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title: Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the pr… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1759 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.
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# Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1759 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/1759-pg641-part10/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Dude, did the apprentice's secret really end up in a flute?

- **1.** Yep, the flute kept singing the goat ears line — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Nope, the flute played a lullaby — no support
- **3.** Yep, the flute kept singing the goat ears line over and over at court — score 1
- **4.** Yep, the chamberlain sang it — score -3

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**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 1759, line 3: «The emperor draws his sword, the apprentice confesses, and the chamberlain's flute also sings only the secret.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «flute» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bro, why did the emperor pull his sword on the poor guy?

- **1.** To make him confess his plan — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **2.** To scare him into spilling everything he knew about the apples — score -1
- **3.** To test his courage quickly — no support
- **4.** To scare him into spilling everything — **✓ the right answer** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1349, line 5: «In China, Emperor Kotei invents a carriage that always points south, beats the rebel Shiyu's fog, and builds boats after watching a spider cross a pond.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «build» (-1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Lol, what did the chamberlain's flute do when he tried to play?

- **1.** It sang the emperor's name — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** It played a sad song only — score 2
- **3.** It only sang the goat ears words, no matter how hard he blew — score 6
- **4.** It only sang the goat ears words — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1759, line 2: «A shepherd's flute sings the secret aloud, so the whole town hears that the emperor has goat's ears.», 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 «sing» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). 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/1759-pg641-part10/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Mate, so did the emperor actually kill the apprentice?

- **1.** Nope, he let him live but fired him as barber — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nope, he let him live but fired him as barber and sent him away — no support
- **3.** Yep, he sent him to the executioner, but he later changed his mind and let him live — no support
- **4.** Yep, he had him beheaded quickly — 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/1759-pg641-part10/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wait, what did the youngest prince see in the apple tree?

- **1.** Seven silver swans landing — score 0
- **2.** Twelve red birds perching — no support
- **3.** Nine golden pea-hens flying in — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Two golden birds — **← Mova's choice** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1711, line 2: «A vulture swoops down, and the Prince flings the egg at it, and out steps the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1); the same thing acted on «beautiful girl» (-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/1759-pg641-part10/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Dude, how many apples did the maiden give the prince?

- **1.** Two apples — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** Two, one for him and one for his dad — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** Three, one for each brother — no support
- **4.** Two, one for his mother — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1747, line 19: «The story then turns to two brothers who want to marry the King's daughter, and the father gives each son a horse to ride to the wooing.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-4). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Ngl, how did the witch get the maiden to vanish?

- **1.** She snipped off a lock of hair — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** She cut her hair — no support
- **3.** She stole a silver ring — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **4.** She burned a lock of hair — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1719, line 3: «The Princess tricks Martin with a sweet potion, steals his ring, and the castle vanishes, leaving only a poor hut.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «steal» (+2); the same thing acted on «ring» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/1759-pg641-part10/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Bruh, what did the empress tell the prince not to open?

- **1.** The twelfth cellar door — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** The cellar — score 0
- **3.** The chamber of the empress — score 0
- **4.** The gate — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1294, line 2: «The eldest prince gets a shower of mud when he opens the door, so the smith's prince finally rides in full style.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «open» (+3). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1); the same thing acted on «door» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Yo, what was in the twelfth cellar?

- **1.** A cask with iron hoops, a voice, and a second locked door — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A barrel with brass bands and a ghost — no support
- **3.** A cask with iron hoops and a voice that begged for water — no support
- **4.** A cask with iron hoops and a voice — **✓ 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/1759-pg641-part10/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Fr fr, what did the voice in the cask beg for?

- **1.** Water — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Freedom, it was tired of waiting — no support
- **3.** Some water, it was dying of thirst — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Wine, it was dying of hunger — 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/1759-pg641-part10/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Sis, what did the prince do after the empress left?

- **1.** He unlocked the cellars one after another — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** He searched for the maiden at once — score 2
- **3.** He unlocked the cellars one after another until he reached the twelfth — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** He opened the gate to the town — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 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 1698, line 9: «Why: the giant likes to torment people, and he makes storms so he can take more prisoners.», 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 «make» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Bro, where did the prince finally find his maiden?

- **1.** Inside a tower by the river — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Behind a big gate in a town — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** In a forest — score 4
- **4.** At the palace — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 1292, line 2: «He finds a castle, and the little man Seven Inches shows him that the other two princes were turned to stone for bad manners.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «prince» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Lowkey, why did the prince's dad want him to stay home?

- **1.** He tried to talk him out of the quest — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He tried to talk him out of the quest for the apples and the maiden — no support
- **3.** He feared the witch would curse him — no support
- **4.** He tried to talk him out of the quest, since the brothers had already failed on their journey — 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/1759-pg641-part10/t13/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the event by which the apprentice's secret was first made public?

- **1.** The secret was revealed when the emperor ordered every flute in the kingdom to be played in the palace hall, and one of them repeated the apprentice's whispered words aloud — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** The secret was revealed when a shepherd's flute, made from an elder stem, repeated the whispered words aloud — **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** The truth emerged when the emperor's chamberlain tried a flute made from an elder stem and it sang the whispered words aloud — score -3
- **4.** The apprentice was exposed when the emperor's guards seized him in the meadow and forced his confession at swordpoint — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 93, line 2: «After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic. The wild animals see the fire and wonder. Wild Dog smells roast m…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different action (counts against) (+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/1759-pg641-part10/e1/)

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

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With reference to the text, identify the precise action by which the youngest son first secured the golden apples for his father.

- **1.** He hid beneath the tree and bribed the witch to bring him two apples for his brothers — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** He accepted two apples from the maiden, one for himself and one for his father — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** He climbed the tree at night and took one apple from the maiden's basket for his father — score 4
- **4.** He took two apples from the maiden — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 721, line 3: «On the way the prince meets a youth, they share an inn dinner, and he cuts an apple into unequal halves.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «way» (+3); the same doer «prince» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1759-pg641-part10/e2/)

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

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Which of the following describes the condition the empress attached to the keys entrusted to the prince during her absence?

- **1.** He was required to return the keys to her upon her arrival at the palace gate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was forbidden to unlock the twelfth cellar under any circumstances — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He could not unlock the keys — no support
- **4.** He was forbidden to open a cellar — 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/1759-pg641-part10/e3/)

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

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Which of the following accurately records the outcome for the apprentice after the emperor had confirmed the truth of his confession?

- **1.** The emperor granted him his life and his freedom, but relieved him of his duties as barber and sent him away from the palace — score 2
- **2.** The emperor granted him his life but relieved him of his duties as barber and banished him from the royal court forever — score 2
- **3.** The emperor granted him his life but relieved him of his duties as barber — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** The emperor exiled him to a distant town and gave him new work — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 274, line 12: «Why did the Emperor hide the truth? He would "on no account say that he could not see" the cloth.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); 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/1759-pg641-part10/e4/)

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