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title: Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brown Bear of Norway: the prince forgets his… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1297 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 12 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brown Bear of Norway: the prince forgets his wife, and she wins him back

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**Tests:** 3 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1297 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/1297-pg3454-part22/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bro, the prince just totally forgets his wife in the wood, right?

- **1.** yeah, the wood makes him forget her, sadly — no support
- **2.** yeah, the wood wipes his brain like a reset, no cap, and he stays lost till she sorts it out — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** nah, the wood just messes with his head, lol — score 1
- **4.** yeah, the wood wipes his brain like a reset, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 59, line 3: «At Alassio he watched wine-casks tied in a long line pulled ashore «like a mile of porpoises»; he rested in the olive-woods above the blue sea, and at Marseill…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rest» (+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/1297-pg3454-part22/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, how does she even get in the wood after it shuts?

- **1.** she just knocks — no support
- **2.** she sings a bit — no support
- **3.** she charges it with her magic gifts and it opens — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** she uses her gifts and asks it nicely, then it opens — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 53, line 9: «The aunt could be «properly approached — squared, I believe is the word you animals use»: «squared» is old slang for paid secretly to help (bribed).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+4). The right option, 3, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1297-pg3454-part22/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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lol the footman's head got horns, dead funny, how?

- **1.** she says the magic words, and the horns sprout out of his head right in front of all the staff — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** she says the magic words and the horns sprout out — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** she says the magic words over him and then the horns sprout out of his head and he howls for hours — score 6
- **4.** she uses a spell on his head, then he grows — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 167, line 1: «The genius finishes his tale about the Greek king, who was poisoned by the pages of a book that a dying physician's head had told him to read.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «head» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1297-pg3454-part22/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so the witch's daughter just buys the nights for scissors?

- **1.** yeah, she trades the scissors for a night — score 2
- **2.** yeah, she swaps the scissors for a night in the room — score 2
- **3.** yeah, she swaps her scissors for one night by the bed, and the wife gets no say in it at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** yeah, she swaps her thing for one night by the bed — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1297, line 4: «The witch's daughter buys three nights by the prince's bed with the scissors, comb and reel.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «daughter» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). 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/1297-pg3454-part22/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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the wife sings the same song three times, why?

- **1.** cos the prince is sleeping, so she needs to sing — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** cos the prince is in a deep sleep, he's out cold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** cos the prince is in a deep sleep, he's out cold, and the witch's charm keeps him that way every night — no support
- **4.** cos the prince is in a deep sleep, he's out cold, so she has to keep singing till he wakes up — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sing» (+3); the same doer «mother» (+2); one says «not», the other does not (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/1297-pg3454-part22/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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how does the prince get his memory back, though?

- **1.** she fits her half ring to his, mate, that's the trick — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** she sings and he wakes up, that's the trick, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** she lets him hold the ring, that's it — score 6
- **4.** she fits her half ring to his, mate, that's the trick, and then he remembers the whole story — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 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 1174, line 1: «The prince wakes from a nap and finds the white doe, who kisses his forehead and then runs away.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wake» (+4); the same doer «prince» (+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/1297-pg3454-part22/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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is the witch still around at the end?

- **1.** nope, she goes off somewhere and nobody hears — no support
- **2.** nope, nobody sees the witch or her daughter again, though the palace stays up for years — score -4
- **3.** nope, nobody sees the witch or her daughter again, and the footman stays a stag for life — score -4
- **4.** nope, nobody sees the witch or her daughter again — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1297, line 17: «What happens to the witch? The castle falls, and "No one ever saw the witch and her daughter afterwards."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «witch» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1297-pg3454-part22/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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why is the prince walking about all moody?

- **1.** he's hungry — score 1
- **2.** he's lost something, like a bit of his memory — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** he's sad — score 1
- **4.** he's upset about his old castle — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 117, line 2: «He tames the lions with bread, takes rings and a sword, and fetches the water just before midnight, losing a bit of his heel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lose» (+3); the same doer «prince» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1297-pg3454-part22/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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what do the servants do to the poor footman?

