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title: Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw mean… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1853 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 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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# Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1853 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/1853-pg7128-part37/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Oi, what's that big posh city called, like the actual name?

- **1.** Ivory City, innit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Ivory City Palace, innit, the big one — no support
- **3.** Some massive old place called Ivory City, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Silver City, innit — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1742, line 16: «Why: the flower spirit calls her name "an ugly name" and names her May Blossom instead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «name» (+3); the same action «call» (+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/1853-pg7128-part37/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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Wait, who's the princess, what's her name?

- **1.** Gulizar, innit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Jo, innit — no support
- **3.** Ali, yeah — no support
- **4.** Nargis, innit — 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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What's the prince's sidekick called, like, his mate?

- **1.** His mate, bruv — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The vizier's son who goes everywhere with him, bruv — no support
- **3.** The vizier's son, bruv — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** His best mate, yeah — 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why'd the princess give the old woman a proper bashing?

- **1.** She blabbed about the strangers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** She told on the travellers — score 1
- **3.** She spilled some tea — score 1
- **4.** She grassed on the strangers — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1665, line 15: «Why: The king and queen decide to give the lindorm slave-women because they think a lindorm will be "quite well satisfied with anyone."», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2). Against it: 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Was the elephant thing legit, or just a bare wind-up?

- **1.** Dead true, yeah — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A total hoax, mate — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Just a rumour, mate — no support
- **4.** Real, mate — no support

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**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/1853-pg7128-part37/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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How'd that swing work, was it dead cool or what?

- **1.** Took you up over walls — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Carried you down the river — no support
- **3.** Took you wherever you wanted — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Flew really fast — 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Did the prince and Gulizar get engaged or what?

- **1.** Yeah, they promised each other — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, they exchanged gold rings — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** Yeah, they made a solemn promise to wed each other soon — score -3
- **4.** Yeah, they promised to marry each other and flee — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1853, line 16: «Gulizar wants the vizier's son gone, so she has a poison mixed into a pilaw and sent in the name of "her dead uncle".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «son» (-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/1853-pg7128-part37/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Who's the one sending the poisoned pilaw, innit?

- **1.** Bahram — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Omar — no support
- **3.** The old woman's daughter — no support
- **4.** Gulizar — **✓ the right answer** · 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Whose name is on the note with the pilaw?

- **1.** Her aunt — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Her dad — score 8
- **3.** Her dead uncle — **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** The old vizier — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1633, line 19: «Old word: "Purgatory" was once believed to be a place where souls were cleansed, but in this tale it is the home of the demons.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «tale» (+6); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1853-pg7128-part37/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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What's the first thing the vizier's son does with the pan?

- **1.** Carefully lifts the heavy lid to look inside — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Takes the lid off — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Tastes the rice first — no support
- **4.** Shakes the pan gently — 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/1853-pg7128-part37/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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What went yellow, like, the grass or what?

- **1.** The river — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Grass under the lid — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The leaves on bank — no support
- **4.** The silk — no support

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**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/1853-pg7128-part37/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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What happened to the crows, mate?

- **1.** They turned to stone — score 0
- **2.** They fell from the trees and never flew again over the palace — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** They dropped down dead onto the grass beside the stream — score 1
- **4.** They dropped down dead — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1722, line 13: «fact: The ship is found "at his side" after he kneels with his face to the earth and falls asleep.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «fall» (+3); the same doer «fact» (+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/1853-pg7128-part37/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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So the vizier's son saved himself, yeah? Who'd he tell?

- **1.** The prince — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The vizier — no support
- **3.** His friend the vizier's son back home — no support
- **4.** The old woman at the palace gate — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1414, line 4: «The minister's son ignores an old beggar-woman, but the gardener's son gives her his purse and lets her ride behind him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «old beggar woman» (+3); the same property (+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/1853-pg7128-part37/t13/)

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

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By what means was the old woman conveyed from the palace to her dwelling?

- **1.** By a magic carpet that flew her quickly home — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** By a silver litter that four servants carried — score 1
- **3.** By a charmed swing that took her where she wished — **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Carried by palace guards all the way through the city streets to her small hut at dusk — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1578, line 15: «Why does Snowdrop open the door? She thinks the seller is "the honest woman", and she trusts her too quickly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «woman» (+3); the same property (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1853-pg7128-part37/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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On what grounds did the princess chastise the old woman?

- **1.** For disclosing the arrival of the strangers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **2.** For warning the strangers about the palace — score -1
- **3.** For revealing the strangers' arrival to the whole palace court — score -1
- **4.** For spying on the foreign visitors — no support

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**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 1034, line 9: «Partholon came with "twenty-four men and twenty-four women," and before them "no man had come to Ireland."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «man» (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1853-pg7128-part37/e2/)

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

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By what means did the vizier's son ascertain that the pilaw was poisoned?

- **1.** By smelling the smoke — no support
- **2.** By seeing the stream water change colour — no support
- **3.** By observing the grass beneath the saucepan turn yellow — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** By noticing the crows drop down and die — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1853, line 17: «The vizier's son notices that "the green grass under the cover of the saucepan turned quite yellow", which shows the pilaw is poisoned.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «turn» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1853-pg7128-part37/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Which contrivance did the princess devise to recall the old woman from the palace?

- **1.** A letter from her dead uncle — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A rumour about a rebel army — no support
- **3.** A story of royal elephants running wild — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A royal decree — 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/1853-pg7128-part37/e4/)

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