Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove

Tests: 0 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1747 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 ✗

Bruv, the tin soldier got chucked out the window, right?

1. Yeah, that's right — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, out the window, quite a hard landing — no support
3. Yeah, third floor, proper mental fall — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, second floor — 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 ✗

Wait, did the boys sail him in a newspaper boat?

1. Yeah, down the gutter and out into the canal, proper lush sailing trip, bruv — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, floated him off in a tin tray — no support
3. Yeah, down the gutter, proper lush — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, they sailed him down the drain — 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 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Innit mad that a fish swallowed him whole?

1. Yeah, wicked, he was just chilling inside — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Yeah, wicked, he got swallowed by a fish at the market and then the cook opened it up later — score 2
3. Yeah, mad, he was just sitting in there — no support
4. Yeah, wicked, the fish swallowed him whole and he sat in the dark belly for ages — ← Mova's choice · score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1001, line 3: «He rides through a dark drain, meets a water-rat, and is swallowed by a big fish.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «ride» (+2); the same doer «soldier» (+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 ✗

So the rat wanted a passport, like proper border control?

1. Yeah, the rat was dead fussy about it — score 1
2. Yeah, the rat was well strict and demanded to see the soldier's papers before he could cross the water — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, the rat was well strict about it — ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. Yeah, the rat was proper strict about the paperwork and wouldn't let him past without his stamp at the bridge — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1158, line 14: «A bold rat asks, "What do you want?" and offers to help the cat, which she accepts.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «ask» (+1); the same doer «bold rat» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the cook chop open the fish with a big knife?

1. Yeah, she cut it open, proper gruesome — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Nah, she used a little pair of scissors — no support
3. Yeah, she did, bare grim — no support
4. Yeah, she sliced it right open, bare grim — ✓ the right answer · score -2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 0, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1656, line 5: «With the troll's daughter's nudge the youth cuts the right fish, the troll turns to flint, and the youth weds and rules.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «cut» (+1); the same thing acted on «right fish» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored -2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why did the little boy chuck him in the stove, though?

1. No idea, the imp was probably behind it — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Dunno, maybe the cook made him do it — no support
3. No idea, the boy was probably just bored and the imp in the box got him going, honestly — no support
4. No clue, the nursery-maid asked for it — ← Mova's choice · score -4

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score -4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 647, line 16: «The King calls the Queen "silly" and says she never asked the witch for a boy, the heir he needed.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. Against it: the same action «ask» (-1); a different doer (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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the Dancer really fly into the fire?

1. Yeah, the draught blew her right into the stove and she went up in flames, total tragedy — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Yeah, she went up in flames, total tragedy — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, she landed on the rug, bit of luck — score 1
4. Yeah, she flew in, proper sad ending — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1001, line 16: «The boy throws him into the stove for no reason, and the draught blows the dancer into the fire too.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «blow» (+1); the same doer «draught» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

So he went all gooey and turned into a heart?

1. Yeah, he melted into a little lump shaped like a heart, dead romantic stuff, honestly — score 1
2. Yeah, a little lump, dead romantic — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, he went all gooey and turned into a little tin heart which was well romantic, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Nah, he just went a bit squishy — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 5: «Drifting home, both feel strangely tired; the Rat hears the wind in the reeds turn into words, a song about helping and then forgetting, and falls asleep smili…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «words» (+4). 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 soldier even scared when he was going under?

1. Nah, he stayed stiff, didn't blink — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, he was absolutely terrified and screamed the whole way down under the water — no support
3. Nah, he was dead steady, no flinching — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, he was well petrified, shaking — 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 ✗

What's a squire, like a knight in a chess game?

1. Nah, a squire is a young soldier in training — no support
2. Nah, a squire was a knight's servant who carried his armour and his lance into battle for him — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. Yeah, a knight's helper who rides a horse, kinda — no support
4. Nah, a squire was a landowner with a big house — ✓ the right answer · score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1633, line 10: «The squire sends Hans "south through the wood" with provisions for the journey, including "two bakings of bread".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «squire» (+1); the same thing acted on «hans» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Those brothers were well full of themselves, weren't they?

1. Yeah, they reckoned they were dead clever — ← Mova's choice · score 3
2. Yeah, they thought they were proper clever and kept showing off their learning to everyone at the house — score 3
3. Yeah, they thought they were proper clever — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Yeah, they strutted about like they owned the place and thought they were dead clever at everything — score 3

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 1744, line 19: «At the end the Emperor says "Good-morning!", the words of a man who was thought dead and is now well.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «think» (+2); the same doer «man» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the older one really learn the whole Latin dictionary?

1. Nah, just a page — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, mostly — no support
3. Nah, he only learned the first page — no support
4. Yeah, backwards or forwards, like a pro — ✓ 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

So why did they oil their gobs, like proper rappers?

1. To talk nicer for the princess, bruv — ← Mova's choice · score -1
2. To sing, bruv — no support
3. Cos they wanted to sound smooth, innit — no support
4. To talk smoother for the wooing, bruv — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1592, line 16: «The Scarecrow takes the oil-can from Dorothy's basket and oils the Woodman's jaws, so he can talk again.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Explain, with reference to the text, why the Tin-soldier remains silent when the nursery-maid and the little boy search for him.

1. Because he thinks a soldier should keep quiet and not call out for help in public — score 2
2. Because he is too proud — ← Mova's choice · score 4
3. Because he regards it as unbefitting for a soldier in uniform to call out — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. Because he believes a uniformed soldier must not shout for help or be seen crying out — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1747, line 18: «The author says the soldier was "not at all proud" when he was found in a fish, which shows he stays modest even after a hero's welcome.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same doer «soldier» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

State the means by which the Tin-soldier is conveyed through the gutter and into the canal.

1. He floats in a cardboard box that a passing cook launched — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. He is carried in a paper boat that two street boys set afloat in the gutter, which then drifts into the canal below — score 2
3. He is carried in a paper boat set afloat by two street boys — ✓ the right answer · score 2
4. He is carried in a folded newspaper boat, made by two street boys and set afloat in the gutter, which slowly drifts down into the canal beyond the houses — 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 1747, line 3: «Two street boys find him in the rain and float him in a paper boat down the gutter, where a water-rat wants a passport and a fish swallows him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «float» (+1); the same doer «two street boys» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the outcome for the little Dancer when the door opens and the draught takes her.

1. She is blown into the iron stove, and the fire quickly consumes her until only her little gilt rose remains in the ash of the grate — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. She flies straight into the stove, where she is burned away by the flames and nothing of her is left at all — no support
3. She is carried out of the room by the draught — score 2
4. She flies into the stove and is consumed by flames — ✓ the right answer · no support

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 1582, line 14: «Old word: A "draught" is a drink taken in one go, so "take a draught from the pitcher" means take a swallow or a gulp.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «take» (+1); the same thing acted on «draught» (+1). 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 · right ✓

Specify the reason the squire's sons prepare for the wooing for a full week.

1. They are allowed only that week, and each believes his learning will win — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
2. Their father set the date — score -2
3. They are told to wait a week and each thinks he will win — score 2
4. Their father allowed only one week, and each trusts his own learning — no support

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 1414, line 15: «At the fountain, the minister's son tells the beggar-woman "Let me alone, old witch," and rides on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «let» (+1); the same thing acted on «son» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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