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title: Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her true story… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1449 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her true story and wins back her pinks

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1449 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/1449-pg503-part36/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Wait, the cabbage actually talked to Felicia? That's mental, innit

- **1.** Nope, the hen did all the talking — no support
- **2.** Yeah, the cabbage talked, and it told her where the pinks were hidden, then went quiet again — score 5
- **3.** Yeah, and it told her where the pinks were, but she fainted before she could thank it properly — score 5
- **4.** Yeah, and it told her where the pinks were — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1449, line 1: «Felicia meets a talking cabbage, which tells her where her pinks are hidden.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «felicia» (+4); the same doer «talking cabbage» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1449-pg503-part36/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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So Felicia's not even the laborer's kid? Bare confusing, mate

- **1.** Yeah, she's the laborer's kid — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Nope, she's a princess who got swapped — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nope, she's a fairy — no support
- **4.** Nope, she's the Queen's kid — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kid» (+2); the same thing acted on «kid» (+2). 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/1449-pg503-part36/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why did the hen get turned into a hen anyway?

- **1.** She was cursed by the King — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** She blabbed the secret to too many people — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** She turned into a cabbage — no support
- **4.** She blabbed the secret to too many people at the palace — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1236, line 12: «Why: the king's patience gives way, so he says the feather belongs to the one who finds the hen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «hen» (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «one» (-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/1449-pg503-part36/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Did Felicia actually sort out the rats or what?

- **1.** Yeah, she splashed water on them and they all bolted — score 1
- **2.** Yeah, she splashed water and the rats bolted, but only after she had chased them out of the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Yeah, she shouted and they bolted — no support
- **4.** Yeah, she splashed water and they bolted — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1449, line 3: «Felicia drives off the rats with water and rescues the pinks, which then speak to her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «felicia» (+4). Against it: the same thing acted on «rats» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/1449-pg503-part36/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Bruno's proper mad, innit? Why's he such a grump?

- **1.** Working in the heat all day wrecked his mood, and the rats had eaten his dinner too — score 4
- **2.** He had been robbed — score 4
- **3.** Working in the heat all day wrecked his mood — score 4
- **4.** Working in the heat wrecked his mood — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1449, line 15: «Bruno was cross because "working hard in the heat had not improved his temper."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «bruno» (+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/1449-pg503-part36/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Wait, the pink talked too? Like a proper talking flower?

- **1.** Nah, it was a bird — no support
- **2.** Nope, it was the hen — no support
- **3.** No, the pink just sat there — no support
- **4.** Yeah, it said how the flowers love her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 926, line 9: «Why: the lamp is happy because "They love me for myself alone, they keep me bright, and supply me with oil."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «flowers» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1449-pg503-part36/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Who was the lady in green, the Queen of the Woods?

- **1.** A fairy from the woods, basically — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Felicia's real mother, basically — no support
- **3.** Felicia's future mother-in-law, basically — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Felicia's aunt, basically — 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/1449-pg503-part36/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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So who turned the guards into cabbages?

- **1.** The fairy's rats — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** The lady with the magic words, who had come from the woods with the zephyrs and the pinks — score -1
- **3.** The lady with the magic words — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** The lady with the magic words, who had been cursed by the fairy — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 13, line 12: «The March Hare tells Alice «Then you should say what you mean»; the Hatter shows that turning words round changes the sense: «I see what I eat» is not the same…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2); the same thing acted on «words» (+1). 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/1449-pg503-part36/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Why did the Queen run out of her tower?

- **1.** The King wanted her to have a son and heir — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** The King had threatened her and wanted her to have a son, so she ran from the tower in the night — score 1
- **3.** The King wanted her to have a son — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** The King wanted her to have a daughter — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 698, line 10: «Why: the queen sends the king on a journey because she wants him gone, and he is "too lazy to make a fight for it".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want» (+1); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). Against it: the same doer «queen» (-1). 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/1449-pg503-part36/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Which bit made you feel sorry for the hen?

- **1.** The cabbage speaking — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** The rats fleeing — no support
- **3.** Being turned into a hen for telling a secret to the whole court — score 0
- **4.** Being turned into a hen for telling a secret — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 799, line 3: «A boy puts him in his pocket, then ties him to the mast of a ship made from an old wooden shoe, and the wind and waves carry him out to sea.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2); the same thing acted on «ship» (+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/1449-pg503-part36/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the Prince look hot or what in the green coat?

- **1.** Yeah, he was dead handsome with a pink crown — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** Yeah, he was dead handsome with a sword — score 3
- **3.** Yeah, he was dead handsome in the green coat with a pink crown on his head — score 4
- **4.** Nah, he looked a bit pale — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1442, line 9: «Why: the Prince looks in the rooms because "there must be something that he is afraid of my seeing."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+4); the same action «look» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1449-pg503-part36/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Felicia's gonna marry him then, yeah?

- **1.** Looks like it, if she says yes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, she's saying no — no support
- **3.** Looks like it, if the King says yes — no support
- **4.** Nope, she's going home — 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/1449-pg503-part36/t12/)

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

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Identify the principal character of the passage who is revealed to be of royal birth.

- **1.** Prince Pink, who is the son of the King — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Felicia, the foundling, who is the daughter of the Queen — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Felicia, the laborer's child, who is the niece of the King — score 2
- **4.** The Queen, the mother of the Prince — no support

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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 1440, line 16: «In her dream the Prince asks, "Are you not leaving me to my death perhaps?"», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+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/1449-pg503-part36/e1/)

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

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State the cause of the fainting of Felicia in the passage.

- **1.** The cold of the garden — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak in the garden — no support
- **3.** The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The shock of hearing a cabbage, a hen and a pink speak together, after a long day of work in the heat — 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/1449-pg503-part36/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Account for the failure of the fairy's final attempt upon Felicia.

- **1.** The rats were unable to frighten Felicia — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The zephyrs carried her away — no support
- **3.** The King stopped her — no support
- **4.** The fairy lacked magic — 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/1449-pg503-part36/e3/)

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

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Describe the manner in which the Queen of the Woods proposes marriage.

- **1.** She sends a letter to the King — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** She offers the silver ring to the Prince and asks Felicia whether she finds him amiable — score 4
- **3.** She offers the silver ring and asks whether Felicia finds the Prince amiable — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** She throws the silver ring — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1181, line 2: «She tells him that his queen is alive, that the queen sent a letter written in her own blood, and that he has a daughter nearly nine years old.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+2); the same thing acted on «letter» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1449-pg503-part36/e4/)

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