Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on

Tests: 6 of 13 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 297 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 ✗

Oi, was the bell actually in a church, or nah?

1. no, it rang from the mill — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. yes, a church — no support
3. no, it came from the wood — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. no, it's a pub — 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 ✗

Why did the posh folk drive while the rest walked, innit?

1. the road was muddy and the carriages were pulled by four white horses from the king's stables — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. they had fine boots on — no support
3. the rich had carriages and the poor were not allowed to ride in the royal coach on feast days — no support
4. the rich had carriages — ✓ 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 ✓

What's the prize for finding the bell, mate?

1. the title Universal Bell-ringer — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. a fine horse and a farm — no support
3. a seat at court and a purse — no support
4. a royal pardon, a cottage by the river, and the title Universal Bell-ringer — 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 · ★ · right ✓

Who reckons it's an owl ringing the bell, like, for real?

1. a bloke who went furthest — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. the learned gentleman who had travelled across three kingdoms to study owls — no support
3. the bloke who went furthest into the woods and came back with a feather — no support
4. the king's old huntsman — 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 ✓

Why'd the two little girls not go, wasn't it?

1. they were ill — no support
2. they were tired — no support
3. they were making garlands — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
4. they were busy at home — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 241, line 16: «Through her feathers she makes "the best laundress ever known," and the matter blows over.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «girl» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the king's son well brainy or what?

1. he thought he was kinder — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he thought he was wiser — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. he was tired — no support
4. he was rather proud and vain — 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 7 · ★ · wrong ✗

Why'd the poor kid have to go home first?

1. to return the coat and boots he had borrowed from the miller's son before the feast began — no support
2. to give back the borrowed clobber — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. to bring his mother some bread — no support
4. to give back the borrowed clothes and to tell his mother the strange news from the wood — ← Mova's choice · score 1

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 198, line 19: «Old word "transcendent" means beyond compare or better than everything; today a kid might say "unreal" or "beyond amazing."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «kid» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · right ✓

How come the wooden shoes were a bit mad?

1. he was poor and had them — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. they were cheap — no support
3. he liked them — no support
4. they were too big for him — 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 ✗

Did the bell sound clear when they got to the willow?

1. no, it was loud — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. no, it was just a fancy — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. no, it sounded very muddy — no support
4. no, it was just a fancy of the boys who had walked so far and wanted something — 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 ✗

What did the bell sound like, dead nice or what?

1. like a mum to a good kid — ✓ the right answer · no support
2. like a dog to a boy — ← Mova's choice · score 1
3. like a cow — no support
4. like a drum — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 283, line 10: «Polly can bawl out only "Come, let us be men!"; everything else he says sounds like chirping to everyone but the clerk.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Where did the mad kid end up, like the thorny bit?

1. the darkest, thickest wood — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 0
2. the river — no support
3. the darkest, thickest part of the wood where the thorns grow — no support
4. the nearest village mill — no support

Why: It took the question to ask where. It chose option 1 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 285, line 8: «Where: the cut trees are carried out of the wood by horses on carts, and the Fir ends up in "a large and splendid drawing-room."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same place «wood» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★ · right ✓

Did that owl man get famous, or what?

1. he got the title — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8
2. he received a nice bow — score 6
3. he became the keeper — score 6
4. he got the title of Universal Bell-ringer and a new house by the king's gate — score 8

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 297, line 13: «The one man who got the title says the sound comes from "a very large owl, in a hollow tree."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+4); the same doer «one man» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗

Was the poor kid chuffed to walk with the king's son?

1. he was cold in his boots — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. he was proud of his boots — no support
3. he was ashamed of his boots — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. he was scared — 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 element of the narrative indicates the source of the tones attributed to the bell?

1. the willow-tree at the edge of the field, beside which the children stopped to rest — no support
2. the bell, which hangs on the gable — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. the bell hanging on the little house, which the children have not yet reached — score 8
4. the forest, from which the bell is heard — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 102, line 16: «Old word: a belfry is the bell tower of a church, the high room where the bells hang.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «hang» (+6); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓

How does the king's son respond to the poor boy's indication that the bell lies to the right?

1. he follows the boy's words — score 3
2. he thanks the poor boy and then sends a servant to find the bell instead — score 3
3. he proceeds upon his own course — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. he decides to take the boy's advice and walks onward to the right side of the wood — score -1

Why: It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 3 with score 4, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 297, line 5: «A king's son goes on alone, a poor boy in wooden shoes catches up, but they part, and the poor boy tears his hands and face on thorns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «go on» (+5). Against it: the same doer «son» (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

What is the principal consequence, for the poor boy, of his passage through the forest?

1. his face, hands and feet are torn and bleed — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. he loses his wooden shoes — no support
3. his coat is torn at the sleeve — no support
4. he returns to the town with scratches, but his face and hands remain unharmed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 297, line 5: «A king's son goes on alone, a poor boy in wooden shoes catches up, but they part, and the poor boy tears his hands and face on thorns.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tear» (+4); the same thing acted on «hands» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which activity is attributed to the learned owl by the man who went furthest?

1. frequent hooting at travellers passing the old oak — no support
2. continual knocking of its head against branches — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. watching the travellers from above — ← Mova's choice · score 6
4. flying in wide, silent circles — 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 178, line 3: «He washes up on an island, hides in a tree, and watches a ship land ten slaves who dig up a trapdoor.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «watch» (+3); the same doer «man» (+3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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