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# Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win

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**Tests:** 4 of 14 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 12 of 18 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 681 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/681-pg2435-part21/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bruv, why'd the prince bounce from his fairy fam?

- **1.** He got a message from the king saying the world needed him to come and fight — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He was dying to see the world — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He was keen to go explore — no support
- **4.** The fairies were mean to him and he finally decided to run away into the world — no support

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**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/681-pg2435-part21/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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No cap, what did the fairy wife hand him for the road?

- **1.** A whole basket of fairy cakes and a silver bottle of dew — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** A pair of enchanted boots that can walk over the sea and mountains together — no support
- **3.** A tiny wooden whistle thing — score 5
- **4.** A long curl of her hair — **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 608, line 19: «Old word: "causeway" means a raised road, and "tanks" are water basins, which today we would call ponds or reservoirs.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+4); the same circumstance (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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So what did he wish for in the desert, like, instantly?

- **1.** A big house and a horse — no support
- **2.** A castle, servants and dinner — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** A palace with a hot bath — no support
- **4.** A huge golden castle with a thousand servants, a feast, and a lake of wine — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 681, line 3: «Lost in a desert, he uses the curl to conjure a castle, servants and dinner.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «castle» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Was the goose-boy gig lowkey a disguise?

- **1.** Nah, he was actually a real goose-boy from the village who got sick of the geese — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he got mucky so nobody knew — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, he was just a bit dirty — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he wore a fake beard too — 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/681-pg2435-part21/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Why did folks cross the road when they saw him?

- **1.** He had mud all over him and smelled of a dead fish from the palace pond last week — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He looked proper scruffy — no support
- **3.** He looked totally minging — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** He had a massive bag of geese and was shouting at everyone he passed in the street — 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/681-pg2435-part21/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Did the queen get on his case about being filthy?

- **1.** Yeah, she shouted at him — score 4
- **2.** Yeah, she made him scrub the kitchen floor and sent him to the stables all day — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** Nah, but the king did, and he ordered him to take a bath in the moat right now — score 4
- **4.** Yeah, she said go wash up — **✓ the right answer** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 128, line 5: «The Queen forgets her promise to the Dwarf, but when her child is born he comes to claim it, and she has three days to find his name.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+4); the same doer «queen» (+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/681-pg2435-part21/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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What was the big drama with the bread?

- **1.** The king had ordered the bread baked by sunrise but nobody in the palace knew how — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The army ran out of horses soon — no support
- **3.** No flour, so no bread for the army — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The king lost his favourite cook — no support

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**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/681-pg2435-part21/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Did he actually bake it or was it sus?

- **1.** He prayed to the fairies and the bread rose by itself while he slept all night long — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he used the oven, it was fine — no support
- **3.** He baked it the normal way, sus — no support
- **4.** He used the curl and it was done — **✓ 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/681-pg2435-part21/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Mate, what did the king say about getting the job done?

- **1.** Finish it or be thrown out — score -3
- **2.** Bake it fast or be fined — score -3
- **3.** Do it or lose your head — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** Do your best, and if you fail I will give you a horse and let you go home — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 669, line 12: «Why the King of Busan frees his men: he reads the letter "over and over again" and orders the men "to be set free."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «men» (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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How did the princess feel about marrying him?

- **1.** Totally fine with it, she hugged him tight and said let's get married tomorrow then — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** Totally gutted, said never ever — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** She cried loads and said she'd rather run off to the forest than marry him ever — score 4
- **4.** Quite chuffed, said yes please — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 463, line 13: «The Princess squeezes the Prince's hand until "his eyes disappeared beneath his brows," so she tests him again.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «squeeze» (+3); the same doer «princess» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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What did he pick from the stables for the war?

- **1.** A scruffy little pony, mate — **← Mova's choice** · score -4
- **2.** A poor lame horse, mate — **✓ the right answer** · score -4
- **3.** The shiniest white stallion in the stables, with a golden saddle, mate, sick — no support
- **4.** A big black war horse, mate, trained to charge through the whole enemy line — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 32, line 17: «At the station they left Toad «in the second-class waiting-room, giving a porter twopence to keep a strict eye on him», and left the horse at an inn stable.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «horse» (-1); the same place «inn stable» (-1). The right option, 2, scored -4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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What was he doing in the road while the lads rode off?

- **1.** Sleeping in the ditch — no support
- **2.** Sitting and playing with mud — score 3
- **3.** Making little clay soldiers — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** Digging holes in the road — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 681, line 16: «The battle: he rides a "poor lame" horse, sits down to make "little clay soldiers", then rides off with the curl's gifts.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «make» (+1); the same thing acted on «little clay soldiers» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · right ✓ {#t13}

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What did the king give him after the first battle, like, as a reward?

- **1.** Just his little finger — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Just a silver penny — score 8
- **3.** Only his best horse — score 8
- **4.** A big bag of gold and a new suit of armour from the royal forge — score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 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 remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «king» (+4); the same action «give» (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t14}

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Who was getting the best of the fight before the strange knight turned up?

- **1.** The enemy had already captured the king and was carrying him off on a cart to their camp — no support
- **2.** The king's men were winning big — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** The enemy had the upper hand, sure — no support
- **4.** The enemy, the king's lot were losing — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 681, line 21: «Old word: "a host in himself" means one knight seems like a whole army; "host" once meant a large army.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-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/681-pg2435-part21/t14/)

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

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By what means did the prince obtain lodging in the desert?

- **1.** He wished a cottage into being with the help of a bird — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** He summoned a castle by means of the fairy's lock of hair — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He asked a passing merchant to host him for the night — no support
- **4.** He was given lodging by a kindly genie who lived under the dunes and had heard of his plight from the wind — 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/681-pg2435-part21/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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What reason did the queen give for appointing the prince as goose-boy?

- **1.** The queen wished to test the stranger's humility, and she believed a prince would never accept such a low post willingly — **← Mova's choice** · score 0
- **2.** The palace had no one remaining to fill that post — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **3.** Every other servant had left the palace for the war — score -1
- **4.** The post was empty and no one would take it — score -2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 667, line 6: «Who: the six brothers are the sons of one father and mother, and each is called Simon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «sons» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/681-pg2435-part21/e2/)

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

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In what manner did the prince's conduct at the palace differ from that of ordinary servants?

- **1.** He worked very hard — no support
- **2.** He acted like a common servant in every way — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** He worked as an ordinary servant for the king — score 2
- **4.** He deliberately soiled himself to conceal his rank — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 432, line 15: «Koshchei begs, "Don't kill me, Prince Ivan!", but the Prince "had no weight" in his words.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3). Against it: the same place «words» (-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/681-pg2435-part21/e3/)

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

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What condition did the king attach to the commission of baking bread for the army?

- **1.** Failure would forfeit the baker's life — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** If he failed, he would be punished — **← Mova's choice** · score -1
- **3.** Success would win him the princess — score -4
- **4.** He must bake all the bread alone, without any help, and finish before the army marches at dawn — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score -1, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 669, line 15: «Why the seventh Simon is pardoned: he is "a thief by trade," as the eldest admits, and the king agrees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «thief» (-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/681-pg2435-part21/e4/)

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