--- title: Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tre… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1794 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 2 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/1794-pg641-part45/) [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/) / 1794 # Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the bird **Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1794 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/1794-pg641-part45/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Bruv, how many brothers did he have, like actually? - **1.** No — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Six — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Eight — no support - **4.** Four — 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/1794-pg641-part45/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Wait, what did the head-man call the boy? - **1.** A lion — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** A thief — score 2 - **3.** A dog of the hills — score 2 - **4.** Dog — 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 1765, line 14: «The master wants the prince to give him his hand, and the maiden says "He means to eat you", so the shovel must be red hot.», 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/1794-pg641-part45/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Lol, what did the brothers do all night to stay awake? - **1.** Played cards and told each other long stories all night — score 4 - **2.** Sang loudly — no support - **3.** Ate every sweet and argued over the dice until dawn came up — score 1 - **4.** Played cards — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 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 1636, line 12: «The brothers were to be hanged because they "had spent all their money in feasting and playing" and were in debt.», 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 «play» (+1); the same doer «brothers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1794-pg641-part45/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Yo, what snack kept the boy awake? - **1.** Sand — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Sandy grit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Salt — no support - **4.** A mouthful of sandy grit from the road — 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/1794-pg641-part45/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed? - **1.** "The tree is all mine" — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** "Hush now" — no support - **3.** "There is no one here" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** "Empty" — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1534, line 10: «Why the kitchen girl speaks: she whispers, "Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold," so he knows her.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1); a different doer (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/1794-pg641-part45/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Dude, what did the boy hang onto? - **1.** The bird's wing — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** The bird's wing as it flew over the mountains — no support - **3.** The palm's trunk — score 3 - **4.** The bird's long feathered wing as it carried him up high — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 758, line 2: «When evening comes Hans finds her asleep, hangs bells round her with a fowler's net, and shuts the door.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «hans» (+2); the same action «hang» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1794-pg641-part45/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Bare nuts, how high did they fly? - **1.** Over the valley's edge, far away — no support - **2.** Higher than any bird had ever flown across the wide and distant sea — score 3 - **3.** Till the palace looked very small — **← Mova's choice** · score 5 - **4.** Till the mountains looked tiny — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 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 850, line 7: «What: Ib's black nut was "hollow or worm-eaten", and "looked as if it had been filled with tobacco or rich black earth".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «black nut» (+4); the same action «look» (+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/1794-pg641-part45/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Ngl, what did the bird want in return? - **1.** Shelter from the rain — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** To save it from the sun — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Food — no support - **4.** Gold — 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/1794-pg641-part45/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Mad, how many nations got a bunch? - **1.** Every single nation in the whole region — no support - **2.** Four — no support - **3.** All the nations, not just the sultan's own — no support - **4.** Five — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1794, line 9: «Where: the date tree grows in the sultan's garden, and the town is divided into five nations.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1794-pg641-part45/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} Peak, what did the boy say when he got home with the dates? - **1.** "Look at my dates" — no support - **2.** "This is MY luck" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** "Lucky!" — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **4.** "Mine" — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1650, line 4: «A clever boy pretends he cannot read to get a job with a wizard, learns all his magic from the dusty books, and runs home.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). 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/1794-pg641-part45/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Mate, what did his dad say when the boy asked to go? - **1.** "Fine, go" — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** "Go then" — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** "Go then, but you will surely regret it" — no support - **4.** "Very well" — 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/1794-pg641-part45/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Gutted, what did the sultan do after all those years? - **1.** Laughed at the boy — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** Shook his head sadly — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** Sighed — no support - **4.** Wept — score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1618, line 18: «What: at tea, the sultan wants something "merry to make him laugh", so the son tells a funny story about matches.», 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 «laugh» (+1); the same doer «sultan» (+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/1794-pg641-part45/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Sick, what did the head-man do when he saw the dates? - **1.** Beat a big drum — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** Blew a loud horn — score 3 - **3.** Beat a big drum to call the whole town out — score 1 - **4.** Sent for the guards — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1766, line 3: «The angry old man sends the goblins out again, and the pair change into a rose bush and a rose, which the goblins also miss.», 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 «send out» (+1); the same doer «angry old man» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1794-pg641-part45/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which member of the sultan's family undertook the task of guarding the date tree? - **1.** The youngest son, the one called Sit-in-the-Kitchen — no support - **2.** The youngest son — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** The sultan's wife — score 2 - **4.** The boy who had been sitting by the kitchen fire all along — score 2 **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 1794, line 7: «Who: six older brothers who each failed to guard the tree, and the head-man who looks after the garden.», 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/1794-pg641-part45/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What did the bird propose as the terms of its covenant with the boy? - **1.** That the boy would bring it water every day — score -1 - **2.** That the boy would shield it from the sun and guard its nest each night — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **3.** That the boy would feed it daily — score 0 - **4.** That the boy would shield it from the sun — **✓ the right answer** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1695, line 1: «A poor herd-boy with no family looks after a rich lord's sheep, and one night he hears crying at the edge of a forest.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). 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/1794-pg641-part45/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} For how many years did the sultan lose his dates to the bird before his youngest son intervened? - **1.** Five — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** Ten — score -1 - **3.** Four — score -1 - **4.** Two — score -1 **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 682, line 10: «Why the king hesitates over the nose: "to lose one's nose, is worse even than losing one's ear or one's finger".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same doer «king» (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1794-pg641-part45/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What was the final outcome for the sultan at the conclusion of the tale? - **1.** He praised the dates in the great hall — no support - **2.** He tasted the dates from his son's hand and then wept with joy in front of everyone — no support - **3.** He tasted the dates from his son's hand and blessed the boy before all the court — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **4.** He tasted the dates from his son's hand — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1725, line 14: «King Frost "froze her to death," because he got only rude, rough words in reply.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «rude rough words» (-1); the same circumstance (-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/1794-pg641-part45/e4/) - ← previous: [1792. Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1792-pg641-part43/) - next →: [1795. Swahili Tales, The Nunda: the sultan's cat devou…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1795-pg641-part46/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)