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title: Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1092 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.

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Mate, what colour was the frock she wore on the hols, like proper gold bright?

- **1.** a deep crimson red like silk from the royal wedding gown — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** bright like the sun at midday over the palace roof — no support
- **3.** the colour of the sun — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the colour of the moon — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruv, so who was the Prince gawping at through the keyhole?

- **1.** the Princess in her blue dress — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the gendarmes waiting outside in the cold corridor — no support
- **3.** the girl by the fire — no support
- **4.** the Princess in her sun dress — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Was the donkey-skin girl sus or what, like proper minging and dirty?

- **1.** she was a fairy sent to test the kindness of the farm folk — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** she was a princess who had run away from her home — no support
- **3.** she was dirty and unpleasant — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** she was lazy and very rude — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Who did the King send out after her, like loads of them?

- **1.** stable boys and gardeners — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** soldiers — score 6
- **3.** gendarmes and musketeers — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** the palace cooks and maids — score 6

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**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 733, line 5: «His wife Ilsabill keeps sending him back to the fish for something better, from a cottage to a stone castle, and at the end she wants to be king.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «send» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Innit true the Prince nearly kicked the door in?

- **1.** yeah, he was so angry he kicked it open and ran inside — score 1
- **2.** yeah, he tried the handle and then left — no support
- **3.** yeah, his feelings nearly made him force it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** no, he just walked off to the stables — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1092, line 13: «How he feels: "The impetuosity of his feelings at this moment would have made him force the door".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «force» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Wot did her godmother give her to call her chest, like the actual thing?

- **1.** a wand — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a stick — no support
- **3.** a box — no support
- **4.** a ring — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Where was this farm at, like the actual place?

- **1.** by the river bank — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** beside the palace walls in the royal gardens — no support
- **3.** out in the deep forest, far from any village — no support
- **4.** at the gate of a town — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why did the farmer's wife take her on, for real?

- **1.** she looked strong and willing to work — score -1
- **2.** she needed help with the dishes and geese — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** she was a poor girl with nowhere to go — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** the king had paid her well to keep the poor girl employed — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1081, line 3: «The spindle pricks her hand, she faints, and the King lays her on a golden bed, remembering the Fairies' words.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. The right option, 2, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What was the Prince doing out, like, on his way back?

- **1.** he had been sent to bring the Princess back home — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** coming back from the hunt — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** he was carrying a message from the king to the farm — score 7
- **4.** riding back to the palace — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 173, line 3: «The tailor sends him to cut firewood, and he works so hard that he soon earns enough to repay the tailor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tailor» (+3); the same thing acted on «prince» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Who told the Prince the facts about her, like proper gossip?

- **1.** a goat — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** the farm people — **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** the king — score 8
- **4.** the farmer's dog — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 253, line 9: «Why: folk tell him the wise woman "could tell thee! all as 'd come to thee", so he sets off to buy his brains.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same thing acted on «wise woman» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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What did she smear on her face to look rough, like?

- **1.** dark mud scooped from the river bank near the mill — no support
- **2.** paint from the door — score 2
- **3.** dust from the cellar — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** soot from the chimney — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 179, line 5: «explain: The castle belongs to a tall old man and ten young men who are all blind in one eye and smear ashes on their faces.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «faces» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «ashes» (+1). Against it: the same action «smear» (-3). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Did he, like, barge in when he saw her?

- **1.** yes, he broke the lock and rushed in — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** no, he stood at the door for hours and then went home to bed — no support
- **3.** yes, he kicked the door open and rushed straight in to her — no support
- **4.** no, respect for her held him back — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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With what object did the Prince make his observation of the Princess, as recorded in the text?

- **1.** a keyhole in a door — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a gap under a gate — no support
- **3.** a small round hole in the great iron door of the chamber — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** through the cracks of a heavy wooden shutter — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 324, line 19: «Old word: "interlopers" are people who go where they are not wanted; the mermaids watch the children as unwelcome intruders.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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By what name was the Princess known among the inhabitants of the farm?

- **1.** Goose-girl — no support
- **2.** Donkey-skin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Skin — no support
- **4.** The girl who wears the donkey's skin — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**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 223, line 11: «She wears diamonds, a necklace, bracelets, and a girdle "all of precious stones".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wear» (+4); the same doer «princess» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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What reason is given in the text for the Prince's refraining from forcing the door?

- **1.** the sound of her singing in the room — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the thought of his father's anger at him — no support
- **3.** the respect her beauty inspired in him — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the sight of the soot and rags she wore on her face — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day described?

- **1.** his return from the hunt — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** he had been sent to bring the Princess back home — no support
- **3.** his ride to the market — no support
- **4.** a message from the king — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 877, line 18: «Old word: "dowager" once meant a widow who had inherited a title, and today it describes an elderly lady of high rank.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «word» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1092-pg29021-part17/e4/)

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