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title: Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed,… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 173 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 14 tests right, exam 2 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 Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground

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**Tests:** 2 of 14 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 173 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/173-pg128-part13/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, what was the dude's fave thing to learn, for real?

- **1.** scribbling Arabic letters all day long, like proper calligraphy, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** copying out the Arabic alphabet on paper for hours, fam, no cap — no support
- **3.** writing Arabic letters, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** learning Persian poems, 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/173-pg128-part13/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Wait, how many robbers jumped them, roughly?

- **1.** like ten, bruv — no support
- **2.** around twenty, innit — no support
- **3.** fifty of them, bro — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** maybe thirty, bro — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 173, line 10: «What happened: fifty robbers came out of "a cloud of dust" and "attacked us brutally".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fifty robbers» (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/173-pg128-part13/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why'd he bolt on his horse, anyway?

- **1.** cos there was no way he could win against that many blokes with swords — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** cos the horse was fast — no support
- **3.** cos fighting was pointless — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** cos they outnumbered him — 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/173-pg128-part13/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Did the robbers actually care who he was?

- **1.** nah, they didn't care who he was, they just wanted all his stuff and his horse — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** nah, they were just laughing and told him to shut up and hand it over — score -2
- **3.** nah, it was none of their business — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** nah, they just wanted his gold — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 124, line 19: «Why: the robbers want him to creep "through a keyhole" into the king's treasury, because he is so small.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «want» (+1); the same doer «robbers» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (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/173-pg128-part13/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Where'd the prince kip that first night?

- **1.** by a river — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** in a cave under a mountain — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** under a tree by a stream — no support
- **4.** in a hut in the woods — 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/173-pg128-part13/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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What was the tailor's advice, like?

- **1.** keep it on the down low, yeah — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** don't flash your money, yeah — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** just keep your head down — no support
- **4.** keep it quiet, yeah, and don't tell nobody who your dad is or where you're from — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 97, line 19: «Real life: scientists today use the words «a just-so story» for a neat-sounding explanation that nobody has tested, like how the leopard got his spots by finge…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «words» (+1). 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/173-pg128-part13/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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So what did he end up doing for cash?

- **1.** he got a job chopping logs for some bloke who sold them at the gate — no support
- **2.** chopping wood and selling it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** he ended up doing the woodcutting thing and flogging the wood on the streets — score 3
- **4.** selling water in the square — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 39, line 1: «The front-door bell clangs, and in bursts the Otter, hugging the Rat so hard he splutters through his buttered toast. All the river bank was in a panic, he say…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «rat» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/173-pg128-part13/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Whoa, what did he find under that tree?

- **1.** a rock with a hole in it — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** a stone with some writing — score 5
- **3.** a dusty old box — score 5
- **4.** a trapdoor with an iron ring — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 121, line 11: «The huntsmen find her in the tree; she throws down her necklace, her girdle and her rich dress, but they still climb up.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «tree» (+3); the same action «find» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/173-pg128-part13/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Was the palace under the ground or nah?

- **1.** nah, it was on top of the ground, but hidden by a huge wall of trees — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, it was on a hill top — no support
- **3.** yeah, deep under the earth — no support
- **4.** yeah, it was under the ground — **✓ 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/173-pg128-part13/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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So who's the lady, like what's her deal?

- **1.** a lady, kinda sad, yeah — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a princess stuck down there — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** some servant girl — no support
- **4.** some girl who got lost — 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/173-pg128-part13/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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How long was she stuck there, bruv?

- **1.** ages and ages, like her whole life, bruv, since she was married — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** five and twenty years — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** since she was a young girl, like many decades, going on forever, bruv — no support
- **4.** twenty five years, bro — 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/173-pg128-part13/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Who snatched her, though?

- **1.** some kind of spirit thing, grabbed her right in the middle of the big wedding party — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a massive genie dude who came and whisked her off on the night she got married — no support
- **3.** a bloke, on the wedding day — no support
- **4.** a genie, on her wedding day — **✓ 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/173-pg128-part13/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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How'd she call for help if she needed it?

- **1.** she rubs some magic stone that's hidden up on the wall of the room near the door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** press a charm near the door — no support
- **3.** touch a talisman by her door — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** tap the lamp by the wall — 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/173-pg128-part13/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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What did he beg her to do at dinner?

- **1.** leave the cave and go with him — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** break all the chains and bonds and then travel back up to the surface with him — no support
- **3.** escape and head home with him — no support
- **4.** break free and come home with him — **✓ 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/173-pg128-part13/t14/)

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

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Which accomplishment did the young prince pursue with the greatest devotion during his education?

- **1.** the learning of ancient poetry — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** the study of the old scrolls — no support
- **3.** the careful copying of Arabic characters onto parchment with a reed pen — no support
- **4.** the writing of Arabic characters — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 114, line 13: «The prince wants to know where she lives, so he follows her; she slips away and hides in the pigeon-house.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «follow» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+2); a different thing acted on (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/173-pg128-part13/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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By what means did the prince escape from the company of the robbers?

- **1.** by riding away on his horse — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** by sneaking off at night — no support
- **3.** by galloping through the gate — no support
- **4.** by a secret door — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 98, line 1: «A princess rides off to marry a prince far away, with her maid and her talking horse Falada.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same property (+1). 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/173-pg128-part13/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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What advice did the tailor offer the prince regarding his means of subsistence?

- **1.** to cut firewood for sale — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** to beg — no support
- **3.** to steal — no support
- **4.** to trade horses for gold — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 173, line 3: «The tailor sends him to cut firewood, and he works so hard that he soon earns enough to repay the tailor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «firewood» (+2); the same action «cut» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/173-pg128-part13/e3/)

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

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Through what passage did the prince first gain access to the subterranean palace?

- **1.** a gate beneath a cracked wall — no support
- **2.** a secret tunnel — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** a trapdoor beneath an iron ring — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** a stone slab under a tree — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 173, line 2: «Alone and hungry, he wanders for a month until he reaches a green city, where a kind tailor takes him in and warns him of danger.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «reach» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/173-pg128-part13/e4/)

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