Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more
Tests: 2 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 692 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, who was lying dead next to his spade, mate?
- 1. The prince — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. The bald-headed king — ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. The grey-haired farmer — score 6
- 4. A servant — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 284, line 3: «That night the young man sighs about his restless longing, and then he finds himself lying dead in his coffin.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lie» (+5); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Proper, but what was the big tree doing, innit?
- 1. Lying broken on the ground after a huge storm had struck the valley — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 2. Torn up by its roots — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Torn up by its roots and thrown across the river by the storm — score 3
- 4. Struck by lightning — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 126, line 9: «The mother sends her children into the wood to pick up sticks, where they find a big tree that has been felled and lies on the ground.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lie» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
Wait, what was there where the palace used to be?
- 1. A lake — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A wide stone courtyard — no support
- 3. A massive sulphur lake — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Hot water — 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 Death grab him from the front or the back, bruv?
- 1. Left side — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Front — no support
- 3. From behind — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. From the left — 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 ✗
Who was chilling at her window watching the lot, like?
- 1. The Queen of the Immortals, who was watching from her high tower window — score 4
- 2. The Queen of the Immortals who had been sitting alone at her window all day — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. The Servant of the Dead — score 2
- 4. The Queen of the Immortals — ✓ the right answer · score -2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 669, line 10: «Who: King Archidej, who "sat thoughtfully at his window gazing out to sea" and thinks of Helena all morning.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+4); the same place «window» (+3). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did the queen throw him up for, mate?
- 1. To end the game — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. To win a wager — ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 3. For fun — no support
- 4. To test his luck — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 2: «The Queen has never stopped staring at the Hatter, and now she asks for «the list of the singers in the last concert». The Hatter trembles so much that his sho…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stop» (+4). Against it: the same doer «queen» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Where did she want the bet to go down, like?
- 1. On the old stone bridge — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. In the middle of the city — ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 3. Beside the river bank — score 9
- 4. Far away on the high walls of the sulphur kingdom — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 414, line 10: «Why: the witch wanted to be scalded with boiling water, so her daughter does exactly what she was told.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+5); the same doer «witch» (+4). The right option, 2, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
How close did he get to falling over the wall, innit?
- 1. Half over it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Not at all — no support
- 3. Nearly over — no support
- 4. Slightly — 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 ✗
Who caught him, yeah?
- 1. The servants — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. The eagles — score 0
- 3. The queen — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Eagles — score 0
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 692, line 4: «Death grabs his other foot, the Queen of the Immortals makes a wager, and she catches the prince when the wind blows him toward the wall.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «catch» (+5). Against it: the same doer «queen» (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
What did the stone-cutter reckon he wanted to be, dead?
- 1. The sun — no support
- 2. A rich man living in a silken house with many servants — no support
- 3. A rich man — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 4. A great lord — 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 691, line 10: «Why: the prince wants "the land where there is no death at all", so he refuses the queen's offer to "share my throne".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «death» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mad, what did the stone-cutter get, bruv?
- 1. A stately palace with splendid furniture and silk curtains — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A stately palace — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A golden castle — no support
- 4. A huge marble mansion filled with gold and servants at the gate — 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Last one, what did the stone-cutter want to be in the end, mate?
- 1. The moon — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. A bright star shining over the whole kingdom of the immortals — no support
- 3. The sun — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. A star — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 656, line 10: «Why: the Prince pushes her out because "he wanted to have the tower all for himself".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following did the queen propose as the terms of the wager?
- 1. A throw of the dice — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. That the prince be cast up to the clouds and then weighed by the eagles — no support
- 3. The prince thrown high — no support
- 4. That the prince be thrown into the sky and judged by where he fell — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the first desire expressed by the stone-cutter upon seeing the rich man's dwelling?
- 1. To be a rich man sleeping in a silken bed inside a gold-roofed palace — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. To be a king dwelling in a marble hall — no support
- 3. To own a fine house with golden walls — no support
- 4. To be a rich man sleeping in a silken bed — ✓ 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which agent was ultimately responsible for the prince's return from the grasp of Death?
- 1. Death — ← Mova's choice · score 1
- 2. The Queen of the Immortals — ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 3. The queen — score 1
- 4. The king of the eagles — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 663, line 19: «Lucky Luck's mother says the prince must return home where "your wife will just have had a little boy," so the good news comes after the hard journey.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace?
- 1. Boiling yellow sulphur mixed with black rock — score -2
- 2. Hot steaming sulphur from deep beneath the palace — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. Silver — score 6
- 4. Sulphur — ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 446, line 12: «The handkerchief makes "a deep lake" lie behind him when he waves it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+5); the same thing acted on «deep lake» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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