Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1624 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 ✗

so who actually got the house in the end, innit?

1. the third brother with the sword who swung it above his head — no support
2. the second bro with the razor — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. the blacksmith's little brother who kept the rain off with his magic sword — score -3
4. the third brother with the sword — ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 418, line 18: «Hard words: "devoured" meant eaten up, and a "bugbear" was a pest or a bogeyman, and people still use both words in stories today.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «words» (+4); the same place «stories» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

did the hare get its moustache chopped or nah?

1. nah, it got shaved clean — ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. nah, it kept them all — no support
3. yeah, chopped right off — no support
4. nah, it got shaved clean but the barber cut its ears too — ← Mova's choice · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1624, line 10: «The barber shaves a running hare "without cutting it or injuring a single hair on its body".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut» (+3); the same doer «barber» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

proper wicked, the horse got new shoes while it was running, yeah?

1. nah, they just fed it — score 3
2. yeah, it was painted red — score 0
3. nah, the horse kept its old shoes and ran really slowly down the road — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. yeah, mad, it did — ✓ the right answer · 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 903, line 18: «The horses are "young and fiery", and when the hare startles them they "fairly ran away".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run away» (+3); the same doer «horses» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

what was the mirror thingy for, the hobgoblin's one?

1. making nice stuff look rubbish and making rubbish stuff look grand — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. making rubbish stuff look nice — no support
3. making nice stuff look rubbish — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. showing people what's really inside them and their rotten hearts — 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 · ★ · right ✓

so the mirror smashed, what happened then?

1. bits flew everywhere, and loads of them landed in people's eyes and hearts, mate — score 6
2. it just cracked a bit — score 0
3. bits flew everywhere, mate — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. it shattered into bits that went all over the city and got stuck in folks — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. 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 287, line 2: «The mirror smashes into a hundred million bits, and the tiny pieces fly everywhere, getting into eyes and hearts.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tiny pieces» (+5); the same action «fly» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

did Kay and Gerda live in a massive house with a garden?

1. yeah, in a castle — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. nah, in a tiny cottage by the sea — no support
3. nah, in attics in a packed town — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. nah, in a farm — 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 ✗

what did the snow lady look like, sick or nah?

1. all ice, yeah — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. pretty, yeah — score 1
3. all ice but dead pretty — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. all white, kinda scary — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1128, line 11: «The monk's trick works because the monastery "has stood a hundred years if it has stood a day," so the monk's words seem false to the dragon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «words» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

why did Kay go all weird on Gerda at the end?

1. he got a mad headache, innit — no support
2. a splinter got in his eye and heart — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he dropped his sledge on the ice — ← Mova's choice · score 3
4. he was just tired — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 982, line 13: «fact: Gerda knew it was Kay because his new boots "creak," a sound she had heard in her grandmother's room.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «kay» (+2); the same doer «sledge» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the grandma telling them proper stories or what?

1. yeah, about a fairy princess — ← Mova's choice · score -2
2. nah, just sleeping — no support
3. yeah, stories for the kids — ✓ the right answer · score -2
4. nah, it was a boring sermon — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 1621, line 3: «The king bursts into the secret wing and sees his daughter, who tells him she must die the next day.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same thing acted on «daughter» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

did the kids use their hot pennies for something, right?

1. they melted round holes in the frost — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. they melted their pennies on the stove and then used the warm coins to frost the window — score 5
3. they put the hot pennies in their pockets and melted round holes in the frost on the window glass — score 5
4. yeah, they melted spots in the snow — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 362, line 2: «At sunset he finds himself alone and runs bleating across the field, where the Wolf is waiting by a clump of trees.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «run» (+3); the same doer «kid» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv?

1. he used an umbrella — no support
2. under a tree — score 3
3. swinging the sword super fast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. running into the nearby pub — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1574, line 2: «Minnikin answers every shout with a cheeky reply, and when his sword swings, all ten heads go flying over the sands.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «sword» (+3); the same action «swing» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

was the eldest bro gonna be a blacksmith or a barber?

1. a carpenter — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a blacksmith — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. a baker — no support
4. a shoemaker — 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 ✗

when Kay said Gerda looked ugly, was he being nice?

1. yeah, he was being sweet and kind to her — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yeah, he was nice — no support
3. nah, he was joking — no support
4. nah, he was being mean — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

In what sequence did the three brothers return to their father after completing their apprenticeships?

1. Eldest first, then the second, then the youngest after him — no support
2. After many years, the second son came back first, then the third son, and the eldest son arrived last of all — ← Mova's choice · score -1
3. Whenever each one finished, the third returned first, followed by the second and finally the eldest, all on the same day — score -1
4. At an agreed time, the eldest, the second and the third in turn — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1457, line 12: «He keeps the eye until they tell him the way, and then he gives it back, so the sisters can look out for "the old times coming back".», 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 right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

Upon what grounds did the father award the house to the third son?

1. The sword shielded him from all the falling rain — score -4
2. His skill with the sword kept him dry — score -3
3. Because his sword kept the rain entirely off his body while he stood in the open field — score -4
4. His sword kept the rain entirely off his person — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score -2, against -3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1328, line 19: «Old word: a "convent" is a house where nuns live apart from the world, and Tephany says she may enter one if she cannot see Denis.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same doer «old word» (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What property did the hobgoblin's mirror possess, and how was that property transmitted to its fragments?

1. It diminished goodness and magnified evil, and each fragment retained the same power — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. It shrank goodness and enlarged evil, and its shards kept that power — no support
3. It shrank all goodness and magnified all evil, and every broken piece carried the same curse into the world — ← Mova's choice · score -1
4. It diminished kindness and enlarged cruelty, and each piece passed on the identical power — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1604, line 19: «Old word: "bestow" means "to give", so the gift Oz had promised to bestow means the gift Oz had promised to give; "mortals" meant ordinary people, who are not…», 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 right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Under what circumstances did Kay acquire the splinter that altered his disposition?

1. While staring at a painting in the cold, after the bell rang at noon — no support
2. When he was looking at a book — ← Mova's choice · score -2
3. While looking at a picture book in summer, after the clock had struck five — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. On a winter night, at home — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 714, line 16: «Old word: "obstinate" means stubborn, refusing to change your mind even when told; today we say "pig-headed" or "stubborn" in ordinary talk.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different action (counts against) (+2). Against it: it fills the role the question asks for (-1); the same doer «old word» (-3). 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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