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title: Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1836 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 1 of 13 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne

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**Tests:** 1 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1836 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/1836-pg7128-part20/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Yo, where was the Brahmani heading with that paper, bro?

- **1.** To the river — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** To the darbar — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** To jail — no support
- **4.** To her son — 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruh, what did the king do after reading the paper?

- **1.** Had the man and his whole family flogged — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Had the man flogged in the square — score -2
- **3.** Had the man flogged — **✓ the right answer** · score -2
- **4.** Had the man hanged — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. 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 1836, line 1: «The king reads the paper, has the man flogged, and sends him away.», 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 action «flog» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored -2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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So the king was lowkey mad at the prince, right? What did he do?

- **1.** Sent him away to a foreign land — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Made him leave the palace quietly — score 0
- **3.** Banished him from the country — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Exiled him — score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 973, line 15: «The shadow pretends to sigh, and the princess says it is "policy" to put the mad shadow out of the way, which is a cold word for getting rid of someone.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «cold word» (+4); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Yo, that host was kinda sus, right? What was he holding at midnight?

- **1.** A spear — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** A key — score 3
- **3.** Oil — score 3
- **4.** A sword — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1314, line 1: «At midnight Matte keeps hearing the weathercock and wakes his wife, but she says it is only his fancy.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «midnight» (+4). Against it: the same action «keep» (-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/1836-pg7128-part20/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Wait, the dog story, why'd the merchant kill his dog, no cap?

- **1.** He wanted to keep the money he had borrowed — score 0
- **2.** He was trying to blame the thieves for the missing goods he owed — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** He wanted to keep the money — score 0
- **4.** He didn't want to repay the loan — **✓ the right answer** · score 0

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1833, line 16: «fact: In the Charmed Ring tale, a merchant sends his son off with three hundred rupees to try his luck in "another country".», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «try» (+2). Against it: the same doer «merchant» (-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/1836-pg7128-part20/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Fam, the prince became a jogi, right? Where did he sit?

- **1.** On the steps of the temple beside the palace garden — no support
- **2.** Beside a river near town — no support
- **3.** By a tree near the palace — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -6
- **4.** By a tree near the palace gate at dusk — score -6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 1645, line 2: «On the way down a few drops spill, and every stone they touch becomes a young man or maiden who follows her home.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same place «way» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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So how long did the queen have to bow before she got better, bro?

- **1.** Two days — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** An hour — no support
- **3.** About three hours — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** About three days — 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Lol, what did the queen lose that got the jogi in trouble?

- **1.** Her pearl rosary — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Her silver bangle — no support
- **3.** Her gold anklet — no support
- **4.** Her pearl rosary and her crown — **← 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, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1467, line 4: «He crowns her Queen, but the faithful Sheep waits in vain at the gate, and when the guards refuse him, he dies at their feet.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crown» (+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/1836-pg7128-part20/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Real talk, why was the potter crying and laughing at the same time?

- **1.** His son was forced to marry the princess — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** His son had to marry the princess — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** His daughter had to marry a king — no support
- **4.** His son had to marry the princess and face death — 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Wait, what came out of the princess's nose at night, bro?

- **1.** Smoke — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Two Shahmars — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Two serpents — no support
- **4.** Fire — 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Dead serious, what did the king make the prince in the end?

- **1.** Commander of the army — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** His successor to the throne — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** His successor to the throne and the royal seal — score 0
- **4.** Heir to the whole kingdom and its treasury — 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 1809, line 12: «The princess moves "like a cat along the dark aisle" so that she will not make a noise and ruin the plan.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same action «make» (-1); the same doer «princess» (-1). 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Yo, how many husbands had the princess lost, bro?

- **1.** Two husbands — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** Almost all the suitors — score -3
- **3.** Nearly all the young men — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **4.** Seven — no support

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**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 1612, line 8: «The two cats meet "under a cherry tree" on an evening stroll and fall madly in love.», 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). 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/1836-pg7128-part20/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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Last one, what did the prince take back home to his dad?

- **1.** Jewels, silk, horses and rice — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** Elephants, horses and money — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Elephants and gold coins — score 6
- **4.** Gold coins — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1458, line 14: «Who: Perseus refuses the crown and takes his mother home to her father's house, where the old man was "cast on the island in the great chest".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+5); the same property (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/t13/)

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

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What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her paper?

- **1.** A promise — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **2.** A parwana for the amount — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A letter for the sum — score -5
- **4.** A bond — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -4, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 304, line 18: «The learned man says "a man's bond is his word," which means a promise is as good as a signed paper.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same circumstance (-1); it fills the role the question asks for (-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/1836-pg7128-part20/e1/)

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

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On what grounds did the monarch condemn the jogi to execution?

- **1.** His clothes were stained with royal blood — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The queen's pearl rosary was found beside his place — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The queen's pearl rosary was found hidden under his robe in the palace — no support
- **4.** A guard swore he saw him take the queen's pearl rosary — 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/1836-pg7128-part20/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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By what means did the prince dispatch the two serpents of the princess?

- **1.** By cutting them down with his bow and arrows — score 1
- **2.** By striking them with his sword as they came near — score -1
- **3.** By striking them with his sword upon their approach — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** By striking them with his sword the moment they rose out of the princess's nostrils — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1104, line 12: «The dogs snuff at the needle in the wall, so the serpent is moved higher each time, "so that the dogs should not get at him."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «move» (+2); the same thing acted on «serpent» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/e3/)

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

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What reason did the potter give for his alternate laughter and weeping?

- **1.** The absurdity of a potter's son marrying a princess — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **2.** Because his son had to marry a princess whom no man had survived as husband — score 0
- **3.** The shame of his son marrying above his caste — score 0
- **4.** The joy of a potter's son winning a princess — 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 1824, line 14: «Old word: a "dowry" is the money or goods a bride's family gave with her; the Brahman dreams of getting one.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1836-pg7128-part20/e4/)

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