Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11: Christian guards the church, meets the dead princess, and bargains for a second night

Tests: 1 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 5 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1622 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 ✓

yo, did the smith really get a hundred bucks just for standing there?

1. yep, right on the table — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. nah, it was only a small bag of silver he got back — no support
3. yep, a pile of coins — no support
4. yep, he counted every coin right there on the big table — 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 ✗

bro, was the princess a zombie or what?

1. nah, she was a ghost who never left the box at all, just a dream — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. kinda, she came out of the box and chased him around the church for hours — no support
3. kinda, she came out of the box — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yeah, she left the box at night — no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

so why didn't she catch him in the pulpit?

1. cuz the pulpit was blessed and she couldn't go near the holy wood at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. she tried super hard but the stairs were too much for her to climb all the way — no support
3. she couldn't climb all the steps — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. she was too weak to climb up — 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 ✗

wait, did he actually bail on the first night?

1. nope, he stuck it out in the pulpit until the colonel found him at dawn — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yep, he bailed early but came right back the next night anyway — no support
3. nope, he stayed till morning — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. yep, he bolted at midnight — 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 ✗

lol, what did he say to the king at breakfast?

1. he refused to tell the king — score 1
2. he wouldn't spill what he saw — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he kept quiet about the box, the princess, and the little man in church — score -1
4. he told the king he'd only spill it for more cash later — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1620, line 7: «What: all day he stares through the window, and he says "How beautiful it looks with its tongue stretched out like that!"», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

how much did he ask for the second night?

1. one hundred, for real — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he asked for double the first night, plus a horse, no cap — no support
3. two hundred, no cap — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. three hundred, no cap — 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 ✗

so who was that little dude in the church?

1. a creepy little guy who kept stopping him from leaving the altar every time — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a weird guy who kept him there — no support
3. the princess's old servant who kept stopping him and tried to bribe him — no support
4. a creepy guy who kept stopping him — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

did he get out the second night for real?

1. yeah, he ran off fast — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, the little dude kept shoving him back to the altar until dawn — no support
3. nope, the lid stopped him — no support
4. nah, the dude sent him back — ✓ 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

what did he do with all that cash?

1. bought a new sword, lol — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. treated the squad, lol — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. gave some to his mom — no support
4. bought a horse — 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 ✗

why were the other guys so scared?

1. cuz the princess would wake up angry and eat everyone in the whole barracks — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. cuz they heard the princess ate the last guards alive in the church — no support
3. cuz the dead lady might bite — no support
4. cuz the princess might eat them — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, 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 ✗

Which of the following most accurately states the reason Christian is required to hold a book at the altar during the second night?

1. Because the little man commands that he must hold it and remain there until the lid slams — ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. Because the sexton insists that a sentry must read aloud from it throughout the vigil — score -3
3. Because the little man orders that he keep it in his hands until the bells ring one — score -1
4. To keep his hands busy and his mind off the box — ← Mova's choice · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 2, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1216, line 4: «He keeps his word for three nights, then goes back on the fourth, sees a golden-haired woman, and runs home.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately describes the conduct of the smith toward the king following his first night of duty?

1. He told the king everything that happened in the church, including the princess's movements, and then asked to be dismissed from the royal guard entirely with a reward — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. He gave a full account and openly refused to serve again at all — score -1
3. He gave the king a long and detailed account of every sound and sight from the pulpit, then bluntly refused any further duty unless the king paid him a far larger sum in advance — score -1
4. He declined to give a report and conditionally agreed to a second watch — ✓ the right answer · score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, against -1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1435, line 2: «At an inn the landlord tells him about a haunted castle where a man who watches three nights may learn fear.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following most accurately identifies the primary motive of the under-officers in recruiting the smith for the church post?

1. They sought a volunteer, since none had hitherto been found willing to stand sentry — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -1
2. They hoped to humiliate the smith publicly — score -1
3. They hoped the smith would be killed so the post would be closed for good — score -1
4. They wanted a cheap fool to take the risk — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1622, line 18: «Old word: "sentinel" or "sentry" means a guard who keeps watch at a post.», 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) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following most accurately explains why the figure failed to seize Christian while he stood in the pulpit?

1. The little man had bound the figure with a holy chain so that its movements were restricted to the lower part of the church, and the staircase was far beyond its reach — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. The figure was unable to ascend the entire staircase despite its exertions — ✓ the right answer · score 1
3. The figure could not climb the whole way up despite trying hard — score 1
4. Christian's sword kept the figure back from the final steps — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. 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 1620, line 4: «A thaw comes, and the Snow-man melts away, leaving only a broomstick, the stove-raker, standing where he had been.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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