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title: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheat… — how Mova does on the tests · Books
description: Lesson 775 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.
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# Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride

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

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Lesson 775 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/775-pg2591-part51/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Bro, which brothers were proper jealous of the prince?

- **1.** The two youngest — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Eldest — score 4
- **3.** The two eldest — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** The third — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 774, line 6: «Who: the youngest prince, who is kind and asks the dwarf for help, and the dwarf in the scarlet cloak, who is "a little ugly dwarf" with "a sugarloaf cap".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/775-pg2591-part51/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke?

- **1.** It was salty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was bitter — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Sweet — no support
- **4.** Salty — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Lol, what did the huntsman swap with the prince?

- **1.** A cap — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **2.** His coat — **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** His hat — score 4
- **4.** His cloak — 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 742, line 16: «The huntsmen do not go with him into the forest, since the boar had already sent them off with "no inclination to lie in wait for him."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «huntsmen» (+3); the same circumstance (+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/775-pg2591-part51/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Mate, what was the golden road made of?

- **1.** Solid shining gold from the mine — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Bright silver — no support
- **3.** Shining gold — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Shining gold plates laid on the stones — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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Be honest, did the third bro ride over the road or round it?

- **1.** Straight over it, not round the edge — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Straight over it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Right across it — no support
- **4.** He rode straight over it at full speed — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Yo, what colour was the dwarf's new cloak?

- **1.** Crimson — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Deep scarlet like the setting sun — no support
- **3.** Scarlet — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Bright scarlet with gold trim — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Did the old king forgive his son in the end, fam?

- **1.** Yes — no support
- **2.** Yeah, he forgave him — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **3.** Nope — no support
- **4.** Nah, he never did — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 672, line 14: «why the king pardons the youth: he will forgive him "on condition that you help me in a sore strait," meaning in a tight, difficult situation.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «forgive» (+4); the same doer «king» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/775-pg2591-part51/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words?

- **1.** Being really hungry, like when there is no food at all in the land — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Being really hungry — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Being really thirsty — no support
- **4.** Being really hungry for a very long time — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court?

- **1.** Three embassies, all with gifts — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Three — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Three grand embassies from the three kings — no support
- **4.** Twelve — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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Where did the brothers go after they bolted?

- **1.** Across the wide sea to a distant land — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **2.** Into the dark forest — score 8
- **3.** Across the wide sea, far from home and father — score 8
- **4.** Across the wide sea — **✓ the right answer** · score 8

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**Why:** It took the question to ask where. 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 164, line 11: «The brothers: they spent every piece of the thousand sequins, and afterwards they "threw my wife and myself into the sea."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brothers» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «sea» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/775-pg2591-part51/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Why were the brothers so jealous, innit?

- **1.** He found the water they sought — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Because the youngest found the water they had wanted for years — score 2
- **3.** He found the Water of Life that they wanted — score 3
- **4.** He found the water they wanted — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 6: «Who: Prince Ivan, the youngest son, and his two elder brothers, who try to cheat him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «two elder brothers» (+2); the same action «try» (+1). 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/775-pg2591-part51/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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Wait, what was the king's first wish in the new tale?

- **1.** To see his son again — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** More gold — no support
- **3.** To meet his son again — no support
- **4.** To hunt in the forest — 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/775-pg2591-part51/t12/)

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

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Upon which side of the golden road did the eldest brother ride when he approached the gate?

- **1.** The left — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** The right-hand side — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** The north-facing side — no support
- **4.** The left-hand side — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 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 642, line 6: «Who: Harry and Effie, two children who ride a dragon that is "as big as the dining room."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+5); the same doer «two children» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/775-pg2591-part51/e1/)

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

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Which article did the huntsman bring home to the old king as proof of the prince's supposed death?

- **1.** His silver crown — score -2
- **2.** His bloody hat — score 2
- **3.** The prince's bloodied royal coat and belt — no support
- **4.** The prince's royal coat — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · 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 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 775, line 10: «Who: the huntsman is sent to shoot the prince, but he spares him and "brought home his royal coat".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); the same property (+1); 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/775-pg2591-part51/e2/)

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

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What was the principal cause of the elder brothers' resentment during the sea voyage?

- **1.** The prince's possession of the Water of Life — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** The brothers' hunger for the royal crown — no support
- **3.** The prince's possession of the Water of Life and his father's love — score 4
- **4.** The prince's possession of the Water of Life during the long voyage — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 775, line 9: «Why: the brothers are "full of envy and revenge" because the prince found the water their father needed.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «prince» (+3); the same thing acted on «water» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/775-pg2591-part51/e3/)

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

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At which point did the old king first express remorse for his son's supposed death?

- **1.** At the wedding — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** When the three embassies arrived bearing gifts — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** After the feast — no support
- **4.** When the messengers brought the news — 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/775-pg2591-part51/e4/)

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