Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza spins nettles in silence, is taken to the king's castle, and is made queen while she still cannot speak.

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1023 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, why can't Eliza talk, innit?

1. cos she's scared — no support
2. cos one word and her bruvs are toast — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. cos the king made a rule, and that's law — ← Mova's choice · score 0
4. 'cos she's mad — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1023, line 7: «What: she must make eleven coats, and "The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

wait, what's the deal with the nettles, mate?

1. she spins them into coats for her bruvs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
2. she breaks them, spins them, and sews eleven coats for her bruvs, innit — score 6
3. she mashes them into rough bread, mate — no support
4. she cuts them, dries them, spins them into coats for all her bruvs and sisters too — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1023, line 1: «Eliza must spin nettles into coats in silence, even though the stings blister her hands and arms.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «spin» (+4); the same thing acted on «nettles» (+2); the same place «coats» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · right ✓

how many coats though, fam?

1. eleven, bare work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. like two — score 3
3. six, mate — score 3
4. eleven, bare work, one for each of her bruvs, innit — 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 1023, line 7: «What: she must make eleven coats, and "The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers."», 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 question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the king just grab her off her horse?

1. yeah, he grabbed her and tossed her across his saddle when she screamed — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. nah, he gently lifted her onto his own horse and rode off to the castle — score 5
3. nah, he lifted her onto his own horse — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. nah, she jumped on by herself, mate — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 429, line 7: «Koshchei's horse stumbles and cries, "Prince Ivan has come and carried off Marya Morevna."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cry» (+4); the same doer «horse» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

is the archbishop being well dodgy?

1. nah, he just wants the crown and the wedding to stop, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, he just blesses the king — no support
3. proper, he calls her a witch and wants her burned at the stake — no support
4. proper, he calls her a witch — ✓ 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

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

wagwan with the crown, bruv?

1. he squeezed it on way too tight and it cracked the king's skull — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he chucked it in the moat and then pulled it out again later — no support
3. he polished it up nice and shiny — no support
4. he squeezed it on way too tight — ✓ 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

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

why's she sneaking out at night, mate?

1. to grab more nettles from the churchyard — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. to fetch some water from the well — no support
3. to meet her secret lover by the wall, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. to grab more nettles from the churchyard, cos she's gotta finish the coats by dawn — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 217, line 2: «One night she sneaks out with a ghoul, and he follows and sees them dig up a fresh corpse and eat it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

what did she see in the graveyard, innit?

1. just ghouls, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a priest digging up the bones — no support
3. ghouls clawing open the graves — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. ghouls, bruv — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

that's mint that the youngest bruv's tears stop the pain, right?

1. nah, the blisters just stay put — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, the burning blisters just vanish — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, the sore red hands just heal — no support
4. yeah, the burning blisters just vanish and her hands go smooth again — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the king's room sick, like?

1. yeah, it was mint — no support
2. yeah, it had green tapestry like the cave — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. yeah, it had golden curtains, fam — no support
4. nah, it had plain stone walls, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 992, line 7: «Where: the prisoner's room has "walls so black" that the lamp only made them look blacker.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «room» (+2); the same thing acted on «walls» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

did the saints in the church do anything, fam?

1. yeah, they nodded, innit — no support
2. they bowed down to the altar, fam, real slow — no support
3. they just stared at her, bruv — no support
4. they shook their heads like it's not true — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1023, line 15: «The carved saints seem to shake their heads, as if to say "It is not so. Eliza is innocent."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «shake» (+4); the same doer «carved saints» (+2); the same thing acted on «heads» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

why's the king gutted at the end, mate?

1. he thinks she's been well sneaky — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. he's got doubt in his heart about her — ✓ the right answer · score -3
3. he's dead worried about the crown — score 1
4. he's just angry, innit — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 933, line 8: «Why: his grandmother said each flower was a sweet cake, but as he grew wiser he thought paradise must be different.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+1). The right option, 2, scored -3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following accurately describes the reason the protagonist is prohibited from vocalising during the undertaking?

1. Speaking aloud would break the enchantment and cause the death of her brothers, which the archbishop has forbidden — score -2
2. Her voice would summon a curse upon the entire kingdom — no support
3. Her first spoken word would cause the death of her brothers — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Her first spoken word would irreversibly cause the death of her six brothers, who are bound by the curse — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 941, line 9: «What she hears: "Life is a shadow that flits away" is sung sadly, but brighter words follow it.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «brighter words» (-1); a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the material from which the eleven garments must be fashioned, as stipulated in the instructions given to the protagonist.

1. Linen cloth — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Silk woven from spider webs — no support
3. Hemp woven from river reeds — no support
4. Flax spun from stinging nettles — ✓ 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 ✓

State the principal reason the archbishop disputes the legitimacy of the protagonist's marriage to the king.

1. He believes she is a witch who has bewitched the king with nettles and night-time spells, as the saints warned him — score 5
2. She has not been crowned by the proper church rite — no support
3. He believes she is a witch who has bewitched the king and must be cast out of the realm — score 5
4. He believes she is a witch who has bewitched the king — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 1023, line 5: «At night Eliza sneaks to the churchyard for more nettles, and the archbishop sees her and tells the king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «archbishop» (+2); the same thing acted on «eliza» (+2); a different action (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain the significance of the king's distress, as evidenced by his darkening brow and his restless nights.

1. He is troubled by the crown and what the archbishop told him about her — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. He doubts the innocence of his bride and suspects her nocturnal conduct, so he has her watched by guards in the castle — score 3
3. He doubts the innocence of his bride and suspects her nocturnal conduct — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. He worries about the wedding feast and guests — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1023, line 5: «At night Eliza sneaks to the churchyard for more nettles, and the archbishop sees her and tells the king.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same doer «archbishop» (+2); the same receiver «king» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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