--- title: Magyar Folk Tales, The Prince And The Dragon, part 13: the youngest… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 673 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 12 tests right, exam 2 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/673-pg2435-part13/) [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/) / 673 # Magyar Folk Tales, The Prince And The Dragon, part 13: the youngest prince refuses the hare and the old woman hunts the dragon's secret **Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 673 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/673-pg2435-part13/). ### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} bro the sword just jumped out and chopped fifteen Turks, no cap? - **1.** Nope, only the front row got cut down by it — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Yep, every head except the Sultan's got sliced off — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Yep, the blade flew and chopped every Turk in the tent — no support - **4.** Yeah it did, and then the sword went back in the scabbard and sliced the Sultan too — 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/673-pg2435-part13/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} wait so the witch lost her nose cause she tried sneaking the sword?? - **1.** Yeah, it was iron and the sword sliced it right off — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **2.** Yeah, the sword cut her ear clean off the head — score 3 - **3.** Yep, she was sneaking and the sword flew right at her face and cut her nose off from the iron — score 1 - **4.** Yeah, her nose was iron and the blade hacked it clean off while she snuck in the dark night — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 444, line 2: «She gets a smith to forge her a thin voice just like his mother's, then calls him to the shore at night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «witch» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). The right option, 1, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/673-pg2435-part13/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} fr how many brothers went in the mill and got eaten? - **1.** Three of them, all of the princes, were eaten — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Two — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** No — no support - **4.** 1 — score 6 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 467, line 1: «Emilian is the fool of three brothers, and his sisters-in-law send him off to fetch water.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the number the lesson gave for it (+1). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/673-pg2435-part13/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} bruh the youngest bro just walked away from the hare, was he scared? - **1.** No, he was just tired from riding — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, he was brave — no support - **3.** No, he was wiser than the others — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, he was scared — 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/673-pg2435-part13/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} sheesh, the old lady kissed a rock AND a tree? - **1.** Yep, the rock and then the bush — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nope, she kissed the old well — no support - **3.** Yep, the hearth and then the tree — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Nope, just the tree — 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/673-pg2435-part13/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} so where does the dragon's strength live, like really? - **1.** Deep inside a sparrow hidden in a far away kingdom across the river and mountains — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **2.** Hidden in a crow in a distant land — no support - **3.** Inside a sparrow in a faraway kingdom — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Inside a tiny sparrow that lives in a faraway kingdom beyond the great mountains — score -5 **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 3, against -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 673, line 13: «Where: the mill "standing by the side of a river" is the dragon's home, and his strength lies in a faraway kingdom.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «strength» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «faraway kingdom» (+1). Against it: a different action (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/673-pg2435-part13/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} did the lad's mom finally get told the secret? - **1.** Yes, he said he hoped to become the Duke of Bohemia — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** No, he never told her — no support - **3.** Yes, he said he dreamed of being the Emperor of Rome — no support - **4.** Yes, he said he dreamed of being King of Hungary — **✓ 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/673-pg2435-part13/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} was the lad's mom scared by all those soldiers? - **1.** Yep, she was so frightened by the array of soldiers that she hid under the bed for hours — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Nope, she was quite pleased by the army — no support - **3.** Yep, she was quite frightened by the array — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Yes, she was frightened by the loud drums — 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/673-pg2435-part13/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} why did the lad not even look at the witch? - **1.** He was too proud — no support - **2.** He was thinking about the king's gold — no support - **3.** He had no reason to look at her — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **4.** His sword was clanking, he was busy — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 129, line 13: «Who: the wise Woman tells her to say "Little kid, milk Table, appear!" to get food.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); a different thing acted on (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/673-pg2435-part13/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} what did the king say the lad should marry, fam? - **1.** The princess — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** The beautiful princess from the eastern kingdom across the mountains — score 9 - **3.** The daughter of the Sultan and the queen of the mill — score 9 - **4.** A noblewoman — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 668, line 9: «Why: The king wants to marry the princess, but his wise men say nothing, so the Court Fool gives the plan of sending the seventh Simon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+3); one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+3); the same action «marry» (+2); 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/673-pg2435-part13/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} so the old lady was flattering the dragon just to get the secret, right? - **1.** Yeah, she tricked him with a song — score 3 - **2.** Yeah, she praised his fire and his great strength so he would tell her the secret of his power — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **3.** Yeah, she flattered him endlessly for hours, then she sneaked the secret out of him with a clever smile — score 6 - **4.** Yeah, she praised him to get the secret — **✓ the right answer** · score 4 **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 285, line 16: «One taper sets the foliage alight, and the young ladies "quickly put out the fire."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «young ladies» (+2); the same thing acted on «fire» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+2). 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/673-pg2435-part13/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12} so the youngest bro got the secret in the end, fr? - **1.** Yeah, the old lady told him when he came back — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **2.** Nope, the old lady never told him anything — score 1 - **3.** Yeah, he found it out on the road — score 3 - **4.** Yeah, she told him when he came back, and then he rode off to the mountains with it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 433, line 18: «Reticence means keeping quiet about something, so the ladies in the tale would not tell secrets.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+2); the same doer «ladies» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/673-pg2435-part13/t12/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following accurately identifies the location of the dragon's strength as described in the passage? - **1.** It is located inside a sparrow in a distant kingdom — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It is hidden inside a sparrow, which is kept in a distant kingdom across the river and sea — no support - **3.** It is located inside a tiny sparrow that lives in a distant kingdom beyond the mountains — no support - **4.** It is hidden within a hawk in a faraway forest — 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/673-pg2435-part13/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} What was the outcome of the witch's attempt to steal the sword during the night? - **1.** She was caught by the guards — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **2.** Her iron nose was sliced off by the blade — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** She fled before the sword touched her — score 6 - **4.** Her iron nose was sliced off by the blade as she crept through the tent in the dark night — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 414, line 16: «Old word: "trough" is a long open tub for holding water or food; the witch is laid in one.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same thing acted on «witch» (+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/673-pg2435-part13/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} Which action did the youngest prince take upon finding that the hare had entered the mill? - **1.** He turned away from the mill and rode up the mountain for hours until the sun went down — score 8 - **2.** He turned away quickly and spent the night riding over the mountain and through the valley below — score 8 - **3.** He turned away and rode the mountain for hours — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **4.** He shouted at the hare and ran back home — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 673, line 4: «The youngest son turns away from the hare, meets an old prisoner in the mill, and she tries to coax the dragon's secret out of him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+3); the same action «turn away» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/673-pg2435-part13/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} What did the old woman request from the dragon in order to obtain the secret of his strength? - **1.** She asked where he went, what he ate, and what magic it was that made him strong — **← Mova's choice** · score 7 - **2.** She asked where he went and what made him strong — **✓ the right answer** · score 6 - **3.** She offered him her iron nose and her gold — no support - **4.** She asked him nicely for his secret power — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 656, line 9: «Why: the dragon cannot eat the Princess because she has "a heart of gold".», 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 «eat» (+2); the same doer «dragon» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/673-pg2435-part13/e4/) - ← previous: [672. Hungarian Fairy Tales, The Clever Youth, part 12…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/672-pg2435-part12/) - next →: [674. Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the pr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/674-pg2435-part14/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)