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title: Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for a… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
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# Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake

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**Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 9 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 489 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/489-pg22373-part81/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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bruh, why did the mom keep going door to door?

- **1.** cause she wanted a good wife — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** cause she was bored — no support
- **3.** cause nobody in the village would ever say yes to her son — no support
- **4.** cause nobody would say yes to her son — **✓ 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/489-pg22373-part81/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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so the old man said jump on the polati, fr?

- **1.** yeah, go lie down and give up — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** nope, climb on and rest now — no support
- **3.** yeah, jump up and wait there — no support
- **4.** yeah, jump up on it and just lie down and give up on everything — 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/489-pg22373-part81/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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ngl the dude said he'd take the devil's bride, no cap?

- **1.** yep, he said it in the middle of an argument with his mom and got real upset about it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yep, he said it when he was super salty — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** nah, he just said it when he was tired — no support
- **4.** yep, he said it when he was super salty and didn't mean it at 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/489-pg22373-part81/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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the old man just popped up from nowhere, that's kinda sus, right?

- **1.** yeah, he came up from the floor — score 3
- **2.** yeah, he rose up out of the ground right in front of everyone — score 7
- **3.** yeah, he rose up out of the ground — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** yeah, he popped out of a hole — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 489, line 3: «An old man rises out of the ground, leads him to a lake, and takes him down into a white-stone palace.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «ground» (+4); the same action «rise» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/489-pg22373-part81/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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what's the move at the lake, bet?

- **1.** walk backwards, don't look — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** turn around, walk slow — no support
- **3.** just wait by the water — no support
- **4.** turn your back, walk backwards, and don't look at the lake — **← Mova's choice** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 489, line 13: «The old man sets the rule: "Turn your back to the lake and walk backwards."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «back» (+4); the same action «turn» (+3). 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/489-pg22373-part81/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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the palace under the water is lowkey mad, huh?

- **1.** nah, it's gross — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, gold walls and big halls — no support
- **3.** yeah, white stone and fancy rooms — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, it's cool — 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/489-pg22373-part81/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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twelve girls all look the same, so how'd he pick?

- **1.** the one who's tallest — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the one with a fly above her right eye, the mark — no support
- **3.** the one with the long braid — no support
- **4.** the one with a fly on her eye — **✓ 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/489-pg22373-part81/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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wait, the fair girl was the priest's kid, no way?

- **1.** nah, she's older — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** yup, she vanished when she was nine — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yup, she ran off at twelve — score 3
- **4.** yup, she left when she was seven — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 168, line 16: «Old word: "Sire" was a polite way to address a king, a bit like saying "Your Majesty" today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). 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/489-pg22373-part81/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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her dad got mad and said devils take you, like that?

- **1.** yeah, that's what the devil heard him say — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** yeah, that's the curse that dragged her off — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yeah, that's exactly the curse that the fiend used to drag her away from home — no support
- **4.** yeah, that's the curse that dragged her off to the water palace — 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/489-pg22373-part81/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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the fiend made him pick three times, mid right?

- **1.** yep, the very same girl — no support
- **2.** yup, it was the same girl all three times — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** yup, same girl all three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** nah, different girls each time — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 336, line 6: «Who: Peter Pan fights Captain James Hook, the pirate who "had thought it was some fiend fighting him".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «peter» (+4). 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/489-pg22373-part81/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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so the devils were chasing, and they only found footprints into the water, right?

- **1.** nah, they found tracks going home — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** yeah, all the prints go into the water — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** yeah, the tracks all go to the water — no support
- **4.** yeah, just footprints — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 489, line 20: «The devils find that "all the footprints lead into the water," so they turn back empty handed.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «devils» (+1). 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/489-pg22373-part81/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who?

- **1.** the merchant — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** a neighbor — no support
- **3.** his laborer — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the priest's young laborer from the field — 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/489-pg22373-part81/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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the merchants chill and let them stay, yeah?

- **1.** yep, they said hospitality is a must — score 3
- **2.** yeah, they said it's always your duty to host strangers — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** yeah, they said it's always your duty to take in travelers no matter who they are — score 3
- **4.** yeah, they said it's always your duty — **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 220, line 6: «Who: Ali Cogia is the man who left a vase of olives with his friend the merchant, and the merchant is the man he accuses.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «man» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). 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/489-pg22373-part81/t13/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Which condition does the old man impose upon the youth at the lake?

- **1.** He must kneel down and face the water slowly. — no support
- **2.** He must walk backwards. — no support
- **3.** He must turn his back to the lake and walk backwards. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** He must close his eyes and walk forward. — 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 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 489, line 13: «The old man sets the rule: "Turn your back to the lake and walk backwards."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «back» (+2); the same action «turn» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/489-pg22373-part81/e1/)

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

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What is the principal feature of the palace the youth encounters beneath the water?

- **1.** It is built of white stone and richly furnished with many glowing lamps and silk hangings. — score 3
- **2.** It is carved from wood and quite plain. — score -1
- **3.** It is built of white stone and richly furnished. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** It is built of gold and filled with guards. — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 273, line 15: «Where Peter hides: "in the tool-shed", "jumped into a can", where the water makes him damp.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: 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/489-pg22373-part81/e2/)

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

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How does the fair maiden make herself known to the youth as the priest's daughter?

- **1.** She tells her name. — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** She shows her father's ring. — no support
- **3.** She shows him a token from her father's house. — no support
- **4.** She recounts her disappearance from home at the age of nine. — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 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 489, line 4: «Twelve identical maidens are shown, and a fair maiden secretly tells him to pick the one with a fly above her right eye.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+5); the same doer «fair maiden» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/489-pg22373-part81/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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What evidence causes the pursuing devils to abandon their search for the maiden?

- **1.** They find footprints leading only into the water. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** They discover footprints going into the lake. — no support
- **3.** They find footprints leading only into the water and none coming back out. — no support
- **4.** They see tracks leading into the lake. — 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/489-pg22373-part81/e4/)

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