Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gutter, proud to the end

Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 1749 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 ✓

So the needle reckons she's fancy, yeah?

1. Nah, she's quite modest and really quite shy and kind — no support
2. Yeah, she's dead proud and thinks she's well posh — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Nah, she's just a pin — no support
4. Nah, she's humble — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 813, line 6: «Who: the darning-needle, a sewing needle who thinks she is very grand, speaks most of these lines in the tale.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «think» (+1); the same doer «sewing needle» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · right ✓

Why'd she think the glass was a diamond, innit?

1. Cos it was dead sparkly, bruv — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Cos it was, like, glass — no support
3. Cos it was dead heavy, mate — no support
4. Cos it was dead expensive, bruv — 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 ✗

Was she, like, proud of her finger-brothers?

1. Yeah, they were all dead full of themselves — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. Nah, they were all dead well behaved and never showed off to anyone in the whole box at all — score 1
3. Yeah, they were all dead full of themselves and always showing off their rings to everyone who passed by — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. Nah, they were all dead dodgy and rude lot — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 667, line 6: «Who: the six brothers are the sons of one father and mother, and each is called Simon.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «six brothers» (+1); the same thing acted on «sons» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Oi, the glass got washed off, didn't it?

1. Nah, the boys came along with rags and cleaned the whole gutter out with soap and water — no support
2. Yeah, the rain came down and the water just swept it right off the edge into the drain below — no support
3. Yeah, the wind just blew it away — ← Mova's choice · score 1
4. Yeah, the water just swept it off — ✓ the right answer · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 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 1492, line 10: «The brothers roughen their horses' shoes to grip the glass, but "they rode and they slipped as they had done the day before."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «brothers» (+1); the same thing acted on «glass» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

The boys pricked her and she still went on, right?

1. Nah, she cried a lot — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she was dead upset, innit — no support
3. Yeah, she was dead chatty about it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she was dead brave, bruv — 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 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Egg-shell sailing, bare fancy, yeah?

1. Yeah, she was like, I'm the queen of the whole sewing box and everyone must bow down to me — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she was dead scared and cried out for her mum and the boys to help her — no support
3. Yeah, she was like, I'm the queen — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, she was like, I'm a lady — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Wagon-wheel went over her, she still reckons she's fine?

1. Yeah, she's dead cracked, I'm fine, bruv — no support
2. Yeah, she's like, I'm not broken, I'm chill — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
3. Yeah, she's like, I'm not broken, I'm chill, and I'm going to live forever in this drain — no support
4. Nah, she's totally smashed to bits and crying in the gutter, begging for someone to help her — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1749, line 5: «A wagon-wheel crushes the shell, but she will not break, and she lies there at full length, still proud.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+1); the same doer «wheel» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

She said weeping's not fine, so what's that all about?

1. She's dead tough, so she never cries at all — no support
2. She's too proud to cry in front of the boys, even though she wants to cry really badly, bruv — score 1
3. She's too proud to cry, even though she wants to — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. She's too posh to weep, though she really wants to, and she's always been like that since the box — score 1

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 1664, line 8: «Why did the tailor's wife want a fierce dog? She said, "I am so annoyed that our watchdog is dead," because the young fellows would spoil the carding.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «want» (+2). Against it: the same doer «wife» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Is she like, a proper diamond, or what?

1. Nah, she's just a pin — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, she's just a pin, but she thinks she's all that — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Yeah, she's a diamond — no support
4. Nah, she's just glass, but she thinks she's posh — 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

So the Darning-Needle's, like, doing alright, yeah?

1. Nah, she's sunk right in the mud and is completely miserable, and everyone knows it — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she's stuck in a gutter but reckons she's dope and proper cool and everyone should envy her — no support
3. Nah, she's dead dirty and reckons she's rubbish — no support
4. Yeah, she's stuck in a gutter but reckons she's dope — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the needle, like, get promoted?

1. Nah, the glass got promoted to a fancy lady's brooch, and she's still stuck down in the gutter — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, she got promoted up to the top of the box and she's now living there with the diamond and all — no support
3. Nah, the glass got promoted, she's still stuck there — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Nah, the boys got promoted, she's still stuck — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗

Does she leave the gutter in the end?

1. Yeah, she climbs out and walks — no support
2. Nah, she runs off — ← Mova's choice · score 3
3. Nah, she gets picked up — score 3
4. Nah, she just lies there, still proud — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 1546, line 5: «Years later his wife hears the voice, runs out leaving her fur coat, and at the barber's the husband shouts that he will not come.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «run out» (+2); the same doer «wife» (+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 ✗

Which phrase best describes the Darning-Needle's view of herself after her talk with the glass?

1. She regards herself as superior, claiming to be too fine to weep — ✓ the right answer · score 1
2. She feels humble and modest — score 1
3. She sees herself as humble, saying she is too plain to weep at all — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. She considers herself equal to the others, and says weeping is shameful — score 2

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 1679, line 11: «Why the wicked mother hates her: she says "she cannot speak, and is not worthy of a king".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, scored 1. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which sequence correctly orders the Darning-Needle's experiences in this passage?

1. The glass is washed away, then she speaks with the boys in the box — no support
2. She speaks with the glass, the glass is washed away, then boys place her in an egg-shell — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The boys place her in an egg-shell, then she speaks with the glass, then it is washed — no support
4. The wagon crushes the egg-shell, then she speaks with the glass, then water washes it away — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 897, line 9: «fact: Why Helga goes up: she "prayed more gently, and more earnestly, than she had ever prayed in her life before" to see heaven.», 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, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which statement regarding the Darning-Needle's account of her own family is accurate?

1. Her five finger-brothers are described as proud, boastful and of differing sizes, and she is the only one who weeps — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Her finger-brothers are called Thumb and Playman, and are kind to her — no support
3. Her five finger-brothers are described as proud and of differing sizes — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Her five brothers are described as lazy and all exactly the same — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 426, line 7: «The lady says that a young man will be her "husband dear", so she is ready to marry the Prince at once.», 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, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which definition best explains the term "ostentation" as used in this passage?

1. Honest work done in private with no fuss at all — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Vain and excessive display intended to attract notice — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Excessive humility shown to avoid being noticed by others — no support
4. The deliberate hiding of one's wealth and talents from the public eye during all social occasions — 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

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1749-pg640-part73/