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# Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter

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**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1170 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/1170-pg3027-part36/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, did you read the buffalo bit?

- **1.** Yeah, the wife lied about her mum to go home — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah, the buffalo was the wife's servant — no support
- **3.** Yeah, mostly — no support
- **4.** Nah, skipped it — 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/1170-pg3027-part36/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, what's the crab doing in the story, mate?

- **1.** Turns into a little old lady and takes the queen to the fairies — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** Turns into a little old lady who gives the queen a magic posy and takes her to the fairies' gates — score -4
- **3.** Turns into a little old lady and takes the queen to the fairies, then vanishes into the reeds — score -1
- **4.** Turns into an old lady and leads the king to the palace — **← Mova's choice** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 0, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 883, line 3: «The mole leads them along a dark passage and shows them a dead swallow lying in it, and he says birds have a miserable life.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 1, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Bro, why did the whole family drink the poison?

- **1.** Because the medicine-man said so — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Cos they were thirsty — no support
- **3.** Because the buffalo was dead and they reckoned they had to die — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Because the buffalo had died and they believed they had to follow it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 596, line 9: «Why: Remus tells the family to walk home because riding the cars is dangerous, and he says he has seen emigrants come "lopin' back" in rags.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «remus» (+2); the same action «tell» (+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/1170-pg3027-part36/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Did the husband know the buffalo was the servant?

- **1.** Nope, his wife told him only at dawn — score 3
- **2.** Yeah, his parents told him early on — score -1
- **3.** Nope, nobody told him till after — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, he knew at once — **← Mova's choice** · 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 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 290, line 12: «She wants a husband who knows "how to give an answer when he was spoken to".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «know» (+3); the same doer «husband» (+3). 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/1170-pg3027-part36/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Ngl, which bit was actually the saddest?

- **1.** The husband crying — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The buffalo dying — no support
- **3.** The buffalo hunt with the whole tribe — no support
- **4.** The girl dying with her whole family — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1170-pg3027-part36/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Who was the chosen one in the palace fairy scene?

- **1.** The fairy, she chose the new prince — score 0
- **2.** The queen was chosen — score 0
- **3.** The queen, she got the baby girl — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** The king, he got the golden crown — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1102, line 12: «Why: the wife and husband dig the ditch because the Accursed One must not get the children, and they bury them "just under the gables."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «accursed one» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same receiver «children» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What's a dirge then, like a proper song?

- **1.** A slow sad song for someone dead, sung at the funeral by the women — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** A loud war song sung by the men — score 5
- **3.** A slow sad song for someone dead — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** A slow sad song for someone dead, often sung on the road home to the village — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1037, line 4: «When he is six, his mother creeps in secretly, sings him a sleepy song and kisses him until he falls asleep.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same action «sing» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit?

- **1.** Yeah, just flowers — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, a bunch of dried bread crusts — no support
- **3.** Nah, a bunch of silver coins — no support
- **4.** Yeah, a little bunch of jewel flowers — **✓ 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/1170-pg3027-part36/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Why did the fairy carriages only come out for big events?

- **1.** They were only used on occasions of state, when the whole court gathered to see them — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** They were only used on occasions of state because the horses were too costly to feed daily — score 1
- **3.** Only the royal family could ride them — no support
- **4.** They were only used on occasions of state — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1170, line 17: «The fairies: six of them come out to meet the queen, each holding "a flower made of precious stones".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «meet» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Did the baby have a silly name then?

- **1.** Marguerite, which means pearl — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Desiree, which means desired — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Desi, a nickname — no support
- **4.** Juliette, which means young — 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/1170-pg3027-part36/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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What did the fairies carry at the gates, fam?

- **1.** Flowers made of precious stones, held high on silver poles — score 3
- **2.** Swords cast from silver steel — no support
- **3.** Lamps made of glowing crystal — score 3
- **4.** Flowers made of precious stones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 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 1087, line 19: «Riquet's Fairy gave the Princess the power to make the one she loves "extremely handsome," as he is now.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same doer «fairy» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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What did the medicine-man say would kill everyone?

- **1.** The buffalo dying — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The famine — no support
- **3.** The wife's illness — no support
- **4.** The winter — **← Mova's choice** · score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1167, line 6: «Who: Jack is a poor young man who tricks everyone, and the giant calls him "little worm" when he is caught.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «everyone» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (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/1170-pg3027-part36/t12/)

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

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Which of the following accurately describes the girl's stated reason for departing the village?

- **1.** A false report that her mother was gravely ill and wished to see her once more — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A message that her father was dying — no support
- **3.** A false report that her mother had fallen down the stairs and could not walk anymore — no support
- **4.** A false report that her mother was gravely ill — **✓ 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/1170-pg3027-part36/e1/)

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

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Which statement correctly identifies the person slain by the young husband's gun?

- **1.** A deer, later found to be a neighbour's hunting dog — no support
- **2.** A wild bull — no support
- **3.** A buffalo, later revealed to be the wife's servant who had been sent to test him — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** A buffalo, later revealed to be the wife's servant — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1167, line 16: «Old word: "lancers" were horsemen who fought with long spears; today the word is used for a kind of cavalry.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «word» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/1170-pg3027-part36/e2/)

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

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Which of the following accurately describes the transformation of the crab in the queen's account?

- **1.** It turned into a lady — no support
- **2.** It became an old woman — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **3.** It became a mysterious woman dressed in blue and gold — score -2
- **4.** It became a little old woman in white and crimson — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1067, line 13: «What: Becuma goes to Sasana, where she becomes a queen and fosters "the rage against the Holy Land".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/1170-pg3027-part36/e3/)

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

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Which of the following correctly states the nature of the gift conferred upon the royal couple?

- **1.** The promise of a daughter, born after five years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A son and heir — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **3.** A son, born after a long illness — no support
- **4.** The promise of a son who would rule the kingdom — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 108, line 12: «The thieves say "the birds are pulling off the leaves" when the apples drop, so they blame nature again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «nature» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (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/1170-pg3027-part36/e4/)

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