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# Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 169 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/169-pg128-part9/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, who actually cut the queen in two?

- **1.** The Sultan, no cap — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** A guard — score 5
- **3.** The queen herself — score 5
- **4.** The fisher — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 169, line 4: «The Sultan cuts the queen in two with one blow of his sword, then finds the prince and tells him the enemy is dead.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); the same doer «sultan» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/169-pg128-part9/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Wait, so the fish were people the whole time?

- **1.** Kinda, I guess — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Not really, bro — no support
- **3.** Nope — no support
- **4.** Yeah, straight up — **✓ 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/169-pg128-part9/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Dude, how far was the Sultan's trip really?

- **1.** A whole year, fr — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Ages — no support
- **3.** Like a month, bro — no support
- **4.** A day — 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/169-pg128-part9/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Why did the Sultan wanna make the prince his heir?

- **1.** Cause he had no kids — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was super chill — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Cause the prince saved his whole kingdom from war — score 5
- **4.** He liked him lots — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 128, line 9: «Why: the King is "very fond of gold", so he wants her to make him rich.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+5); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3). 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/169-pg128-part9/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Ok, what was the porter's whole job?

- **1.** Hauling loads, dude — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Like, carrying heavy stuff for rich people all day long — no support
- **3.** Basically fixing the roofs of the whole palace complex — no support
- **4.** Sweeping the floors — 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/169-pg128-part9/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Bro, who was the eldest lady in the crib?

- **1.** Amina — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Sadie — no support
- **3.** The middle one — no support
- **4.** Zobeida, obvi — **✓ 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/169-pg128-part9/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Did the porter get paid for hauling the basket?

- **1.** Nah, but he got a free meal and a nice bed, dude — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Kinda, some coins — no support
- **3.** Yeah, handsomely, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yeah, a little bit — 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/169-pg128-part9/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why was the lady with the veil so mysterious?

- **1.** Because she was basically the enchantress in disguise all along, bro — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She was hiding stuff — no support
- **3.** She was a secret, lowkey — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Cause she was actually a queen hiding from her enemies — 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/169-pg128-part9/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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What did the porter have to promise to stay?

- **1.** He promised to carry the basket and not ask anything at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Just pay the fee — no support
- **3.** He had to swear on the holy book and pay a huge fee, dude — no support
- **4.** No questions, got 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/169-pg128-part9/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Where did the new story go down?

- **1.** Bagdad, like the big city by the river, no cap, dude — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bagdad, the city, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The palace, no cap — no support
- **4.** Somewhere in the desert near the capital, I guess, bro — 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/169-pg128-part9/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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Wait, what was the water boiled with?

- **1.** Some herbs, bro — no support
- **2.** A secret spell — no support
- **3.** Magic words, no cap — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Oil, fr — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 169, line 1: «The queen boils a cup of water with magic words and throws it on the prince, who becomes a man again.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/169-pg128-part9/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Ok, how did the prince get his body back?

- **1.** He got new legs — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The water like totally fixed him up, no cap, dude — no support
- **3.** The water fixed him, fr — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He got his body back — 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/169-pg128-part9/t12/)

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

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Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of his sword?

- **1.** The young king — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** The Sultan — **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** The fisherman — score 7
- **4.** A guard — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 169, line 4: «The Sultan cuts the queen in two with one blow of his sword, then finds the prince and tells him the enemy is dead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+6); the same place «two» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «sultan» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/169-pg128-part9/e1/)

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

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What did the enchantress pronounce over the cup of water in order to make it boil?

- **1.** Magic chants and rhymes — score 2
- **2.** Certain words of enchantment — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The name of the prince written three times upon the cup's rim — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** A long prayer read slowly from a golden book of the old kings — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 169, line 2: «The enchantress sends the prince away, and he hides to watch what the Sultan will do next.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «enchantress» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2); 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/169-pg128-part9/e2/)

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

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How long, according to the King of the Black Isles, was the true journey to the capital?

- **1.** Almost two years' march — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Three days — no support
- **3.** A week's ride — no support
- **4.** A whole year's journey — **✓ 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/169-pg128-part9/e3/)

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

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Upon whom did the porter's attention settle when he entered the court?

- **1.** A third lady seated on a throne — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **2.** A third lady seated upon a golden throne beneath a canopy of silk — score -2
- **3.** A sleeping old man — no support
- **4.** A woman by the window — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 98, line 19: «OLD WORD: A "waiting-maid" was a servant who attended a lady, helping her dress and travel; today we would say a lady's maid.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/169-pg128-part9/e4/)

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