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title: Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 1888 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 13 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors

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**Tests:** 4 of 13 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 1888 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/1888-pg7277-part25/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Mate, how come the Prince was called Mannikin, innit?

- **1.** Cos he was small like a kid — score 4
- **2.** Cos he got called that by mates — no support
- **3.** Cos he stayed tiny, like a little man — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **4.** Cos the fairy gave him that name when he was a baby in the cottage, like — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1888, line 6: «Who: the little Prince, called "Mannikin", who "remained the tiniest of Princes" even as he grew older.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «remain» (+2); the same property (+2). Against it: 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Bruv, what was the Ice Mountain prize, like proper mint?

- **1.** A massive golden crown — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Sabella and all her realms — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The hand of Sabella and a huge chunk of the Northern kingdoms too — no support
- **4.** Her whole kingdom, bruv — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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So the ambassadors were laughing, yeah? Like, why?

- **1.** Cos he signed up as a joke — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Cos he wrote just Mannikin on the list — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Cos his name was Mannikin on the form — no support
- **4.** Cos he wrote Mannikin on the list and said he'd beat the ambassadors all — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Did he chill with the Fairy before he bounced, or nah?

- **1.** Yeah, he hung out with her for ages and got a proper blessing before he went — score 1
- **2.** Yeah, they had a massive chat — no support
- **3.** Nah, he left without saying bye, but he dropped her a nice note on the way out there — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Nah, he left without saying bye — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1883, line 14: «Where: Saradine leaves Celandine "into the desert," and the Fairy leads her by a mossy path to the family's bower.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lead» (+3); the same doer «fairy» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Yo, the directions were proper confusing, weren't they?

- **1.** Yeah, the map said four hundred leagues north of Caucasus but nobody knew where that was, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Four hundred leagues north of Caucasus — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** North of the big mountains, no joke — no support
- **4.** Yeah, totally muddled, no joke — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Did he dodge towns, like totally avoid them, or what?

- **1.** Yeah, he went right round them all cos he was scared of people taking the mick out of his name — score 4
- **2.** Yeah, cos he feared the joke about his name — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **3.** Nah, he went through every town he could find cos he wanted everyone to see him and laugh at his name — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **4.** Nah, he just fancied the open road — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 9, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1888, line 15: «Why he avoids towns: he fears people will laugh at his name, since he "had not yet learned to enjoy a joke" against himself.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «laugh» (+7); the same place «name» (+2). The right option, 2, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Gutted much when his horse got lost in the fight?

- **1.** Yeah, he was dead gutted — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Nah, he was dead chuffed cos the horse ran off to find a better rider anyway — score 4
- **3.** Yeah, he was totally fine — score 4
- **4.** Nah, not bothered — no support

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**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 1779, line 10: «The emperor is cross and says "Fifty years have passed since I was young," so the horse may be long dead.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «horse» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Bare monsters in this bit, innit? What was the monster like?

- **1.** Like a raging bear — no support
- **2.** Like a huge furious tiger from the far jungles of the east that nobody could tame — no support
- **3.** Like a furious tiger — **✓ the right answer** · score -3
- **4.** Like a furious tiger with huge claws and a terrible roar that shook the trees — **← Mova's choice** · score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1885, line 19: «Old word: "mollified" means calmed down, and "ruinously" means at a terrible cost.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «old word» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Right, so the ship got smashed, yeah? Where did he end up?

- **1.** On a desert island — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** At home — no support
- **3.** On a rocky shore — no support
- **4.** On land — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Sick, what grew over the masts, like proper weird?

- **1.** Ivy, till it looked like a hedge — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Vines, till it looked like a jungle — no support
- **3.** Leaves, till it looked like a wood — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Weeds — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the crew look awake, or what?

- **1.** Yeah, they were all wide awake and laughing, but still a bit like dead men really — no support
- **2.** Nah, they were still like dead men — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, they were all up and about — no support
- **4.** Nah, they were still like dead men, locked in the wood as tight as ever before — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1888, line 19: «The crew are growing into the wood, and he frees them with "the sharp point of one of his arrows".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «crew» (+4); the same place «wood» (+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/1888-pg7277-part25/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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Mate, how'd he free the crew from the wood?

- **1.** Using a sharp spear from the boat — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** With his sword — no support
- **3.** With the point of one of his arrows — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** By cutting them with his knife — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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Wicked, did the herbs actually work on the sailors?

- **1.** Yeah, they got totally better — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nah, they got worse — no support
- **3.** Yeah, they got better again — no support
- **4.** Nah, they got a bit better but the wood still clung to some of their limbs — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/t13/)

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

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Which object did the Prince employ in order to liberate the crew from the arboreal enchantment?

- **1.** The heavy point of his hunting axe — score 1
- **2.** The silver tip of his spear — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** His sword — score 2
- **4.** The sharp point of one of his arrows — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1748, line 15: «The brother who knew the dictionary by heart forgets it all and stands "like an idiot" in the hall.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «hall» (+4). Against it: the same doer «brother» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/e1/)

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

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In what manner did the Fairy ensure that the Prince was sustained during his nocturnal repose?

- **1.** She supplied him with a feast each night, and roused him gently each morning for his journey — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **2.** She supplied him with good food every night while he slept under the great oak tree — score 1
- **3.** She placed warm bread and fruit beside his bed — score 1
- **4.** She supplied him with good food while he slept — **✓ the right answer** · score 1

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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 1852, line 3: «He faints by the lake, and his friend finds him, splashes water on his face, and hears that he saw a fairy.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/1888-pg7277-part25/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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What was the nature of the inscription which the Prince set upon the register of contenders?

- **1.** He signed the single name Mannikin, together with the address of his distant father's castle — score -5
- **2.** He wrote the name Mannikin only — score -5
- **3.** He signed the single name Mannikin — **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **4.** He wrote out his full royal title and then added the single name Mannikin at the end of the list — **← 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, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1784, line 7: «What: the emperor sets eight days for the youth to "tame and bring to me three horses that have never felt a master."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 3, scored -5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1888-pg7277-part25/e3/)

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

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What was the outcome of the vessel's encounter with the tempest?

- **1.** The ship was tossed about for days before being wrecked, and the Prince swam ashore with his bow — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The ship struck rocks and the crew were lost — no support
- **3.** The ship was wrecked and the Prince swam ashore — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The ship was wrecked on a reef and the Prince swam ashore alone after a long night at sea — 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/1888-pg7277-part25/e4/)

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