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title: Russian Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, an… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1133 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 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 Fairy Tales, Ivan Golik: the princess splits Ivan in two, and the brothers meet again

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1133 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/1133-pg29672-part39/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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ngl, why did the princess go full psycho on Ivan?

- **1.** Ivan had insulted her in front of the court — no support
- **2.** Her hubby said Ivan did all the work, so she got mad — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** Her hubby said Ivan did all the work, and she got mad at him — score 0
- **4.** Her husband praised Ivan too much for the work — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1133, line 1: «The prince grows proud and tells his wife that Ivan Golik did all his work for him.», 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) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «work» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruh, who actually won the hare fight?

- **1.** Armless, I think — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Legless, he threw the oak seven miles — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Legless threw it only three miles — no support
- **4.** Armless, he threw the hare away — 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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lowkey the serpent was sus, so what did it do to the princess?

- **1.** It drew blood out of her breast — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14
- **2.** It hurt her — no support
- **3.** It bit her — no support
- **4.** It drank blood from her neck — score 11

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 14, against 11 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1133, line 13: «Why the Tsarivna is yellow: the serpent "drew my blood out of my breast" while she slept.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «serpent» (+5); the same place «breast» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same action «draw» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so how did the brothers catch the serpent, fam?

- **1.** They hid under the bed and waited — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** They hid in the straw and she coughed — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** They hid in the straw of her room and waited until she coughed to wake them up — score 5
- **4.** They ambushed her in the barn — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 255, line 13: «Jack thinks the youngest brother put snakes in his bed, but the second brother says "So it was to be."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+3); the same doer «youngest brother» (+2). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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wait, what did the first spring do to the stick?

- **1.** It burned up like it was on fire — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It went up — no support
- **3.** It turned to black ash slowly — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** It was eaten by the flame — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 425, line 14: «What: The first becomes an apple tree where "whoever plucks an apple will immediately burst."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+3). Against it: the same doer «first» (-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/1133-pg29672-part39/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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ok what happened at the second spring tho?

- **1.** It flowered — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It bloomed — no support
- **3.** The stick turned into a tree — no support
- **4.** The stick burst into flower — **✓ 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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so Armless got his arms, what did Legless get back?

- **1.** his legs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** legs — no support
- **3.** his own legs again — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** his legs back home — 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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bro, where was the prince when Ivan found him?

- **1.** on a tomb — score 4
- **2.** herding geese by a well — score -1
- **3.** in a field — score 3
- **4.** tending swine on a tomb — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 4 with score 13, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1133, line 5: «Ivan goes looking for his brother, finds him tending swine on a tomb, and they agree to drive the pigs home together.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tend» (+5); the same thing acted on «swine» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «ivan» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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why did the prince say it was high time to go home?

- **1.** The princess hates waiting for her tea, and the swine must be driven home before the evening meal — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** His wife is waiting for her tea — no support
- **3.** The princess hates waiting for her tea — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The swine must reach the house now — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1132, line 5: «The next morning the prince says goodbye to his father-in-law and tells him he must go home.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-2). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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wait, who is Ivan to the prince in the end?

- **1.** The prince is his younger brother — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Ivan is the prince's servant — score 3
- **3.** The prince is Ivan's own brother — score 4
- **4.** The prince is his elder brother — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1042, line 19: «fact: An ollav was a learned master or chief poet, and today a scholar with great learning might be called that.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+2); the same thing acted on «learned master» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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nah, what does the serpent promise at the very end?

- **1.** never to visit the Tsarivna again — score 0
- **2.** to leave the princess alone forever — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** never to return — no support
- **4.** never to fly to the Tsarivna again — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1111, line 1: «The weeping man learns that his corn is safe in the barn, and the Serpent leaves him in the forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «leave» (+3). Against it: the same doer «serpent» (-1). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so who did the prince make his first counsellor?

- **1.** Golik — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Vasily Petrov — score 2
- **3.** Ivan — score 2
- **4.** Ivan Golik — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 1020, line 2: «He builds a flying ship covered in gun-barrel eyes and tries to conquer God, but an angel's one bloody drop drags it down.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «build» (+3). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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yo, why did Ivan get cut in two anyway?

- **1.** He told the truth — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** He had warned the prince to keep the truth from his wife — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** He had angered the princess at court — score 0
- **4.** He had cheated the prince out of his gold — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1133, line 10: «Why Ivan is upset: he cries, "Did I not charge thee not to confess!" because he told the prince to keep quiet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+1). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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By what means did the princess effect the bisection of Ivan Golik?

- **1.** By waving a serpentine handkerchief bordered with gold, while standing on the palace steps before the court — score 2
- **2.** By striking him with a silver rod — score 2
- **3.** By cutting him with a golden sword — score 2
- **4.** By waving a serpentine handkerchief bordered with gold — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1133, line 9: «Why: the princess is angry, so she waves a serpentine handkerchief and Ivan falls "asunder into two pieces".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wave» (+1); the same thing acted on «serpentine handkerchief» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/e1/)

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

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What was the outcome of the contest over the oak tree?

- **1.** Legless threw the oak seven miles, Armless only three — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Legless won — no support
- **3.** Legless threw the oak seven miles across the field, and Armless managed only three before the crowd laughed at him — no support
- **4.** Legless hurled the hare seven miles, Armless three — 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/1133-pg29672-part39/e2/)

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

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What condition did Ivan Golik impose upon the prince regarding disclosure?

- **1.** That he must not tell his wife the truth for seven years — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** That he must not tell his wife the truth for seven years, or else he would be cut in two by the court — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** Never to speak of it to anyone — score 0
- **4.** That he must hide the truth from the court for a year — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 715, line 6: «Who: Sigurd is a prince who sets out to visit three giantesses, the sisters of Ingiborg, and "he was fond of all games."», 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 «prince» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1133-pg29672-part39/e3/)

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

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On what grounds did the prince declare that he must depart?

- **1.** His wife was waiting at the palace gate — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** His wife wanted tea — score -2
- **3.** He had to drive the swine home for his wife's tea — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The tea was cold — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 161, line 9: «fact: Why: the sultan's mind "almost gave way", and he declared that "all women were as wicked as the sultana".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same doer «sultan» (-2). 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/1133-pg29672-part39/e4/)

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