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title: Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1758 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 12 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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# Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret

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**Tests:** 4 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1758 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/1758-pg641-part9/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, so who got turned to stone first?

- **1.** the eldest prince — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **2.** the youngest — score 6
- **3.** the second — score 6
- **4.** the middle brother — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 762, line 13: «fact: The eldest brother turns to stone because he finds only the first hundred pearls, and the spell says "if one be missing by set of sun" he is turned to ma…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+3); the same receiver (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Lowkey, why did the barber lie to the emperor?

- **1.** to avoid the axe — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** to save his own neck — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** for fun — no support
- **4.** to hide his shame — 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/1758-pg641-part9/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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No cap, what did the witch's rod actually do?

- **1.** turned them to stone and kept them there for years — score 8
- **2.** turned every beast and traveller on the road to solid grey stone — score 8
- **3.** turned them to stone — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** turned them to dust — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 1663, line 1: «Her stepsister pushes Maiden Bright-eye into the sea, and a magic cap turns her into a duck.», 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 (+3); the same action «turn» (+2); the same doer «magic cap» (+2); 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/1758-pg641-part9/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Fr, what was the old lady doing by the fire?

- **1.** raking sticks and leaves — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** raking sticks and leaves into a pile near the fire — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **3.** gathering wood for fire — score -1
- **4.** boiling water in a pot — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1580, line 8: «Cinders are the grey ash left in a fire; his mother bakes his cake "in the cinders", so it is plain and gritty.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. 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/1758-pg641-part9/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wait, what did the youngest brother spot on the birch?

- **1.** red stains on the moss — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a bloody cut — no support
- **3.** blood oozing out of the cut — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** blood — 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/1758-pg641-part9/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Bruh, what did the princess figure out?

- **1.** he was a liar — no support
- **2.** the man was a thief — no support
- **3.** the man was not her husband — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the man was a stranger in disguise — **← Mova's choice** · score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1553, line 7: «Where did the children go? They followed the stranger to "the foot of the mountain which one sees on entering Hamel".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «stranger» (-2). 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/1758-pg641-part9/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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That's so random, what did the master suggest for his secret?

- **1.** dig a hole and whisper into it — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **2.** write it on a stone — score -4
- **3.** tell the wind — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **4.** carve it into an old oak tree — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1117, line 13: «The eldest brother proposes: "say that we killed the hog", a lie told to hide what they really did to their brother.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+7). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on (-3). The right option, 1, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Lowkey, why was the second brother so sad?

- **1.** he had lost his horse and sword — no support
- **2.** he thought both brothers were dead — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** he thought both of his brothers were dead and he was alone now — no support
- **4.** he saw blood on the tree and believed both of his brothers were dead — score -3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1758, line 12: «The princess knows the man is not her husband, so she sends the men to search the wood instead of believing them.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+4). Against it: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Ngl, how did the witch fix the whole mess?

- **1.** burned a tree — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** burned an oak into ashes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** boiled herbs in a pot — no support
- **4.** lit a fire — 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/1758-pg641-part9/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Deadass, who did the townsfolk think the second brother was?

- **1.** their own prince — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** the lost prince who had returned from the forest — score 2
- **3.** a visiting lord — score 2
- **4.** a stranger — 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 1758, line 12: «The princess knows the man is not her husband, so she sends the men to search the wood instead of believing them.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «men» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Fr, which beast did the second brother turn to stone with the rod?

- **1.** the bear — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** the ox — score 3
- **3.** the fox — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** the wolf — 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 1758, line 7: «What: the witch strikes the beasts and the princes with her rod, and "in a moment the beasts and their master were turned into stone."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+3). 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/1758-pg641-part9/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Wild, what made the king get confused at the palace?

- **1.** which man was the true heir — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** which prince was the eldest — score 2
- **3.** which son-in-law was which — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** which son-in-law was which since all three looked the same — 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, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1756, line 18: «fact: Old word "clamour" meant a loud, confused noise like a crowd shouting; today we say "racket" or "uproar".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). 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/1758-pg641-part9/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which instrument did the old woman employ to render the travellers immobile?

- **1.** a rod — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a staff — no support
- **3.** cup — no support
- **4.** a club — 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/1758-pg641-part9/e1/)

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

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What did the second prince declare, upon observing the blood flowing from the birch?

- **1.** "Alas! both my brothers were slain." — no support
- **2.** "Alas! both my brothers are dead." — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** "Alas! both my brothers are dead, and I must now find the witch." — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** "Alas! both of my dear brothers have been turned to stone by a beast." — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1699, line 14: «The Prince cuts the cord that chains the Princess, and then he feels "the Princess's hand in his."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «feel» (+3). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/e2/)

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

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By what means did the witch restore the petrified princes to their former condition?

- **1.** She burnt an oak into ashes and sprinkled them on the stones — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** She poured a potion of herbs over each statue — score 1
- **3.** She waved her rod over the stones and spoke — score 1
- **4.** She burnt an oak into ashes, then sprinkled the ashes over the stones and spoke a spell — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1702, line 12: «Why he agrees: he thinks she means "one of his puppies or kittens", so he promises at once.», 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) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/e3/)

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

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What undertaking did the master recommend to his apprentice in order to relieve the burden of the secret?

- **1.** writing the secret on paper and hiding it — **← Mova's choice** · score -2
- **2.** digging a hole and whispering the secret into it three times — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **3.** digging a hole in the forest and whispering the secret into it three times at dawn — score -2
- **4.** going into the wood alone, digging a deep hole, and whispering the secret into it twice before covering it — score -2

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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 1112, line 8: «What: Daniel gives away his strength three times, and each time his wife gets the secret.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «time» (-1); the same thing acted on «secret» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/e4/)

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