--- title: pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escap… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1766 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 0 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/1766-pg641-part17/) [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/) / 1766 # pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 14 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1766 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/1766-pg641-part17/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Yo, the ball was buzzing like a phone on vibrate, so what did that mean? - **1.** Trouble was coming, mate — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Danger, mate — no support - **3.** Trouble was coming, so get moving now, mate — no support - **4.** The ball wanted a snack now — 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/1766-pg641-part17/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Innit wild, the goblins flew off like the wind, but what was the old man's problem? - **1.** He was lost — score -4 - **2.** He was hungry — no support - **3.** He wanted the prince back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** He missed his tea — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 995, line 10: «Why: she wants her child back, and says "I must overtake him, and find my child."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «want back» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «child» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Bro, what did she turn the lad into when the goblins got close? - **1.** A brown mouse — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** A little fish — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** A little fish in the brook — score 2 - **4.** A small silver fish that swam away fast — score 2 **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 1429, line 4: «A new tale begins: a proud, haughty stepmother and her two daughters turn kind young Cinderella into a servant.», 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 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Proper, so how did they hide from the goblins the second time? - **1.** Became a stone wall — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Turned into a rose bush — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Turned into a rose bush by the brook — no support - **4.** Changed into a tree — 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/1766-pg641-part17/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Ngl, what was the breeze trick actually for? - **1.** To stay warm — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** To vanish from the goblins — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** To vanish from the goblins so they could rest safely in the wood — no support - **4.** To vanish from the goblins and their master — 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/1766-pg641-part17/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Seriously, why did the stone roll away? - **1.** The maiden told it to — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** The goblins rolled it away — score -1 - **3.** The ball told it to — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** It was pushed — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1122, line 18: «fact: Why: the old woman is "a pagan witch", and she turns the elder brother and his dog to stone.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «woman» (+2); the same receiver «stone» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/1766-pg641-part17/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Lush, how long did the prince go without food when his dad died? - **1.** Three days — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Seven days — no support - **3.** For three long days, refusing all food and drink — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** Three whole days without bread — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1538, line 13: «Old word: "provision" means the food kept for one day, so "my day's provision" means her day's food.», 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 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/1766-pg641-part17/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Hang on, what did the councillors shout when he got back to the palace? - **1.** Let her be your wife and our queen — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** Long live the king — score -4 - **3.** Welcome home, our prince — score -4 - **4.** Let her be your wife — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **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 152, line 11: «THE DEAL: "I cannot consent to your union unless you let me draw your teeth and pare your nails".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+2). Against it: the same thing acted on «daughter» (-1); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-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/1766-pg641-part17/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Wicked, what killed the old dad in the end? - **1.** Losing his boy — no support - **2.** Missing his son for years and years — no support - **3.** Missing his son — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Missing his son, who never came home from the wood — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1755, line 9: «Why: Mark wants Vassili killed, so he hopes the Serpent King will destroy him.», 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, 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/1766-pg641-part17/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Be real, who was the woodcutter? - **1.** The one who had told the prince about the sorrow in the palace — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** The one who told them the news — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **3.** The one who told them the news of the palace — score 4 - **4.** The one who found the prince — score 4 **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 1766, line 17: «A woodcutter tells them the palace has grieved for many years over the loss of the prince.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same doer «woodcutter» (+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/1766-pg641-part17/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} Gutted for them, what did the maiden say about the old wizard's power? - **1.** It had no more power over them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** It had no more power over them, so they were free to go — score 1 - **3.** It had no more power over them at all — score 1 - **4.** It had lost its strength now — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1766, line 15: «The maiden says "here the old wizard has no more power over us", so the magic is broken for them.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+6). Against it: the same thing acted on «more power» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Sus, what did the old man say the goblins would never be able to see through? - **1.** Any disguise — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Water — **← Mova's choice** · score -4 - **3.** Fire — no support - **4.** Real shapes — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1312, line 19: «Old word: "pierce" means to see through or go into, so the eyes "could not pierce" the dark water.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); a different action (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/1766-pg641-part17/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came? - **1.** Hopping about wildly — no support - **2.** Moving in her hand — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** Singing — no support - **4.** Glowing — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1766, line 7: «What: when danger comes, the magic ball moves in her hand, and she turns it three times while she speaks a spell.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same place «hand» (+4); the same action «move» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} In the text, which magical action did the maiden perform to escape detection by the goblins on the second occasion? - **1.** She turned into a fish — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** She transformed herself into a bird and hid them both behind the stones — score 2 - **3.** She changed them both into a silver stream and a wild fox by the wood — score 2 - **4.** She transformed herself and her companion into a wild rose bush and a rose — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **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 1343, line 18: «The feast is served by her daughters on "beautiful old-fashioned trays", and some sparrows perform the "suzume-odori" dance.», 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, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} According to the narrative, what was the principal reason the old wizard's goblins returned without the fugitives on the third occasion? - **1.** They saw the old wizard's own hall and fled home — score 4 - **2.** They found only the wood and a silver river near the hill — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **3.** They discovered neither stream, fish nor person, only a rose bush — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** They were tired and gave up — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1766, line 4: «Hiding as a breeze and a midge, they escape once more, and the ball rolls a stone aside so they can find a door back to the world.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+3); the same doer «goblins» (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements regarding the prince's father is accurate according to the text? - **1.** He lived long and died of old age in his bed — no support - **2.** He died of grief after his son had been lost for many years and the crown was left empty — score 3 - **3.** He fell ill after a long war with the wizard's men — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** He died of grief after his son had been lost for many years — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1723, line 18: «The Princess "fell in love with him as soon as ever she saw him."», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «fall» (+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/1766-pg641-part17/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the outcome of the prince's return to the palace, as recorded in the final portion of the narrative? - **1.** He was received as king with great joy, and his councillors requested that the maiden become his wife at once — score 3 - **2.** He was received as king, and his councillors requested that the maiden become his wife — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He was hailed as king, and his lords asked the maiden to marry him — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** He was welcomed as king, and the people asked the maiden to stay with him — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1657, line 10: «WHERE: The brothers come to a little house "far within the wood," and later a king's palace, where they ask to be taken "into service."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+3); the same doer «brothers» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/e4/) - ← previous: [1765. Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-he…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1765-pg641-part16/) - next →: [1767. pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows int…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1767-pg641-part18/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)