Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him
Tests: 1 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 4 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 1790 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 ✓
Ay mate, what did his own mum call him, like, proper rude?
- 1. a hideous dwarf — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. a dwarf — no support
- 3. a freak — no support
- 4. a hideous goblin — 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 ✗
Bruv, how long was the lad nicked for, innit?
- 1. nine years — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. seven years — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. seven long years, innit — no support
- 4. three months — 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 ✗
Gutted, so how long ago did his dad say he went missing?
- 1. seven years ago, when he was small — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. seven years ago, bruv, at least — no support
- 3. three years ago — no support
- 4. seven years ago — ✓ 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 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the barber's mates have a proper giggle at him?
- 1. a titter ran round — ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. they all had a proper giggle at him — score -2
- 3. a loud titter ran round the whole shop — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 4. a laugh ran round — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1790, line 19: «Old word: a "titter" is a quiet, suppressed giggle; "a titter ran round the room" in the barber's shop.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «shop» (+3); the same action «run» (+2). The right option, 1, scored 2. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long?
- 1. as long as a whole arm and then some — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. quite two hands long and well hooked — no support
- 3. quite two hands long — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. quite three hands — 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 ✗
Whose stall did Jem head to after his mum went off on him?
- 1. the fish stall — no support
- 2. the bakery — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 3. home — score 5
- 4. his dad's stall — ✓ the right answer · score 5
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 2 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 1408, line 16: «Another old word: "bridled" means the animal had a bridle put on its head so it can be led.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «lead» (+5); the same thing acted on «word» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was the old one who nicked him, and what was she, like?
- 1. some kind of old fairy woman — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a nun — no support
- 3. a hag — no support
- 4. a fairy — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
Was his face all pigs' eyes and that, sus?
- 1. all pigs' eyes, rather sus, mate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. like pigs' eyes and a snout — no support
- 3. like pigs' eyes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. like hogs' eyes — 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 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did his mum decide to do in the end, like, last thing?
- 1. go talk to her husband about it all — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. go and talk it over with her husband — no support
- 3. go talk to her husband — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. ask her husband first — 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 ✗
How come the old woman got him, innit?
- 1. his mum lent him away, being a kindly soul — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. his mum lent him out, being kindly and sorry for the old woman — no support
- 3. his mum lent him, being kindly — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. his mum lent him, being broke — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 1790, line 15: «Why: Jem's mother lent the boy to the old woman, "being a kindly soul", and he was never seen again.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «soul» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
What was all over the cobbler's stall, like?
- 1. shoes, tools, and leather — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. shoes and boots and stuff — no support
- 3. thread — no support
- 4. shoes, thread, and stuff — ✓ 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 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Ahh bruv, what's the fairy's name, innit?
- 1. Herbaline the Wise of the Hills — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Herb — no support
- 3. Herbalina Bellweather — no support
- 4. Herbaline — ✓ 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 · right ✓
With reference to the passage, what was the approximate duration of the boy's transformation?
- 1. seven years — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. seven months — no support
- 3. seven years, give or take a few — no support
- 4. approximately seven years long — 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which item did the cobbler propose as a protection for the boy's nose?
- 1. a little case made of fine red leather — no support
- 2. a strip of red cloth — ← Mova's choice · score 5
- 3. a case of red leather — ✓ the right answer · score 5
- 4. a plate of red iron — score 5
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 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 42, line 1: «The Rat chatters away about the fire and the supper waiting at home and doesn't notice how quiet the Mole has gone. At last he suggests a rest on some tree-stu…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «suggest» (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter.
- 1. the matter was so odd — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the story was so strange — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. the tale of the boy was so strange she could not sleep — no support
- 4. the story was so very strange and unlikely — 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 ✗
Identify the location in which the boy first examined his altered appearance.
- 1. the cobbler's shop — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. the market — no support
- 3. the barber's shop — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. the shop — 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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