--- title: Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishe… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 227 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 4 of 14 tests right, exam 3 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/227-pg128-part67/) [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/) / 227 # Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishes come true, and the cradles float away **Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 7 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 227 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/227-pg128-part67/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} bruv, what's the Sultan's whole vibe, was he sus or nah? - **1.** he went out in disguise to nose about — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** he rode out with his army to find the truth about his wife — no support - **3.** he sat quietly and did nothing much — no support - **4.** he dressed as a merchant and wandered the whole city asking questions — 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/227-pg128-part67/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} lowkey, which sister was after the Sultan himself? - **1.** the youngest, the one who was clearly the fittest — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** the eldest, the one who was dead into bread, mate — no support - **3.** the middle one, dunno — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** the eldest, yeah — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 199, line 16: «Old word: a "grand-vizir" was the chief minister of a sultan, the man who carried out the ruler's orders and was the king's most trusted helper.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/227-pg128-part67/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} so the eldest was into bread, innit? - **1.** nah, she wanted the vizir — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, she wanted the baker — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, the gardener — no support - **4.** nah, the cook — no support **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/227-pg128-part67/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} wait, the middle one wanted the head cook, right? - **1.** nah, the royal gardener — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, the chief cook, the one who did the big feasts — no support - **3.** yeah, the water boy — no support - **4.** yeah, the chief cook — **✓ 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/227-pg128-part67/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} the youngest was saying she'd bag the Sultan, was she jokin'? - **1.** yeah, she was joking but then she went and told everyone about it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, she was just messing — no support - **3.** nah, she was totally serious and had already told the Sultan herself — no support - **4.** she said it was only a joke — **✓ 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/227-pg128-part67/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} so the sisters were gutted about the wedding gap, yeah? - **1.** nah, they were chill — no support - **2.** nah, they were dead happy — no support - **3.** yeah, they were well jealous — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** nah, not really — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 113, line 10: «The sisters are cruel because they are jealous; the eldest says "you will see his beautiful claws!" to scare the bride.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sisters» (+2); 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/227-pg128-part67/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} they just chilled in the palace till the baby came, innit? - **1.** yeah, they stayed right till the birth and then some extra months after — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, they stayed till the birth — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah, they left after the wedding — no support - **4.** yeah, they moved out at once — 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/227-pg128-part67/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} then they dumped the baby in the canal? that's cold - **1.** yeah, in a sack, off the bridge — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** nah, out the window — no support - **3.** yeah, in a cradle, down the canal — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** yeah, in a box, down the river — 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/227-pg128-part67/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} and they told the Sultan it was a puppy?! - **1.** nah, they said it was a goat — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, that's what they said — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** yeah, they said a lamb — no support - **4.** nah, they lied — 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/227-pg128-part67/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10} the intendant just found the cradle and took it home, no way - **1.** yeah, he raised the kid himself and told everyone it was his own — no support - **2.** yeah, he raised it as his son — no support - **3.** nah, he took the baby to the vizir and they raised it together in secret — **← Mova's choice** · score -6 - **4.** yeah, he raised the kid himself — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score -6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 92, line 4: «Ever since, says Kipling, the Moon has pulled the sea up and down and made the tides; when he pulls too hard we get spring tides, too softly, neap tides. Pau A…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-6). 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/227-pg128-part67/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · right ✓ {#t11} he found a kid three times?! - **1.** yeah, three years running — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** nah, twice — no support - **3.** nah, just once — no support - **4.** yeah, two years running — 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/227-pg128-part67/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} so the Sultan wanted her executed, bro, like proper? - **1.** nah, he didn't — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** yeah, he ordered it — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** nah, he laughed — no support - **4.** nah, he just shouted — 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/227-pg128-part67/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13} but the vizir stepped in, right? - **1.** yeah, he begged for her life, then tried to take the sultan's seat — score 3 - **2.** yeah, he pleaded with him — no support - **3.** yeah, he begged for her life — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **4.** nah, he just watched — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 227, line 5: «They float each newborn prince down a canal, and each time the intendant rescues it, until the Sultan orders the Sultana's execution and the vizir begs for her…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «vizir» (+2); the same action «beg» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/227-pg128-part67/t13/) ### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14} so she got banished, but she still lives? - **1.** nah, she got locked up — no support - **2.** nah, she's living with her sisters — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** yeah, she lives but away from him — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **4.** nah, she's dead — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 217, line 9: «Why he follows her: he "determined to find out how and when she got food", because no woman can live on rice grains and crumbs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+3); the same doer «woman» (+3). 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/227-pg128-part67/t14/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which action did the Sultan Kosrouschah undertake after his father's interment? - **1.** He departed the palace in plain attire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He travelled north to the border — no support - **3.** He stayed inside — no support - **4.** He ordered a grand feast in the hall — 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/227-pg128-part67/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} By what means did the Sultan resolve to act upon overhearing the sisters? - **1.** He punished them for their words — score 2 - **2.** He gratified their stated desires — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** He sent them away — score 0 - **4.** He refused them — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 227, line 2: «He peeks through a door and overhears three sisters boasting about the husbands they want.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same doer «sisters» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/227-pg128-part67/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which official first perceived the cradle upon the canal? - **1.** a fisherman on the canal bank — no support - **2.** the chief of the palace guards — no support - **3.** the gardener — no support - **4.** the intendant of the royal gardens — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 227, line 5: «They float each newborn prince down a canal, and each time the intendant rescues it, until the Sultan orders the Sultana's execution and the vizir begs for her…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/227-pg128-part67/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What sentence did the vizir successfully petition for on behalf of the Sultana? - **1.** permanent exile from the court — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** banishment from the royal presence — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** imprisonment in the old tower — no support - **4.** banishment from the royal presence and loss of all her wealth — 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/227-pg128-part67/e4/) - ← previous: [226. 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