--- title: Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lo… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1495 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1495-pg503-part82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 1495 # Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace **Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1495 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. 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/1495-pg503-part82/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Oi, who got the princess in the end, like? - **1.** Ahmed — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Prince Ali, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Houssain, mate — score 0 - **4.** Prince Ahmed, mate — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 291, line 6: «Who: Gerda, a little girl in bare feet, and the Raven of the woods, who talks to her in the story.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1495-pg503-part82/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Mate, what was Ahmed's present, the apple? - **1.** A golden apple — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A fake apple, proper — no support - **3.** An artificial apple, proper — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** A wax pear, mate — no support **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/1495-pg503-part82/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Was Ahmed gutted he lost his arrow? - **1.** Nah, not bothered — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, dead gutted, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yeah, kinda sad, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, a bit — no support **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/1495-pg503-part82/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Did Houssain stay for the wedding, or nah? - **1.** Nah, he turned hermit, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** Yeah, he danced at it, bruv — no support - **3.** Nah, he turned hermit and gave up the crown, bruv — score 2 - **4.** Nah, he went off and turned hermit in the hills, bruv — score 2 **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 1495, line 11: «Houssain leaves the Court and turns hermit, having "renounced all right of succession to the crown".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «houssain» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1495-pg503-part82/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Where'd the arrows go, like, which way? - **1.** Straight on, past the big rocks and the steep hill — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Left, back towards the city — score 2 - **3.** Straight on from the arrows, past the rocks and the palace — score 6 - **4.** Straight on, past the rocks — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 317, line 5: «The sun's golden arrows point the way, and the children greet the island like an old friend until night makes it dark and frightening.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «golden arrows» (+3); the same circumstance (+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/1495-pg503-part82/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Those rocks, how far off were they, roughly? - **1.** Four leagues, dead far, past the big sandy plain — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Two leagues, pretty far — score 4 - **3.** Four leagues, dead far, like a day's ride — no support - **4.** Four leagues, dead far — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1226, line 9: «Why: the wolverine was "dull, and wanted someone to play with," so he challenged the rock to a race.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wolverine» (+2); the same thing acted on «rock» (+2). 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/1495-pg503-part82/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Who's the lady at the palace then? - **1.** Some majestic lady, proper posh, standing at the porch — no support - **2.** Some majestic lady, proper posh, waiting by the iron door — no support - **3.** Some old lady, proper rich — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Some majestic lady, proper posh — **✓ the right answer** · no support **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 1307, line 7: «What: the rich lady keeps pushing the case, so it is "tried over again" until it reaches the highest judge.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «rich lady» (+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/1495-pg503-part82/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Did the lady know Ahmed's name, bruh? - **1.** Nah, she called him Houssain — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Yeah, she greeted him by name as soon as he arrived — score 3 - **3.** Yeah, she greeted him by name — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** Yeah, she asked his age — score 2 **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 1307, line 11: «The wife cries, "It was that onion, I know it was," and her husband answers, "If the man has poisoned you he shall pay for it."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «cry» (+2); the same doer «wife» (+2). 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/1495-pg503-part82/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Was the iron door locked, though? - **1.** Nah, looked like it had no lock or key at all — score 2 - **2.** Yeah, it was locked tight with a big iron lock, mate — score 0 - **3.** Nah, looked like it had no lock — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** Nah, it had a rusty bolt — no support **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 1495, line 14: «The cave's iron door "seemed to have no lock", yet it opens when he thrusts against it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «iron door» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1495-pg503-part82/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} How many paces to the palace, roughly? - **1.** Twenty or thirty, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Fifty or sixty, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Ten, mate — no support - **4.** Fifty or sixty, mate, a long walk over the sand — no support **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/1495-pg503-part82/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Was the Sultan well chill about the contest? - **1.** Nah, he was proper deep in thought — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nah, he was proper worried, mate — no support - **3.** Yeah, he was well chill about the whole thing, mate — no support - **4.** Nah, he was proper angry and shouted at the Princes, mate — no support **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/1495-pg503-part82/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Wait, what gift did Houssain bring, mate? - **1.** A woven tapestry, the fancy one from the far east, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** A tapestry, the fancy one — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** A tapestry, the fancy one with gold thread, mate — no support - **4.** A cloak, the posh one — no support **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/1495-pg503-part82/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Did Ahmed get the princess in the end? - **1.** Nah, Ali was given her, mate — score 2 - **2.** Yeah, he did, bruv — no support - **3.** Yeah, Ahmed got her, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** Nah, Ali got her, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 459, line 9: «Why: the sons want to find their mother, so they ask the king, "Where is our mother?"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «king» (+4); the same doer «sons» (+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/1495-pg503-part82/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which Prince was awarded the hand of the Princess Nouronnihar by the Sultan? - **1.** Ahmed — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** Prince Ahmed — score 2 - **3.** Ali — score 2 - **4.** Prince Ali — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 476, line 19: «The prayer: a child "neither ate nor drank for three years" and prays, "God grant the kingdom of heaven to him at whose cost it was built!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grant» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1495-pg503-part82/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What was the outcome of the archery contest in respect of Prince Ahmed's arrow? - **1.** It was never recovered from the plain by anyone that day — score 0 - **2.** It was never recovered from the plain — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** It was lost in the sand dunes — score 0 - **4.** It was never recovered from the plain, though all the Princes searched for it long into the night — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1495, line 7: «What: The Sultan cannot pick one gift, so he sets an archery contest to decide who wins the Princess.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sultan» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1495-pg503-part82/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Upon what grounds did the Sultan decline to bestow the Princess upon any single Prince? - **1.** The three princes were of equal rank — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** The three gifts were of equal merit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** All gifts were equal — no support - **4.** The gifts were alike — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1493, line 3: «The Sultan sends the princes away to travel, promising the niece to whoever brings back the most extraordinary rarity.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1495-pg503-part82/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} By what means did the lady of the palace come to know the name of Prince Ahmed? - **1.** A servant told her the name — score 3 - **2.** The source is not disclosed in the passage — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The source is not disclosed anywhere in the passage at all — no support - **4.** Ahmed's name was written on arrow — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1303, line 9: «fact: Why: the princess recognises him because she had written her name under his arm, so she knows he is the true winner.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «write» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1495-pg503-part82/e4/) - ← previous: [1494. Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1494-pg503-part81/) - next →: [1497. Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Parib…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1497-pg503-part84/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)