--- title: Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, st… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1701 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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/1701-pg640-part25/) [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/) / 1701 # Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1701 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/1701-pg640-part25/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Oi mate, did the King turn into a massive eagle or what? - **1.** nah, he was a fox mate — no support - **2.** yeah — no support - **3.** yeah, proper wicked — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **4.** nah, just a bit of smoke — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1561, line 10: «Why the King is angry: "the people about the Court had so worked on him" that he turned against the youth.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruv, did he nick the Princess right off the barge? - **1.** yeah, swooped and grabbed her, innit — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** yeah, he dropped down and snatched her — score -1 - **3.** nah, she hopped off herself, innit — score -1 - **4.** nah, he never touched her, she just floated off the barge like a ghost, innit — **← 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 1701, line 2: «He spots a lovely Princess sitting on a barge, swoops down and carries her off before anyone can stop him.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «barge» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Is the King like a proper big wizard, like a legend? - **1.** yeah, he's a magician, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** nah, he's just a bloke, mate — score -1 - **3.** yeah, he's a knight, innit — score -1 - **4.** nah, just a farmer — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1665, line 3: «The king and queen give it slave-women, but each one is torn to pieces by morning.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «mate» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Did the Princess mint it with the King once she got in the palace? - **1.** nah, she was well mad at him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** yeah, she was dead keen on him — no support - **3.** nah, she hated him — score 0 - **4.** nah, she was proper upset then — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1207, line 5: «The prince begs to know the story, and the king begins to tell how he found a secret well and two blind peris.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} So the palace was made by magic, yeah? - **1.** yeah, it sprung up right out the ground in one night with all the gold and marble — no support - **2.** yeah, it sprung up right out the ground — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, it wasn't magic at all, they built it bit by bit with stone and proper workmen, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** nah, workmen built it over ten years — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1252, line 14: «The gnome stamps three times on the earth, and the magic palace "vanished away into the nothingness."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+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/1701-pg640-part25/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Did he hide it, like, properly? - **1.** nah, he just put up some big walls — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, he surrounded it with a dense cloud — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah, he covered it with a thick mist — no support - **4.** yeah, with a cloud — 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/1701-pg640-part25/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Why did the Prince go off on his travels? - **1.** to find a wife — score 3 - **2.** his father sent him to learn trades — score 4 - **3.** the King was worried about his charms and wanted him far away from the court — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** the King was worried about his charms — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1621, line 1: «The king is cross that the queen has no child, so he goes off on a journey for a whole year.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «queen» (+3); the same thing acted on «child» (+2). 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/1701-pg640-part25/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} Did the Queen give the Prince anything for the journey? - **1.** nah, only some bread and a flask — no support - **2.** yeah, a tiny picture of her daughter — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** nah, just some food — no support - **4.** yeah, a ring — no support **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 1701, line 5: «The Queen gives the Prince a tiny picture of her daughter, and he promises to search the whole world for her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «tiny picture» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} So the Prince is going to find the Princess, right? - **1.** nah, he's just having a nap — no support - **2.** yeah, he's on a proper mission — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, he's gone home — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 - **4.** yeah, he's off on a quest, bruv — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1685, line 15: «The Princess breaks the rule when she "said MORE THAN THREE WORDS", so the stove vanishes "over a mountain of glass and sharp swords".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «three words» (-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/1701-pg640-part25/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Would the Queen give her daughter to him if he got her back? - **1.** yeah, she'd be his — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, plus all her estates, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, not a chance — no support - **4.** yeah, and a bit of land, bruv — 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/1701-pg640-part25/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Was the Fairy on the Queen's side? - **1.** nah, she was on the King's side — score 0 - **2.** yeah, she loved the Queen and the Prince and helped them in every way she could — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** yeah, she helped the Queen in secret — score 1 - **4.** yeah, she loved the Queen and the Prince — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1538, line 2: «The fairy who comes to help is sent away by the cross King before she can do much.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «help» (+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/1701-pg640-part25/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Did the King's court miss him when he was gone? - **1.** nah, they barely noticed he had gone — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, the court was well pleased, innit — no support - **3.** yeah, they were glad — no support - **4.** yeah, everyone was well chuffed to see him — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1701-pg640-part25/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Did the King get the Princess to love him in the end? - **1.** nah, she stayed sad and kept her distance — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** yeah, she fell for him in the end but only after he had been kind to her for years — score 1 - **3.** nah, she stayed well cold and proper stubborn — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** nah, she stayed well cold and proper stubborn and never once smiled at him — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1685, line 3: «The Prince recognises her, and she stays with him for three months until his enchantment ends.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+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/1701-pg640-part25/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Identify the form which the King assumed in order to fly across the several countries described in the text. - **1.** a serpent — no support - **2.** an eagle — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** a great golden eagle with outstretched wings — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** a giant winged creature with the head of a lion — 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 1684, line 13: «The Crab reveals he is "the son of the greatest king in the world" and is enchanted, a crab by day and a man at night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1); the same circumstance (+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/1701-pg640-part25/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} State the reason the Queen travelled to visit her Fairy godmother in secret. - **1.** the King was a magician and might disapprove of her seeing the Fairy at all — score -1 - **2.** the King had banned all visits to her godmother — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** the court forbade all visits to fairies — score -1 - **4.** the King was a magician and might disapprove — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1085, line 9: «Why: the coach must be ready so she can go to the ball, where the King's son has asked for her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). 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/1701-pg640-part25/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Specify the object the Queen bestowed upon the Prince to assist him in his quest. - **1.** a ring — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** a letter sealed with wax — no support - **3.** a miniature of her daughter — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a map — 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/1701-pg640-part25/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the view of the world. - **1.** by surrounding it with a dense cloud — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **2.** with a dense grove of ancient trees — no support - **3.** by hiding it under a thick mist — score 0 - **4.** by building a hedge of thorns and a thousand guards at each gate — no support **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 1701, line 16: «The King hid the palace under "a dense cloud" so that no one could find it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «palace» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1701-pg640-part25/e4/) - ← previous: [1700. Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1700-pg640-part24/) - next →: [1702. Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1702-pg640-part26/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)