Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune: the young man dies and Care takes the galoshes
Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 3 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 284 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, how did he get to Italy so quick?
- 1. He ran over the Alps, mad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He flew a plane, boring — no support
- 3. He took a coach, dead slow — no support
- 4. He just wished it, proper magic — ✓ 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 2 · ★ · right ✓
Yo, what was the vibe at that inn, like?
- 1. Dead grim, proper minging — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Brand new, dead posh — no support
- 3. Mad fancy, all gold — no support
- 4. Dead cosy, really nice — 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 ✗
Mate, why was everyone in the coach gutted?
- 1. The food was epic — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The coach was too fast — no support
- 3. They won the lottery — no support
- 4. The flies bit them all over — ✓ 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 flies just chill on the horses?
- 1. Yeah, they fell asleep — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, they went home — no support
- 3. Nah, they swarmed them all over — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, they flew off wicked fast — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
So what was the grand dish, innit?
- 1. Chips and gravy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Sweets and ice cream — no support
- 3. Stale eggs and cocks'-combs — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Pizza with extra cheese — 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 ✗
Was the young Divine a proper chill guy?
- 1. Nah, he was buzzing and loud — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Yeah, he was dead calm — no support
- 3. Nah, he was moaning and restless — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, he was sleeping like a baby — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who was on the watch at night, like?
- 1. The coachman, obviously — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One of the beggars, lol — no support
- 3. The hostess, duh — no support
- 4. The young Divine, the sentry — ✓ 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 · ★ · right ✓
Wait, where was he when he woke up?
- 1. Back home, in a black coffin — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. On the coach to Florence — no support
- 3. In a posh hotel in Rome — no support
- 4. In the olive-grove, wrapped in rags — 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 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bro, so who turned up at the end?
- 1. Two beggars and a hare — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Hannibal and Solon — no support
- 3. Care and the emissary of Fortune — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The hostess and the coachman — 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 ✗
Did Care keep the galoshes, or what?
- 1. Yeah, she left them on his feet — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 2. Nah, she buried them — no support
- 3. Yeah, she vanished with them — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Nah, she gave them back — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 284, line 17: «The galoshes: Care "took the Galoshes from his feet", and then he "arose from his dread couch in all the vigor of youth".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «feet» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+1); 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
Test 11 · ★ · right ✓
Mate, what does the Fir Tree actually want?
- 1. To be a red cloud — no support
- 2. To be a big grown-up tree — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
- 3. To be a wild strawberry — no support
- 4. To be a cottage child — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 79, line 19: «Real places and creatures: the Limpopo is a real river in southern Africa; fever trees are real yellow-barked trees of wet ground, named long ago because peopl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «fever trees» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗
Who got jumped over, lol?
- 1. The hostess — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The little Fir Tree — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. The coachman — no support
- 4. The young Divine — 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
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Identify the means by which the young man conveys himself from Switzerland to Italy, and state whether the text presents this transfer as physically achieved.
- 1. He walks across the Alps on foot, a journey the text declines to describe — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He travels by coach over the mountain passes, as the text describes at length — no support
- 3. He relocates by wish alone, and the text presents the transfer as accomplished — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. He is carried across by the beggars, who are described as strong bearers — 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 ✗
State the condition of the young man's body at the moment Care removes the galoshes, with reference to the text.
- 1. He lies asleep in the inn, recovering from the flies' bites — no support
- 2. He stands among the beggars, wounded but still walking — ← Mova's choice · score 6
- 3. He sits watching at the window, weary but awake — no support
- 4. He lies dead in his coffin, and then he rises young and vigorous — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 284, line 4: «Care and the emissary of Fortune stand over the body and argue about what the galoshes have done.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+4); the same doer «care» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Explain which quality of Hannibal's historical victory at Lake Thracymene the narrator is said to emphasise in the passage.
- 1. The political treaty that ended the war afterwards — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The tactics Hannibal used against the Roman cavalry — no support
- 3. The place where the battle occurred, now a scene of natural beauty — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The number of soldiers who fell in the battle — 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 · right ✓
Describe the function of the apothegm attributed to Solon within the passage.
- 1. It affirms the wisdom of the old saying, proved by the young man's death — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. It introduces the arrival of the Fir Tree story — no support
- 3. It explains the chemistry of the galoshes' enchantment — no support
- 4. It mocks the travellers for their complaints about the inn — 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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