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title: Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gi… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1328 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 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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# Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1328 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/1328-pg3454-part53/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo so the pin just lets her sneak out to see Denis?

- **1.** yeah, every evening while her aunt's counting cabbages — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** yeah, every evening while her aunt's counting every cabbage in the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** yeah, each night while her aunt is out at the fair — no support
- **4.** yeah, every evening while her aunt's counting cabbages and sleeping by the fire — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1328, line 12: «The pin matters because it lets Tephany meet Denis every evening while her aunt is away counting cabbages.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «count» (+3); the same thing acted on «cabbages» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, Denis just stopped talking to her cos he's a big talker?

- **1.** yep, he likes talking but never listens — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yep, he always chatters on about his horses and never listens to her at all — no support
- **3.** nah, he just went quiet for a while — no support
- **4.** yep, he likes talking about himself but never listens to what she says — **← 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 1328, line 13: «Denis is "fond of talking himself, but not of listening to any one else", so he soon has nothing more to say to her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «denis» (+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/1328-pg3454-part53/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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bruh, what did the feather do to her?

- **1.** made her super smart like Solomon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** made her smart — score 7
- **3.** made her pretty — score 7
- **4.** gave her big brains like a priest — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 787, line 17: «Old word "poultry": birds kept for food, such as hens and geese, which she has to pluck, meaning pull the feathers from.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «birds» (+4); the same thing acted on «feathers» (+2); 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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lol so she was mean to people after that?

- **1.** nah, she just kept quiet and stayed home — no support
- **2.** yeah, she mocked the ones who made fun — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** yeah, she made cruel jokes about every single person who dissed her at the dance — score 0
- **4.** yeah, she made jokes about the ones who dissed her — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 757, line 14: «old word: "to woo" means to court someone, that is, to try to win a person's love and make them agree to marry you.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same action «make» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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ok so Denis got scared of her tongue?

- **1.** yeah, cos he feared she'd mock him — no support
- **2.** yeah, cos he thought his turn was next — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** yeah, cos he heard she'd been mocking all the village boys for weeks now — no support
- **4.** yeah, cos he thought his turn was next and she'd mock him in front of everyone — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1328, line 14: «Denis becomes afraid of Tephany's "sharp tongue" and stops laughing at her jokes, because he thinks his turn will come next.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «turn» (+3); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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wait, who's Aziliez, the girl from Pennenru?

- **1.** the hottest girl for miles round — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the girl from town — no support
- **3.** the richest girl for miles round — no support
- **4.** a fairy — 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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so she slammed the door on him at the dance?

- **1.** yeah, she slammed it before he could speak — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** nah, she only slammed it after he left the house — score 2
- **3.** nah, she slammed it after he said he was going — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** nah, she slammed it when he left — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 293, line 2: «The Reindeer carries Gerda through the night under blue lights to the Finland woman, who has no door and lets them in by the chimney.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «finland woman» (+2). 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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bro, why did she cry by the fire?

- **1.** cos she wished she had asked for beauty — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** cos she regretted her wish for wisdom — score 4
- **3.** cos she wished she had asked for beauty instead of wisdom from the fairy — score 4
- **4.** cos she wished for something else — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1255, line 20: «The governor's wife cries "Nonsense!" because she thinks the order is strange, but her husband will not change his mind.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2); 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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so the necklace makes her the hottest girl alive?

- **1.** yeah, as long as she wears it every day and never takes it off — score 4
- **2.** yeah, as long as she wears it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** yeah, the most beautiful girl alive, as long as she keeps wearing it — score 4
- **4.** yeah, but only when she sleeps — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1328, line 17: «The necklace makes her "the most beautiful woman in the world" as long as she wears it.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «wear» (+2); the same doer «tephany» (+1); the same thing acted on «necklace» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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so the old lady was just a random beggar?

- **1.** nah, she's a fairy, the pin proved it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, just a beggar — no support
- **3.** nah, she was just a sick old woman — no support
- **4.** nah, she's a nun — 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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wait, did the aunt catch her with the pin?

- **1.** nah, the aunt never noticed her leaving — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, the pin kept her away while she was out — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, the pin was lost — no support
- **4.** yeah, the aunt caught her at the cowhouse — 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/1328-pg3454-part53/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so why did she offer the old lady her bacon?

- **1.** cos she was hungry — score 2
- **2.** cos she was full — score 2
- **3.** cos she wanted to be kind — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** cos she felt bad for her — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 9: «Why: the wife offers her baby to the ogre because she is "trembling all over" and afraid of being killed.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «wife» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/t12/)

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

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Which gift is the one that makes Tephany clever and sharp in her speech?

- **1.** The pin — no support
- **2.** The necklace — **← Mova's choice** · score -3
- **3.** The feather — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **4.** The copper pin — no support

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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 1328, line 5: «Denis grows afraid of her and goes to a dance, so Tephany wishes to be beautiful and gets a necklace that makes her the fairest woman alive.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «necklace» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-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/1328-pg3454-part53/e1/)

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

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By what means does the fairy enable Tephany to meet Denis each day?

- **1.** By a copper pin that frees her — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** By a silver ring she wears — no support
- **3.** By a blue ribbon in her hair — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **4.** By a copper pin that frees her and a feather that makes her clever — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 129, line 19: «Old word: "hussy" meant a bold or shameless girl; today it is a rude insult.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «bold girl» (-3). The right option, 1, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1328-pg3454-part53/e2/)

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

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What is the principal cause of Denis's withdrawal from Tephany?

- **1.** His lack of love for her — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** His neglect of her listening — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** His neglect of her listening, since he talks about himself all day long — score 1
- **4.** His neglect of her listening and his constant boasting about himself — no support

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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 1328, line 13: «Denis is "fond of talking himself, but not of listening to any one else", so he soon has nothing more to say to her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «denis» (+2). Against it: 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/1328-pg3454-part53/e3/)

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

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What does Tephany believe Aziliez possesses that she herself lacks?

- **1.** Wisdom — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The beauty that Denis loves most in women — no support
- **3.** The loveliest face for miles round — no support
- **4.** Beauty — **✓ 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/1328-pg3454-part53/e4/)

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