Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window
Tests: 5 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1000 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.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
Mate, did you read the tin soldier one?
- 1. Yeah, the one-legged bloke fell out the window, proper gutted — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, the one-legged bloke fell out the window ages ago, then the goblin nicked the snuff box and everyone was proper gutted — no support
- 3. Nah, the one with one leg got picked up, pretty happy, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Yeah, the one-legged bloke fell out the window, proper gutted, mate, and the dancer never even noticed him go, bruv — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 392, line 13: «Two men are walking together when one picks up an axe that lies on the path.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «pick up» (+4); the same thing acted on «axe» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, why's he only got one leg?
- 1. Cos the tin ran out when they made him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Cos the tin ran out when they made him, so the bloke got a wooden leg later on — no support
- 3. Cos he's just small — no support
- 4. Cos someone nicked it off him, proper — 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
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
The dancer's dead fit, right?
- 1. Proper fit, he's mad for her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, fit — no support
- 3. Proper fit, he's mad for her, can't stop staring at her legs all day — no support
- 4. Yeah, she's well dodgy, innit — 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
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who's the goblin then, the snuff thing?
- 1. Yeah, outta the snuff-box at midnight, a sort of toy puzzle thing that had been on the table for ages — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 2. Yeah, outta the snuff-box, a toy puzzle — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, outta the tin, a wooden doll — no support
- 4. Nah, he came out the clock, a wind-up toy — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 915, line 7: «What: they were called "pepper gentry", because pepper was almost the chief thing sold there.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «chief thing» (+2); the same doer «pepper» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · right ✓
Did the toys have a rave at midnight?
- 1. Yeah, sham fights and balls, pure chaos — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Yeah, proper chaos — no support
- 3. Nah, they just sat about and sulked — no support
- 4. Nah, they slept — 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
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
What's the goblin on about, don't wish for stuff?
- 1. Yeah, don't want what's not yours, mate, and mind the window on the third floor too — score 6
- 2. Yeah, don't want what's not yours, mate, cos the goblin gets proper cross — score 6
- 3. Yeah, don't nick stuff, that's the point — score -4
- 4. Yeah, don't want what's not yours, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 834, line 7: «What: he wants to stay with the student and says, "I should like to stay here with the student."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «goblin» (+4); the same action «want» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why was he in the window though?
- 1. Cos they put him there — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Cos the kids put him there in the morning — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Cos the nanny moved him in the morning — no support
- 4. Dunno, someone shoved him there at dawn — 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
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was it the goblin or the draught that did it?
- 1. Dunno, it was the wind — no support
- 2. Nobody knows, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Think it was the goblin — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. Nobody knows, innit, cos the goblin and the draught both had a go — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1000, line 16: «Who knows why: "whether it was the goblin who did it, or the draught, is not known."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «ending» (+2); the same doer «goblin» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
How far did he drop, like how many floors?
- 1. Three floors — score 5
- 2. Three, from the third story, mental — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Two floors, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Two, from the second floor, mental — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 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 730, line 8: «How it starts: one bean drops by a straw, and a coal "leapt down to the two" from the fire.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+3); the same circumstance (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the tin spoon thing make them all brothers?
- 1. Nah, different spoons, so they're not — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers, even the one who lost his leg, innit — no support
- 4. Yeah, same spoon, so they're all brothers, which is why they stick together so much — 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
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
Honest, is the first bit even a story?
- 1. Nah, it's a dream — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, it's a story — no support
- 3. Nah, it's a dream about future flying Americans — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, it's a real trip about flying Yanks — 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
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
Is the soldier gonna be alright, do you think?
- 1. Dunno, that's the bit we read next, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Nah, he's gonna be well mangled, mate — no support
- 3. Yeah, he's alright, he gets a new leg — no support
- 4. Dunno, that's the bit we read next, bruv, so you'll have to wait till Monday — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the one-legged tin soldier's situation at the close of this part?
- 1. He has fallen from the third-story window into the street below, where he lies beside a cart of cabbages. — no support
- 2. He has fallen from the third-story window and is now lying in the street below, having lost his one leg and his balance together. — no support
- 3. He has fallen from the third-story window into the street below. — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He has been carried back to the table by the children at dawn. — ← Mova's choice · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 933, line 7: «What he wants: to learn where the garden of paradise is, but "not a word could he find to explain the situation of the garden of paradise."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the object from which the goblin emerged at the stroke of midnight, as described in the passage.
- 1. A toy box. — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The wooden drawer, which held a painted toy puzzle. — no support
- 3. The snuff-box. — no support
- 4. The snuff-box, which proved to be a toy puzzle. — ✓ 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
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Determine the reason the soldier believed the dancer possessed only one leg, with reference to her posture.
- 1. She raised one leg so high that it could not be seen from the table where the soldier stood watching her dance. — score 7
- 2. She kept her other leg hidden behind the snuff-box lid. — score 6
- 3. She raised one leg so high that the soldier could not see it, and so he thought she had only one. — score 7
- 4. She raised one leg so high that it could not be seen. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1000, line 8: «What: the paper dancer, who "stretched out both her arms" and raised one leg so high that the soldier thinks she has only one leg too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «raise» (+4); the same thing acted on «one leg» (+2); the same doer «paper dancer» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓
State the material from which the five-and-twenty tin soldiers were originally fashioned, according to the narrator.
- 1. Melted lead from a cannon. — no support
- 2. The same old tin spoon. — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. A tin spoon. — no support
- 4. Painted wood from a drum. — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 699, line 17: «Old word: "stuff" meant cloth or fabric, so "the stuff" in this part is the silk; today we say material or fabric.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+2); the same doer «old word» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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