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title: Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1123 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 15 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory

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**Tests:** 6 of 15 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 15 of 19 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1123 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/1123-pg29672-part29/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, how many heads did the Dragon have, like for real?

- **1.** 2 — score 1
- **2.** six — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** 3 — score 1
- **4.** four — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 7, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1123, line 7: «What: the Dragon has six heads, and the Prince kills him with "his huge broadsword, a full fathom long".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+6); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «dragon» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Okay, so what did the Dragon keep yelling for?

- **1.** his dinner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** food — score 0
- **3.** the Princess and her prayer-book — score 3
- **4.** his breakfast — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1123, line 1: «The Dragon keeps poking out his heads one by one, moaning that he has no breakfast or dinner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «dragon» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bruv, did the Prince chop with a sword or a spoon?

- **1.** a spoon — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a broadsword — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a long spear — no support
- **4.** a stick — 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/1123-pg29672-part29/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Ngl, what did the Prince tie up in his hanky?

- **1.** the six hearts — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** the tongues — score 7
- **3.** the six tongues — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** his six eyes — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1082, line 1: «The Prince and the Princess marry in the castle chapel after a grand supper, and then the Prince rides back to the city.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «marry» (+5); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Wait, how long did the Princess have to wait, a week or a year and twelve weeks?

- **1.** about a year, I'd say — score 2
- **2.** a year and twelve weeks, maybe longer — score 5
- **3.** a year and twelve weeks — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** three years and twelve whole weeks — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 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 951, line 15: «Her words: "I have had the Stadtholder Gyldenlowe, the King's half-brother, for my husband."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «princess» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Did the coachman make her swear once or twelve times?

- **1.** twelve times — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** six times — no support
- **3.** twelve times, I reckon, maybe more — no support
- **4.** ten times — 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/1123-pg29672-part29/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What did the bells do when the coachman got back?

- **1.** they cried — no support
- **2.** they rang loud and long for days — score 5
- **3.** rang — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** they rang — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 990, line 14: «Old word: "peal" means a set of bells rung together in harmony, as the skewer became "a complete peal of bells".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bells» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Was the coachman really a hero or a liar, innit?

- **1.** a knight — no support
- **2.** a thief — no support
- **3.** a brave and honest hero — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** a liar — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 430, line 6: «Who: Prince Ivan is the brave, clever hero of this tale, and he rescues Marya Morevna from Koshchei.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince ivan» (+2); the same property (+2). The right option, 4, 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/1123-pg29672-part29/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Mate, what's his punishment, tied to what?

- **1.** four strong oxen — score 2
- **2.** two horses — no support
- **3.** a cart — no support
- **4.** four wild horses — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1117, line 5: «The guilty brother is tied to a wild horse that scatters his bones across the steppe, and the murdered fool is dug up and given a proper grave.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe?

- **1.** the open sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** the endless steppe and the open sea — score 4
- **3.** the endless steppe — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** the frozen river — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 59, line 12: «On the sands, horses dragged the casks «up the steep street of the little town with a fine rush and clatter and scramble».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «drag» (+3); the same doer «horses» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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What did the tongues tell, the truth or a joke?

- **1.** a joke — no support
- **2.** a riddle — no support
- **3.** the truth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** a rumour — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1112, line 13: «Why he gives in: he is "wearied with her beseeching," so he tells her the truth.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «tell» (-1); the same thing acted on «truth» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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What did the King's son do when he saw the Princess again?

- **1.** saw her — score 6
- **2.** loved her — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** met her — score 6
- **4.** knew her — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 638, line 17: «Why Tom acts: the Princess told Tom she was in danger, and Tom loves her, so he cries because he is so angry about the plot.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tom» (+4); the same thing acted on «princess» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Wicked coachman, dude, what did he make her do?

- **1.** swear a lie to the Tsar — score 2
- **2.** lie to him — no support
- **3.** swear a lie — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** swear that the coachman slew the Dragon — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1123, line 4: «The coachman finds the heads, makes the Princess swear twelve times that he slew the Dragon, and the town rejoices.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «coachman» (+4); the same thing acted on «dragon» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Mate, did the Dragon have a tongue, yes or no?

- **1.** y — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yes — no support
- **3.** ? — no support
- **4.** no — **✓ 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/1123-pg29672-part29/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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How long was that broadsword, like, the length of what?

- **1.** a spear — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** a cubit — no support
- **3.** a fathom — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the length of a tall house — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 356, line 19: «Old word: a "cubit" was an old measure of length, about the length of a forearm, roughly half a metre today.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same thing acted on «old measure» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 3, 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/1123-pg29672-part29/t15/)

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

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Which weapon did the Prince employ to sever the six heads of the Dragon?

- **1.** a long sword of two fathoms — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** a short blade — score 7
- **3.** a broadsword of one fathom in length — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** an iron sword of great length — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1010, line 19: «Old word: a "sabre" is a curved sword, the weapon the traveller used to cut off the head.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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What sentence did the Tsar pronounce upon the wicked coachman?

- **1.** to be tied to four wild horses — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** to be drowned in the river — no support
- **3.** to be tied to four wild horses and dragged — no support
- **4.** to be burned at the stake — 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/1123-pg29672-part29/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Upon what condition did the Prince depart, leaving the Princess to await his return?

- **1.** one day — score 1
- **2.** a year and twelve weeks — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** a week — score 7
- **4.** a year and nine weeks — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 664, line 6: «Who: a prince visits Lucky Luck with three questions, and "took a friendly leave of Lucky Luck" before he sets off for home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «set off» (+5); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/e3/)

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

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Which action did the Princess perform while the Prince engaged the Dragon?

- **1.** she knelt, prayed from the prayer-book, and wept for him — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **2.** she fled into the dark forest nearby — score 7
- **3.** she ran to the tower and prayed to the saints above the town gate — score 7
- **4.** she knelt and prayed from the prayer-book — **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 674, line 15: «The princess weeps and asks, "Will you really send me, your only child, to that dreadful place?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «weep» (+5); the same doer «princess» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). The right option, 4, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1123-pg29672-part29/e4/)

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