- **1.** they circle him and sing a rude song loudly — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** they gather round and bang tongs and pans, proper rowdy — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** they yell at him — score 2
- **4.** they gather round and mock him with a loud song — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 177, line 19: «Old word: a "eunuch" was a male servant who guarded the women's rooms; today this word is rarely used at all.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «male servant» (+3); the same thing acted on «word» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1297-pg3454-part22/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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who ends up with the palace and the kids?

- **1.** the prince and princess, with their three babes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** the princess and the woodman, with the kids — score -1
- **3.** the prince and princess, with their three babes and all the servants of the old palace — score -1
- **4.** the prince and princess, with their three babes, and the woodman and his wife — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1296, line 9: «Why: the princess burns the bear's skin because the egg-wife says "the enchantment would be at an end," but she is tricked, since the egg-wife is the witch her…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/1297-pg3454-part22/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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is the story about the brown bear a bit grim?

- **1.** nah, it's not grim, it ends nicely for them all — score 1
- **2.** nah, it ends happy, everyone's sorted and chilled — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** nah, it ends happy, everyone's sorted and chilled, after a bit of bad stuff in the middle — score 1
- **4.** nah, it ends happy, everyone's sorted and chilled, and the bear gets a nice new home — **← Mova's choice** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 605, line 1: «Baloo, the big brown bear, is teaching Mowgli the Master Words that will keep him safe in the jungle.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «baloo» (+3). Against it: the same thing acted on «master words» (-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/1297-pg3454-part22/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so the wife just wins through being clever and sneaky?

- **1.** yeah, she's sly and uses her gifts to win — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** yeah, she uses her gifts and her wits to get it back, and sings each night until he wakes up — score 1
- **3.** yeah, she uses her gifts and her wits to get it back, then the prince thanks her with a feast — score 1
- **4.** yeah, she uses her gifts and her wits to get it back — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1297, line 2: «She uses her three magic gifts to open the wood, and she finds work at a woodman's lodge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «gift» (+1). 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/1297-pg3454-part22/t12/)

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

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Explain the function of the three magic gifts in the development of the narrative.

- **1.** They let the princess enter the wood and secure a bargain for her husband's nights — no support
- **2.** They enable the princess to open the wood and to bargain for her husband's nights — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They enable the princess to open the wood and to bargain for her husband's nights, though they fail to lift the charm — no support
- **4.** They let the princess pass the wood and win the nights by trading with the witch's daughter — **← 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 26, line 13: «The Mole asks «But isn't it a bit dull at times? Just you and the river, and no one else to pass a word with?», and the Rat answers that the bank is too crowde…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pass» (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «word» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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/1297-pg3454-part22/e1/)

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

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Identify the means by which the prince's memory is restored at the close of the episode.

- **1.** She matches the ring halves together, and the wood's spell lifts from his mind — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The princess fits her half of the marriage ring to his, breaking the enchantment that the witch's daughter had placed on him through the wood's trees — no support
- **3.** The princess fits her half of the marriage ring to his, breaking the enchantment and the spell of the wood, so that he remembers everything at once — no support
- **4.** The princess fits her half of the marriage ring to his, breaking the enchantment — **✓ 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/1297-pg3454-part22/e2/)

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

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Describe the relationship between the wife's perseverance and the outcome of the three bargains.

- **1.** Her persistence in singing each night brings the three bargains to a successful conclusion, and the witch's daughter is paid in full each time — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Her persistence in singing each night brings the three bargains to a successful conclusion — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Her persistence in singing each night brings the three bargains to a successful conclusion, though the prince remembers nothing of it until the ring is fitted — no support
- **4.** Her steady singing over three nights leads to the success of each bargain in the end — 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/1297-pg3454-part22/e3/)

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

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Evaluate the justice of the punishment inflicted upon the head footman by the enchantress.

- **1.** The punishment is disproportionate, yet it is presented as a consequence of his presumption — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** The punishment is disproportionate, yet it is presented as a consequence of his presumption towards the young woman and the household staff in the lodge — score -1
- **3.** The punishment seems too heavy, though it follows from the footman's pride and rudeness in the house — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** The punishment is far too cruel, but the footman brought it on by his own vanity and arrogance — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1127, line 19: «fact: Old word: "Tsarevich" means a tsar's son, or prince, and "thou" and "thy" are old words for "you" and "your."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). 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/1297-pg3454-part22/e4/)

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