Pink Fairy Book, Rose-Leaf and Apple-Blossom, part 15: the prince finds his brothers, and the old man finds a baby girl

Tests: 4 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 675 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, did you clock the prince? He had a hawk, a sparrow inside a bird, and a whole town following him, innit

1. Yeah, he had a hawk and a whole town behind him — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Mate, that is wicked, no way he was ever going to lose — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Bro, the prince just walked off with the win, innit — no support
4. Yeah, mad stuff, bro — 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 ✓

So the sparrow just spilled the whole plan? Man, that's a snitch, but a useful one

1. Yeah, he sold out his own bird for a nice safe deal — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, he kept quiet and got a nice reward — no support
3. Yeah, he grassed on the bird for a safe deal — no support
4. Yeah, he sold out his own bird for a nice safe deal with the prince and the king and everyone — 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 ✗

Wait, the emperor was hiding on a hill the whole time? That's proper sneaky, bro

1. Yeah, he rode out totally secretly with his men and watched everything that happened in the town from there — no support
2. Yeah, he rode out secretly on his horse and watched everything from the top of the hill until the end — no support
3. Yeah, he rode out secretly and watched everything — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he snuck off and spied on the whole thing — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 674, line 4: «The emperor sends horsemen to spy on him, then orders his daughter to kiss the shepherd's forehead at the next fight.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «spy» (+2); the same doer «emperor» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old man really walk for ages before he found anything? Oh my days, that's hard graft

1. Yeah, he walked for absolutely ages in the rain, nothing for ages, then he finally found something big — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yeah, he walked forever and found nothing — score 5
3. Yeah, he wandered for ages, nothing for ages — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. Yeah, he wandered for ages through the forest and the fields, and found absolutely nothing for ages — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 284, line 14: «The young man's wish: he says "I want something better than what is", and a longing tears his very heart.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+2); the same thing acted on «something» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

The hermit gave him one apple, right? And he just scoffed the whole thing, what a muppet

1. Yeah, he broke the rule when he was dry — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he was greedy — no support
3. Nah, he kept the rules, very sensible — no support
4. Yeah, he forgot the rules when he got thirsty — ✓ 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, the baby was just lying in the roses, like proper random, sick

1. Yeah, just a baby, bro — no support
2. Yeah, a little girl crowing with joy, just chilling there — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. Yeah, a tiny baby crying in the grass — score 4
4. Nah, it was a boy in a basket — ← 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 647, line 15: «The Queen finds the baby in the cradle, and she knows it is a girl from its "pink ribbons" on its sleeves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «baby» (+2); the same thing acted on «girl» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

And he popped her in a bucket by the door, that's a bit much, innit

1. Yeah, a basket, which is odd, but fine — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, a pail, which is well random, but it worked for the whole night and everyone was fine — no support
3. Yeah, a pail, which is well random, but it worked — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, he put her on the bed, quite sensible — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the prince just strolls in, does a parade, and everyone's cool with it, lol

1. Nah, he sneaked in quietly with nobody noticing him at all — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Nah, he crept through the back gate, nobody noticed him at all — score 4
3. Yeah, a massive procession with people all over the streets — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, a massive procession with people all over the streets and the whole town banging drums and cheering loudly — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 5: «Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him. As they leave, Alice…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «king» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the prince get his brothers back straight away, or was there a long wait?

1. Yeah, they were freed fast — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. He went home and got them out quick, no messing — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. Nah, he left them there for years, mate — score 5
4. He went back and rescued them slowly, no rush — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 669, line 12: «Why the King of Busan frees his men: he reads the letter "over and over again" and orders the men "to be set free."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «free» (+4); the same thing acted on «men» (+2); the same doer «king» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Yo, the wedding had lamps everywhere for a whole week, that's mega, right

1. Yeah, the whole town was lit up with lamps for ages — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, it was dark the whole week, mate — no support
3. Yeah, the whole town was lit up with lamps for ages, and every single street had bright colours everywhere — no support
4. Yeah, the town had lamps for a few nights — 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 · ★ · right ✓

The old couple were ancient, like a hundred plus, so how did they even have a kid?

1. Yeah, it's a story, that's just how it is — no support
2. Yeah, it's a fairy tale, that's the magic, bro, so don't go asking how it works in real life — score 2
3. Yeah, it's a fairy tale, that's the magic, bro, and nobody in the story ever questions it at all — score 2
4. Yeah, it's a fairy tale, that's the magic, bro — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 672, line 12: «how the twins are used: the youth paints a mask so that "no one would have known one boy from the other," and the witch cuts a sleeve to pick out the one to ki…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «one» (+1); the same thing acted on «one boy» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, the hermit just sat in a cave with a massive beard reading a book? Creepy, innit

1. Yeah, bit spooky, bro — no support
2. Yeah, a total old hermit with a white beard, proper spooky — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. Yeah, an old guy in a cave, quite creepy — no support
4. Nah, he was actually a friendly young man in a town — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 675, line 12: «Who does the old man meet? An old hermit with a long white beard, who reads his book and gives him an apple.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «old hermit» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the prince had his brothers back and everyone was happy in the end?

1. Yeah, everyone was happy, all of them serving him for the rest of their lives, and the old couple cheered — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Yeah, everyone was happy, though some grumbled — score 6
3. Yeah, everyone was happy, all of them serving him, and the whole kingdom threw a party to celebrate it all — score 6
4. Yeah, everyone was happy, all of them serving him, sorted — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 652, line 4: «When the baby starts screaming, the dragon hands it to a mother on the steps, and everyone goes to bed happy.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «everyone» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

In the tale, what instructions did the hermit give the old man concerning the apple, and how did the old man fail to observe them?

1. He was meant to share it, but he gobbled the lot up from thirst — score 1
2. He was told to eat half and give the rest to his wife, but in his thirst he ate the whole apple — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. He was meant to save some for his wife, yet he swallowed all of it because he was thirsty and tired — score 3
4. He was told to eat half and give the rest to his wife and to keep it secret, but in his thirst he ate the whole apple on the road home — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 238, line 2: «At three castles, the Bull's brothers give her an apple, a pear and a plum, and tell her to keep them unbroken until her greatest trouble.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «brothers» (+2); the same action «give» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Describe the manner in which the prince obtained the information concerning the location of his brothers.

1. By compelling the sparrow, concealed within the hawk's quarry, to disclose the location of the cellar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. By compelling the sparrow, concealed within the hawk's quarry, to disclose the location of the cellar, after threatening it with a long punishment — no support
3. By questioning the hawk, which was hidden within the mill, about the buried cellar — no support
4. By compelling the sparrow, concealed within the hawk's quarry and frightened of the prince's sword, to disclose the location of the cellar and the iron 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

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the feature of the old man's domestic circumstances that motivated his protracted journey.

1. The absence of any child to inherit the house, which caused him grievous distress and led him to seek help from the hermit in the mountains — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. The lack of a son to care for the farm and land — no support
3. The absence of any child to inherit the house, which caused him grievous distress — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The absence of any child to inherit the house, which caused him grievous distress for many years, as his wife also suffered deeply — 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 646, line 10: «The grouse says: "You've got a warm nest, and we'll see that no one takes it from you."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+2); the same doer «one» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the precise location in which the infant was discovered by the old man upon his return from the enchanted fields.

1. Lying upon a soft bank amidst trails of pink roses and tall golden grass beside the enchanted river — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Lying upon a grassy bank amidst long trails of pink roses near the edge of the enchanted fields — no support
3. Lying upon a bank amidst trails of pink roses — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Resting on a grassy slope beside the river — 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

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