Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wanders old Copenhagen and is taken for a foreigner
Tests: 7 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 8 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 277 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 ✓
wait, was the old lady giving him water from the well or the sea?
- 1. from the sea — no support
- 2. from the well — no support
- 3. from the well, though it was salt — no support
- 4. from the well, but it tasted like the sea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 277, line 13: «Her water "tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea," though it came from the well, which tells us the town is near the coast.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «taste» (+4); the same doer «water» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · right ✓
did the guy really say he was a learned man?
- 1. nah, he said he was no scholar, just chatting — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 2. nah, he said he was no scholar, only a man chatting idly over his glass — score 6
- 3. yeah, he said he was a learned man who had read every book in Zealand — score 6
- 4. nah, he said he was just a merchant — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 247, line 10: «In the drain he is "much pleased" and says "Here's muck," then rolls in it with his mouth full.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «man» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
why's the dude so salty about modern books?
- 1. cause he hates those basic everyday tales — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. cause he hates modern novels — no support
- 3. cause he wants the old learned books back, not those basic everyday tales — no support
- 4. cause they're too silly — 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 ✗
is the bridge just gone, or what?
- 1. yeah, it was moved to the Holme — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. nah, it's still there but the fog hid it from view on the way — no support
- 3. yeah, it had totally vanished from the spot where it should have been — no support
- 4. yeah, it was totally vanished from the spot — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
did the sus hostess get that he was from somewhere else?
- 1. nah, she thought he was a sailor — no support
- 2. yeah, she thought he was a local — no support
- 3. yeah, she was sure — no support
- 4. yeah, she thought he was a foreigner — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 186, line 15: «The foreigners: the king says "they are no exception to the rule if they have married in the country".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «foreigners» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · right ✓
so, like, was the moon shining or nah?
- 1. it was foggy and dark until the moon shone out over the water — score 4
- 2. it stayed cloudy all evening until the moon finally broke through the mist — no support
- 3. it was clear all night — no support
- 4. it was foggy until the moon shone out — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 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 277, line 1: «A foggy moon shows the Councillor a strange drum-and-torch procession led by a priest whom people call the Bishop of Zealand.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «foggy moon» (+2); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
did he come out of East Gate or a side-door?
- 1. a wooden gate — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a little side-door — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. from the side-door of the old church beside the canal — no support
- 4. through the broken scaffolding at East Gate — 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
bro, did the procession have drums or what?
- 1. a band of a dozen drummers and fifes marching in step — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a dozen drummers and fifes — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. a dozen trumpeters — no support
- 4. twelve pipers and horns — 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 was the Latin dude's title, like seriously?
- 1. Bachelor in Theologia — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Doctor in Theologia and Professor at the University — no support
- 3. Master in Philosophia — no support
- 4. Bachelor in Theologia from the college at Copenhagen — 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 ✗
was the hostess's place cosy or nah?
- 1. a crowded smoky public-house full of sailors and drink — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. a grand, quiet hall with a fire and a polished table for guests — no support
- 3. a clean quiet tavern — no support
- 4. a crowded smoky public-house — ✓ 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 11 · ★ · right ✓
did he think he was seriously ill or just tipsy?
- 1. only tipsy, though he insisted he was seriously and mortally ill — no support
- 2. ill, but blamed the punch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. tipsy, but blamed illness — no support
- 4. ill, though he blamed the punch he had drunk at the ferry — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 277, line 9: «Why: he thinks he is ill, saying "I am certainly very ill," and blames the punch and the hot salmon.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «blame» (+5); the same thing acted on «punch» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Which of the following accurately describes the reason the Councillor gives for his disorientation at the inn?
- 1. He attributes it to illness, having consumed only one glass of punch — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. He blames the moon, having consumed only one glass of ale — score 9
- 3. He attributes it to tipsiness, having drunk several glasses of wine — score 9
- 4. He blames the punch — score 9
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 252, line 1: «A dying gentleman and his wife give their two little children to his brother and beg him to be kind to them.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «dying gentleman» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the figure who, according to the text, was regarded as the most absent-minded person in the entire kingdom.
- 1. The Bishop of Zealand — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Bishop of Zealand, the person the Councillor was sent to visit in the capital — no support
- 3. The Dean of Copenhagen — no support
- 4. The procession's leader, who was believed by the townsfolk to be the Bishop of Zealand — 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 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
State which object the Councillor identifies as a relic of antiquity when shown the woodcut at the inn.
- 1. The printed woodcut of a fiery meteor seen above the town of Cologne in the old days — ← Mova's choice · score 9
- 2. The printed picture of a comet seen at Basel — no support
- 3. The old woodcut of a ship seen at Bergen — no support
- 4. The printed woodcut of a meteor seen at Cologne — ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 277, line 14: «The woodcut shows a meteor "as seen in the town of Cologne", and he calls it "very old" and says it is a mere fable.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+5); the same place «town» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Determine what the Councillor concludes regarding the source of the gentleman's Latin remark concerning Modestia.
- 1. He judges it to be a folk saying he fully understands — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 2. He judges it to be a common proverb — no support
- 3. He judges it to be a learned expression, though he does not fully grasp its meaning — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He thinks it is nonsense from a drunkard — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 277, line 7: «What: he sees drummers, halberdiers and a priest, and people say, "That's the Bishop of Zealand."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same doer «councillor» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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