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title: Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the youth solves t… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 672 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 13 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12: the youth solves three riddles and outwits the Sultan's witch

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**Tests:** 3 of 13 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 672 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/672-pg2435-part12/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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yo did the Sultan really send three canes, or am i trippin?

- **1.** three foals — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** three troughs — no support
- **3.** three ropes — no support
- **4.** three canes — **✓ 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/672-pg2435-part12/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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ok so the youth gets the princess to fake a dream, right? what was it about?

- **1.** the canes in warm water — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** the twins in a shop — score 4
- **3.** the witch on a broom — score 4
- **4.** the foals in a barn — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 672, line 16: «old word: a "trough" is a long open box that holds food or water for animals, so the youth uses three troughs to test the foals.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «youth» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «foals» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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wait, how did the king tell the foals apart?

- **1.** hay, straw, and grass — score 3
- **2.** apples, pears, and plums — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** oats, wheat, and barley — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **4.** sugar, salt, and honey — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 664, line 5: «The king's son frees the hairy man, the king orders the boy killed, and the hairy man later gives the boy three magic apples so he can join the king's army.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same doer «king» (+1). 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/672-pg2435-part12/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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lol the witch cut a sleeve, but how many sleeves got cut in the end?

- **1.** one sleeve — score 5
- **2.** three sleeves — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** two sleeves — score 5
- **4.** no sleeves — **← Mova's choice** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 672, line 12: «how the twins are used: the youth paints a mask so that "no one would have known one boy from the other," and the witch cuts a sleeve to pick out the one to ki…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «cut» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «sleeve» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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bruh, what's the king's whole deal when he's sad and freaking out?

- **1.** he's hungry all day — score 5
- **2.** he's scared about the war — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** he lost his crown — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** he wants a new horse — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 667, line 9: «Why: the king is angry at first, but he keeps his promise because he gave "my royal word" to spare the thief.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «king» (+2); the same thing acted on «royal word» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+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/672-pg2435-part12/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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no way, the twins looked so alike, what did the youth paint?

- **1.** a thick beard — score 5
- **2.** a gold badge — score 5
- **3.** a funny hat — score 5
- **4.** a mask just like them — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 672, line 12: «how the twins are used: the youth paints a mask so that "no one would have known one boy from the other," and the witch cuts a sleeve to pick out the one to ki…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «paint» (+2); the same doer «youth» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «mask» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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real talk, why did the Sultan send the youth to Turkey alone?

- **1.** he thought he was dangerous — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** he wanted a tutor — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** he lost a bet — score 5
- **4.** he needed a cook — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 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 667, line 5: «Then the king's counsellors have a new plan, and the king sends for the six brothers to hear it.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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so who was the witch, and why was she so sus?

- **1.** the Sultan's aunt who wanted power — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** a teacher from school — no support
- **3.** a servant of the princess — no support
- **4.** the king's cousin who was lost — 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/672-pg2435-part12/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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the youth was shut in a tower but still got out, how?

- **1.** he climbed out a window — no support
- **2.** the king pardoned him — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** the princess broke the door — no support
- **4.** the guards let him go — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 172, line 3: «The vizir shuts him in a case, and the executioner takes him to the desert but lets him go.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+2); the same thing acted on «prince» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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did the Sultan keep his plan after breakfast?

- **1.** he went to war at once — no support
- **2.** he sent the twins away — score 4
- **3.** he ate all the food — no support
- **4.** he sent them home to think — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 197, line 2: «The Sultan orders the hunchback's story written in the archives and sends the four men home in new robes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «send» (+2); the same doer «sultan» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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what did the princess do when the youth had to leave?

- **1.** she locked the tower — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** she laughed out loud — no support
- **3.** she ran off to school — no support
- **4.** she burst into tears — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 672, line 5: «The youth and two identical twins fool the Sultan, and the Sultan finally sends the youth alone to Turkey at sunrise.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «sultan» (+3); the same doer «youth» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-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/672-pg2435-part12/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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wait, the king's whole army was weak, so what happened to his soldiers?

- **1.** they joined the Sultan — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** they got a raise — score 4
- **3.** they went to the sea — score 4
- **4.** a plague carried them off — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 599, line 4: «The orator asks how he got mauled, and the old man says a slick-looking fellow in a bee-gum hat bumped into him while he chatted with Sis Tempy.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «man» (+4). 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/672-pg2435-part12/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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ok, last one, what did the youth say to calm the princess down?

- **1.** stop being so dramatic — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** all will be well — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** I'm going home — no support
- **4.** leave me alone — 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/672-pg2435-part12/t13/)

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

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Which three objects were despatched by the Sultan to the king with his first communication, and what was the nature of the problem posed?

- **1.** three foals, to determine their birth times — score 4
- **2.** three troughs, to determine which foal was born at night — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** three canes, to determine which grew nearest the root, which in the middle, which at the top — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** three ropes, to determine the length of each cane — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 670, line 13: «What does the king say? He "has never cried in all his life and cannot bear anyone else to do so."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «bear» (+2); the same doer «king» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+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/672-pg2435-part12/e1/)

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

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By what method did the youth instruct the king to distinguish the three foals according to the time of their birth?

- **1.** by feeding them oats, wheat, and barley from identical troughs — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** by counting their spots at dawn — no support
- **3.** by weighing them on a scale — no support
- **4.** by measuring their height against the wall — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 672, line 3: «Next the Sultan sends three foals, and the youth tells the king to feed them oats, wheat, and barley to show their birth times.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «feed» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «foals» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/672-pg2435-part12/e2/)

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

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Why did the Sultan's aunt advise him to have the youth killed, and how did she attempt to identify him?

- **1.** she wished to marry him, and she sent a letter — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** she wanted his horse, and she searched his bed — no support
- **3.** she believed he was the true solver and would become King, and she cut a sleeve — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** she feared his cooking, and she painted his face — 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/672-pg2435-part12/e3/)

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

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What is the principal lesson concerning deception and perception that this part of the tale conveys to the reader?

- **1.** magic alone decides every contest of wit — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** cleverness and planning can defeat the cruel schemes of the powerful — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** wealth and armies always win in the end — no support
- **4.** obedience to a ruler is the highest virtue — 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/672-pg2435-part12/e4/)

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