Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves

Tests: 7 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 12 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1011 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 ✗

yo, did u read the duckling bit? the mum duck was SO bored sitting on them eggs

1. no, she loved sitting on them all day — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. right, it took forever for them to crack — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. right, it took forever for them to crack, and she was really fed up with waiting around — no support
4. yeah, she was sooo fed up waiting, lol — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1011, line 2: «A mother duck sits on her nest by the river, tired of waiting for her eggs to hatch.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+4); the same doer «mother duck» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

mate, the stork was talking Egyptian, innit? like how is that even a thing

1. they picked it up from a lot of travellers who visited the old farm every summer — score 6
2. it's just a story, storks don't speak — score 6
3. it's a joke, storks just clack their beaks — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. it's a joke, storks just clack their beaks and nobody actually understands what they mean — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1004, line 5: «On a farm roof a stork clatters its beak, and the story ends with a poet and a naturalist arguing over whether the ugly toad hides a jewel.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «clatter» (+4); the same doer «stork» (+2); the same thing acted on «beak» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

bruh, the babies kept going peep peep, what even

1. it's how they say hello at first and it means they are all safe and well — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. that's how they say hello at first, before they learn to quack like their mum — score 6
3. that's how they say hello at first — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. they're just being noisy babies — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 708, line 5: «The clever baby, Motikatika, is safe, and the husband pays for his own fussiness.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «clever baby» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, what's a burdock anyway, the leaves are massive

1. a weed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a bush — no support
3. a plant with huge leaves — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. a kind of tall grass — 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

why'd the mum say green is good for the eyes, that's so random

1. it's to help them see the colours — no support
2. it just is, lol — no support
3. it's an old idea that it rests your eyes — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. they just like looking at green things — ← Mova's choice · score 6

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 602, line 15: «Shere Khan flatters the young wolves and says "They tell me" that they dare not look Akela between the eyes.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «eyes» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

the ducklings reckon the world is huge, lol, but it's just a bit of garden

1. they're young and easily fooled — no support
2. yeah, they've never been out before — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. true, it's small — ← Mova's choice · score 7
4. they just haven't seen much yet — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1011, line 16: «The ducklings' "world" is only a small patch of garden, yet they call it "how large the world is."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «world» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

so the other ducks were just swimming and ignoring the mum, rude

1. they didn't fancy climbing the slippy bank — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. they wanted to play in the reeds instead — no support
3. they didn't fancy climbing the slippy bank, so they stayed where the water was calm — score 3
4. they didn't fancy climbing the slippy bank up to the nest where the mum was sitting — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 738, line 14: «Old word: a "vagabond" is a wanderer with no fixed home, so the duck uses the word as a rude insult.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «duck» (+2); the same thing acted on «word» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

ngl the spot sounds proper wild, like a jungle

1. more like a thick wood, all snug and hidden — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. more like a thick wood, all snug and hidden away from the farmers and the foxes — no support
3. more like a dull old ditch by a farm — no support
4. more like a thick wood, all snug and hidden, with lots of tall leaves overhead — 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 9 · ★ · right ✓

how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop

1. they just popped — score 3
2. the mum helped them out — no support
3. one by one the shells cracked open — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. they hatched slowly — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1011, line 7: «WHAT: "One shell cracked, and then another," and the babies cried, "Peep, peep."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crack» (+4); the same doer «one shell» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted

1. she hardly ever had any visitors — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. one or two came, but rarely — no support
3. she hardly ever had visitors, though the stork did drop in once on a long walk — no support
4. a fox came by once, nearby — 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 · ★ · right ✓

the babies went quack quack as well, like proper copying

1. yeah, they copy everything she does — no support
2. yeah, they tried their best to copy her — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. yes, they tried to match her sound — no support
4. yeah, they tried their very best to copy her, but it came out as peeps instead — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 888, line 12: «The stork thinks the baby is the daughter of the princess and the Marsh King, and that is why she sits "in the cup of a water-lily."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «baby» (+2); the same thing acted on «daughter» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

that's a bit sad that she's only got a nest by the river, innit

1. she's happy there, it's a cosy spot, and she can hear the river all day long — score 1
2. she's not happy — no support
3. it's fine, she likes the water — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. she's happy there, it's a cosy spot — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 289, line 6: «fact: The old woman pulled Gerda out of the river with her "crooked stick", so the boat could reach the bank.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old woman» (+2); the same thing acted on «fact» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · right ✓

wait, the leaves were so tall a kid could stand under, that's mad

1. yeah, the leaves were proper giant — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. yes, they were really very tall — no support
3. yeah, taller than the old fence — no support
4. yeah, the leaves were proper giant, and the babies could hide under them easily — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 846, line 2: «The Happy Family opens in an old, overgrown garden where giant burdock leaves cover everything, and two last white snails live there.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «giant burdock leaves» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

In the passage, to which species does the bird that chattered in the Egyptian language belong?

1. The long-legged bird with red legs by the pond — score -1
2. The stork — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The tall bird that walked about the wood — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. The heron — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 833, line 15: «What: It goes into the towns and eats "only a single crumb" itself, giving "all the rest to the other birds."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «bird» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following phrases describes the season during which the events of this passage take place?

1. Lovely summer weather — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cold winter — no support
3. Warm autumn sunshine — no support
4. Wet spring — 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 · wrong ✗

What is the principal reason, according to the text, for the mother duck's growing weariness?

1. The loud chatter of the other ducks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Her hungry babies — no support
3. The noisy babies in the nest — no support
4. The prolonged hatching of her eggs — ✓ 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 4 · formal language · right ✓

What does the narrator state about the mother's reason for permitting the ducklings to observe the leaves?

1. That they must eat the leaves — score 1
2. That green is good for the eyes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. To keep them warm — score 1
4. That the leaves are sweet to see — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1011, line 15: «The mother says "green is good for the eyes," which is an old idea that gentle colours rest the sight.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+6); the same property (+3). Against it: the same doer «green» (-1); the same circumstance (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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