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title: Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the Beast's bargain

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**Tests:** 6 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1438 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/1438-pg503-part25/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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ok so the merchant wakes up starving, what's he even eating

- **1.** Some roasted meat and wine from the great kitchen downstairs — no support
- **2.** Dinner left on a little table — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Whatever the castle servants had left out for him — score 2
- **4.** Fruit from the garden trees — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1438, line 1: «explain: The merchant wakes up starving in the empty palace and eats a meal that someone has left on a little table.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «leave» (+3); the same place «little table» (+2); the same thing acted on «meal» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1438-pg503-part25/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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wait, why's he scared of the quiet, like it's a horror movie

- **1.** Cuz the place is empty and creepy — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Cuz he's guilty and sad — no support
- **3.** Cuz there's ghosts about — no support
- **4.** Cuz he thinks someone's watching him from every window — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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bruv the garden is sunny in winter, like how is that even possible

- **1.** Magic — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It's magic, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Dunno — no support
- **4.** Some sort of spell — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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so he just picks a rose, no cap, what a muppet

- **1.** Yeah he was well rude — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he's a total muppet for stealing from a monster — no support
- **3.** Yeah he should've asked first — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nah, he only wanted to bring his daughter something nice — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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and the Beast is mad, like proper raging?

- **1.** Yeah he's well angry — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah he's dead calm — no support
- **3.** Nah he's just grumpy but he won't do anything at all — no support
- **4.** Yeah he's absolutely raging and wants blood right now — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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what's the deal then, is he gonna let him go?

- **1.** Only if he pays gold — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Only if a daughter comes back — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, he's keeping him — no support
- **4.** Nah, he'll keep him forever — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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a month? that's wild, what's the timer

- **1.** Like a month-long countdown before he comes back and checks — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Thirty days to decide but the timer never stops — no support
- **3.** Like a week, innit — no support
- **4.** Thirty days to decide — **✓ 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/1438-pg503-part25/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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so the dad's sons are going to fight the Beast, are they

- **1.** Yeah, fight — no support
- **2.** Nah, they don't — no support
- **3.** Yeah they wanna kill him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Yeah they wanna help him — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1308, line 9: «Why: the son wants the property, and later he is filled with envy when he hears his sister is doing well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «son» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1438-pg503-part25/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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and Beauty just says she'll go, like, why though

- **1.** Cuz she feels like it's her fault and wants to make it right — no support
- **2.** To save her sisters now — no support
- **3.** To keep her dad's promise — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Cuz she wants to see the Beast and take back the rose — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1438, line 17: «fact: Beauty answers that she will go back "to keep his promise", because the rose cost her father so much.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «promise» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1438-pg503-part25/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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her sisters are well mad at her, right

- **1.** Nah, not her — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah it's all her fault — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah they're upset — no support
- **4.** Yeah, her bad — 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/1438-pg503-part25/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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how's the horse going, is it sick or what

- **1.** Fast, yeah — no support
- **2.** It's fast and smooth, proper lit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** It's calm and steady, not bad — no support
- **4.** Dunno, fine — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 254, line 12: «The old man flings the yarn "between the horse's two ears," and the horse goes "as fast as the wind."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «horse» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1438-pg503-part25/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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and does Beauty actually enjoy the ride or nah

- **1.** Nah, she's too scared to enjoy any of it at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, but she's worried — no support
- **3.** Nah, she hated it — no support
- **4.** Yeah she'd have liked it — **✓ 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/1438-pg503-part25/t12/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the merchant's actions after he awakes in the palace?

- **1.** He refuses the meal and searches the halls for the Beast and his servants — score 1
- **2.** He consumes a meal provided for him and explores the empty rooms and garden — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** He eats the meal, explores the empty rooms and garden, then sits by the fire waiting for the Beast to arrive and speak to him — score 5
- **4.** He tastes a meal, then wanders the cold palace gardens and then leaves quickly — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1438, line 2: «explain: He searches the rooms again, finds no servant, and pretends the treasures are all his own.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «search» (+3); the same thing acted on «rooms» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1438-pg503-part25/e1/)

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

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Identify the condition that the Beast imposes upon the merchant in return for his forgiveness.

- **1.** That the merchant returns the rose every single month — score 3
- **2.** That one of his sons must fight the Beast in a duel — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** That the merchant must return alone within a month to beg the Beast for mercy again — score 2
- **4.** That one of the merchant's daughters shall come to the castle of her own accord — **✓ 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 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 742, line 21: «Old word: a "unicorn" in this tale is a one-horned beast, while today it is mostly a magical creature from stories.», 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 thing acted on «horned beast» (+2). 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/1438-pg503-part25/e2/)

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

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Explain why Beauty resolves to accompany her father to the castle.

- **1.** She intends to marry the Beast so she can gain riches and power for the entire merchant family and end their poverty for good — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** She hopes to earn her sisters' forgiveness by being brave and kind to the Beast — score 1
- **3.** She feels pity for the Beast and wants to free him from his loneliness and curse — no support
- **4.** She wishes to fulfil her father's promise, accepting that her own request caused the misfortune — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 892, line 17: «Why: he makes her ride behind him, because her "magic beauty has a magic power which comes from an evil origin".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «magic beauty» (+2); the same thing acted on «magic power» (+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/1438-pg503-part25/e3/)

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

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Which of the following best characterises the Beast's manner in the passage?

- **1.** Furious at first, then willing to show mercy on a condition — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Angry, then fully forgiving the merchant freely — no support
- **3.** Gentle and polite at first, then furious when the rose is taken, and finally willing to forgive in exchange for a daughter's sacrifice — no support
- **4.** Gentle at first, then growing violent and cruel — 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/1438-pg503-part25/e4/)

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