--- title: Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33: Petru rea… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1782 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/1782-pg641-part33/) [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/) / 1782 # Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 33: Petru reaches Venus's house, wins her trust, and sets out for the Fairy's castle **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1782 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/1782-pg641-part33/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} ok so Petru just knocks on Venus's window at midnight, right? - **1.** yep, and he says he is a lost traveller — score 2 - **2.** yep, and he tells her he got lost on the heath and wants her magic well water — score 5 - **3.** nope, he knocks and tells her about the horse — score 2 - **4.** yep, and he tells her he got lost on the heath — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1782, line 1: «Petru follows the horse's advice and knocks at the goddess Venus's window, telling a made-up story about getting lost on the heath.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «heath» (+3); the same action «lose» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} bruh, why did the dogs bark at him? - **1.** cause he smelled like the horse — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **2.** cause he was walking in the dark — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** because he was carrying a lamp — no support - **4.** dogs are mean — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. 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 option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «smell» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). 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/1782-pg641-part33/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} lol, did Venus look young or old? - **1.** super old, with loads of wrinkles — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** super young, with rosy cheeks — no support - **3.** pretty old, with a few wrinkles — no support - **4.** super old, with loads of wrinkles all over her face and hands — 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/1782-pg641-part33/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} wait, did Petru ever tell her he lost his horse? - **1.** yep, he said it to the dogs — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** yes, he said his horse was lost and asked for help — score 2 - **3.** yep, he told her the horse had run off into the heath — score 4 - **4.** nope, he didn't say a word — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **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 238, line 2: «At three castles, the Bull's brothers give her an apple, a pear and a plum, and tell her to keep them unbroken until her greatest trouble.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same receiver «witch» (+4). 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/1782-pg641-part33/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} so the flute makes people sleep, yeah? - **1.** yup, the music makes everyone who hears it sleep for a hundred years — score 1 - **2.** nope, it makes them laugh — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** yup, nobody can wake them up until the music stops and the giant wakes — score -1 - **4.** yup, nobody can wake them up — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1470, line 7: «The Captain's words "Open, Sesame!" made the rock door open, and "Shut, Sesame!" made it close.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «make» (+2). The right option, 4, scored -1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} what's the Fairy of the Dawn like, lowkey? - **1.** hideous, with owl eyes and cat claws and a long crooked nose — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** gorgeous, with silver hair and kind eyes — no support - **3.** hideous, with owl eyes and cat claws — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** hideous and old, with owl eyes, cat claws, and a voice like thunder — 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/1782-pg641-part33/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} why's Venus so mad at her? - **1.** they had a massive fight — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** she was jealous of her — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** the Fairy stole the silver wreath from Venus last summer — no support - **4.** they had a massive fight about the wreath and the well — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1782, line 13: «Why does Petru agree with everything she says? He "had been taught was only polite", so he does not argue with an old lady.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «petru» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/1782-pg641-part33/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8} fr, did Petru get to see the castle? - **1.** yeah, it looked super splendid with towers of gold and silver — score 2 - **2.** yeah, it looked super splendid — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** yeah, it was super tall — score 2 - **4.** yeah, it looked very grand — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1708, line 10: «The castle: "Everything in the castle seemed to be made of copper," and its gate is "wide open."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «seem» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} the river's milk, right? what's under it? - **1.** precious stones and pearls and a sleeping giant — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** bright stones and old coins — no support - **3.** precious stones and pearls — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** precious stones, pearls, and the Fairy's lost golden crown — 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/1782-pg641-part33/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} bro, how big was the giant? - **1.** so big he needed a ladder to see — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** huge, and snoring under the trees — no support - **3.** big enough he stopped to measure him — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** big enough he stopped to measure him with his own hands — no support **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/1782-pg641-part33/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} what was the bridge made of, like actually? - **1.** white glass and iron — no support - **2.** silver rope and wood — no support - **3.** clouds — no support - **4.** soft woolly clouds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1782, line 5: «At the end he stands beside a milky river with a bridge that looks like soft woolly clouds, and he does not yet know how to cross it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so Venus said never look at the Fairy's face, yeah? - **1.** nope, cause her cloak would blind you — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, cause her eyes would bewitch you and turn you into a horse — no support - **3.** yeah, cause her eyes would bewitch you — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, cause her smile would curse you — 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/1782-pg641-part33/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} did Petru drink from the well, or nah? - **1.** no, he only took it back — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** yes, he drank it all and then fell asleep by the well — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** yes, he drank a little from the well before going home — score 2 - **4.** yes, he drank a little — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1554, line 7: «fact: What: the Wolf is "swallowed like a letter in the post" and then falls into the well.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fall» (+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/1782-pg641-part33/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following did the horse instruct Petru to bring to the goddess Venus, as recorded in the passage? - **1.** the flagon of water drawn from the well at midnight — score 0 - **2.** a golden bridle — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** the silver flute — score 3 - **4.** the silver wreath — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 922, line 11: «The old man dies: "the old man in his coffin was placed in" the hearse, and "no one followed him", because all his friends were dead.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «follow» (+3); the same thing acted on «man» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). 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/1782-pg641-part33/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} What did Petru state to the goddess Venus regarding the reason for his arrival at her dwelling? - **1.** that he was a prince — score -3 - **2.** that he had lost his horse — score 0 - **3.** that he had lost his way on the heath — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **4.** that his horse had run off in the rain — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1782, line 8: «What must Petru say when Venus asks "Who is there?" He must say he has come on foot and lost his way on the heath.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same place «heath» (+3); the same action «lose» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «petru» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1782-pg641-part33/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} By what means did Petru pass beyond the river that surrounded the Fairy's castle, according to the passage? - **1.** by swimming — no support - **2.** by a wooden bridge over the water — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** by a golden ferry across the stream — score 2 - **4.** the bridge, which resembled soft clouds — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1771, line 16: «Old word: "lest" means "for fear that," so "lest some day he should come" means "for fear that one day he might come."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-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/1782-pg641-part33/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which of the following describes the sleeping guardian whom Petru encountered upon approaching the castle? - **1.** a witch asleep beside the well — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** a giant who was frightened of the flute — score -3 - **3.** a giant lulled to sleep by the music — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** a giant lulled to sleep by the music of the magic flute at the gate — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 4, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1782, line 20: «What does "devoured her so with his eyes" mean? He stared at her very hard, as if he were hungry to see her; the words show how he gazed.», 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 doer «words» (+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/1782-pg641-part33/e4/) - ← previous: [1781. Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Welwa, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1781-pg641-part32/) - next →: [1783. Roumanian Fairy Tales, Petru and the Fairy of th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1783-pg641-part34/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)