Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke

Tests: 1 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1028 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 ✗

ok so did the ship ever get sold or what?

1. nah, they burned it on the beach at night — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. nah, it just sat on the shore under boards — ✓ the right answer · score 3
3. yeah, sold it — no support
4. nope, it sank — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). 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 554, line 4: «Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, who sulks in his tent while the Trojans burn the Greek ships.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «greek ships» (+3); the same action «burn» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

wait, why was the stork tree left standing?

1. cos Anna Dorothea begged for it with tears — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. cos it was too tall — ← Mova's choice · score 6
3. cos the old man felt sorry — score 6
4. cos the Wind said so — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 324, line 15: «Old word: "marooned" means left alone on a lonely place with no way to escape; today we use it for being stranded anywhere.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+6). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

bro, what was the old man doing with all that fire?

1. building a secret ship in the locked room — no support
2. trying to make gold, the sneaky chancer — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. trying to make gold in the locked room, the sneaky chancer who wanted to be rich — no support
4. hiding his cows from the king's men — ← 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 178, line 3: «He washes up on an island, hides in a tree, and watches a ship land ten slaves who dig up a trapdoor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «hide» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

lol the Wind said Waldemar's stuff would end in what?

1. smoke and dust — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. smoke, air, coals and ashes — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. dust, fog, fire and sand — no support
4. fire, ice, rain and mud — 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 ✗

was Ida actually gonna marry the shipbuilder?

1. yeah, they got married in May — score 3
2. only in her head, like a castle in the air, and never in real life at all — no support
3. yes, she said yes at the altar — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. only in her head, like a castle in the air — ✓ the right answer · 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 1028, line 6: «Who is telling the story? The Wind is the narrator, and he says "I drove away too," so he is part of every scene.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «ida» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

how did the crows feel about the forest going?

1. they cawed happily at the new ship — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. dead angry, croaking like they were gutted — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. they flew off to the north — no support
4. they were happy — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. 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 1028, line 15: «What happens to the crows? In winter they settle on the ship and croak about the lost forest and the little birds left homeless.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «crows» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

why did the admiral act all keen on the horses?

1. he needed the horses for the king and wanted a deal — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. he wanted to hint for the horses, trying to get a deal — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. he wanted a free ride home — no support
4. he wanted to hint for the horses, trying to get a deal, since he had no gold left at home — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 405, line 19: «Old word: "fawned" means behaved in an eager, flattering way, so the Lion "fawned upon him" to show he wanted friendship.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

what's the lady Daa like, is she proud?

1. yeah, very proud, like a tulip who never waves back and keeps to her high-born manners — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. nah, she's warm and waves at everyone — score 1
3. yeah, like a tulip who never waves back — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, like a tulip who never waves back at anyone, even the children in the village — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 287, line 20: «Old word: "gauze" is a thin, light cloth, so the snow lady wears "the finest white gauze" like a dress of mist.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wear» (+3); the same doer «snow lady» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

where's the whole gang of birds living now?

1. building nests in the church tower now — no support
2. homeless, flying about in fear and anger, with no trees left to rest in at all — no support
3. homeless, flying about in fear and anger over the fields and the ship on the shore — ← Mova's choice · score -2
4. homeless, flying about in fear and anger — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 743, line 16: «The birds: "the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same place «woods» (-1); a different doer (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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

what did Joanna think about while walking?

1. where she'd end up on the wall, among the portraits, and her lord who would one day come — score -3
2. where she'd end up on the wall of the great hall, and her lord who had died long ago — score -2
3. the old stories of her ancestors and dinner — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. where she'd end up on the wall, and her lord — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 11: «Alice complains: they don't play fairly, they quarrel, there seem to be no rules, and the next arch is «walking about at the other end of the ground».», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «walk» (+1). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

so the ship was just a lump of wood in the end?

1. yeah, a boat that never sailed — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, a Noah's ark that never got to the water and just sat there under the boards — no support
3. yeah, a Noah's ark that never got to the water — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, a big raft that sank in the storm — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

what's the rule about the Wind, is he sad or dead chill?

1. dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff, singing down chimneys all day long — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff around the land and then he's gone again — no support
3. dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he's mostly calm but blows the snow about — 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 · ★ · right ✓

how many daughters does Waldemar have, bro?

1. Four in all, a rose, a lily, a hyacinth and a tulip, all in one house — no support
2. Four, a rose, a lily and a tulip — no support
3. Five daughters, a rose, a lily, a hyacinth, a tulip and a violet — score 2
4. three, a rose, a lily and a hyacinth — ← 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, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 524, line 6: «Who: The Gorgons were "the three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto", and Medusa was the only one of the three who was mortal.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different doer (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

State which daughter of Waldemar Daa pleaded on behalf of the nesting birds.

1. Anna Dorothea, the youngest of the three daughters, pleaded with her father for mercy — ✓ the right answer · score 3
2. Anna Dorothea — no support
3. The youngest daughter — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Joanna, the eldest, who pleaded with the old lord for the storks and the trees in the wood — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1028, line 3: «The birds scream and flutter, but only the youngest daughter, Anna Dorothea, begs for mercy, so one dying tree with a stork's nest is spared.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «youngest daughter» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Explain why the admiral praised the black horses in the stable.

1. He was hinting at a deal. — no support
2. He was hinting that he wished to purchase them, since Waldemar Daa desired gold in return — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
3. He hoped Waldemar would give them to him free, since the horses were fine ones and his own were old and weak. — score 5
4. He wanted to buy them. — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1028, line 13: «Why does the admiral praise the horses? Waldemar Daa "wanted gold," and the admiral's praise was a hint that he wanted the horses.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+3); the same thing acted on «gold» (+2); the same doer «waldemar» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the substance which Waldemar Daa sought to produce in his locked room.

1. Gold — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Silver, which he hoped to produce by a hidden craft of the sea — no support
3. Silver coins — no support
4. Gold, which he hoped to obtain by the secret arts of nature — ✓ 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 · wrong ✗

Describe the fate of the three-decker ship at the close of the passage.

1. It remained unsold upon the shore, covered with boards, and never reached the water, as its builder had long since lost all of his gold and house — score 4
2. It remained unsold upon the shore, covered with boards, and never reached the water — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It remained unsold upon the shore, covered with boards, and never reached the water, rotting slowly while the birds gathered and the winter passed by it entirely — score 4
4. It was sold to a merchant who sailed it to Norway, leaving the village behind — ← Mova's choice · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 181, line 13: «He sailed from Balsora in a ship fitted out with a company of merchants, and their course lay towards the East Indies.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sail» (+4); the same doer «sindbad» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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