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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 18: the King sees a portrait, falls in love, and sails off with its princess

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 115 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/115-pg11027-part18/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo, so the King just fainted cause of a painting, right?

- **1.** nah, he was just tired from travelling — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, the picture was proper gorgeous — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** no, he just tripped — no support
- **4.** yeah, but the King was just clumsy — 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/115-pg11027-part18/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, who's the mate who keeps telling the King stuff?

- **1.** the bloke with the stable keys, the one who swore an oath — no support
- **2.** the old mate who spent ages in the cellars with the King's wine — no support
- **3.** the chamberlain Peter, honest — no support
- **4.** faithful John, the trusty one — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 114, line 5: «Then an old king dies after begging faithful John to guard his son and keep him away from the portrait in the last room.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «faithful john» (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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did John bring gold stuff to the palace or what?

- **1.** nah, coins in a bag, mostly sneaky — no support
- **2.** yeah, cups in a napkin, proper sneaky — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** no, a sack of coal — no support
- **4.** yeah, jewels in a sack, quite smart — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 115, line 18: «The crows: John, playing music, hears them because he "understood them perfectly."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+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/115-pg11027-part18/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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that girl just got lured onto the ship, innit?

- **1.** yeah, she wandered onto the ship to look at the golden cups and got trapped — no support
- **2.** yeah, she went looking at the treasure — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, she got dragged off by pirates — no support
- **4.** nah, a sailor grabbed her from the dock and tossed her into the hold at night, proper awful — **← Mova's choice** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 4: «Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets the…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «alice» (+2); a different action (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/115-pg11027-part18/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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what do the crows reckon, the stuff they're on about?

- **1.** a horse will jump up and take the King — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the sea will take him — no support
- **3.** a horse will bite him — no support
- **4.** a bird will carry off the golden cup — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 115, line 13: «John's trick: he carries golden cups in a napkin and says, "I am a merchant."», 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 «golden cups» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/115-pg11027-part18/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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lol so the horse is the big danger, yeah?

- **1.** yeah, shoot the horse dead with the firearms and then the King is saved from the water — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, shoot it dead and he's saved — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, just let the horse run away into the hills, that won't do anything bad at all — no support
- **4.** yeah, cut its reins and he's safe — 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/115-pg11027-part18/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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and the shirt is trouble too, right?

- **1.** yeah, it's sulphur and pitch, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nah, it's just cloth and pearls, mate — no support
- **3.** yeah, it's wax and tar, mate — no support
- **4.** yeah, it's a shirt soaked in sulphur and pitch that burns, so mind it, mate — 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/115-pg11027-part18/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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what happens to the mate who blabs the secret?

- **1.** he goes stone from the feet all the way up to the waist and can't move — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** he goes stone up to the knee — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** he's turned to stone up to the knee and then cursed to live in the mountains forever — no support
- **4.** he gets turned into a tree — 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/115-pg11027-part18/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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so it's basically a bit of a tricky sea trip, yeah?

- **1.** yeah, the whole thing's dead dramatic — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nah, the ship's basically fine, mate — no support
- **3.** yeah, storms, pirates, a fox-coloured horse and a cursed shirt, so it's dead dramatic — no support
- **4.** nah, it's a bit of a stroll, just a few crows and some wine on deck, nothing too scary really — 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/115-pg11027-part18/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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the King said he's not a merchant, what's he then?

- **1.** a lord from the north — no support
- **2.** a king, the same birth as her, and he really loves her — score 6
- **3.** a king, same as her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** a steward, same as John — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 100, line 7: «fact: What: the King says, "Will you go with me to my castle, and be my dear wife?" and she replies, "Oh, yes."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «fact» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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wasn't John meant to be a proper loyal dude?

- **1.** yeah, he's loyal to the King, mate — score 7
- **2.** nah, he was meant to be loyal but he really went against the King and his father, sadly — score 7
- **3.** yeah, he's the faithful one, legend — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, he swore an oath to the old King and stuck to it through everything, proper loyal — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 115, line 6: «fact: Who: the faithful John, who had "promised your father before he died" to protect the young King.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «john» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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why did the King go and open the locked door?

- **1.** cause John said it was fine, honest — no support
- **2.** cause he couldn't stop himself, honest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** cause he was bored — no support
- **4.** cause he was told to by the crows — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 114, line 5: «Then an old king dies after begging faithful John to guard his son and keep him away from the portrait in the last room.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «king» (+1). Against it: the same doer «old king» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/t12/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the faithful John's conduct in the matter of the locked chamber?

- **1.** At first he hesitated and tried to dissuade the King, then reluctantly followed him in, though he had solemnly sworn to his late father never to allow the locked chamber to be opened by anyone. — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** He argued bitterly, then left the court altogether, though he had sworn loyalty to the old King. — score 5
- **3.** He initially resisted, then complied with the King's wish, though he had sworn an oath to his late father. — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** He resisted the King's wish at first, then gave way completely, though he had sworn an oath to his late father to guard the room and never to let anyone enter it, even the King himself. — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 115, line 9: «Why John hesitates: he warns that the room "would bring great misfortunes both upon you and me."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hesitate» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/e1/)

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

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What is the principal function of the crows' conversation within the narrative of this part?

- **1.** It foreshadows the perils the King must overcome in order to secure his bride. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** It shows the princess's regret for leaving her father's kingdom behind forever. — no support
- **3.** It reveals to the reader that John has secretly betrayed the King to the merchant who has kidnapped the princess and plans to sail away with her. — score 2
- **4.** It reveals the merchant's plan to steal the golden cups from the palace hall. — score 0

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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 115, line 5: «John tricks the princess aboard the ship, and as they sail away, he overhears three crows warning of dangers ahead.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «princess» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/e2/)

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

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Identify the means by which John gains the princess's attention in the palace courtyard.

- **1.** He shows golden plates from a sack and says he is a soldier. — score 4
- **2.** He hides a golden cup in his coat, rides into the courtyard on a black horse, and tells everyone he is a foreign prince who has come to trade. — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **3.** He displays golden cups from a napkin and represents himself as a merchant. — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** He arrives at the palace gate with a sack of golden cups, wins over the lady's maid with kind words, and then shows the cups to the princess in the courtyard as a merchant from far away. — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 115, line 18: «The crows: John, playing music, hears them because he "understood them perfectly."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «john» (+4); the same thing acted on «cups» (+2); a different action (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/115-pg11027-part18/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Explain why the princess ultimately consents to become the King's bride.

- **1.** She is frightened by the storm. — score 3
- **2.** She is persuaded by the crows' warning about the horse and the shirt. — no support
- **3.** She is reassured by his declaration of royal birth and of his overwhelming love for her. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** She agrees because the King offers her every golden cup from his treasury. — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 99, line 4: «At the feast the king asks the false bride what should be done to such a cheat, and she sentences herself.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); the same circumstance (+3); a different action (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/115-pg11027-part18/e4/)

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