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# PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the prince tests two travelling companions with apples and finds a true friend

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**Tests:** 2 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 8 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 721 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/721-pg2435-part61/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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yo, so the prince's mum gave him like three apples, right?

- **1.** legit, like a snack for the road — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, kinda — no support
- **3.** legit, a snack — no support
- **4.** nah, just some fruit, no big deal — 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/721-pg2435-part61/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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wait, which dude got ghosted first?

- **1.** the dude who took the little half, right? — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** the one with big hands — no support
- **3.** the one who grabbed the big half — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** the guy who got the small bit — 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/721-pg2435-part61/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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so the prince was super bored riding solo, yeah?

- **1.** nah, he was chill — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, he was totally vibing on his own — no support
- **3.** yeah, kinda bored — no support
- **4.** yep, he was lowkey dying of boredom — **✓ 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/721-pg2435-part61/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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did the second dude act any different from the first?

- **1.** nah, he went for the small one — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, he snatched the big piece too and then left the prince behind completely — no support
- **3.** nah, he snatched the big piece too — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yep, he did the same thing, grabbing the big piece too, and the prince got upset about it — 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/721-pg2435-part61/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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what's the vibe when the third dude took the small bit?

- **1.** yo, the prince felt kinda meh about it all — no support
- **2.** bro, the prince was super hyped, he found his ride-or-die brother for the whole trip — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **3.** bro, the prince was hyped, found his ride-or-die — **✓ the right answer** · score -5
- **4.** bro, the prince was annoyed, he wanted to go home — 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 -5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 721, line 13: «The third youth "took the little piece," and the prince cried "we will be brothers," which shows his true friendship.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+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/721-pg2435-part61/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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so was the queen weepy cause her son was leaving?

- **1.** nah, she was just tired of cooking — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** nah, she was fine — no support
- **3.** yup, she was lowkey heartbroken — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yup, kinda — 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/721-pg2435-part61/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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did the prince actually have a lot of mates on the road?

- **1.** nah, he had zero until the third dude — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, loads — no support
- **3.** nah, zero friends — no support
- **4.** nah, he had none until the old man — 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/721-pg2435-part61/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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wait, why did the prince ride back out to check the estates?

- **1.** to see if the king's castle was safe — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** to see if his mum's land was cool — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** to see if his mum's land was cool and whether the peasants were paying rent — score 2
- **4.** to make sure the farms were fine, bro — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 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 721, line 3: «On the way the prince meets a youth, they share an inn dinner, and he cuts an apple into unequal halves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «meet» (+1); the same doer «prince» (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/721-pg2435-part61/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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so the king died when he was twelve?

- **1.** yeah, that's when his dad bounced — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** yeah, the dad was grumpy then — no support
- **3.** nah, that was when his mum left — no support
- **4.** nah, he was older — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 307, line 17: «At Roeskilde, the old king with the golden crown is King Hroar, who sits "close to the fountains."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old king» (+2); the same property (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+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/721-pg2435-part61/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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is the shrine way close to home?

- **1.** nah, it's close — no support
- **2.** yeah, pretty near — no support
- **3.** nah, it's super far away — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** yeah, it's a long way off — **← 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 597, line 15: «Old word: "seetful" is an old way of saying deceitful, which today means tricky or sly.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «old way» (+3); the same doer «old word» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). 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/721-pg2435-part61/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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so the prince says he's brothers with the third dude, that's it?

- **1.** yup, and they share everything — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **2.** yup, they're brothers now and share everything from the apples to the road — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** yup, and they share everything they own, including their horses and purses — score 2
- **4.** yup, they split the apple only — 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 466, line 6: «Who: Vanya, the youngest of three brothers, who was "like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «three brothers» (+3); the same doer «three brothers» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/721-pg2435-part61/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12}

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so what's the big lesson in the whole thing?

- **1.** a real friend shares the small piece and gives the bigger one away — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** a real friend shares the small piece — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** always take the bigger piece for yourself — no support
- **4.** a real friend is someone who shares the small piece of apple with you for the whole trip — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 8: «It is «a wonderful thing» that the Badger «should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody»; usually you had to catch him along a hedgerow or hunt him u…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pay» (+3); the same doer «badger» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-3). 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/721-pg2435-part61/t12/)

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

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Which of the following describes the decisive criterion by which the prince distinguished a true friend from a false one?

- **1.** Ability to divide the bread fairly among friends — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Willingness to accept the smaller portion of the apple — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Willingness to accept the smaller portion of the apple, even when the friend is hungry and tired — no support
- **4.** Eagerness to grab the largest share for oneself at once — 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/721-pg2435-part61/e1/)

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

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Identify the reason the queen gave for her grief at the commencement of the narrative.

- **1.** Dread of the long winter ahead for the household and their estates — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Anticipated separation from her son upon his pilgrimage, and fear that he would never return from Spain — no support
- **3.** Anticipated separation from her son upon his pilgrimage — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Fear that her husband would take another wife in the 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/721-pg2435-part61/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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State the number of apples furnished by the queen and the manner in which each was to be divided.

- **1.** Three apples given by the queen, each cut into unequal halves by the prince at every inn — score 6
- **2.** Three apples, each cut into unequal halves and shared among the three youths on the road — score 6
- **3.** Three apples, each divided into equal halves — score 2
- **4.** Three apples, each cut into unequal halves — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 721, line 3: «On the way the prince meets a youth, they share an inn dinner, and he cuts an apple into unequal halves.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut» (+3); the same thing acted on «apple» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/721-pg2435-part61/e3/)

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

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Describe the relationship that the prince finally established with the third youth upon the satisfactory division of the apple.

- **1.** Fraternal bond, sharing all possessions equally, and travelling together to the shrine of St. James — no support
- **2.** Fraternal bond, sharing all possessions equally — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Master and servant, with the prince giving orders at every inn — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **4.** Fraternal bond formed through the apple, with all possessions shared equally and kept together for life — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 703, line 7: «The youth goes out "with a wallet full of food over his shoulder", so he is not going empty-handed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hand» (+3); the same doer «youth» (+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/721-pg2435-part61/e4/)

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