Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 11 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1030 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 ✗

Oi, so who's the Wind banging on about, innit?

1. Anna Dorothea's sister — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The family of the red-brick house — no support
3. The daughters of the old farmer — no support
4. Waldemar Daa's daughters — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, did Anna Dorothea sail the ship as a dude?

1. Yeah, in man's clothes — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, in a red dress — no support
3. Yeah, she wore man's clothes all the way — ← Mova's choice · score 8
4. Nah, she wore a long dress the whole time, bruv — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1030, line 12: «Anna Dorothea wore "man's clothes" and served "as a sailor on board ship" to hide that she was a woman.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «wear» (+4); the same doer «anna» (+2); the same thing acted on «clothes» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, why'd the Wind chuck her overboard, fam?

1. She kept singing and wouldn't stop, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Cos she couldn't climb the rigging up the mast, fam — no support
3. She couldn't climb, mate — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. She stole the wind, bro — 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 ✗

Proper sad, but who sang at the end, like?

1. The poor school-boys from the village, mate — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. Anna Dorothea herself — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Some kids from the parish, the whole choir — no support
4. The school-boys, like — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 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 1030, line 3: «On Easter morning she sang her last psalm in the crumbling hut, and the sun shone through a hole in the wall.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sing» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what burst through the hole in the wall?

1. A bright gold ray, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. The moon — score 2
3. A light, lol — score 2
4. The sun, like a gold ball — ✓ the right answer · 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 610, line 1: «Kaa breaks through the marble wall with his nose, and Mowgli dashes through the gap to hug Baloo and Bagheera.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «break» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the stork's nest nicked off the roof, or what?

1. Nah, it stayed in good nick — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, it was blown away — no support
3. Yeah, it got nicked off — no support
4. Nah, it stayed on the roof in good nick, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 896, line 8: «Where: the storks' nest is on the roof of the great house in Egypt, where the stars are "the same stars" as in the north.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «nest» (+2); the same place «roof» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Did the mill just go up in flames, like, lol?

1. Yeah, it went up in flames and the family cried — score 6
2. Nah, it sank in water — no support
3. Yeah, the whole mill went up in massive flames, lol, but it was sad — score 6
4. Yeah, it went up in flames — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 861, line 15: «The owl: He climbs a linden-tree and imitates an owl, "the only bird he could venture to mimic."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «climb» (+4); the same doer «mill» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the windmill reckon it was, bro?

1. A tall tower — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Enlightened, with sun and candles — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A bright house with lamps — no support
4. Lit up by sun and candles — 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 ✓

Ain't the mill's family, like, one soul?

1. Many thoughts, yet only one — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Lots of thoughts, though the family is really only one soul — no support
3. Many little thoughts, but all from one single soul — no support
4. Lots of voices, one song — 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 ✗

Did the Wind tell the whole story perfect, though?

1. Yeah, he told it perfect but asked us to tell it better later on — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. Nah, he said we should all tell it better, bruv — score 6
3. Nah, he said tell it better — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. Nah, he missed bits out — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 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 1030, line 15: «Her last song was a psalm, and the Wind says he sang over her grave and over her father's grave.», 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 «wind» (+2). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Wait, was the new mill like the old one or what?

1. Yeah, quite like it — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nope — no support
3. Nah — no support
4. Yeah, just like it — 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 ✗

Did the little thoughts make a racket, innit?

1. Yeah, a tremendous noise — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, a tremendous noise like thunder, innit — no support
3. Yeah, a loud racket — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, they made the most tremendous noise ever heard — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 230, line 18: «Old word: "clamour" means a loud, angry racket, which today we would call a din or a row.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «loud angry racket» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, who is the Man in the Mill, like?

1. The oldest thought — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A thought — no support
3. The strongest thought — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The miller's father — 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 ✗

To which family does the Wind's narrative principally refer?

1. The family of the miller — no support
2. The family of Waldemar Daa — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The family from the red house — no support
4. The whole family of the old Danish landowner Daa — ← Mova's choice · 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 80, line 4: «He walks home happy, using his trunk for everything and even picking up the melon rind he dropped, but at home he spanks his whole family back, until they all…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same thing acted on «whole family» (-1); the same property (-1). 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 · wrong ✗

What did the Wind assert regarding the stork's nest?

1. That it was kept in order by the stork — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. That it had been abandoned long before the family came — no support
3. That the stork had built it on the roof of the mill himself — ← Mova's choice · score -3
4. That it was built by the stork — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score -3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 964, line 16: «Jurgen is not yet fourteen when he goes out in a ship and becomes a ship-boy, facing "bad weather, heavy seas, unkindness, and hard men".», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-3). 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 ✗

By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account?

1. By the wind — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. By a conflagration — ✓ the right answer · score -1
3. By storm — no support
4. By a flood — no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 3, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1026, line 17: «Old word: a "crone" is an old woman, and to "retort" means to answer back sharply.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same circumstance (+1). The right option, 2, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

What did the Wind indicate regarding the new mill's construction?

1. It was made of better wood and iron — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. It was arranged more suitably for the time — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. It was built in a newer and fashionable manner — score 1
4. It was cheaper — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1030, line 21: «Old word: "zephyr" was a soft west wind; the mill's mother is "as soft as a zephyr" and "as strong as a storm".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «old word» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «soft west wind» (-1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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