--- title: Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Watch, part 11: a magic watch makes Jenik… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 1874 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 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/1874-pg7277-part11/) [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/) / 1874 # Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Watch, part 11: a magic watch makes Jenik rich, then his wife steals it and leaves him alone **Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 1874 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/1874-pg7277-part11/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} yo did u see the caliph turn his own son into a bird lol - **1.** yes, the caliph gave him a magic snuff — score 2 - **2.** yes, lol — no support - **3.** no, the caliph turned a guard into a cat — score 2 - **4.** no way, the vizier's son became a stork — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1874, line 1: «The Caliph gives the Grand Vizier's son a choice, and he picks the magic snuff, so he becomes a stork in an iron cage.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «become» (+3); the same thing acted on «stork» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} ngl the stork was lowkey the funniest part, right? - **1.** nah, the funniest bit was when the princess screeched at the vizier's son in the garden — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** yeah, the caliph copied him strutting around the court while everyone laughed behind their hands — score 0 - **3.** yeah, the vizier did a funny dance — no support - **4.** yeah, the caliph copied him strutting around — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. 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. What matched: the same thing acted on «prince» (+1); the same place «own place» (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-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/1874-pg7277-part11/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} wait, why did the caliph's dude keep yelling mu mu - **1.** he was copying the owl's cry — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** it was the stork's sound, bro — no support - **3.** it's what the stork cried, dude — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** it's what the stork cried when the caliph turned him into a bird in the courtyard, dude — 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/1874-pg7277-part11/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} bruh jenik is so cringe, sitting in ashes all day - **1.** he sits in the ashes because the village expects it, but he's really the kindest brother of all — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** he's a bit silly but he's kind to animals — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** he's a bit rude but very brave at night — no support - **4.** he's a bit silly, but he's kind to animals and saved a dog, a cat and a snake from danger — 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 1084, line 15: «She is called Cinder-breech because she sits down "among cinders and ashes".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «cinders» (+4). 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/1874-pg7277-part11/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} so jenik saved a dog, a cat and a snake? - **1.** nope, he saved a cat and a crow — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **2.** yep, and the snake later gave him a magic watch that grants any wish he wants — score 3 - **3.** yep, and the owl gave him a silver ring — score 4 - **4.** yep, and the snake gave him a magic watch — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 **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 1403, line 11: «Why he saves the dog: he remembers that "a kind deed is never lost," as his father used to say.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «save» (+3); the same thing acted on «dog» (+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/1874-pg7277-part11/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} what even is that watch, it's OP - **1.** it tells the time — no support - **2.** it grants any wish if you rub it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** it makes a loud ticking sound — no support - **4.** it tells the time at midnight — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1874, line 4: «The grateful serpent king gives Jenik a watch that grants any wish, and Jenik becomes rich.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grant» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same thing acted on «wish» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} ok so his wife just took it and bounced? - **1.** she stole it and drove off in a carriage — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** she stole it, then ran off with another man and left Jenik with nothing at all — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** she stole it at night and rode off in a carriage to the palace with his dog — score 3 - **4.** she borrowed it and went to the market — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1837, line 9: «Why: he wants to bring home game, so he "forgot all about his promise" and rides north.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+1); the same circumstance (+1); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} wait the bridge disappeared?? that's brutal - **1.** yes, it sank after she left — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, after she was in the palace — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** no, it sank under the water — no support - **4.** yeah, it stayed until dawn — 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/1874-pg7277-part11/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} lol so jenik ended up with only his dog and cat - **1.** yep, everyone laughed at him and his father refused to help him for years — score 2 - **2.** no, he kept the old crows — no support - **3.** nope, he ended up with a dog, a cat and a stork that the vizier sent to him — score 2 - **4.** yep, everyone laughed at him — **← 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, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1874, line 12: «Why: Jenik ends alone because his wife's magic bridge vanishes and "everybody else" laughs at him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} bro why were the crows flying to the mountain - **1.** because the serpent's king ordered them to carry Jenik's watch to the southern kingdom across the sea — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** because winter came and they fly to other countries to find food and warmer weather for the season — score 2 - **3.** because winter came and they fly to other countries — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **4.** they wanted to find the lost watch in the snow — score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1722, line 12: «fact: The manikin tells him to bow "three times" to the first tree and then strike it with his axe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «tell» (+3); the same receiver «fact» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2). 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/1874-pg7277-part11/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} honestly the serpent king sounds like a boss - **1.** he was grateful and rewarded Jenik — **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **2.** he was cruel but let him leave — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** he was grateful, so he gave Jenik a golden watch and sent him back to the village with a feast — score 3 - **4.** he was grateful for the rescue and rewarded Jenik with a magic watch and a horse — score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1796, line 12: «In the palace the Snake King asks, "When you go home, you will do me evil!" and says he "dare not" let him go.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+3); the same thing acted on «king» (+1). Against it: the same doer «king» (-1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which of the following describes the choice offered by the Caliph to the son of the Grand Vizier? - **1.** Either a public execution in the square or the swallowing of a pinch of the magic snuff at once — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Death or the taking of a pinch of the magic snuff — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Death by the palace guards or a pinch of the magic snuff that would turn him into a bird for life — no support - **4.** Imprisonment or a bath in the royal fountain — 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/1874-pg7277-part11/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} In what manner does the author describe Jenik's standing within his family at the outset of the narrative? - **1.** He was regarded as the least sensible of the three brothers — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He was treated as the brightest of the three sons by his father — no support - **3.** He was regarded as the least sensible of the three brothers, and he spent most of his days sitting by the stove in the ashes while others worked — no support - **4.** Although he was kind, he was considered the least sensible of the three brothers and was often sent away from the village to find work for the family — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1297, line 8: «Why does she get work? She promises "she would ask no wages" and gives the woodman's family gifts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «work» (-1); the same circumstance (-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/1874-pg7277-part11/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which of the following accurately describes the sequence in which Jenik rescued the three creatures? - **1.** A dog, then a cat, then a serpent — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -3 - **2.** A serpent, then a dog, then a cat — no support - **3.** First a cat, then a dog, and finally a serpent that the brothers had chased into the mountains — no support - **4.** A dog, then a cat, then a serpent, then a crow that had been caught in a trap by the roadside — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1079, line 3: «Her kind sister flees into the forest, where a King's son marries her when pearls and diamonds fall from her lips.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «son» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4} Which statement most accurately describes the conduct of Jenik's wife following her acquisition of the watch? - **1.** She stole the watch and abandoned Jenik to his misfortune — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** She stole the watch from him in secret and then abandoned Jenik to his misfortune while she traveled across the sea to the palace — score 3 - **3.** She stole the watch, wished herself a palace, and left Jenik alone in the village with his animals and no money — score 3 - **4.** She kept the watch and used it to buy a grand house in the city — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1874, line 5: «Jenik's wife steals the watch, builds a palace on the sea, and Jenik ends up alone with his dog and cat.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «steal» (+4); the same thing acted on «watch» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1874-pg7277-part11/e4/) - ← previous: [1873. Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the ow…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1873-pg7277-part10/) - next →: [1875. 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