Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys

Tests: 2 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 10 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 282 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 ✗

Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit?

1. copying-clerk at the courthouse — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. a clerk who copies plays for the theatre at the royal court — score 5
3. copying-clerk at the police-office, writing out reports all day long — no support
4. copying-clerk at the police-office — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 281, line 6: «Who: the hero is a young man, and at the end he is the copying-clerk who wears the Shoes of Fortune by mistake.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «man» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays?

1. praised both of them — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. loved them both — no support
3. asked for rewrites of both — no support
4. flatly refused both of them — ✓ 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 3 · ★ · right ✓

Mate, which tragedy was he holding, like proper?

1. DAME TIGBRITH, five acts — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. KING LEAR, four acts — no support
3. A tragedy — no support
4. DAME TIGBRITH, three acts — 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 ✗

Wait, what did he use to make peep-holes, sick trick?

1. a cold silver coin — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. a heated brass button — no support
3. a hot spoon — score 5
4. a heated copper coin — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 53, line 9: «The aunt could be «properly approached — squared, I believe is the word you animals use»: «squared» is old slang for paid secretly to help (bribed).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead?

1. a poet — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. a crow — score 6
3. a happy little lark — ✓ the right answer · score 6
4. a royal courtier — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. 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 282, line 2: «He sits by a daisy, thinks about light and air, and sees a boy splash a ditch.», 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 «clerk» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Lol, what did his coat turn into when he wished it?

1. tail — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. wings — ✓ the right answer · score 7
3. a sail — score 7
4. feet — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 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 282, line 3: «He wishes he were a happy little lark, and at once his coat turns to wings and his galoshes to claws.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «turn» (+4); the same doer «coat» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Dead, which bit of his kit became claws?

1. his woollen scarf and the thick galoshes he wore in the rain — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the galoshes on his feet, which had been his pride — no support
3. the trousers — no support
4. the galoshes — ✓ 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 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

Bro, what did the sailor-boy chuck over the bird?

1. a wool scarf — score 4
2. a sailor's hat — score 4
3. a big oil-skin cap that had belonged to his father — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. a big oil-skin cap — ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 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 282, line 4: «He flies into the grass, but a sailor-boy throws a cap over him and grabs him.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2); the same thing acted on «cap» (+1); a different doer (counts against) (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was?

1. a mere Pippi-pi of a foolish drunken clerk ranting at the quay — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. a joke — no support
3. a song — no support
4. a mere Pippi-pi — ✓ 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 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, what did the clerk say about nicking birds in the royal gardens?

1. strictly forbidden by the royal gardeners and the police — no support
2. quite forbidden — no support
3. strictly forbidden — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. strictly forbidden, and any boy caught doing it would be fined — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 282, line 4: «He flies into the grass, but a sailor-boy throws a cap over him and grabs him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «grab» (+4); the same doer «sailor boy» (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Bruv, which lot bought the stupid bird in the end?

1. three merchants of the middle class — score 4
2. two schoolboys of the upper class who wanted it for their lessons — no support
3. two schoolboys of the upper class — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. two schoolboys of the upper class from the grammar school on the hill — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 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 282, line 5: «The boy ignores his shouting, and two schoolboys in the lowest class buy the bird.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «buy» (+4); the same thing acted on «bird» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same doer «two schoolboys» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning?

1. the lowest class of the grammar school, where they sat at the back — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. the lowest class — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. the lowest class, though they were clever at reading poetry — no support
4. the highest class — 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 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships?

1. singing alone — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. screaming with the gulls — no support
3. screaming on its own — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. flying over the sea — 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 ✗

Which of the following describes the transformation of the clerk's garments into the parts of a bird?

1. His coat folded into wings, his galoshes became claws, and his hat turned into a beak for pecking — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. His coat became wings and his galoshes became claws — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. His coat became wings and his galoshes became claws, and he began to sing in the grass — no support
4. His galoshes became wings and his coat became claws — 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 of the following accurately identifies the intended recipients of the captured bird after its capture?

1. A group of merchants who bought the bird at the market — ← Mova's choice · score 2
2. Two schoolboys of the upper class who purchased it for a lesson on birds — score 1
3. Two schoolboys of the upper class who purchased it — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Two schoolboys of the upper class who purchased it and later set it free in the royal gardens — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 120, line 19: «Old words: "fowl" means a bird such as a hen, and "plucked" means having its feathers pulled off.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «bird» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following correctly states the reason the clerk gives for his wish to become a lark?

1. He wishes to exchange his nature for that of a happy little lark, since poets are never truly happy in the city — score 10
2. He wishes to exchange his nature for that of a happy little lark so he can fly above the city and forget his office — score 10
3. He wants to trade his nature for a sparrow's happy song — score 10
4. He wishes to exchange his nature for that of a happy little lark — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 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 241, line 7: «The master asks, "What has come over the men," because they have all drawn out their pay yet will not go.», 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 «men» (+3); a different action (counts against) (+2); a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following correctly describes the clerk's sense of his own abilities at the close of this part?

1. He is a copying-clerk who has become a bird, but who still feels proud of the tragedy he wrote about the golden spirits — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. He is a copying-clerk who has become a bird, and who now believes he has lost all his poetry forever in the grass — score 6
3. He is a clerk who has become a bird and found his poetry — score 4
4. He is a copying-clerk who has become a bird and lost his poetry — ✓ the right answer · score 3

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 282, line 7: «What: he finds two plays in his pocket, "DAME TIGBRITH, tragedy in five acts" and an "INTRIGUE ON THE RAMPARTS" vaudeville.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+4); the same doer «clerk» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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