Andersen's Fairy Tales, Big Klaus and Little Klaus, part 1: Little Klaus loses his horse, then tricks a farmer with a squeaking sack

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1728 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 ✗

Mate, did Big Klaus really whack Little Klaus's horse, innit?

1. Yeah, bruv, one massive hit with an iron bar and it was dead, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, mate, hit it and it died — no support
3. Nah, bro, it was only a slap — no support
4. Yeah, bruv, one hit and it was dead — ✓ 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 ✗

So how many horses did Big Klaus have, like proper?

1. Two, bro — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Five, mate — score -1
3. Six, mate, proper six — score 0
4. Four, bro, proper four — ✓ the right answer · score 0

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1476, line 20: «The sentence she proposes is a barrel "lined with sharp nails," dragged "by two white horses up and down the street."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the number the lesson gave for it (+1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, why was Little Klaus gutted on the road?

1. His horse was dead, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. His horse was dead, innit, and his money was gone too — no support
3. His dog ran off, mate — no support
4. His cart was broken, innit — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1728, line 8: «What: Big Klaus kills Little Klaus's horse with "an iron bar" after warning him to stop boasting.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «big klaus» (+1); the same thing acted on «horse» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was he skint, or did he have cash?

1. Skint, bro, totally skint, not a penny in his pocket — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, bro, he had cash — no support
3. Loaded, bro, totally loaded — no support
4. Skint, bro, totally skint — ✓ 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 ✗

Where did he end up sleeping, like, in a proper bed?

1. Nah, a shed with a stork — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nah, a shed with a stork on the roof, innit — no support
3. Yeah, a bed by the fire — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Nah, a shed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 123, line 14: «The frog asks to be "thy companion and playmate" and to sleep in her "little bed."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); 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

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the farmer's missus let him in, or nah?

1. Nah, no — no support
2. Nah, she shut the door — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nope, shut — no support
4. Yeah, she let him in — ← Mova's choice · score -5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score -5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 208, line 4: «The garden belongs to the Caliph, and the old guard Scheih Ibrahim finds them, lets them in, and shows them the magnificent saloon.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same thing acted on «men» (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, why did the farmer hate the sexton so much?

1. He couldn't stand the sight of him — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. He hated him — no support
3. He didn't like him — no support
4. He reckoned he was a thief — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). 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 1418, line 3: «Now a new tale begins: a poor farmer has many children, and one stormy autumn night a great white bear taps three times on the window.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «poor farmer» (+1); the same thing acted on «many children» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, what did the sexton get stuck in?

1. A big empty chest in the back room, innit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. A wooden barrel — no support
3. A big empty chest — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. A big empty chest that his missus had locked tight — 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 ✓

So what did the sack actually say, like, when trodden on?

1. Squeak, squeak, loud as anything — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score -4
2. Squeal, squeal, loud as a pig — score -4
3. Squeak, squeak, loud as anything, woke the whole house up — no support
4. Squeak, squeak, squeak, loud as anything in the whole farmhouse — score -4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 847, line 13: «Who ruins the cure? The swineherd says "I did not know any better" after he has burnt the plant for ashes.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. Against it: the same action «say» (-1); the same doer «swineherd» (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the wizard in the sack real, or was he making it up?

1. Nah, real — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He was making it up, bro — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He was real, bruv, honest — no support
4. Nah, he was a real wizard — 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Yo, what was the Devil going to look like, then?

1. Like a sexton, innit, the same as the one in the church — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Like a sexton, innit, with the bell and shovel and all — no support
3. Like a priest, innit — no support
4. Like a sexton, innit — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1728, line 16: «Old word: a sexton was a church helper who rang the bells and looked after the church and graveyard.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «sexton» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, what did the Hazel-nut child do with the diamond at the end?

1. Covered it in sand, then got his mum and dad — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Put it in a box, then went home — no support
3. Buried it, then went to get them — no support
4. Covered it in sand and stones, then ran off to get his mum and dad — 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 · right ✓

To what extent does Little Klaus's disobedience to Big Klaus's warning directly cause the death of his horse?

1. He ignores the warning — score 2
2. He disobeys the warning, and Big Klaus then kills the horse with an iron bar — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. He disobeys, so the horse dies — score 4
4. He mocks the warning, yet the horse survives until Big Klaus is punished by a fall — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 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 1728, line 8: «What: Big Klaus kills Little Klaus's horse with "an iron bar" after warning him to stop boasting.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+2); the same circumstance (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the reason the farmer's wife gives for refusing lodging to Little Klaus at the outset of the narrative.

1. She states her husband is ill in bed and that she welcomes only the local priest and the sexton — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. She states that her husband is absent and that she admits no strangers — ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. She claims the farmer has forbidden lodgers, and that the sexton is expected at supper — no support
4. She states that her husband is absent from the farm this week and that she admits no strangers at all into the house — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1724, line 7: «What: the wife swallows a tiny icicle and says, "Perhaps I shall give birth to a snow child now!"», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Specify the object that Little Klaus conceals beneath the table and the effect it produces when he treads upon it.

1. The horse-skin in a sack, which emits a loud squeak — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. A horse-skin, which hums — no support
3. A pot of sour milk, which gives a dull thud when stepped on — no support
4. A bag of flour that sighs quietly when trodden upon by his feet — 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 ✗

Account for the farmer's eagerness to summon the Devil and his statement regarding his present disposition.

1. He is tired from the road and wishes to sleep, so he feels brave enough to see the Devil — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. He is in high spirits after the wine and feels bold enough to face the Devil — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. He is in high spirits after the wine and feels bold enough to face the Devil, having long wished to see him in person before he dies — no support
4. He hopes to sell his soul after a long night of cards and feels too frightened to wait — 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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