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title: Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 167 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 14 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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# Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen

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**Tests:** 5 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 167 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/167-pg128-part7/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo, what colours were the fish, fr?

- **1.** white, red, blue and yellow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** white and red — no support
- **3.** red, green, black, white — no support
- **4.** white, red, green and gold — 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/167-pg128-part7/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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bruh, how much gold did the fisherman get?

- **1.** three hundred gold pieces — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** four hundred gold pieces — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** a few coins — no support
- **4.** ten gold pieces — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 167, line 4: «The fisherman catches four fish of four colours, takes them to the Sultan, and is paid four hundred gold pieces.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fisherman» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «hundred gold pieces» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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lowkey, who was the sus lady in the kitchen?

- **1.** a damsel from the cellar — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a damsel who came out of the kitchen wall — no support
- **3.** a beautiful damsel who rose from the wall with a wand — no support
- **4.** a damsel out of the wall — **✓ 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/167-pg128-part7/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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ngl, what did the genius want from the fisherman?

- **1.** to be let go at sea — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** gold from the lake — no support
- **3.** to be let out of the brass vase at once — no support
- **4.** to be let out of the vase — **✓ 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/167-pg128-part7/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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so who was the big boss who wanted the fish, innit?

- **1.** the Sultan — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** the grand-vizir — no support
- **3.** the king — no support
- **4.** the first vizir — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 167, line 11: «Who wants the fish? The Sultan, who tells his first vizir, "Take these fish," and sends them to the cook.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «first vizir» (+3); the same property (+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/167-pg128-part7/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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wait, who did the vizir hand the fish to, like?

- **1.** the cook — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** the Sultan — no support
- **3.** a maid — no support
- **4.** a boy — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 167, line 5: «In the palace kitchen a damsel steps out of the wall, scolds the fish, and turns them to cinders, so the cook cries and the fisherman must fish again.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «cook» (+1). Against it: 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/167-pg128-part7/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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how did the king die, fr?

- **1.** poison on the pages — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** poison smeared on the book's pages — no support
- **3.** poison on the pages of his golden book — score 4
- **4.** by the wicked book — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 114, line 5: «Then an old king dies after begging faithful John to guard his son and keep him away from the portrait in the last room.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+5); the same doer «old king» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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ok, what did the fish say when the damsel asked?

- **1.** "Stay, stay" — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** "Yes, yes, we will obey you all" — no support
- **3.** "Yes, yes" — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** "Yes, yes, we are ready 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/167-pg128-part7/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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bro, what made the cook cry?

- **1.** burnt food — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the fish were cold — no support
- **3.** the fish were burnt black — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the sauce was spoiled — 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/167-pg128-part7/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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lol, did the fisherman go back to the lake at night?

- **1.** no, he stayed at home — no support
- **2.** yeah, he went to the lake — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yeah, he crept out to the lake in the dark — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** yeah, he went back to the lake at midnight — 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 167, line 8: «Where does the fisherman go? He walks past the town, "went up a mountain and then down into a great plain," and reaches the lake.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fisherman» (+4). 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/167-pg128-part7/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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real talk, how many times a day could he cast the nets?

- **1.** once — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** daily — no support
- **3.** twice — score 4
- **4.** three times — 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, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 151, line 16: «fact: Why the Rook is scared: men have "a way of saying one thing and meaning another", which has killed their friends.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+4); the same doer «way» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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pls tell me, what was the damsel holding?

- **1.** a golden cup — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a cane of olive — no support
- **3.** a wand of myrtle — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** a stick — 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/167-pg128-part7/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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wait, what was the physician's trick, like the head?

- **1.** a book with poison on its pages — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a poisoned book — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** a golden cup — no support
- **4.** a knife — 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/167-pg128-part7/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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no cap, what did the genius kick into the sea?

- **1.** the heavy brass vase with the seal — score 10
- **2.** the sealed lead vase from the lake — no support
- **3.** the old cup — score 6
- **4.** the vase — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 167, line 3: «The genius lets himself out, kicks the vase into the sea, and leads the fisherman over a mountain to a lake between four hills.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kick» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same place «sea» (+2); the same thing acted on «vase» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t14/)

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

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Which colour of fish was not mentioned in the account of the catch?

- **1.** yellow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** blue — no support
- **3.** bright yellow and blue — no support
- **4.** green — **✓ 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/167-pg128-part7/e1/)

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

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To whom did the Sultan entrust the four fish for preparation?

- **1.** to his first vizir, who carried them — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** to the cook — score 6
- **3.** to his second vizir — score 6
- **4.** to his first vizir — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask whom it is for. 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 167, line 11: «Who wants the fish? The Sultan, who tells his first vizir, "Take these fish," and sends them to the cook.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sultan» (+4); the same thing acted on «fish» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/167-pg128-part7/e2/)

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

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Of what material was the garment worn by the damsel?

- **1.** a long robe of flowered green satin — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** striped cotton — no support
- **3.** richly flowered satin with gold thread — no support
- **4.** flowered satin — **✓ 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/167-pg128-part7/e3/)

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

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What was the fisherman's stated reason for delaying the second delivery of fish?

- **1.** his illness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a broken net — no support
- **3.** the length of the way and a broken net — no support
- **4.** the length of the way — **✓ 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/167-pg128-part7/e4/)

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