Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh
Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1026 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 · ★ · right ✓
bruh, the moor lady has poetry in bottles, like what even is in them?
- 1. Perfumes distilled from marsh roots and dew — no support
- 2. Essences made from bitter and sweet herbs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 3. Essences made from bitter and sweet herbs gathered at midnight from the moor's edge — score 3
- 4. Essences made from bitter and sweet herbs, sealed with wax and kept dark — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 573, line 7: «What: Brer Tarrypin says Brer Fox hollered "Heyo, Stinkin' Jim!" and the ladies make a great wonderment about it.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
ok so how many wisps got born, like for real, no cap?
- 1. Thirteen — no support
- 2. Nine — no support
- 3. Thirty-six — no support
- 4. Twelve — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1026, line 12: «Who was born: twelve little Will-o'-the-Wisps, who "shone like glow-worms" and grew as big as their fathers in a quarter of an hour.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «bear» (+1). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same thing acted on «twelve» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
how long can a wisp be a human, fr?
- 1. Two whole years — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A day — no support
- 3. One whole year — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Days — 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 ✗
whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude?
- 1. Drowned — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sent to the bottom of the bog — no support
- 3. Trapped in the swamp for good — no support
- 4. Stuck in rotten wood, can't move — ✓ 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 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
is the moor lady's granny the one who gave her the cupboard?
- 1. Nope, the miller's daughter — no support
- 2. Yeah, the old marsh witch — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. Yeah, Old Bogey's grandmother — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. Nope, her sister — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 833, line 6: «Who: Inge, the girl who trod on the bread to keep her shoes clean, is the main person, and the old woman is the one who prays for her.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «old woman» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
what colour are the clothes of a wisp who wins, be honest?
- 1. Deep marsh green — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Fiery yellow — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. Gold — score 2
- 4. Pale silver blue — score 2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1026, line 14: «The reward: a successful Will-o'-the-Wisp may run before the devil's state coach, wearing "clothes of fiery yellow".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «clothes» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
how many people must the wisp lead astray to win, bro?
- 1. Three hundred and sixty-five people, one for every day of the year — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. Three hundred and sixty-five — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 3. Three hundred and sixty-five people, all of them children of the moor — no support
- 4. Three hundred and sixty-six — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1026, line 5: «She explains that twelve new Will-o'-the-Wisps were born in the marsh, and each may live among people for one year to lead them astray.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «lead» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
what happens if the man blows the wisp away, like, ok?
- 1. It goes back to the marsh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
- 2. It flies off — score 4
- 3. It drifts into the mist — score 4
- 4. It dies — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 1 with score 11, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1026, line 15: «The danger: if a man blows him away, or if he longs to see his family, he must go back into the marsh.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+5); the same action «go back» (+3); the same doer «wisp» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · right ✓
where's the cupboard hidden, does anyone know?
- 1. Deep in the hollow of a rotten oak — no support
- 2. Out on the moor, where it looks like a stump and nobody goes — score 6
- 3. Out on the moor, looks like a stump — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Hidden in the marsh reeds nearby — no support
Why: It took the question to ask where. 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 1026, line 7: «Where: out on the moor, next to a cupboard that looks like "an old alder stump".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «cupboard» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
what happened to the girl who trod on the loaf, tho?
- 1. She drowned — no support
- 2. She sank straight into the earth — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. She fell into the marsh pool — score 6
- 4. She was carried off by the wind — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 906, line 3: «In Rome, a little girl carrying a pitcher of water drops it on the palace steps and is too scared to ring the bell.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «drop» (+4); the same doer «little girl» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
so what did the man say when he heard the news, seriously?
- 1. What? — no support
- 2. Well, I did not expect that one — score 4
- 3. That makes no sense to me at all — no support
- 4. I don't understand a word of this! — ← 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, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 359, line 6: «Who: the captain of the ship "U-ni-corn" trades with a king who had never seen white men before.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
did the moor lady say the wisp gets to be a human, or nah?
- 1. Nah, only for a day — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yes — no support
- 3. Yeah, for one year — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, but only once — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗
is the wisp allowed to see its family, like at all?
- 1. Not really, if it goes back it's over, but the Moor-woman may visit it — score 5
- 2. Not really, if it goes back it's over, and no one ever sees it again — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. Not really, if it goes back it's over — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nope, it can never go home again — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 373, line 1: «A sly Wolf creeps near the Shepherd's hut and sees the family feasting on roast lamb.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same doer «sly wolf» (+2); the same thing acted on «family» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the location in which the cupboard of bottled poetry was situated, as described in the passage.
- 1. Upon the moor, disguised as a fallen alder stump beside the black pool — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Upon the moor, disguised as an alder stump and guarded by the Story-maiden — no support
- 3. Beside the pool, hidden in the reeds — no support
- 4. Upon the moor, disguised as an alder stump — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the number of Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the christening feast in the marsh.
- 1. Twelve — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Thirteen — no support
- 3. Thirty-six Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the feast — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 4. Twenty-four Will-o'-the-Wisps born at the feast — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1026, line 11: «When: the new Will-o'-the-Wisps were born "yesterday" at a christening feast, and they have "three hundred and sixty-three days to run".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «christening feast» (+4); the same action «bear» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Determine the condition under which a Will-o'-the-Wisp is condemned to imprisonment in decayed wood.
- 1. Failure to lead the people of the village from their path — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Failure to lead three hundred and sixty-five people from the truth — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Refusing to lead three hundred and sixty-five travellers into the marsh — no support
- 4. Failure to lead three hundred and sixty-five people from the truth, or to return to the marsh with them — 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 ✓
Explain the means by which a Will-o'-the-Wisp may cease to burn clear before the year is up.
- 1. Returning to its family and giving the matter up — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Leaving the moor and returning to the marsh alone — no support
- 3. Going home — no support
- 4. Being blown out by a storm in the open fields — 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
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