--- title: pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1805 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 11 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/1805-pg641-part56/) [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/) / 1805 # pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess becomes a duck, and a girl rides off to serve as a son **Tests:** 2 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 13 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1805 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/1805-pg641-part56/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, the king turned his own daughter into a duck, no cap? - **1.** Nah, he just guessed — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Yeah, and the lad picked her out by her wing-cleaning — **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** Nah, the king only turned his youngest daughter into a duck, and the lad had to guess her name from the reeds — score 7 - **4.** Yeah, the lad picked her out by the way she swam, mostly — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1762, line 15: «The king is angry and says "See what sort of a wife I have," because he thinks she did nothing to help him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+5); the same doer «king» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1805-pg641-part56/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruh, so the old emperor had no son, just three girls? - **1.** Yeah, three daughters — no support - **2.** Nah, he had two sons — score 2 - **3.** Yeah, three daughters, so nobody could go fight — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nope, two sons and one daughter, so he sent them — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1805, line 4: «A new tale begins: an old emperor with no son must send one to serve a stronger foe, so his eldest daughter rides off, but she flees a wolf on the copper bridg…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «send» (+5); the same doer «old emperor» (+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/1805-pg641-part56/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Wait, the eldest sis rode off all brave, right? - **1.** Yeah, she rode off all brave in silver armour, then bolted when she saw the wolf waiting on the copper bridge at dusk — no support - **2.** Nope, she stayed home and sewed silver armour — no support - **3.** Yeah, she was all in silver and then bolted at the wolf — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, she was actually the one who sent the wolf, then she rode back home to her father's castle to hide — **← Mova's choice** · score -1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1208, line 15: «where: the Simurgh flew until "earth looked like an egg resting on an ocean," then set the prince down at its own place.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: 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/1805-pg641-part56/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Lowkey the wolf was her dad the whole time? - **1.** Nah, the wolf was the magician's servant, and the emperor was actually watching from a tower the whole time — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, the wolf was just a random beast — no support - **3.** Yeah, the wolf was the king's old hound — no support - **4.** Fr, the old emperor was a magician — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1805-pg641-part56/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} So the youngest sis is gonna be the one who fights? - **1.** Nah, the youngest stays home, because the emperor says she is far too small to fight any devil at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Yeah, she said she'd cut the devil into bits, and then she rode off on the old white horse without telling her sisters — score 4 - **3.** Yeah, she said she'd cut the devil into bits — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nope, the second sister is going instead — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1434, line 12: «Money: his father gives him fifty dollars and tells him to "tell no one where you come from or who your father is."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same doer «father» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (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/1805-pg641-part56/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Did the old horse actually talk to her? - **1.** Nah, he just neighed — no support - **2.** Yup, he neighed and said she looked gentle — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **3.** Nope, he only snorted at her and ran off — no support - **4.** Yup, he whinnied and said she was weak — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1541, line 4: «Percinet reveals who he is and leads Graciosa's glittering horse, while the Duchess's old horse looks like a cart horse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+5); the same doer «old horse» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1805-pg641-part56/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Why'd the emperor's girls keep making stuff to cheer him up? - **1.** He was super gloomy, cos the wolf stole his crown and he couldn't find it in the forest anywhere — score -2 - **2.** He was lonely since the queen died — no support - **3.** He was super gloomy, cos he was getting old and had no sons to send to the wars that were coming — **← Mova's choice** · score 0 - **4.** He was super gloomy, cos he was getting old — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1803, line 11: «The emperor says "Stay as you are," so the boys keep their caps on, and this shows he is no longer angry.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «emperor» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). 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/1805-pg641-part56/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Wait, the copper bridge is where the wolf was waiting? - **1.** Nope, it was in the palace garden, kinda — no support - **2.