Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1740 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, what did the witch flog the lady for a shilling?
- 1. A cabbage leaf — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A barley-corn from the market stall — no support
- 3. A bag of golden barley-corn grains — no support
- 4. A barley-corn — ✓ 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 what popped out the tulip, mate?
- 1. A little toad — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. A tiny girl — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 3. A tiny little girl wearing a silk sash — score -1
- 4. A small bird — 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 811, line 12: «The tulips show off: they "were standing bolt upright like candles, that one might see them the better."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «tulips» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗
how big was she, like, proper tiny?
- 1. Small — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Two fingers — no support
- 3. Only half a thumb high and very thin — no support
- 4. Half a thumb — ✓ 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
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
what was her bed, bruv?
- 1. A cherry pit — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A clay cup — no support
- 3. A walnut-shell — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. A large walnut-shell from the wooden 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 5 · ★ · right ✓
what did the toad reckon, innit?
- 1. Thumbelina for her son — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Thumbelina to be a wife for her son — score 0
- 3. Thumbelina for her son and a big house in the marsh — score 3
- 4. A bride for the frog — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1349, line 10: «The badger "knew nothing about boats," so he never guesses that clay will soften in the water.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+4); the same action «guess» (+1). Against it: the same doer «badger» (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did the froggy son actually say?
- 1. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. Ribbit — score 2
- 3. Croak, croak, croak — ✓ the right answer · score -1
- 4. Croak — score -1
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 1740, line 13: «The toad's son can only say "Croak, croak, croak!" when he sees the pretty little girl.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); the same action «say» (+1). Against it: the same doer «son» (-2). The right option, 3, scored -1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
what did the fishes do, like, to save her?
- 1. Bit the leaf — no support
- 2. Bit it — no support
- 3. Nibbled the stem — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 4. Ate leaves — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1740, line 15: «The little fishes "nibbled the stem in two", so the leaf floats away from the toads.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «little fishes» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «nibble» (+1); the same thing acted on «stem» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · right ✓
who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv?
- 1. A cockchafer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A dragonfly — no support
- 3. A large brown cockchafer with long antennae — no support
- 4. A great cockchafer flying from the tree — 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 ✓
what did she row with, nang?
- 1. Twigs — no support
- 2. Spider silk — score -6
- 3. Horse-hairs — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. Reeds — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 1, against -6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1740, line 14: «Thumbelina rows her tulip petal with "two white horse-hairs for oars" on the bowl.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «row» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗
what did she tie to the butterfly, like?
- 1. A silk cord — ← Mova's choice · score 10
- 2. A rope — score 10
- 3. Her long silk sash from the waist — score 10
- 4. Her sash — ✓ the right answer · score 10
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1201, line 19: «fact: Old word: "suitor" meant a man who asks to marry a lady; today we would just say "someone who asks to marry her."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (+4); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same action «marry» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 10. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
what got her out of the toad's grip, mate?
- 1. A passing cockchafer that nibbled the stem of the lily — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Fishes pulling the leaf — no support
- 3. Fishes nibbling the stem — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Fishes nibbling the stem of the leaf until it broke — 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 · ★ · right ✓
what was the Witch's cut, innit?
- 1. A shilling — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Coins — no support
- 3. A penny — no support
- 4. Five pennies — 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 ✗
so the cockchafer just grabbed her, proper?
- 1. Under her arms — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Round her waist — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Round her waist and up into the sky — no support
- 4. Round her waist, lifting her from the leaf — 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 ✗
What, according to the text, did the old Witch sell to the woman?
- 1. A barley-corn not sown by farmers — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A barley-corn not sown by farmers, grown in a secret garden — no support
- 3. A barley grain grown by hand — ← Mova's choice · score 3
- 4. A barley-corn not sown by farmers but found in the woods near town — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 3, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1708, line 3: «The witch lands in an apple-tree, turns from a hawk into a woman, and he chops off her head.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «witch» (+2); the same action «turn» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
By what means did the fishes free Thumbelina from the toad's intention?
- 1. By nibbling the stem in two — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
- 2. By nibbling the stem in two so the toad could not reach her — score 0
- 3. By cutting the leaf apart — no support
- 4. By nibbling the stem in two until the leaf fell into the water — score -2
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 0, tied with another option at 0 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 1740, line 15: «The little fishes "nibbled the stem in two", so the leaf floats away from the toads.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «stem» (+2). Against it: the same action «nibble» (-1); the same place «two» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
In what manner did the cockchafer convey Thumbelina away?
- 1. By embracing her waist and flying high above the marsh and trees — score -4
- 2. By carrying her in his claws — no support
- 3. By embracing her waist and flying all the way to the distant tree — ← Mova's choice · score 0
- 4. By embracing her waist and flying — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 0, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 882, line 14: «The cockchafer seized her "round her delicate waist with his claws" and flew her into a tree.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+3). Against it: the same circumstance (-1); the same action «fly» (-2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What was the material of Thumbelina's mattress, as described?
- 1. Soft green moss leaves — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Soft blue petals of a violet flower gathered from the field — no support
- 3. Thick blue velvet petals of a rare violet from the garden — no support
- 4. Blue petals of a violet — ✓ 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
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