Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns

Tests: 3 of 13 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 13 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 296 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 ✗

So the walking-stick turned into a horse, yeah?

1. Yeah, it turned into a neighing horse and then galloped right across the lawn, proper wicked — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Yeah, a neighing horse, proper wicked — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nah, it stayed a stick, weird though — no support
4. Yeah, a neighing horse with a black mane, proper wicked and all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 296, line 2: «Nanny turns into a young maiden, and papa's walking-stick becomes a neighing horse that gallops the two of them round the lawn.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+3); the same circumstance (+3); the same doer «walking stick» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

Wait, who is Old Nanny actually?

1. Just a kind old lady who minds the boy — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Remembrance, the tree lady in disguise — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A tree lady — no support
4. Just Nanny — 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 ✗

Did the boy get to keep a flower or nah?

1. Yeah, a white snowdrop in his hymn book — no support
2. Nah, he gave it to the old woman — no support
3. Yeah, an Elder-blossom pressed in his Prayer-Book and it stayed fresh for years — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Yeah, an Elder-blossom in his Prayer-Book — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 296, line 12: «Why does the flower stay fresh? It is kept between the leaves of his Prayer-Book, and "the more he looked at it, the fresher it became."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stay» (+4); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

Which season were they chilling in when the frost was everywhere?

1. Winter, obviously, with the frost on everything and the snow — ← Mova's choice · score 0
2. Winter — no support
3. Spring, I think — no support
4. Winter, obviously — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 296, line 18: «What is hoar-frost? The white frost on trees in winter, which in the story looks "like white corals."», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: the same circumstance (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · right ✓

Did they just go round the lawn or nah?

1. Yeah, they flew over the whole country — no support
2. Yeah, but they saw the whole country — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. Yeah, but they saw the whole country from the top of the hill in the wind — score 5
4. Yeah, they flew all the way over the sea and across the whole country and back again — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. 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 296, line 9: «Why can they see the country from the lawn? Because the maiden names the farm-house, the church and the smithy, and "all that the little maiden ... spoke of, f…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same thing acted on «country» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

The old couple, were they like young lovers?

1. Yeah, they still held hands like kids — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nah, just friends — no support
3. Nah, they'd been married fifty years — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yeah, sort of — 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 ✗

Was there still a tree in the tea-pot at the end?

1. Nope, just tea leaves in it — no support
2. Nope, no tree, just the tea-pot — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nope, no tree, just the tea-pot standing on the table in the house — ← Mova's choice · score 5
4. Yeah, a tiny tree in the tea-pot — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 130, line 8: «Where: the magic tree stands "before" the house, and later it stands again outside Two-Eyes's own chamber window in the palace.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «stand» (+4); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

What did the cock do on the farm, like?

1. Scratched dirt — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Pecked the corn for the geese — no support
3. Scraped the earth for the hens — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Strutted about the yard proudly — 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's the maiden's actual name, fam?

1. Remembrance, the tree lady who sits in the Elder — no support
2. Remembrance, she said, sitting in the tree that grows by the house — score 0
3. Remembrance — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
4. Clementine — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 296, line 15: «What is her real name? "my name is 'Remembrance'," she says, though some call her Old Nanny or a Dryad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «name» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «remembrance» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · right ✓

Did the boy go all the way to coffee land?

1. Yeah, he went all the way to the warm lands where coffee grows and tea is picked — score 6
2. Yeah, he went to warm lands where coffee grows and stayed there for years — score 6
3. Nah, he stayed at the farm and worked — score 6
4. Yeah, he went to warm lands where coffee grows — ← 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, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 296, line 4: «They fly across Denmark through spring, summer, autumn and winter, then the boy grows up and sails off to warm lands.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «warm lands» (+4); the same doer «boy» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the snow crackle when you walked on it?

1. Nah, not really — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yeah, loudly — no support
3. Nah, it was soft like feathers — no support
4. Yeah, like you had new boots on — ✓ 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 ✗

What did the crowns look like when they landed?

1. Gold rings — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Green leaves on their hair — score 7
3. Golden crowns on their heads — ✓ the right answer · score 7
4. Silver rings on their fingers — 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 21, line 2: «Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «crown» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 7. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Did the old man open his Prayer-Book at the end?

1. Yeah, it was — no support
2. Nah, closed — no support
3. Nah, he left the book on the table — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. Yeah, and the flower was still fresh — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 280, line 9: «Why: the young man must go out "if it were but for a quarter of an hour," and he thinks he need not tell the door-keeper.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go out» (+4); the same doer «young man» (+2). 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 feature of the narrative shows that the flower kept its freshness across the passing years?

1. The old couple's wedding anniversary, which they celebrated under the tree for many years — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. The Elder Tree that stood by the house, which the boy visited every morning for years — no support
3. The Elder-blossom in the Prayer-Book, which grew fresher the more it was regarded — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. The cock's crowing each dawn, which woke the farm earlier every year — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 9: ««Are there any shops open at this hour of the night?» — «Why, certainly, sir … At this time of the year our shops keep open to all sorts of hours.»», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+6); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which action of the little maiden most clearly confirms her identity as the tree-spirit of the narrative?

1. Her declaration that her name is Remembrance, and that she lives in the tree, and that she tells stories to the children each night — ← Mova's choice · score 8
2. Her declaration that she is Remembrance, and her many visits to the boy's bedside while he slept and dreamed of the old tree — no support
3. Her quiet promise to the boy that he would see the coffee lands again — no support
4. Her declaration that her name is Remembrance, and that she sits in the tree that grows — ✓ the right answer · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 296, line 16: «What is a Dryad? In old Greek stories, a spirit that lives inside a tree, and now a name for a tree-nymph in myths.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+6); the same place «tree» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

What is the function of the Elder Tree within the narrative as a whole?

1. It gives sweet flowers — no support
2. It is the place from which the story is told and in which the past is remembered — ✓ the right answer · score 4
3. It provides the wood for the walking-stick that becomes a horse in the story — no support
4. It is the spot where the boy grows up and goes to coffee land and returns — ← Mova's choice · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 296, line 11: «Where does the boy go when he grows up? Out into the wide world to "warm lands, where the coffee-tree grows."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «grow up» (+5); the same doer «boy» (+3). The right option, 2, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which phrase in the text best indicates the moment at which the narrative returns to the everyday world?

1. The little boy lay in his bed; he did not know if he had dreamed or not — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The little boy lay in his bed — no support
3. The old man opened his Prayer-Book at last, and the flower was there — no support
4. The maiden said her name was Remembrance, at the tree in the dark — ← Mova's choice · score 5

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 151, line 10: «fact: When: "Presently back came the whole flock," so the trick is ready the moment they return.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «fact» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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