** Nah, the wolf was waiting at the castle gate, but the copper bridge was just a rumour the girls heard in town — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** Yeah, it was over a stream, lowkey spooky, and the wolf had been waiting there for three whole days straight — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, it was over a stream, lowkey spooky — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 294, line 11: «fact: THE REINDEER: He brings "another, a young one" to feed the little ones with milk, and he waits "at the bush with the red berries" for them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «fact» (+2); the same action «wait» (+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/1805-pg641-part56/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Bro, what's a boyard even, sounds like a fancy dog? - **1.** An old Russian lord, like a noble — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 - **2.** A young Persian prince, like a noble, who wears a big silk hat in the palace — score 2 - **3.** An old Russian lord, like a noble, who lives in a big house and rides a dapple grey horse — no support - **4.** An old Russian farmer, kinda rich — 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 1117, line 11: «"Wherefore shouldst thou go?" means "why should you go?"; "wherefore" and "shouldst" are old words that sound grand today.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «old words» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1805-pg641-part56/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} So the emperor was a conqueror when he was young? - **1.** Yeah, he ruled a small village for years — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nah, he was a humble shepherd who only fought one little duel with a neighbour's cat when young — no support - **3.** Yeah, he won every war until he got old — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nah, he was a farmer his whole life — 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/1805-pg641-part56/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Okay, the youngest girl is kinda the bravest, huh? - **1.** Yeah, she said she'd fight the devil — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** Lowkey yeah, she said she wasn't scared of anything — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Lowkey yeah, she's brave — score 3 - **4.** Nah, the eldest was braver, honestly — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1646, line 12: «The giant wants the lion killed, and the girl says she is "weeping" because she fears the giant has tricked her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same doer «girl» (+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/1805-pg641-part56/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following best describes the action of the king in the opening of this passage? - **1.** He banished the princess and her maidens to a distant castle, challenging the young man to rescue them from the lake and win a wager — score 0 - **2.** He transformed the princess and her maidens into ducks, thereby setting a test for the young man — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **3.** He cursed the princess and her maidens to swim on the lake, testing whether the young man could tell them apart by sight alone — score 1 - **4.** He turned them into ducks — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1805, line 1: «The king turns his daughter and all her maidens into ducks and orders the young man to find her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1); the same circumstance (+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/1805-pg641-part56/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} What is the principal reason the old emperor is unable to defend his realm in the second tale? - **1.** His sons were captured and his daughters refused to fight — score -6 - **2.** He lacks a son who might serve as a warrior, having only daughters, and his enemies have already begun to march upon the eastern border — score 7 - **3.** He lacks a son who might serve as a warrior, having only daughters — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **4.** He has been cursed by a magician so that no son of his may ever survive long enough to reach the age of warrior, leaving only daughters behind — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1805, line 4: «A new tale begins: an old emperor with no son must send one to serve a stronger foe, so his eldest daughter rides off, but she flees a wolf on the copper bridg…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «serve» (+5); the same doer «old emperor» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1805-pg641-part56/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which event prevents the eldest and second daughters from completing their journey? - **1.** Their encounter with a grey wolf upon the copper bridge — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **2.** Their quarrel over who should ride the silver horse — score 0 - **3.** Their encounter with a magician who turned their horses into stone at the edge of the forest near the old mill — score 1 - **4.** Their encounter with a grey wolf upon the copper bridge, where the wolf showed its teeth and frightened both sisters back home — score 1 **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 1701, line 4: «She refuses to love him, so he sends his son, the Prince, on travels, and the Prince sets off to find her.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+2). Against it: the same doer «prince» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1805-pg641-part56/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} In what manner does the youngest daughter respond to her father's remark that she is a small child? - **1.** She argues that her sisters are braver and asks to be left at home with the servants — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **2.** She laughs and says she is sure to win — score 2 - **3.** She declares that she will succeed and does not feel offended by his mockery — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 - **4.** She agrees with him — score 1 **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 1350, line 6: «Kintaro's father, Kintoki, was a brave soldier who fell into disgrace at Court because of the "malice of some of his friends."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «father» (+1); the same property (+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/1805-pg641-part56/e4/) - ← previous: [1803. Russian Fairy Tales, The Frog Bride, part 1: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1803-pg641-part54/) - next →: [1806. Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daug…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1806-pg641-part57/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)