip his burning head in the lake, the cheeky chancer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. Yeah, he got a drink from the sheep trough, mate — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 674, line 12: «The fight lasts "till it was noon", and the dragon begs to dip his "burning head" in the lake to get his strength back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «dip» (+2); the same doer «dragon» (+2); the same thing acted on «burning head» (+2); the same place «lake» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what happens to the dragon when it hits the ground?

1. It lands in the reeds and sort of fizzles — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. It smashes into a thousand pieces, mate, and every piece starts moving across the meadow at once — score 4
3. It smashes into a thousand pieces, mate — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. It crashes down and fizzles out, mate — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 651, line 2: «He goes down for coal with a lantern and finds a huge dragon filling the far side of the dungeon.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huge dragon» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Okay, what came out of the pieces first, then?

1. A wild boar, which the hounds chased and tore to bits — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A wild boar, which the hounds chased across the meadow and tore to bits, proper messy, mate — no support
3. A wild boar, which the hounds chased and tore to bits near the water before the shepherd arrived — ← Mova's choice · score -3
4. A pig, which the emperor's men chased into the trees — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 487, line 7: «What: he washes the pieces and breathes on them, but "still nothing comes of it."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «man» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Did the greyhounds, like, catch everything?

1. Yeah, they caught the boar and the hare, proper quick — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. Yeah, they caught the fox and the rat, proper quick — score -1
3. Yeah, they caught the boar and the hare, proper quick, and then they went home to sleep by the fire — score -1
4. Yeah, they caught the boar and the hare and even a pigeon, proper quick, before the shepherd could even stand up — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 664, line 4: «In another kingdom, the king's rick-fields keep burning until a little swineherd and his two dogs catch the hairy man.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, what happened to the hare in the end?

1. The hounds chased it off the hill and lost its trail, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The greyhounds caught it and killed it, and out came a pigeon that cooed loudly before flying off over the hill — no support
3. The greyhounds caught it and killed it, and out came a pigeon — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The hounds cornered it near the shore and a hawk flew out — 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 ✓

Which action does the shepherd perform to overcome the dragon at the lake on the third day?

1. He is blessed by the emperor's priest, whereupon he drags the dragon back into the water. — score 3
2. He is kissed upon the forehead by the emperor's daughter, whereupon he hurls the dragon into the sky and the whole valley gasps in amazement at the lake. — score 7
3. He is struck upon the head by the emperor's guard, whereupon he drops the dragon into the reeds. — score 3
4. He is kissed upon the forehead by the emperor's daughter, whereupon he hurls the dragon into the sky. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 674, line 5: «Her kiss gives him strength, he hurls the dragon into the sky, and the dragon's pieces turn into a boar, a hare and a pigeon.», 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 action «hurl» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+1). Against it: the same place «sky» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

What is the principal reason the emperor gives for forbidding the flock to graze the meadows beside the lake?

1. That no flock sent to those meadows has ever been known to return, so the emperor wishes to keep his people safe from the terrible creature that lives beneath the waves. — score 1
2. That no flock sent to those meadows has ever been known to return. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. That each flock grazing there has been claimed by a hungry beast. — no support
4. That no flock sent to those meadows has ever been known to return, and that the villagers have lost many sheep and two shepherds to the lake beast over the years. — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 674, line 9: «Why: the emperor warns that sheep sent to the meadows "have never been known to come back", so the prince must keep them away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+2); the same place «meadows» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

In what manner does the dragon attempt to secure his release from the prince during the combat at noon?

1. By swearing an oath to leave the valley forever in peace. — no support
2. By promising the shepherd gold if he would let him go free. — score 4
3. By requesting permission to dip his burning head into the lake. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. By requesting permission to dip his burning head into the cool lake, after which he promises never to return to the valley. — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 674, line 12: «The fight lasts "till it was noon", and the dragon begs to dip his "burning head" in the lake to get his strength back.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «dip» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «burning head» (+1). Against it: the same place «lake» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which creature first emerges from the fragments of the dragon after it strikes the earth?

1. A stag, which the prince's horsemen chase and wound. — no support
2. A pigeon, which the prince's hawk catches in the air. — no support
3. A wild boar, which the prince's hounds pursue and destroy. — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A wild boar, which the prince's hounds pursue and destroy across the meadow before the shepherd can even reach the lake. — ← Mova's choice · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 304, line 18: «The learned man says "a man's bond is his word," which means a promise is as good as a signed paper.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «learned man» (-1). 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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