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title: Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and t… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished

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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 1456 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/1456-pg503-part43/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bruv, how long did the prince reckon he'd been a crab, like?

- **1.** Loads of years, not knowing the truth — no support
- **2.** Like, a few hours — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** A few hours, not knowing it was ten days, mad innit, fam, no cap — score 3
- **4.** A few hours, not knowing it was ten days — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1443, line 17: «Why: the Prince will not let her walk, because he thinks it "unbecoming either for her or for him to go on foot".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). 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/1456-pg503-part43/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Wait, what was the crow going off about, fam?

- **1.** Him forgetting the two maidens spinning flax in the hut, the big dumb prince — score 0
- **2.** Them ignoring the two spinning maidens — score 1
- **3.** Them forgetting the two maidens spinning flax — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Them forgetting the two maidens spinning flax, and the promise made on the sea — 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 401, line 16: «WHAT: a Crow forgets his promise to Apollo, and Mercury scolds him as "O thou most base fellow."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «crow» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Was the wedding bare long or proper short, like?

- **1.** Long, like six weeks of feasting — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Six weeks of feasting, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Six whole weeks of feasting, dancing, and music in the great hall, mate — no support
- **4.** Six weeks of feasting and music, proper long, mate, all the lords came — 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/1456-pg503-part43/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Did the witch get what she deserved, or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, mate, she died — score 4
- **2.** Yeah, she died — score 4
- **3.** Nah, she ate it and got away — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Yeah, she ate the poisoned cake and died — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 471, line 10: «Why: the witch wants to eat him, and cries "I shall eat you up in another moment."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+3); the same action «eat» (+1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Were the King and Queen gutted or proper buzzin' at church?

- **1.** Chuffed, dancing for their boy — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** Buzzin, feasting for their son — no support
- **3.** Gutted, weeping for their son — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** Happy, mate — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 787, line 11: «What the king says to her: "I never saw any one half so beautiful", after he dances with her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Was the prince's horse still there, or gone, mate?

- **1.** Still there — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Gone — no support
- **3.** Gone, nowhere to be seen — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Still stood by the bridge — 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/1456-pg503-part43/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out?

- **1.** Baked a cake with poison in it — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Baked a pie with venom in it — score 1
- **3.** Baked a sweet cake with poison in it and gave it to the old witch to eat — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Cooked a meal with poison — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1456, line 15: «Why poison: the crow says "Poison were her fittest punishment," so the maidens bake a cake with poison in it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «maidens» (+2); the same thing acted on «cake» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). 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/1456-pg503-part43/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Was the witch's hut sick or just ruined, innit?

- **1.** Burned to ashes by the fire — no support
- **2.** Razed to the ground, completely flattened, with not a single stone left standing, bruv — score 2
- **3.** Razed to the ground, flattened — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Razed to the ground, flattened, and the ashes scattered across the field — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1456, line 19: «Old word: "razed" means knocked flat, so "the hut was razed to the ground" means it was torn down completely.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «raze» (+3); the same circumstance (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Did the Princess reckon the sky would ever let her out, or nah?

- **1.** She just watched the clouds and wondered — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She just watched the birds and dreamed — no support
- **3.** She just watched the clouds and wondered, dreaming of freedom from the brass prison — no support
- **4.** She just watched the clouds drift by and wondered if she'd ever be free, bruv — 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/1456-pg503-part43/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Was the boy proper sorry about his oath, or what?

- **1.** Sorta, but he kept the oath — score -3
- **2.** Nah, he was glad — score 2
- **3.** Kinda sad, but he kept it — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Maybe sorry, but he kept his word — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1402, line 1: «Pinocchio, now the class favourite, ignores the Fairy's warnings and goes along with seven boys who say a Shark is near the shore.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «pinocchio» (+3); the same action «go along» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the young man have wings, or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, on his cap and his shoes, and his golden staff too, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, on his helmet and gloves — no support
- **3.** Yeah, on his cap and his shoes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, on his cap and his shoes, like little golden wings, proper 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/1456-pg503-part43/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Ok, what did the baby do in that brass chest, bruv?

- **1.** Slept soundly, not scared of waves, rocked by the sea all night long, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Cried a lot, scared of waves — score 1
- **3.** Slept soundly, not scared of waves — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Slept sweetly, scared of nothing — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 568, line 2: «Brer Rabbit comes hopping down the road, sassy as a jay-bird, and greets the Tar-Baby, who never answers a word.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «tar baby» (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/1456-pg503-part43/t12/)

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

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In what manner did the Prince restore the maiden to human form?

- **1.** By saying the words by the oak — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **2.** By reciting the incantation beside the mountain ash and the large stone at dawn — no support
- **3.** By reciting the incantation beside the mountain ash — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By chanting a spell near the willow — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 722, line 11: «fact: When the friend wakes up at the shrine, the prince says, "Restore him to life, I pray."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «fact» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-4). 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/1456-pg503-part43/e1/)

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

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What was the cause of the Prince's failure to locate his horse upon the bridge?

- **1.** He had been submerged for upward of ten days — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He had been submerged for upward of ten days and the horse had long since fled — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** He had been drowned for ten days — score -1
- **4.** He had been underwater for ten days — 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 770, line 9: «Why: the horse is sent away because he can no longer work.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «horse» (+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/1456-pg503-part43/e2/)

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

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Which penalty was imposed upon the old witch through the maidens' design?

- **1.** She ate a poisoned pie and died — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She was burned — no support
- **3.** She swallowed poison and expired — no support
- **4.** She consumed a poisoned cake and expired — **✓ 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/1456-pg503-part43/e3/)

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

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Of what material was the chest in which the Princess and infant were cast upon the sea?

- **1.** Iron — no support
- **2.** Silver, bound with golden rings — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** Brass, bound with metal straps — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Wood — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 261, line 11: «The princess ties "a diamond ring" in the lad's hair, and she says goodbye to him with sorrow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/1456-pg503-part43/e4/)

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