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title: Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the yo… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 697 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 697 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/697-pg2435-part37/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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Yo, was the ogress actually fair to the lad after he guessed right?

- **1.** Nah, she cheated him, proper — no support
- **2.** Yeah, she kept her word, innit, but made him pay a bit more — score 7
- **3.** Yeah, she kept her word, innit — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Yeah, she kept it, dead fair — no support

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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 697, line 10: «Why: the ogress says "I will keep my word", so the youth is free to go to his own land.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4); the same thing acted on «word» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/697-pg2435-part37/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Mate, did Tritill and Litill just sit about doing nothing?

- **1.** Yeah, they just sat about, mate — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nah, they bossed the ox job, proper — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Nah, they bossed the ox job, proper, and the whole village cheered — no support
- **4.** Nah, they did the ox job, proper, then went home to sleep off the feast — 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/697-pg2435-part37/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Bruv, which bit was the peak for you in the ogress tale?

- **1.** The ship that sails on land, dead wicked — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The ship that sails on land and water, dead wicked, the best bit, bruv — no support
- **3.** The bit with the lost princess, bruv — no support
- **4.** The part where the ogress's ox gets killed and the heart comes out, proper wicked — 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/697-pg2435-part37/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Wait, the king nearly fainted, yeah?

- **1.** Yeah, he was dead gutted and then proper happy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, he was dead gutted and went pale, then proper happy when she came back home — no support
- **3.** Nah, he was just dead gutted, not happy — no support
- **4.** Yeah, he nearly fainted, was dead gutted, and then proper happy and wept lots — **← Mova's choice** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 115, line 11: «Why the King faints: the painting was "so beautifully painted that one thought it breathed and moved."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «faint» (+4); the same doer «king» (+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/697-pg2435-part37/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Is Sigurd's sis Lineik a year younger, or what?

- **1.** Nah, they are a year apart, not twins — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yeah, she's a year younger, innit — no support
- **3.** Yeah, Lineik is a year younger than Sigurd, the queen told everyone in court — no support
- **4.** Nah, they're a year apart, not twins, and Lineik is the older one by a bit — 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/697-pg2435-part37/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Did the queen say the king should bag a princess from some proper big kingdom?

- **1.** Yeah, a princess who knows courts and kings and rich lands, that's the vibe, bruv — score 4
- **2.** Yeah, a princess raised in a big court, innit — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **3.** Nah, a princess from some small island, mate, not big — no support
- **4.** Yeah, a princess who knows courts, that's the vibe — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 459, line 11: «Vasily reaches the palace only because he is the one who "succeeded in climbing the steep hill."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «one» (+3); the same doer «king» (+2). 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/697-pg2435-part37/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Was the minister sus about Blauvor from the start?

- **1.** Nah, he thought she'd be a good wife for the king — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **2.** Yeah, dead sus, mate — no support
- **3.** Yeah, he thought she was a liar, innit — no support
- **4.** Nah, he trusted her from the very first day — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 697, line 17: «Who: Blauvor, who claims she was married to a king slain by Vikings; her daughter is Laufer.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same doer «daughter» (+1). Against it: 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/697-pg2435-part37/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Did the fog clear fast, or was it a long old wait?

- **1.** It cleared fast, mate — no support
- **2.** It cleared up within a few days, bruv — no support
- **3.** It lasted a whole month, so long — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **4.** It cleared quickly, after a short wait — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 697, line 15: «What: the fog lasts "for a whole month", so the ship drifts in darkness.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «last» (+4); the same property (+3); the same doer «fog» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/697-pg2435-part37/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Was the island full of people, though?

- **1.** Nah, it was empty and quiet, mostly — no support
- **2.** Nah, it was bare and deserted, mostly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Yeah, it was packed with people and a huge market, proper busy — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** Nah, it was bare and deserted, mostly, though a few ships were docked by the shore — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 58, line 18: «He sailed to «the Grecian Islands and the Levant» (the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea), sleeping by day «in some cool temple or ruined ciste…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «grecian islands» (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different action (counts against) (-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/697-pg2435-part37/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10}

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Did Laufer think her mum was telling the truth, like, for real?

- **1.** She asked if her mum was speaking the truth, and then went to check the ship herself — score 6
- **2.** She asked if her mum was speaking the truth — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** She assumed her mum was lying all along — no support
- **4.** She doubted her mum and asked for proof — no support

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**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 364, line 15: «The moral at the end is "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «speak» (+4); the same thing acted on «truth» (+3). 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/697-pg2435-part37/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Did the minister trust them, or nah?

- **1.** Nah, he refused, bruv — no support
- **2.** Yeah, he was dead wary and asked her once — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** Yeah, he got dead keen and begged for her hand — **✓ the right answer** · score 0
- **4.** Nah, he got dead keen but she said no, innit — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 697, line 18: «Why: the minister thinks "What a wife she would make for the king", so he asks for her hand.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+4); the same doer «minister» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/697-pg2435-part37/t11/)

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

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Which of the following best describes the means by which the youth secured his reward from the ogress?

- **1.** He guessed correctly the terms she set, whereupon she honoured her promise — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** He solved the riddle she set, and she then gave him what she'd promised — no support
- **3.** He bargained hard over the terms until she agreed to his price — no support
- **4.** He guessed the riddle — score 4

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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 697, line 1: «The youth guesses right, so the ogress keeps her word and lets him choose three rewards.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «youth» (+3); the same action «guess» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/697-pg2435-part37/e1/)

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

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In what manner does the minister come to obtain the consent of the lady Blauvor to the proposed marriage?

- **1.** He presses his suit persistently until she yields, having first protested her unworthiness — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He orders her to marry him — no support
- **3.** He tricks her into the match by lying about her husband's death in battle — no support
- **4.** He sends gifts each day, and she refuses him for a month before finally agreeing — 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/697-pg2435-part37/e2/)

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

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What is the principal ground upon which the queen earnestly enjoined the king in her last words?

- **1.** That he should not rush into a wedding before the sea voyage ends — no support
- **2.** That he should not choose as his wife a woman from some small state or distant island — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** That he should choose a princess of his own land — no support
- **4.** That he should not choose as his wife a woman from some small state or distant island, however fair she might be — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 697, line 13: «What the dying queen asks: that the king not choose a wife "from some small state or distant island".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); the same action «choose» (+1). 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/697-pg2435-part37/e3/)

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

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Describe the chief circumstance that delayed the embassy's voyage and rendered its course uncertain.

- **1.** A thick fog descended upon the vessel and it drifted in darkness for a whole month before the crew sighted land at last — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A dense sea mist fell and the crew were lost for many weeks — no support
- **3.** A thick fog descended and the vessel drifted in darkness for a whole month — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The crew lost their way when a thick mist covered the sea — 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/697-pg2435-part37/e4/)

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