--- title: Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three foundlings… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 228 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 13 tests right, exam 1 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/228-pg128-part68/) [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/) / 228 # Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three foundlings grow up, and a pilgrim names three wonders the princess must have **Tests:** 5 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 228 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/228-pg128-part68/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Yo, so the Sultana's stuck in a box, is that proper? - **1.** Nah, she's in a cell, innit — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, a box at the mosque door, mate, and everyone has to spit on her as they go past — no support - **3.** Yeah, a box at the mosque door, mate, the Sultan's orders, and nobody can get her out — no support - **4.** Yeah, a box at the mosque door, mate — **✓ the right answer** · 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/228-pg128-part68/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Wait, do the people actually spit on her? - **1.** Yeah, no cap — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Every Mussulman passing has to, no cap — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Some do, the ones who hate her, real talk — no support - **4.** Nah, they just stare — 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/228-pg128-part68/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} Who finds the little princess, fam? - **1.** Some shepherd bloke out on the hills — no support - **2.** The intendant of the gardens, the gaffer — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **3.** The sisters' steward, fam, the gaffer — score 8 - **4.** The intendant of the gardens, the gaffer, who was out walking the park with his dog — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 101, line 18: «Witches have "red eyes" and a "fine sense of smelling", so they can find children even when they cannot see well.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+5); the same thing acted on «children» (+2); 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/228-pg128-part68/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4} Her name's Parizade, yeah? What's it mean, bro? - **1.** Like a magic kid — no support - **2.** Like a princess from the north, yeah — no support - **3.** The daughter of the sea, like a mermaid — no support - **4.** The child of the genii, like a magic kid — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 15, line 13: ««My name is Alice, so please your Majesty» is the old polite way to speak to a queen; to herself she says «they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't b…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/228-pg128-part68/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Did she actually keep up with her bros in class? - **1.** Yeah, she knew as much as they did, wicked, and she even beat them at some of the tests — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yeah, she knew as much as they did, wicked, so the tutor never had to repeat anything for her — no support - **3.** Nah, she struggled with the lessons, mate — no support - **4.** Yeah, she knew as much as they did, wicked — **✓ 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/228-pg128-part68/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} Could she do the boy stuff, like bow and arrow? - **1.** Yeah, she could shoot and throw a javelin, sick — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, she could shoot and throw a javelin, sick, and she beat her brothers at both — score 5 - **3.** Nah, she could only sing and dance, mate — no support - **4.** Nah, just cooking, sick — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 228, line 15: «Skills: she can sing, play instruments, ride, drive, shoot with a bow and arrow, and throw a javelin "sometimes even better" than her brothers.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «javelin» (+3); the same action «throw» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/228-pg128-part68/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Why'd they move to a massive country house? - **1.** Cos the palace gardens were too small for them, and the intendant wanted them to have proper space, sus — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cos the palace gardens were too small for them, sus — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Cos the Sultan kicked them out, sus — no support - **4.** Cos the palace was full of spies, fam, sus — 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/228-pg128-part68/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} What's in the huge park, then? - **1.** Loads of wild beasts to hunt, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Just trees, fam — no support - **3.** Loads of fruit trees and a lake, mate — no support - **4.** A huge pond with fish, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 228, line 4: «The children learn everything, so the intendant buys a country house with a huge park full of wild beasts. Then he dies without telling them the secret of thei…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «country house» (+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/228-pg128-part68/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Did the intendant tell them about their birth before he snuffed it? - **1.** Nah, he died before he told them, rip, and the Sultan made sure nobody else would say a word — score 8 - **2.** Yeah, he told them about the box, mate — score 6 - **3.** Nah, he died before he told them, rip, so they still don't know who their real parents are — score 8 - **4.** Nah, he died before he told them, rip — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 228, line 4: «The children learn everything, so the intendant buys a country house with a huge park full of wild beasts. Then he dies without telling them the secret of thei…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «die» (+5); the same doer «intendant» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/228-pg128-part68/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} What did the old lady say the house was missing? - **1.** Something to eat, a bird, and a good well — no support - **2.** Three things, the bird, the tree and the water, and a proper gate for the princess to pass — no support - **3.** A roof, a stove, a bed and a lamp — score 4 - **4.** Three things, the bird, the tree and the water — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 228, line 19: «The pilgrim says the house "lacks three things to make it absolutely perfect," and she names them.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «house» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «three things» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/228-pg128-part68/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Where's the Golden Water, then? - **1.** Up in the north, in the hills, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Near India, bro — no support - **3.** In the east, mate — no support - **4.** Near India, on the border, go 20 days — **✓ 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/228-pg128-part68/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} How far do you walk down that road, mate? - **1.** Long, bro — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** About three weeks, quite a trek — no support - **3.** Twenty days, proper long walk — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Ten days, bro — 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/228-pg128-part68/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Did the princess just let it go? - **1.** Yeah, she told the sisters off, bruv — score 2 - **2.** Yeah, she let the whole thing drop, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** Nah, she won't rest till she's got them, fam — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yeah, she gave up — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 226, line 14: «What she vows: she says she would die "sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «permit» (+3); the same doer «princess» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, 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/228-pg128-part68/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Which condition did the Sultan impose upon the Sultana as the price of her continued existence? - **1.** That she be confined in a box at the principal mosque — **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** That she be kept in the palace under heavy guard — score 2 - **3.** That she be confined in a box at the principal mosque, and that she never leave it until her death — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** That she be confined in a box at the principal mosque, where every Mussulman passing must spit on her — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 226, line 2: «The Sultan leads him to a secret room under the roof, where he peeks at the princess singing sadly on a sofa.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lead» (+5); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/228-pg128-part68/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Under whose supervision were the three infants reared, and by what names were the princes designated? - **1.** Under the intendant's care, as Bahman and Perviz — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** By the intendant, bro — no support - **3.** As princes, Kai — no support - **4.** Under the sisters' care, as Kai and Ali — 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/228-pg128-part68/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} What ultimately prevented the intendant from disclosing the secret of the children's origin? - **1.** His sudden death, which overtook him before he could do so, after years of keeping the secret from everyone — **← Mova's choice** · score 11 - **2.** His fear that the children would be taken away — no support - **3.** His fear of the sisters' spies in the household — no support - **4.** His sudden death, which overtook him before he could do so — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 67, line 20: «Badger: «I haven't said my last word yet. Now I'm going to tell you a great secret» — one that Toad's father told him and «wouldn't have dreamt of telling» his…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+5); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). 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/228-pg128-part68/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What three objects did the old devotee declare to be wanting in the princess's house? - **1.** The Golden Bird, the Ivory Tree and the Silver Water — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and a well — no support - **4.** The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, the Golden Water and a proper stone gate for the princess's house — 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/228-pg128-part68/e4/) - ← previous: [227. 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